The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Hartford Mercury, Dec. 16.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE HARTFORD CONVENTION

Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of the famous Hartford Convention; and believing it an event of more than ordinary consequence, as it respects the principal actors, as well as the political concerns of our country, we proceed to pay it our annual respects by making a few remarks on the subject, and by publishing the names of the delegates.

For a few years immediately following the Convention, the federal printers of Almanacs in this city deemed the session of the Convention of sufficient importance to enrol it among the important events of the month, by publishing in their almanacs the time when the session commenced--and surely these gentlemen will not feel disposed to blame us for assisting them to rescue from oblivion an era in the history of our country, which, in our humble opinion, deserves to be recorded in letters of gold. For, if the motives of the gentlemen who belonged to the Convention were pure, and their conduct meritorious--if their object was to strengthen the arm of government, then struggling to protect the rights and liberties of the nation, against the aggressions of an implacable foe;--or if, on the other hand, their object was to countenance opposition to the government, to sow the seeds of sedition, and raise the standard of rebellion--in either case, their acts, and themselves, are entitled to a lasting remembrance.

The people of the eastern states have long since passed judgment on this Convention; and every day's experience evinces the correctness of their decision. A great majority of them saw, with extreme regret, several of their state legislatures assuming a power they did not possess, that of appointing delegates to the Convention--and, with equal regret, they saw these delegates assembled and holding their deliberations in the profoundest secrecy, and at the time too when their country was bleeding at almost every pore. Did patriotism prompt such conduct? It is in vain for the advocates of the Convention, if any there be at the present time, to say that no overt act of treason was committed. The intelligent and upright part of community look to the object of this truly federal measure, and with them it is pretty unimportant whether treason was prevented by a fear of consequences to the delegates themselves, or by the influence of a few of their number in whom patriotism was not extinct. In one respect, however, the Convention has been of service. It gave the death-blow to federalism, for in this meeting it drew its last breath; and so unpopular has the measure, and its projectors, become, that "even Massachusetts herself would now blush at the name of the Hartford Convention."

ROLL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION.

FROM MASSACHUSETTS.

GEORGE CABOT,

NATHAN DANE,

WILLIAM PRESCOTT.

HARRISON G. OTIS.

TIMOTHY BIGELOW,*

JOSHUA THOMAS.*

SAMUEL S. WILDE,

JOSEPH LYMAN,

STEPHEN LONGFELLOW, Jr

DANIEL WALDO.

HODIJAH BAYLIES, and

GEORGE BLISS.

FROM CONNECTICUT.

CHAUNCEY GOODRICH,*

JAMES HILLHOUSE.

JOHN TREADWELL

ZEPHANIAH SWIFT

NATHANIEL SMITH,*

CALVIN GODDARD, and

ROGER M. SHERMAN.

FROM RHODE-ISLAND.

DANIEL LYMAN,

SAMUEL WARD,

EDWARD MANTON, and

BENJAMIN HAZARD.

FROM NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

BENJAMIN WEST,*

and

MILES OLCOTT.

FROM VERMONT.

WILLIAM HALL, Jr.

Theodore DWIGHT, Elected Secretary

*Deceased.