The New Hampshire Gazette

Among the detestable slanders which continue to be fabricated against our illustrious President, one has been lately urged of a peculiarly mean and despicable nature, which turns out to be as cruel in the end as it was base in its origin. For a purpose which is easy to be conceived, it has been trumpeted thro' New-England, with the usual portion of hypocrisy and acrimony, by men who are themselves in "the habit" of taking their amusement on the sabbath, that the president of the United States left the city of Washington on a Sunday (1st of April) to visit his family at Monticello. Allowing it to be a fact, the cause of his sudden departure for Monticello is now explained by an event, which ought to touch the hearts of the unreasonable hypocrites, if a particle of nature yet remains in them, and to cover their faces with shame: The cause of his journey was, that a tender child, a much loved daughter, one of only two, lay upon the point of death, who had 'no mother on earth to be with her' and comfort her in her last moments, and whom, it is probable, the fond father did not arrive soon enough to embrace in the land of the living,—for she expired on the 3d of April, as may be seen in our obituary notices of this week.

Hypocrites! which of you would deem himself culpable, if he should set out on a Sunday to see a dying child? And what would be your feelings, if arriving too late to embrace the dear object, or but just in time to witness the last agonies of expiring nature, you should find yourself reproached and scandalized for setting out on that day? Let confusion cover you—and let the compunctions of remorse operate in your souls, till repentance make you honest men and christians.