New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

For the N. H. Statesman.

TEMPERANCE.

There are imposters in every good cause; and it is as much the duty of every real friend of benevolence to expose its false or pretending supporters, as to counteract the efforts of avowed enemies. I was gratified with the exposure in the last Statesman of one instance of shameless imposition which had been practiced upon the friends and the cause of Temperance, although I could not but regret the existence of the cause of such exposure.— And now that the ice is broken, I hope we shall see an exposure of the numerous other abuses under which the cause has suffered in Concord for the last two years which have served so much to retard its progress, and which so far as I am acquainted are nearly all attributable to the same individual—a person who in the case above alluded to, has shown himself destitute of every vestige of moral principle and common honesty.

But there are other instances of more flagrant impositions (if possible,) which have been long a subject of conversation among the friends of Temperance (and I fear among its opponents too,) in their social meetings, charged to the conduct of the same individual. which have never been explained and which have never been exposed for fear exposure would injure the cause. It is high time to break silence on this subject. It is high time that the ministers of the gospel, those guardians of religion and morality, of whom much has been required and more is expected in this holy cause of Temperance, instead of whispering regrets, toleration and forbearance towards that 'shameless vagabond,' should speak out to the public and let them know why he sits like an incubus upon the struggling cause, paralyzing its every effort.

It is high time that those who constitute our temperance committees should say who are the 'association of gentlemen' who are responsible for what appears in the Temperance Advocate. It is high time that the friends of Temperance should know why it is that a professed Temperance paper, claiming our exclusive support, is filled month after month with the stupid rigmarole of a scurrilous weekly publication, which has seldom any thing to do with the cause and often at war with decency and truth.

And while I am upon the subject, I wish to know why one so notoriously 'given to grabbing' is permitted to take up collections on all occasions for the cause of temperance, when it is known that the liberal contributions of our temperance meetings dwindle to nearly nothing in his hands, (as they did when Hawkins and when Butters lectured.) and private donations which have been entrusted to him are seldom ever heard of? These are matters which the friends of temperance have a right to inquire into, and I hope the inquiry will serve to put them on their guard against further imposition. If you have ever been in New York on the occasion of a 'balloon ascension,' a 'street oration,' or at the occurrence of a 'dreadful accident' in the street, and witnessed the ease, confidence and success with which some well dressed sturdy beggar, will pass his hat among the crowd soliciting compensation for the performance, or charity for the sufferer, you have a fair specimen of the surpassing impudence of the 'lying knave' of whom I have spoken on this occasion, and of his success in imposing upon the friends of Temperance.

In your last week's piece you called no names; neither shall I; for there is but one person in Concord who will answer the description, (and his bloated appearance gives the lie to his professions in this cause) and so well is he known by it, that there is scarcely a man woman or child within the limits of our good town of Concord who will not identify him by the marks.

HONESTY.

Maj. Tochman, a Polish exile, delivered a Lecture in the Representatives Hall on Wednesday evening on the history and condition of Poland. Maj. Tochman, aside from the numerous testimonials of his character and respectability, shows himself to be a scholar. possessing talents of a high order, inspired with generous sentiments and animated with noble feelings. For nearly two hours he riveted the almost breathless attention of a large audience, interrupted only by enthusiastic bursts of applause, while portraying in thoughts that breathe and words that burn the lofty deeds and noble daring of his countrymen, in their almost superhuman efforts for the maintenance of liberty and the rights of man against the myrmidons of despotism. Major Tochman stated that Poland in the 15th century with a population of 14,000,000 had nearly a half million voters, while France with a population of 32,000,000 in the 19th century had but little over one hundred thousand to whom the right of suffrage was extended: and he ventured the prediction that if Miller's doctrine of the end of the world should not prove true, Poland will within three years take her stand among the Free nations of the earth

We cannot think 24,000,000 people (which he states to be the population of Poland) can at a time like this, when the great principles of civil liberty are spreading abroad to the ends of the earth, and lighting up the darkest regions of despotism, long be made to groan beneath the chains of double rivetted tyranny That 'eternal spirit of the chainless mind brightest in dungeon's liberty' will arise and

'Snatch from the ashes of her sires
The embers of their former fires;
And he who in the strife expires
Will add to theirs a name of fear
That tyranny shall quake to hear.'

At the close of the lecture the audience resolved itself into a meeting, and Gov. Hubbard was called to the Chair. A committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressing the sentiments of the meeting towards the unfortunate Poles.

Mrs. Crosby, who made her appearance in the Senate some time since, bearing as she affirmed. a message from God, paid her respects to both Houses on Tuesday last, in an effort to speak from the galleries. After offering to produce papers bearing transcripts from the judgment books of heaven, she said her husband had been robbed of his property, and was afraid before she left home that some of the members would steal her! The idea that any member had such a design upon a good looking matron of 50 created great indignation, and brought forth loud calls of order from all quarters, when she told them if they didn't want to hear she would retire, and accordingly passed out accompanied by the doorkeeper.

MILITARY. On Wednesday our citizens were entertained with a grand display of military exercise. The Pelham Rifle Company commanded by Mr. Atwood the member of the House from Pelham, were escorted into our village by the Light Infantry and the Jackson Rifle Company. It has seldom been our fortune to witness better discipline, more gentlemanly deportment, or more able bodied men than this company exhibited. The Light Infantry and Riflemen were prompt and energetic in the discharge of their duties. The Companies were paraded in front of the State House, where they were reviewed and addressed by the Governor.

Wednesday afternoon in convention of the Senate and House of Representatives, William Rymes was elected Commissary General; and Lawson Coolidge, Warden of the State Prison, for the ensuing political year.

We should have been glad to have given our readers this information, together with the other legislative proceedings of Wednesday afternoon under its appropriate head; but the crowded state of our columns is our apology for not doing it.