The New Hampshire Gazette

Federal papers have given a ready circulation to a ludicrous description of a company of Georgia militia.

Though it may reasonably be supposed, from some instances of imperfection, visible even in the militia of New-England, that a very awkward company might be found in the back settlement of Georgia ; yet none that could equal this federal picture. The description is carried too far for ordinary credulity to follow. It is a wanton caricature.

It is not unworthy of remark, that this disparaging representation finds the earliest reception in the papers which have been the first to represent our incompetency to maintain any claim against the arms of Great Britain. They have told us that this country will be ruined by England, if we go to war with her--and to support this, they exhibit a caricature of the awkwardness and effeminacy of both officers and soldiers of our militia!

Yes-the same villainous traitors who by their language have invited the insults of foreign powers, by declaring our rulers to be weak pusillanimous wretches, and our citizens so distracted by party spirit as to be unable to unite in common defence, would now persuade the world that our militia is composed of a rabble not only rude but effeminate!

It is a libel-it is a calumny.

But suppose it was true. Is this a time when it should be wantonly and unnecessarily proclaimed to the world?

If a soldier, belonging to a garrison that is menaced by an enemy, communicates to that enemy a description of the vulnerable points of the fortress, is he less a traitor because that description is true?

Boston Democrat.