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Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A letter in the New-Hampshire Gazette criticizes a pro-Gilman writer for using Federalist arguments and aligning with monarchist John Adams, while advocating for John Langdon's election as governor due to his unwavering patriotism and support for independence and the Constitution.
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A WRITER in Saturday's Oracle who stiles himself a Countryman and a plain homebred man, may be told there are many Countrymen, and plain home-bred men much better acquainted with, and far more capable of judging of the true interests of their country than he appears to be. In behalf of his favourite Governor, he has resorted to the often refuted arguments of the wrong-headed Feds ; holding up the Ex-President in conjunction with WASHINGTON--two men, who were as different in their characters and views as pride, vanity, ambition and deceit, are from humility, virtue and genuine patriotism, which last adorned the deceased WASHINGTON.
If Mr. Gilman was of the opinion of Washington and Adams, while Mr. Adams was considered as a true Patriot, it was then much to his credit. But when Mr. Adams appears, undisguised, the aspiring Monarchist, that Mr. Gilman should assimilate and attach himself to so odious and contemptible a character, is surely to his dishonour, and renders him unworthy of the confidence of an injured People--as inimical to their interests, and as friendly to despotism.-Let this writer, who thinks we are "so well provided for," but attend seriously, if he is capable of it, to the unanswerable evidences that have been produced, of the importance, to the well being of New-Hampshire, of a change of Public Officers, and to the well ascertained merits of Mr. LANGDON, and that this State ought to be no longer under the controul of men incapable of comprehending and valuing the blessings of a free Government ; and disaffected to the present administration of the Government of the United States. If this writer can attain to a candid attention to those evidences, he will learn, that Mr. Langdon, whom he acknowledges to have been " in favour of our Independence," and " one. of that body who formed our Constitution, and assisted at its adoption," has been, and still continues to be, without a shadow of change, the friend of our Independence and our Constitution; and as such, respected and confided in by a large majority of the People of the United States, and that his virtues and integrity daily increases the number of his friends, who well know his highest ambition is to promote the best interests of his Country without any sinister views. Such is the man whom we ought to be unanimous in promoting to the highest office of the State, and whom none but the enemies of Liberty, and advocates for despotic Government and the oppression of the People, oppose.
VERITAS.
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Veritas.
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New Hampshire Gazette
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john langdon should be elected governor of new-hampshire to replace officers like gilman who align with the monarchist john adams; langdon remains a steadfast patriot supporting independence and the constitution, unlike federalists who favor despotism.
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