The New Hampshire Gazette

LAST WEEK's OMISSIONS.
PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 17.
New Hampshire Election
Much as we regret the probable result of the late election in this state, we cannot say we are greatly disappointed. We had seen too long the apathy which generally prevails among the republicans, and knew too well the indefatigable industry of the friends of base submission, and peace on any terms, however humiliating to American pride. We knew too that the state was inundated with addresses, in pamphlets and handbills, from the supporters of the New-York candidate, and knowing the baseness of their mode of warfare, could scarcely expect but that some impression would be made on public opinion by this double attack. Against open, avowed federalism we had nothing to fear—the people knew its character, and how to meet it—they knew how to defeat the machinations of the British agency, but to the disguised warfare of Clintonianism, being new and if possible more ignoble in its mode of contest, they were strangers and not prepared to guard against its assault. When they saw the name of a man who has ever affected to be a firm republican placed at the head of a ticket pretendedly formed to support DeWitt Clinton, (who too has affected republicanism as the sure conductor to the height to which his ambition aspired) and felt the pressure which this double hypocrisy promised to alleviate, it is no wonder many were deceived, and gave an indirect support to a cause they despise.
The apparent changes in certain towns, may be ascribed to the deceptions and intrigues of the tools of the New York candidate. In several, men who make high pretensions to republicanism, of attachment to the government and to the national honor made use of all their cupidity to induce the republicans to support the mongrel ticket. In many where it was not known that one of the republican candidates first nominated manifested a disposition to place his own private feelings in place of the voice of a great majority of the republicans of New Hampshire, the federal ticket gained currency by the popularity of the name of an individual. An ascendency gained by such base deceptions, is worthy of federalism, and those who have more basely aided its impositions—Federalism itself would inevitably have been defeated. If New Hampshire is misrepresented in the national councils by federalists, we all know to whom the censure belongs, we all know who has defeated the choice of the men whom the republicans of this state have declared to possess their confidence
The Republicans of this state have heretofore been remarkable for their union. Whence then has sprung up divisions? It originates in New York! There they have long been divided, and the root of bitterness seems to have struck deep—they will not unite among themselves and they seem to envy the unanimity of others, and determined to preach their baleful animosities through the union—If we might judge from their actions, they have imbibed a large portion of the spirit ascribed to the federalists by DeWitt Clinton in his famous speech in the senate of New York in 1800. The effects of their restless intrigue is also evidenced in New Jersey, in Maryland, in Massachusetts, and they flatter themselves to make a division in favor of federalism in other States. Time was, when DeWitt Clinton stood high in the estimation of republicans, but ambition. ("by that in itself the angels") has cut him off from their confidence. Should he, however, succeed to the Presidency, the great body of Republicans will feel in duty bound, as friends of their country, as well wishers of its prosperity, to give him such support as his conduct may merit. They will not so far imitate the federal faction as to condemn before hand, by fabricating for him a system of measures, and then beat down the image of their own creation, to shew their dexterity of invention, their power of abuse, and their disposition to exercise it. They will wait for a system of his own framing, and judge him by his works.
We have received returns of votes from nearly all the towns in this state—though we can in few instances vouch for their correctness.