New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

N. H. Patriot and the Nashua Gazette upon the Legislature to deprive the editor of the Amherst Cabinet of the authority to publish the laws of the State,—for the reason that the Cabinet is not under dictatorial control.

Suppression of the publication of the laws is usually among the first acts of tyranny, and in this State it was among the first acts of the Jackson party. Next we may expect to see a penalty affixed to the crime of printing a statute law except under permission of the powers that be. The proverb says, "Ignorance of the law excuseth no man": still the liberal spirit of Jacksonism would punish a man for disregarding a law, the very existence of which had been concealed from him!

Speaking of authority to publish the laws, it is well to mention, as often as opportunity offers, the fraud by which Isaac Hill drew double pay for printing the same in 1828, amounting to more than two hundred dollars. The type was taken from the columns of the Patriot and printed with another title, for the purpose of this fraud. The people should remember this as a striking instance of the particular regard which this demagogue entertains for their interests and their money.

There is no one subject on which so much was said by the present supporters of Jackson as the abuse of the franking privilege. It has been a constant theme for the Jeremiads of every Jackson press; and none brayed more loudly than Isaac Hill. Yet. notwithstanding all this, since the induction of "the man born to command" into the first office in the republic, nearly every officer of the Government, from Jackson to Jos. Harper, has been engaged in franking electioneering trash.— And the "honorable,"whose columns teemed with slanders and censures of men and alleged abuses, has doubtless more than any other, abused this privilege of franking. Thousands of his franks for electioneering purposes, have gone out from our post office since the rising of Congress,bushels of Patriots and speeches have freighted the mails under the frank of the Senator, who is a mail contractor, and sworn to the faithful performance of his duties. The same practices are followed up at Washington to such an extent that for many of the public offices, Congress has been called upon to make appropriations to pay extra clerks, the time of the principal and stated clerks having been employed in preparing and directing electioneering papers, instead of attending to their legitimate duties.