The New Hampshire Gazette

THE WHIP AND SPUR, AGAIN.

"He [Wilson] said they had the grit, but the New-Hampshire boys always wanted the whip and the spur; the spur, if rowel deep, was sure to set them on the trot."—Jim Wilson's speech, as reported by the Boston Courier.

The Whig papers are very anxious to absolve Wilson from the accountability of having uttered the above sentiment; they insist upon it that it is not a true version, though reported by their own papers. The Portsmouth Journal argues that it could not have been uttered by him, because the Boston Courier which reported it, had no reporter present, and that "those newspapers which actually had reporters present and which published the speech, contains nothing like the offensive paragraph." Now, passing over what is very remarkable, that the Courier should have undertaken a report of a speech of a prominent federal candidate without the aid of a reporter.—it appears that other newspapers, besides the Courier, had the same sentiment in different words, and in substance fully corroborate the report of the Courier. The following is the paragraph as published in our paper, at the time, from another of the Boston papers:

"She [New-Hampshire] is sure but slow; with power and bottom, but requiring the WHIP and SPUR to bring out those qualities."

Now good Colonel Cutter of the Journal, just point out the difference between the two paragraphs, if you please, and tell us if both were as much out of the way as Jim and his friends would have us believe?