The New Hampshire Gazette

We have seen an address to the Electors of the Hillsborough Council District, avowedly designed to influence the people in the next annual election in favor of the administration. This will produce, we have no doubt, a counter effect from what was intended by the writers. It is not our purpose to examine the opinions and sentiments advanced in this address, but shall merely extract the following paragraph which the addressers offer the public as a matter of fact :

"Col. Johnson, a member of the Senate of the U. States from Kentucky, expressed the views of his party in the following manner :"-

" As for the Administration, we will put them down as sure as there is a God in Heaven, if their acts are as pure as those of the Angels who stand at the right hand of the throne of God."

The standing of Col. Johnson as a man of honor and strict veracity, we presume, stands as high as Gov. Morril's, or any member of the U. S. States Senate, and is not, in the opinion of the candid world, to be impeached by the auditors of a paper, (viz. the National Intelligencer) which has been so reckless in making its unfounded assertions to vilify and traduce the character of Gen. Jackson and his friends. Col. Johnson has more than eight months since, given a distinct statement of the conversation between him and one of the editors of the Intelligencer, and we contend, he is entitled to be believed in opposition to those editors, who never found it convenient to give publicity to the crying enormities which they pretend to have discovered among the opposers to the Administration, until they lost the printing of the U. S. Senate: and who, had it not been for this circumstance, would perhaps till this hour have "willfully shut their eyes," (as they confess they did in relation to the declaration of martial law at New-Orleans) against the movements of the "unprincipled opposition," the omission to notice which, would now in their opinion make "their daily sheet a daily lie."

We here give an extract from Col. Johnson's letter, containing the expression alluded to, in his own words, and which has been distorted by his political enemies into the appearance of blasphemy. It should be remembered, that this conversation was held early in the session of Congress previous to the last. After some friendly conversation on the subject of the presidency, in which the editor stated that Mr. Clay had no friendly feeling towards him and never could have; and that he knew Mr. Clay too well, and Mr. Clay knew this fact too well, ever to become his friend." Colonel Johnson observes:

" I waived this part of the conversation by observing to him in a familiar style, that I expected now to see him break ground against the administration. He said that he could not oppose the measures of the administration which he approved, on account of an injury done himself personally by one of its members. This answer accorded with my own views of propriety, and I stated that I had acted, and should continue to act, upon that principle; that I would neither oppose what my judgment approved, nor advocate what I disapproved, on account of the Presidential question; that I considered it my duty to give to the administration every opportunity to be judged by the correctness of its measures -but as I conscientiously believed that Gen. Jackson was, at the time of Mr. Adams' election, the decided choice of a majority of the citizens of the United States, I should feel myself justified, upon the principles of free government, to vote for Gen. Jackson at the polls, although the administration might be as pure as the angels in heaven. Although this language may be too strong, and not proper for such an occasion, yet other words which I did not use have been added, to give to my expressions the appearance of profanity."
Now it is evident, that Gov. Morril, the chairman of these addressers, who have thus gratuitously undertaken to sway the Electors of Hillsborough with their mighty influence, must have been perfectly aware of this explanation given by Col. Johnson. And we ask Gov. Morril to call into exercise whatever of candor may be left him, and say if he himself had happened to have been so misrepresented by any editor whatever, whether he would not have claimed the right of knowing better than any other person what he did say? and whether he would have deemed it consistent with candor and common decency, for gentlemen professing to hold so much influence in society, gravely to persist in such misrepresentations, after being well aware that they were altogether unfounded in truth?

Louaillier Pamphlets.-The Amalgamation party have published and distributed in this town and the county, during the past week, a large number of pamphlets containing a speech of Louaillier, the French member of the Louisiana Legislature, who was arrested by Gen. Jackson, while the city of New-Orleans was under martial law, for publishing an article in the Louisiana Courier, tending to excite a mutiny among the soldiers, particularly those of French extract, encouraging Frenchmen to repair to the Consul of their nation, and renew their act of allegiance, and resist the orders of the General. This man it seems has discovered after a lapse of 12 or 13 years, that it is necessary for him to come out and attempt to clear up his character, and accordingly has undertaken to harangue the people at a Caucus, in a speech of nine columns in the National Intelligencer, to prove that Gen. Jackson kept martial law in operation a few days too long! We intend shortly to lay something before the public which will place this matter in its true light. In the mean time we cannot help marvelling at the strange mutation of times and things. Within seven days last past, (the same persons now concerned in publishing and circulating these tales of detraction, were foremost in celebrating (repeatedly, year after year.) the EIGHTH of January, by a convivial feast at a public house in this vicinity; we wish some one could furnish us the toasts drank on these occasions. We hope this attempt to detract from the fair fame of Gen. Jackson, will stimulate his friends in this vicinity, to attend the meeting this day notified, to make arrangements for the celebration of the anniversary of the important victory of New-Orleans, on the EIGHTH OF JANUARY next.