The New Hampshire Gazette

"The Past—and the Future."

We were very much amused in reading an article in the last number of the Office holders organ headed "THE PAST—AND THE FUTURE." Most of the article consists in an extract from a South Carolina paper endorsed by the aforesaid federal organ. The object of the article is to keep up the drooping spirits of a clique of office holders and their deluded followers. The idea intended to be conveyed is that federalism triumphed last fall and that it will triumph again. The elections last fall were carried by fraud and deception, by bribery and corruption—the mass of the people were deceived by the lies of the federal leaders—by the same men who are now living at their ease and enjoying their comfort with a good fat office. Does the mouthpiece of this federal clique mean to say that the people can ever again be deceived, can ever again be defrauded and bamboozled by coon skins and hard cider? That they can ever again be humbugged by the promises of federal demagogues? If he does, we think he will find himself very much mistaken. What matters it to the farmer, the mechanic, to the great body of the laboring classes whether this or that party succeeds if they are to be taxed double price for their tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, salt, &c.? Does he think the American people will submit to this imposition for the sake of keeping a set of beggars in office? They never will submit to it—and the quicker the people kick these office beggars from their seats the better it will be for the country.

The only principle the federal party act upon is a selfish one, it is for the spoils of office—they hate and despise the masses. This is clearly evident by the Extra Session—look upon our second page and there see the funeral expenses of a man who was represented by the federal party as a poor laborer, living in a log cabin and drinking hard cider.

Is not this enough to open the eyes of every person? Does any one suppose that the same imposition can again be practised upon the masses? God forbid that this Republic shall ever again be visited with a plague like the one that passed over the country last season. Shame and disgrace rests upon the head of that man who shall thus presume upon the ignorance and stupidity of the American people.