New Hampshire Statesman

For the N. H. Statesman.

I have read the Statesman, with much pleasure since the present Editor has had the direction of it, and during the "violent contest, as Mr. Hill called the last election, I read both the "Patriot" and Statesman. In that contest, I was often pleased with the subtle invention of the self-styled "old school" master in politics, but I was more gratified in seeing the Statesman applying the same lash to his back, which he had often applied to others. Since that critical period in our politics, interest, and not principle, has bridled his tongue, and many have imagined that he was under conviction, and some have supposed that he had turned from the error of his ways, and put off the "old man" But when the Ethiopian shall change his skin or the leopard his spot, then will I. Hill, cease from obloquy and slander. Though he promises to live in peace and good will with all men, to walk humbly and patiently and to submit to all the dispensations of Republicanism, he will soon return to his wallowing in the mire of political intrigue and corruption.

The question is not with I. Hill, whether the most honest and capable man shall be Governor of this State, but whether he shall be State manager as formerly. The man, who will promote his interest and subserve his purposes, whether he be Levi Woodbury or Samuel Dinsmoor, a good man or a bad one, a federalist or republican, he will support, as a democrat of the Old school.

Whether Levi Woodbury will consent to act again the Governor, and hold the stirrup for his majesty, Pope Hill; to mount astride the state, is the only point to be settled before the second Tuesday of March next. Soon after his Holiness issued his bull under his own hand last March against Levi Woodbury, he declared publicly, that the Governor had sent in his adhesion, and promised the most faithful and strict obedience to his righteous mandates, and that he should take it under his most pious consideration whether the Governor was a subject of pardon and could be received into his most gracious favor. No proclamation of pardon however, has yet appeared, although some of his pious priesthood have pronounced a benediction upon the Governor for his faithful services, more especially for the appointment of Richard H. Ayer as Sheriff and Phineas Walker as Judge of Probate.

OLD SOUTH.