The New Hampshire Gazette

CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION.
Mr. Editor—I saw in your last paper, that one of your correspondents had undertaken to select and recommend a ticket for the next Congressional election.
I must say, sir, that I was not altogether pleased with that ticket, and mainly because it did not contain the name of General JAMES MILLER, who is not only a favorite of mine, but of the whole State, and of the nation.
I do not think it necessary to state the reasons why the people of New-Hampshire so generally love and respect the gallant Miller; his services in the last war, his fearless intrepidity, his dauntless exposure of his life and health for our honor and welfare, are all fresh in our memories; it is an honorable attachment that we feel for Miller : honorable to ourselves, for he has richly merited our gratitude—to him, for there can be no higher distinction than the love of a free and intelligent people.

Since then General Miller is brought before the people as a candidate for office, it is not unreasonable that there should be much zeal felt by those who know his private worth and his public services: his patriotism and his entire self-devotion to the good of his country; and our zeal is not only that he should be elected, but that he should be elected with unanimity : and it is on this account that I now ask the attention of my fellow-citizens to the claims of the veteran.

The power of a caucus nomination has vanished in the State of New-Hampshire : the good sense of the people has triumphed in one election after another, over the trickery of names, and the arts of political jugglers, until a legislative nomination has become a mere farce— an object rather of derision than of hope or fear. We do not therefore feel strongly solicitous to explain why General Miller did not receive a caucus nomination at Concord last June : those who understand how those nominations are got up, and who are acquainted with the honest, straight forward character of General Miller, may easily conceive, that under any circumstances, he would stand little chance for success in the midst of so much intrigue and management.

The truth is, however, that it was not then known that the General would consent to be a candidate; if it had been, such was his unexampled popularity with the members of the legislature, that I fully believe the native good sense and honest feelings of the yeomanry members would have insured him success in spite of the jesuitical intrigue and management practiced.

Again it is said, that James Miller is not a citizen of New-Hampshire: indeed ! and did he lose his right of citizenship whilst fighting our battles at Brownstown, or Erie. or Bridgewater ? or whilst confined by his wounds in hospitals, or whilst a prisoner in the hands of the British, or when commanding what is little else than a military post at Arkansas? The plain fact is, that this is only an attempt to make a legal quibble by those who are conscious that there is no other objection to Miller's election.

General Miller is as much a citizen of New. Hampshire, as any of our foreign ministers are of the States to which they belong; as much as John Quincy Adams is a citizen of Massachusetts, or William H. Crawford of Georgia.— Suppose that Miller's government had been at the mouth of the Columbia river, instead of at the Arkansas -no one would have dreamt that he had lost his citizenship, any more than Commodore Stewart has lost his, by a three year's cruise in the Pacific ocean.

In fact this ground is abandoned by the very persons who had assumed it—its absurdity was so glaring that I do not know that it has ever been seriously and broadly stated.

I am in favor of General Miller's election, because he is a man of sound practical sense, strong mind and liberal feelings; he was educated a lawyer, but preferred the life of an independent farmer to the dull routine of a lawyer's office; and that his choice was a wise one, few of my readers are disposed to doubt.
At the breaking out of the last war, he immediately enlisted in defence of his country, and no citizen of New-Hampshire need be told when and where James Miller distinguished himself; from the battle of Brownstown, when at the head of his gallant 4th regiment, he drove in a whole line at the point of the bayonet, to the battle of Bridgewater, where he so successfully "TRIED" to carry the enemy's artillery in the same style, it was with Miller one constant scene of severe labor and hard fighting.

At the close of the war, General Miller was appointed Governor of the Arkansas territory with a handsome salary; but his vigorous constitution has been much impaired by the fatigues and privations of a frontier warfare; and for a considerable portion of the year, he is obliged to abandon that insalubrious climate for the clear air of his native hills.

But although his health is weak, his mind retains all its native strength: he has still that firmness of purpose, that determined resolution, that cool, calculating judgment, which so peculiarly distinguishes him, and which universally brought success to his efforts, and to himself have ensured undying reputation, and the lasting gratitude of his countrymen.

General Miller is now before his fellow-citizens for their suffrages. "If honorably elected, he will serve them," is his language, and that he will thus be elected is the confident, expectation and strong hope of all who remember his worth, or appreciate his services.

A CITIZEN OF PORTSMOUTH.