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All Lettersand Communications addressed to the Editor by mail must be post-paid, or they will not be attended to. POLITICAL. ADDRESS OF The Democratic Republican members of the Legislature, to the People of Penn• sylvania : The undersigned Democratic Republican members of the Legislature, being about to separate after the termination of a 'cog and eventful Session, and many of them to sur render the trusts which they have held for the people of this Commonwealth, back to the hands of those by whom they were con ferred, have felt that it would not be amiss to render to their constituents an account of the manner in which those trusts have been discharged. They are aware that the body of which it was perhaps their misfortune to be members, has presented a spectacle by no means flattering to the pride of this an cient Commonwealth, and has achieved lit tle which is calculated to entitle it to a very exalted place amongst those assemblies which have impressed upon our Statute books the inspirations of a lofty political mo rality, or the spirit of an enlarged and en lightened patriotism. They are deeply sensible that the heavy judgment of the people has already fallen upon the majority of that Assembly of which they have formed a part, and that a portion of the obloquy with which that majority has been visited, is likely to be reflected upon the unwilling participants of their deliberations, whose opinions have been uniformly disregarded, and whose numbers were entirely inadequate to their enforcement. In the righteousness of that judgment they are, in all honesty, constrained to acquiesce—against the pro priety of its infliction they have no argument to offer, unless they may be allowed the humble plea that though little has been ac complished which could redound either to the honor or the advantage of the State,less has perhaps been done of a mischievous character than could, under the circumstan ces, have been reasonably expected. They protest, however, against its application to themselves. They have enjoyed no power except that of remonstrance, and they are obnoxious to no responsibility but that of a failure to employ the feeble weapon with which they have been armed, in defence of the Constitution of the State, and the rights and interests of the people. The last annual election resulted, as you aro aware, in the complete ascendency of the Federalists in both branches of the Le gislature. A triumphant majority of that party, flushed with their recent victory,and breathing nothing but destruction to the banking and credit systems of this Common wealth, accordingly assembled at Harris. burg, and the patriots of the land contempla ted with alarm the mustering of those ex plosive, and insurrectionary elements which had gathered above the political horizon, and threatened to pour their accumulated wrath upon the devoted heads of the people of this State. The materials of which that majority wall composed were of a character well adapted to the purposes with which it wan charged. Men of no practical experi ence in the affairs of life—beardless enthu siasts, full of crude and chimerical notions of reform, and with no better idea of a bank ing institution than such as might be picked up in the various but unmeaning vocabulary of a village newspaper —tyrnes to political science whose whole knowledge was confin ed to the noisy inanities of a town meeting —such were the master-spirits whom the fermentation of the political cauldron, and the chances and changes of political life had thrown upon tho surface, and invested with the power of legislating upon the rights and property of their fellow men. With such men, of course, our government itself was but a subject for experiment, and the inter ests of the poop'e as nothing when compared with the application of a favorite system, or the success of a new and untried theory. To oppose these political,:speculatists who aimed only at acquiring notoriety by the novelty and boldness of their opinions, with out regard to the public cost, was a feeble array of representatives, scarce strong enough to embarrassand wholly incompetent to resist the.revolutionary movement, which, milder the impulse administered to it at the polls, threatened at first to trample down all fritervening obstacles, and turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, to open for pull a pathway of ruin in its onward march. towards the goal at which it was professedly aimed. The friends of order end of law, who, reepecting the teachings et experietice, were content to be no wiser than those who had gone Were them, and deprecated every thing like experiment upon the properly land industry of the people, wore reduced to a minority in the Senate, and overwhelmed by the disparity of numbers in the popular I branch, and the State of Pennsylvania, do• livered over into the hands of a few mis guided theorists, seemed destined by the decrees of an inscrutable Providence to un dergo all the tortures which the extremest fully, and the wildest fanaticism could con veniently inflict. As if to deepen the gloom which overhung the Commonwealth at the crisis to which wo have adverted, another chapter in that series of calamities which has so pro emi nently distinguished the present administra tion of the General Governmer.t, was unroll ed almost contemporaneously with the fall elections. In that contest the destruction of the Banks had been the banner cry of the successful party, and with the announcement of their triumph, and the shouts which wont up with the smoke of the battle field, and disclosed the results hf the struggle, the light of hope seemed to be at once extin guished, and confidence fled affrighted from the land. A second suspension of specie payments on the part of the Banks, originat ing in the State of Pennsylvania, and soon pervading nearly the whole Union, seemed to present at the auspicious moment, the Tong sought opportunity of destroying those institutions,and paving the way for the grand experiment of an exclusive metallic curren c), which, by reducing the wages of labor, and the prices of agricultural products from the_lnominaP (or paper,) down to the 'real', (or specie) standard of the hard money countries of Europe, should enable as to dispense with a Tartfrof Protection, and in the language of one of our own Senators, "cover this great country with benefits and blessings." The Banks were at the mercy of the Legislature, prostrated by the long and disastrous war which had been waged against the credit and the commerce of the country of which they had been the main instruments, and ready to receive the doom which had been so long threatened, at the hands of those who denied the obligation of contracts, and respected nat the sanctity of charters. Every accident of the times seemed to conspire in presenting a conjunc ture unusually favorable to the execution of the long cherished designs of the now domi nant party. That conjuncture waq hailed by their presses throughout the State, as particularly auspicious to the realization of all their dreams of financial perfectability, and that portion of the people who had been persuaded into the same way of thinking accordingly looked forward to the assem blage of their representatives as the sig nal of a revolution which should cure thedis eases of the currency, and restore to them the prosperity of which they had been so long deprived. The day of the meeting of (ho Legisla ture, and of the expected deliverance of the people from the chains which were suppo sed to have been forged about them by the Banks, at length arrived, and as the refer mation of those institutions and the iepeal of charters had been made the great ques tion at the polls, they became, of course,the great question of the session. The reform ers, us they were pleased to term them selves, were soon industriously at work in both branches; n proposition was introduced into either house for the repeal of the char- ter of the United States Bank, and bill after bill ih rapid succession, distinguished by ever) variety of whim, and uniform only in the deplorable ignorance of the whole sub• ject which was discoverable in all, was evolved from the revolutionary crucible, and laid on the legislative anvil to be elabo rated and fashioned into a thousand shapes, and then dismissed for some Other absurdi ty, more transcendent than any which had gone before. To none of these bank regu• tutors however did it seem to occur that any information was necessary to guide them to the proper result. Whether the Banking Institutions of State had abused the indulgence of the people by extending their issuessince the suspension, or whether the people at largo were desirous that they should be hurried into a premature resump tion, were inquiries which seemed to be un worthy of the consideration of thowe who were so ready to undertake the important business of reform, and to adjust the delicate and nicely balanced machinery of that com plicated system whose every movement was connected with the property and the labor of the community, and whose violent de rangement might readily prove fatal to both. It has been well remarked of surgery that the boldest operator is ho who has the stout est nerves and knows least of the delicate structure and organization of the body which has chanced unfortunately to fall beneath his experimental hand. If the remark be equ'ally true of legislation, wlrre interests equally delicate and complicated are fre quently involved, never was a legislative body better qualified for a bold practice than the Into House of Representatives of this State. There was no misgiving there a. mongst those who flourished the operator's knife, provided they could carve distinction for themselves. They did not stop to inquire into the necessity or the probable conse quences of the measures which they were so forward to recommend. "Resumption!" "immediate resumption I" "Reform! radi cal reform!" without regard to the wants or wishes of the people,was the unmeaning cry; not a resumption which would be permanent and healthful, but one which should be short lived and unnatural—a mere galvanic move ment which should be the precursor of a second death more terrible than the first; not a reform which should regulate and UM prove, but .one which inslesd of regulating shtinld only evirpate and destroy. The G. WASHING'T'ON BOW'MN, mr)vron & PROPRIETOR. 66 The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, is above all other liberlies.PP—MlLTON 021Wit#76321W,26 0 Wcaclo wwzaau)Qcnr. , /twazr silo aaaoc, first step in the grand experiment of the Fed eral Government to perpetuate its ill-gotten and ill used power by overthrowing the mo nied institutions of the States, and establish ing a Government Bank upon their ruins, was to be taken here. It was iii vain there• fore fur the minority to attempt to resist the vandal spirit which threatened to overturn everything which fell within its desolating track. Resistance seemed to be only cal culated to exasperate it into still higher fury, and they accordingly hesitated whether it was not their duty to sutler it to flow on un impeded until its violence was spent. They were aware that the public mind io many portions of the State had been inflamed by the most incendiary appeals into a condition of morbid excitement, which was but too faithfully reflected by their representatives. They knew that for years past the very at mosphere had been loaded with the most vehement and unmeasured denunciations of those institutions—that the polished and courtly phrases of "chartered monopolies," "licensed swindling shops," "wholesale rag manufactories," and others of the like char acter had been flung from newspaper to newspaper and echoed and re-echoed [tiro% out the Commonwealth, until they had be come almost the exclusive staple of a profli gate and licentious press—and that more• over the party with which they were con nected had been characterized as the espe cial patrons, and systematic defenders of those and all other offending corporations The party which attributed its past failure to the ascendency of the Republicans in one or other branch of the Legislature, was now in the undisputed ascendency in dl, and it became a very grave question with the mi nority whether they ought to take even the responsibility of assisting in the defeat of any of those long cherished projects of re form which they had been uniformly charg ed with resisting against the earnest wishes of their political opponents, and to the great prejudice of the people at large. They were united in the belief that the very best remedy for that rabid spirit of radicalism, at once servile and imperious. which had invaded our firesides, and threatened to pull down our very altars, would be found in its immediate though partial embodiment in our laws, and its practical operation on the business and interests of the community.— They were not, however, at liberty to vote otherwise than in strict accordance with the conservative principlrs on which they were elected. Though powerless for good they might be still competent to a certain extent to resist evil, and it was their obvious duty to struggle against it while resistance con tinued to be availing, and if they failed, to acquit themselves at least of all participation in the responsibilities of the fearful experi ments which seemed to be in contemplation. Their efforts however were at first entire ly unsuccessful. A sullen determination to execute the work to which they supposed themselves to have been called, seemed to have taken possession of the minds of the majority. Resistance was apparently use• less. Argument, entreaty, expostulation, were alike vain. They heeded not the remonstrances of the minority, but moved onward in unbroken rank, and with the reg. ulanty and percision of a disciplined host towards the consummation of their darling schemes. There were some amongst them it is true, and foremost amongst that num ber was the Speaker of the House of Rep resentatives himself, who had intelligence enough to foresee the probable consquen ces of the measures which they were adopt. ing. They were about to do a deed which in his emphatic language, would "produce a scence o f unparalleled ruin and disaster, from the tre to the circumference of thi* commonw alth," but like him they were borne onward by the general current which had floated into the seat which he disgraced, and like him they had not "the nerve to resist the will of the democracy," and to give the lie to the professions upon which they had been elected. Their own little ephemeral interests as politicians far out weighed the high and solemn obligations in public duty, and the great permanent and abiding interest of the people. General, admitted public disaster—ruin unexampled and universal, pervading all interests, and circling outward from the centre to the re• molest boundaries of the state, was ns noth ing when compared with the petty and short bighted ambition which had traded on an imposture and would be bankrupted by its detection. If they should fail in meeting the honest but mistaken views of those whom they had themselves assisted in de. ceiving, thry were destined to encounter not merely the wrath of an Offended constituen cy but the still mere terrible frowns of the Federal Executive. If on the other hand ' they succeeded even at the expense of that ruin which was so graphically depicted by ' Speaker Hopkins, they could seek refuge from the storm which they might have pro voked at home, in the arms of that Execu tive with whom the condemnation of the people has never failed to furnish a passport to the highest Ever. The wishes and opin ions of the administration at Washington were not left merely to be guessed at by their admirers and supporters at Harrisburg. The extent and application of their patron age were equally well understood. It was essential to the success of their gigantic and oft defeated though never abandoned schemes of political and personal aggrand izement that the first blow should be struck in Pennsylvania; because her powers of en durance and her fidelity to the party were supposed to be the strongeat, and tt may be readily conceived that they were not likely to want instruments where the interests of the representative could be so conveniently arrayed in opposition to those of the people. Such was the condition of parties in the Legislature, when at the critical .moment the Executive of this Commonwealth find ing her credit to he trembling to its fiaunda• Lions under the influence of the destructive counsels which seemed to hold undisputed sway and to menace its entire ruin, felt It to be his duty to interpose for the purpose of arresting the mad career of those who had hurried her to the brink of the precipice, and were about to take the final and the fa ml plunge. Perhaps it would have been more respectful and certainly more conform. able to the gains of our institutions if that officer had been content to await the final action of the Legislature, and take the re- sponsibility of the constitutional negative. He seems however to have considered the peril too imminent for delay, and he accord ingly thought proper to assume the still higher responsibility of meeting the ques tion in advance and arresting the measure which was then in progress by an anticipa tory veto. Ile stretched forth his hand over that body, and though that hand no longer dispensed as heretofore the bounties of the State, it was still potent enough to roll hack the lava flood which threatened to desolate the land. The nerves of the timid were strengthened by the example of their tmme• diate chief, and those of the majority who were able to appreciate the effects of their legislation, under the lead of the honorable Speaker, seperated at once from their do• structive confederates. The secession however was not immedi ately fatal. The struggle was not vet ended The Administration at Washing was not to bo foiled in its favorite purpose without a further effort, and the Representative Halls were converted into an arena on which the antagonist powers of the State and the Gen eral Governments—the advocates and the opponents of the credit system, contended for the mastery. In that contest the under signed could not hesitate to take sides with those who stood up in the defence of the rights and interests of their own State against the encroachments of Federal pow er. If they had acted otherwise they would have been false to the principles to which they stood pledged, and equally false to the State of which it was their pride to be citi zens. They wore aware that her prosperi ty was in a great measure dependant on the preservation of that system which the Gen• eral Government was endeavoring to des troy, and that with the enormous debt of thirty-four millions of dollars which she had already incurred in the prosecution of her gigantic schemes of improvement, .the des truction of that system and the reduction of all prices to a metallic standard would more than quadruple the burthens of her people, and bring down tho value of her whole free hold almost to the level of the immense debt for which it stood pledged. With an anuu• al deficiency at present in her revenue of more than a million and a half ot• dollars, which must probably be supplied by taxa tion, and would constitute an annual burthen of nearly five dollars on every tax payer in the Commonwealth, they could not consent to aggravate that burthen by diminishing the resources of the productive classes to such an extent as to require twenty days la bor, or as many bushels of wheat, to pay a debt which could now be discharged with five only of either. It was not their desire, however to legislate at all on the question of resumption. They were satisfied with the existing laws,.and were content to leave in the hands of the people that power of co ercion which they already enjoyed, and would be sure to exercise whenever it should become necessarry to their own interests. It was not, however, for them to chose their own course. The majority were agreed as to the necessity of some species of legisla tine in order to preserve appearances at least, and the undersigned had no alternative than to choose between that which would, pre serve though tt might perhaps deceive, and that which would inevitably destroy. They chose the former, and the result is now be fore you in the act of the late session legal izing the suspension of specie payments until the fifteenth day of January next, and stipulating, doubtless on the principles of divorce recommended in the annual mes sage of the Executive, for a loan of three millions of dollars for the purpose of supply- ing the immediate wants of the Govern ment. The great measure of bank reform which had convulsed the Coinmonwealth to its foundations, and cost so much travail to its authors, perished of neglect at last; sev erg of the old Banks were re-chartered, and a new one of an experimental character pre sented to the Governor for his approbation; and the bill to repeal the charter of the Bank of the United States, which at the critical moment had once more interposed to sustain the credit of the State by paying the semi annual interest on her immense debt, was permitted to slumber undisturbed on the files of both Houses, where it has been consign ed to oblivion among the rubbish of the ses sion, and will probably know no resurrec tion hereafter. Connected with, and essentially depend ent on the foregoing, were other questions of infinite magnitude and Interest which en gaged our anxious attention, and, occupied a large share of our deliberations. The prosecution ofour public Improvements was one of those, and one too on which our own ideas were as various as the supposed interests of our respective constituences, some of us being of the opinion that the de pressed condition of our public credit,' and the extreme embarrassment of our treasury required an immediate suspension' of the work on the , several unfinished lines of Ca nal, while others entertained the belief that true economy required those improvements on which large sums of money had been al ready expended to be pushed forward with nll possible activity to completion. Amidst this diversity of opinion, and on a question which has always been of at local and never of a party character, there was no room, of course, with the minority, for the indulgence of noy thing like party feeling. It is not to be denied, however, that some of those who advocated a suspension may have been confirmed in their opinions of its propriety by t heir conviction of the complete irrespon sibility of the Canal Commissioners, and their utter want of confidence in the integ rity of the men under whose direction the moneys appropriated must necessarily have been expended. The fact was notorious, and it deserves to be remembered by the people, that within a little more than a year after the installation of the present Execu• tive, the expenditures for the single article of repairs on the several finished lines of Canals and Rail Road within this Com monwealth had swollen to the unexampled and astounding sum of about nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars, (S9SO,- 000!) being within six thousand dollars of the wholeamount expended for the like pur pose during the three years of the previous administration, with the exception of the extraordinary casualty above Huntingdon in the summer of 1838, and exceeding by nearly one hundred and sixty thousand dol lars ($160,000!), the sum total of revenue derived from all our public works during the last fiscal yearl The 'appropriations to that object at tho previous session, inclusive of a provision of one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars ($145,000) for debts incur red for the like purpose prior to the Ist of February, 18:39, amounted to no less than eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and yet the Legislature was informed that on the first day of April of the present year, the whole amount had been expended, and a new debt incurred without authority of law, to,the extent of nearly two hundred and seventy•five thousand dollars; and that a further appropriation of at least six hundred thousand dollars would be required to pay that debt, and continue the several lines in active operation during the present season. No intelligible account was furnished to the Legislature of the manner in whtch any por tion of this money had been expended, With the exception of perhaps about two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. To this extent even all was mystery and confusion; beyond this point, nothing but clouds and darkness rested over the whole question. It was impossible for the minority to guess even the extent of the public necessities in this particular; they did not hesitate to express their suspicions that there was something wrcng; they endeavored to unriddle the mystery, but no pains seemed to be taken to enlighten them, and the faith of ninny of them was not sufficiently strong to author ize an appropriation of the amount asked for, upon the mere unsupported declarations of the officers who were interested in obtaining the funds, and might under the present sys tem of unlicenced and ucontrolled expendi. lure, apply it to any purpose, which they might think proper. They wore moreover advised that the number of officers, and with them of course, the expenses of superinten dence upon the public works, had been mul tiplied cif late to an alarming extent, and they were not disinclined to exercise their control over the public purse for the purpose of correcting these abuses, of limiting the enormous power of the Canal Commission ers, and of establishing some system of ac countability which would bring them more efTectually within the reach of the Legisla ture. It is admitted therefore that these considerations were not without their effect in strengthening and fortifying the positions of those who may have advocated a suspen• sion upon other grounds, while, on tho oth er hand it seemed to bo equally obvious that a large appropriation for these purposes was essential to the success of the bill. If a few of the opponents of the administration were disposed to apply the proper cheek to its ex travagance by refusing to trust individuals in whom they had no confidence, and who were entirely unaccountable for its use,with moneys which might be expended for polit ical purposes, it is at least equally certain that many of the votes of the federal major-, ity were influenced by considerations exclu sively referrable to the approaching elec tions. If the fact were not so, it was clearly not the fault of those individuals themselves. There was no want of industry on their part in endeavoring to impress. upon their politi cal friends in the Legislature the impor tance of further appropriations for that pur pose, and the force of the argument may be conjectured from its extraordinary results. The most stubborn and inflexible of the op. ponents of further appropriations at the for mer session—the representatives of many of those counties which have heretofore been uniformly opposed to the whole Sys tem of Improvement, were all at once mol filled and subdued by some potent but mys terious influence, and the singular spectacle was presented to the public of a Bill suppor • ted by the natural enemies of the system and opposed by many of its warmest friends. The undersigned aro .not unaware of the species of magic which was employed to work these marvellous transformations.— The faCt is notorious that caucus after cau cus of a strictly party character was holden during the extra session within the secret chambers of the Capitol, and that the whole business of that session was made to wait upon the tardy action of those midnight conclaves wliere the will of a small majority of the dominant party, and a very small mi nority-of the Legislature was attempted to wrexmatza (3132)0 bo substitoted for the legitimato authority, 'and a hand which was entirely ur.seen per mitted to control the whole destinies of this Commormealth. That formidable species of party.drill was not however confined to a single question. Almost the whole legisla tion of the State seemed to have been trans• ferred to that dread and irresponsible tribu nal—unknown to the Constitution ar.d to the past practice of this government—Micro the fetters of party could be rivited npou the limbs of the reluctant, their remenstran• ces stifled, and the freedom of thought and opinion which qught to Wong to the Rep resentative extinguished under the pressure of that heavy despotism which is alike fatal to every thing like integrity of purpose and independence of character. It is not how ever for the minority, who were of course excluded from these mysterious assembla ges, to say what may have been the extent of their influence upon the particular-ques tion. They might perhaps be inclined to differ in opinion on that subject, and they merely state the fact as an item in the his tory of the times, which deserves to be re membered hereafter by those who may be disposed to study the history, or scrutinize the doings of this remarkable Legislature. The condition of the public credit was another of those topics, intimately. interwii ', yen with the foregoing, which challenged the attentive consideration of your mare sentatives. For some cause, perhaps not altogether unconnected with ,the results of the last elections, the .stocks of this Com monwealth, which had always enjoyed a degree of credit commensurate with her inexhaustible resources and hitherto untar nished honor, began about that period to descend in the market, and have so contin ued until they have reached a point of de preciation far below those perhaps of any other State in the Union. How much of that decline is attributable to the unskilful management of her finances, for manyeyears past, it is impossible to conjecture. It can not bo doubted howeverlhat aiarge portion of it may be fully ascribed to the ascendancy of those opinions, which, in utter disregard of the common obligations of Morality, as well as the fundamental principles of our so cial compact, either questioned the binding efficacy of a solemn contract, or denied th; authority of one generation •to bind that which was to follow it. It is not to be dia. puted that great industry had been employ. ed in certain quarters to propagate the opin ion in other lands that there was no consti. tutioEial authority in this or any other State to pledge the public faith for the perform . - ance of any contract which its Legislature might think fit to authorize and as though . the means adopted elsewhere had not been sufficient to accomplish the object in them selves, the same doctrine was publicly an nounced on the floor of the Senate of this State, and in the most Imposing and author itative manner, by the accredited organ of the very committee to which that subject most particularly appertained. [CONCLUSION NEXT WEEK.] WHOSE 02/ /9 GonED7---When John Quinc) Adams was President, he signed all the land patents himself, and was called an aristocrat because ho used a silver pen for that purpose! Martin Van Buren has an appropriation of $l5OO per annum passed for his son to perform that duty, and yet ho is a democrat! Pehawl there is no more de- mocracy in him, than tho autocrat of Rue sta.—Pa. Telegraph. TUE PROVIDENCE CLAM BAKE.—The following items formed a part of the stores provided for the great clam bake at Button wood's on the 4th.--220 bushels of clams, SO bushels quahogs, 1000 pounds bro Nn bread, 500 pounds white bread, 5 barrels fish for the chowder, 15 barrels crackers and pilot bread, 8000 pounds ice, with other things in proportion. Whether any clams will be left on the Narragansett Shore after this affair, is within the possibility ofa doubt. FEVERAL POTATIONS.—The disgust which federal aristocrats express at "hard cider" has recalled to recollection, facts which re buke their hypocrisy in a striking manner. We well rememberon common with others, when the first hickory pole was erected in honor of Andrew Jackson, by the BucMails of Now York, in front of Tammany Hall. The foot of that pole was regularly christ ened by throwing the contents of a pewter mug of beer over it! and a barrel of the same liquor was emptied into the hole dug to receive it—the Grand Sachems of the party stood around, dipped it up again with their pewter pots, and the faithful drank or it! If hard cidertsm be an "enormity," what are we to call that exhibitian Pennsylvania Tel4graph. REMARKABLE.—CharIes Cist, Esq. who , is engaged in tatting, the mitts at Cincin nati, says:—l found a lady who, at the nge of 29, had foutteen children, the oldest be ing born on her fourteenth birth-day ! And another—a case more remarkable--u , which her son stood by her ,side within a few months as old as she was when married, 'and the mother not yet 26! Consequently, the mother was about 13 when married. TTOUBLE BREIWINO.- - It is said that Isaac Hill is about to recede formally from ther Loco .Foce regular party of New Hamp shire. He , will stilt support the A dminst tion, but intends hereafter to do it on his own hook. Ho is about to establish a new New Hampshire Patriot. Isaac wants !o be cleated U.S. Senator in Hubbard's place, but tne regulars say no.
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