Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-07-01

people were taken by surprise, aud the partisans
Dinsmore, not apprehending any opposition, made
effort to secure the Of the regular candI
date, and WOODBURY., aided by faction took time
| by the ioreock, and by kind Of sortie was car
ried into the gubernatorial chair bya considerable
majority. His first State paper may be considered
an able document and was abroad esteemed as the
harbinger Of the ultimate renown Of the q,tondom
Governor Of New-Hampshre. But those who had
been cheated by him out ofthe election Of their fa-
vorte candidate, determined to remove him from
the place he hel !. at all hazards.
| But one year was he allowed TO wear his "blush
ing honors;" for all parties, friends well foes,
were Disguised with the course pursued by him.
and the democrats, particularly resolved TO hurl
him from Office which whilst he held it, hal
been abused, and rendered the arena of every spe.
cies Of shutting and political gambling. lie dis
tnguished himself during his reign. by that depen
dant and sycophantio department. which seeks ior
popularity by every species Of dupicy, deceit and
| intrigue, which others as well as Mr.. Woodbury.
have followed-and the baleful consequences of
which, others as well as LEVI WOODBURY., of New.
Hampshire, to their sorrow, have felt and de-
plored.
lie was particular friend of the democratic
party, the avowed champion Of the federasts.
and the hero of the no-party faction. But each
and all were weariej, tired and disgusted with his
waverings and Inconsistencies, and each and all de
termined to get up candidate of their and to
defeat his In m w ith this do
sign they got up their NOTWITHSTANDING SMITH
Hon. DAVID l.. MORRILL,, and the then incum-
bent, and issued their tickets to the people, the
suit was, that neither was elected; Mr.. WooD-
BURY being in the rear of Mr.. MORRILL,; and the
final election devoved upon the Legislature, when
Mr.. MORRILL, triumphed over his opposers, and
was elected. The honorable LEVI WooDBURY-
his Ercelltncy then, as became defender OF the
fa,h'-as man who neither sought nor refused
oficc-bowed most submssively to the will of his
lords and masters-the sovereign people-and
sought in dignifsd retirement the repose OF domes.
tic life, and all the joys ofa country Court prac-
tice in Portsmouth.
Thus situated in retirement, he was supposed to
be politically dead, and those who had once looked
upon him US kind of star in the political transact
ions Of New w-Hamrshire, no longer remembered
him-or if, indeed, they recalled him to their me-
mories it only to execrate his former acts of in
consistency and political infdelity. But he was not
thus early to be killed-it decreed by the God.
dess Dscordia that he should yet exist in the affairs
of the day; and in an unexpected moment he was
returned to represent the town of Portsmouth in
the Legislature of New Hampshire. He bad
scarcely taken his seat in that body, when he was
chosen its Speaker, and almost simultaneously elect
ed to the United States Senate place of MIR. Par
rott, whose term of service had expired. ln both
of these elections he succeeded by wheedling the
people and the Legislature into belief that he
the friend of Mr.. ADAMS, and the determined
champion of the Administration. Had he not thus
deceived all who took any interest in the affairs of
the nation, in the dignity and character of the
State which he now so ably misrepresents, certain
it is that he never would have been honored with
their confidence.
But the moment he reached Washington, he was
assailed by Mr.. Vice President CALHOUN, the Hon.
tween Aattery and threats, he was induced to aban.
don the interests of those who sent him to the
ellis OF the country; he and made his first appearance
in speech "all conned and got by rote, the op-
poser Of those principles and that administration,
which he had rather obliquely pledged himself TO
support. Secure in the possession Of an office, for
the six next succeeding years, which he must ac-
cording TO the superstrucure Of our institutions
mantain-and from Which he cannot but by i'm
peachment be removed-he stands aoof and defes
the frownngs and complanngs of his constituents,
and with boldness and hardihood almost unexam-
pied in the annals Of impudence, SCOTS at them-de-
MES their power to instruct, and in language not
TO be misunderstood, though it be uttered in the
silent voice of abstract contempt-t4lls them. ~
will do and act as please-complain you will
will not listen to you, and you shall find, that in
stead of being your servant, am your master-you
shall submit to my will, and vainly murmur at my
conduct"
Ungrateful for favors conferred and honors given,
he spurns the idea of being controlled by his
constituents, and laughs at them, when they COM
plain at the course he pursues. "Pleased with a
rattle and tlcked with straw" he swallows all
the fattery that is offered HIM by the opposition,
and thinks that they, who merely fatter to decoy