A Letter by John Greenleaf Whittier

Supposed to be written by the chairman of the "Central Clique" at Concord, N. H., to the Hon. M. N., Jr., at Washington, giving the result of the election. The following verses were published in the Boston Chronotype in 1846. They refer to the contest in New Hampshire, which resulted in the defeat of the pro-slavery Democracy, and in the election of John P. Hale to the United States Senate. Although their authorship was not acknowledged, it was strongly suspected. They furnish a specimen of the way, on the whole rather good-natured, in which the liberty-lovers of half a century ago answered the social and political outlawry and mob violence to which they were subjected.

'T is over, Moses! All is lost / I hear the bells a-ringing; / Of Pharaoh and his Red Sea host / I hear the Free-Wills singing [4] / We're routed, Moses, horse and foot, / If there be truth in figures, / With Federal Whigs in hot pursuit, / And Hale, and all the "niggers."