[Hill, Isaac]:

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SUPPLEMENT TO THE N. HAMPSHIRE PATRIOT & STATE GAZETTE [caption title]. A venomously anti-Federalist supplementary issue of the New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette, issued in support of the Jacksonians in the weeks leading up to the 1828 election. The paper was founded by Isaac Hill, called a "profligate liar" by John Quincy Adams, in 1809 and continued until 1829, when Hill was appointed second Comptroller of the United States Treasury by Jackson as a reward for his meritorious service to the cause. He was considered a member of Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet," and became a U.S. Senator and eventually Governor of New Hampshire. In this supplement, he uses an aggressive mixture of forceful rhetoric and outright lies to attack the entire Federalist base, but none so strongly as his brother-in-law and former collaborator Jacob B. Moore, now editor of the pro-Federalist New Hampshire Journal. The first article, titled "Murder Will Out," sets the tone for the entire publication:"The mails of Wednesday brought us from an unknown correspondent, the following COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLANS OF THE WASHINGTON CAUCUS AGENTS in regard to this State: and a more base and foul plot, to cheat the people of their rights, has never been dragged before the light of day. A more canting, hypocritical and malicious attempt to deceive the people was never conceived in the breast of a midnight assassin, than is disclosed in the following SECRET circular from JACOB B. MOORE."The supposed circular c

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