Mobile register and journal., 1845-06-17

re iesentaiives, assaed by foreign goverhments their agents or partizans. As VIC have nothing we ran take back in our expressed views ol the lan guage of The Advertiser, and we have always ex pressed the opinion thai il is his peudlces and moi his heart that is speaking, we must perfnrce, abide all the consequences of the retaliation which he threat ems us. We don't despair of being able to protect ourselves, especially from the kInd of war of which he has given as specimen, in his crlmnaiions of ourselves and our party friends and business GUS. toners.
 One of his retorts is that the Mobile 'locofocos' have abused him heretofore for being "too much of an American!' By this he means that he has been accused of being political Notivs in feeling. An angry man is not expected to reason very logically while the fit is on him, or else might shew that political natysm is by means inconsistent with political anti Americansm. The question 10 the time and degree of participation in the rights of ci- tizenshp, which ought be yielded to resident for egners, is radically distinct m all it's characters- tics from the question of row far American citizens ought 10 discard political controversy among them- selves, n maintaining Americans against the attacks of A hostile foreign government or press. To be cused ui poIilcal native Americanism, IS, not be charged with being "too much oi an American and we assure the Advertiser that the Mobile 'oco- focos never could have intended To make that charge upon him But, we led by the sensiiiveness with which he construes these things-and the allusion which he makes the support of the arI, proofOl his peculiar mercansm, 10 reca to his memory that he aud hs friends have not clupled upon that pure iY domestic question, charge the democratic Tree trade with being partizns of British influence, and sometimes oi being d'~s,Iv under Brt,sh pay' and it may no, he without It's moral turn back to their election story about that British gold, subsci ib- ed for lhe election of Mr. Polk He would do we'll to think of ,hese things when he gets resye under the comments which his Oregon articles provoke.
 Thtre is personal retort upon this pa per- which is a!so illogical and unreasonable. IL is the taunt that our press must be in the British
 interest than the Advertiser s, because the fore ign merchants in this city mostly give their business This believe they have generally done, before these questions were agitated, well as now tho motive being the saine because they get in com mercIa columns and price current, that for whcl alone they take paper. We take it as smal or DuslneSS, inai secures the support of class of men, with whose ma tonal feelings our paper comes in conflict by the which il occul les in all matters of controversy witi the government ofwhch they subjects. But tho personal object of the Advertiser will not be promol ed b, the assertion of the fact that our commerce., matter is preferred by the foreign merchants until is shewn that our opinions on international questisn L.u- lxu .e.I this support and that the Advertiser will not ven ture to say. He is accordingly welcome to all h. can nuke by thls sort of ill-tempsred recrimnaton The New Orleans PicAruNE speaks out with strong and manly American tone, in reply to the in science of the British press, the Oregon question and def ance of the of that portion of thu American press which apoogises for or sides will the British system of attack upon President Polk .- Whigs, the editors of that paper are, one of then too whig who has done as gallant and eloquen 10 his party, and enjoys much Of their ad miraton as any man south of Kentucky, they hay, discarded with noble scorn the memory even of tn, party bias which have placed them in domestic op position 10 Mir. Polk, and discourse with the soul patriots for their country and its cause, and the ad miustration of its government maintaining the cause of the country.
 The Tropic, it seems, undertook to dissent like one of our neighbours here, from the freedom witI which the Picayune discussed the abusveness of the European Times, and half apologsed for the editor because he is Eng giisman. and because il is hui natural he should ''contend honestly and earnestly for the supremacy and rights. real imaginary, of his own country"
 The Picavune answers this Tn a trenchant way which cuts deeply, while it defends successfully.- The European Times is not solely British paper edited by an Engshman, but was got up expressly for American circulation, and with professions that it to be paper ofcommercial and genera nteI l.
 gence for readers this sde of the Atlantic. It British editor, avowedly talking to Americans. ir the language which, is excused because it is naiura to be addressed to British subjects But the sting of the reply, not to the Tropc whose Americansn will stand fe but some leading presses of the whis party of which the National Integencer may be ta ken as an example, consists in the scornluI denun cations which we copy here. The text is this. The 'rropic had said of Winner & Smiths European Tunes:
 "The editor is Englishman, and we arc sure no one would mole heartily despse him than ouI friend. of the Picayune, if he did not contend hon. estIy and earnestly for the supremacy and rights real or imaginary, oI hls own country"
 The Picayune replies:
 "ll would indeed surprise us fan Eng lishman and journalist did not contend earnestly for the premacy and rights, real or imag gnary, Of his own country hut delectons of this in the Ameri press occur frequently 10 excite no special
 Wa Irk kno ynf,, .,lof fb.fa ed leaders in political circles, that have never yet since were old enough to regard such things, ta- ken the part of the American Government in any quarrel it has had with foreign ones-journals that made il their business 10 assail our Government in its controversy with France, in its troubles with England, in It's difficulties with Mexico the right ofsearch question, houndaries and even condemn ed the chaslIsemenls that were inflicted npon barba rous and cannibal islanders, who massacred our merchant sailors dIstani seas. These are melan- choly truths. It is not possible that the U States can always be in lhe wrong; but according to those journalists, we are never right. Our real rights ar treated by them as imaginary, and imaginary ones are scoffed at We are not Objecting to legitimate differences Of opinion in respect 10 the acquisition oI territory. the conduct of foreign relations; allude 10 bona ftle quarres-such seems likely to arise m regard to Oregon, such took place in the Schlosser affair, such as threatened in re- gard 10 the navigation of the African seas, such the reinstatement of the cannibals of Quah Battoo, us arose oui of Nosrt'.aa sIJoat'"ns sucb us upon us on account of the seizure and liberation of slaves by the inhabitants of Nassau and other British West India dependencies, such spring mp in he exercise of the right of search such threat en Us in the triple conspiracy of England, Mexico and France (as is sapposed) touching Annexa ton, such, in act, arise out of any possible ag- gression of England, and conceivable assumption of Europe. any imag ginabe conduct of Christian, Pa gan, civilized or savage nations. We are per suad- ed that the rropic has sympathzed with our morti- hcaion, many times, m noticing the derelictions of which we speak; and more especially must fl enda lament with s thai SD many nf nur cnnfen-