Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-14

The editor of the Daily News proceeds:
"But the press in this respect ags behind the liberalism
OF public men, II remains inveteote, insulting anti-aa
ona and thus exces in other lands resentment which has
really ceased to lnhame any breast at home
These remarks have been suggested by the letter Of an
American, which will be found in another column complain
ing not merely OF the unendly tone which prevails in
journals but OF the misrepresentation made of the conduc
the American army and generals Mexico Structures OF
this kind and incorrect statements made of the generals Of such
sensitive countries France and the United States are very
serious things Duling the Of France and Morocco no
act OF the British Government created any thing like the
sentiment and leeng in France which was occasioned BY
the letter OF chaplain board the British fleet rejecting
the conduct the French admiral And now we find tina no
protest Of Nh Pakenham, Of any of our dpomass at
Mexico or Washington have caused such bood the rick
less abuse OF he Times
'There journal in New York, it will be seen,
which for years. through good report and evil report has
true TO the British connexion Yet that Journal the
Courier Enquirer, has been forced by the datrbes and re-
presentations Of the Times to turn round and vitupete Eng
land supposed 10 be represented in those diabes, and
those opinions in favor of England of English con-
nexon and fairness, which it had adhered to for years.
So far as respects the tone of public feeling in
England in regard to the United States there is no
doubt but that it is respectful and friendly nor can
be said that any considerable portion of the press
holds an hostile attitude, or is grossly vituperalve
or iliberal in its comments. The Times, however,
influenced by nobody knows what motive, and pre-
suming upon It's great circulation and the weight
OF its dictd is an exception to an almost general
rule. Some minor papers, who prefer using the
| assertions and the language Of the mammoth Jour
nal to thinking and writing for themselves, copy md
circulate its ISLANDERS and misrepresentation. The
influence, however, even of the Times cannot exis,
long under the weight of obloquy which It's course
has justly subjected it to. No man knows his own
interest better than the Editor of the Times no
one " has wheeled about and faced about oltener
than he has done to promote it; and no man is
more likely to become fulsomely laudatory Of Anne
RIGA than he is, when he has sense enough TO per-
ceive, as, unless he be persistently blind, he soon
must do that the mass of English mind and of Eng
ish feeling is in the highest degree friendly and
liberal towards the institutions and the people OF
that country.
50 much for the newspaper press of England.
As respects the magazines and reUie,CS, with the
exception of snarl now and then from the Quar-
ery and little abuse from Blackwood, all is fair,
and liberal and just. Light is breaking in even
upon the -talked-about, but little understood
subject of slavery; and, Pennsylvania having re-
Pndiated reputation, and Maryland bein@about to
do it, this stereotyped complaint has lostmuch OF
It's bitterness and its point England, as represent
ed by her legislators, her merchants, her agricultu-
rlss, her manufacturers and the bone and sinew of
her population, the industrious, and moral and en-
ghtened mechanics artisans, and aborers kRoUs
,chat 4merica is, and feels chat she is destined TO
be. She is not regarded as riUal, but as a great
coicorker in the of human progress and of hui
man happiness Has America ever proved rival
10 Great Britain At what time during her indie
pendent existence as nation, whilst her population
has been increasing from two millions 10 twenty
four millions, and her maritime tonnage from no
thing to a position only second III the world in
amounts whilst her ships called into existence du-
ring the last seventy years, drop their anchors in
every harbor, and her sails whiten every ocean-at
what time, during this amazing and unparalleled
progress, has that progress had an eUi effect upon
the corresponding elements of English prosperity (?
Has England's population diminished whilst that of
America has been increasing Is the commercial
tonnage of England less, now that America has
placed herself ncrt in the SCALE and close al her
side, in this important particular! Has England
fewer ships in any harbor in any sea because the
United States has introduced new flag the gori-
Gus Star-spanged banner" III their docks anL on
their waters Most assuredly not. On the con
trary, whilst America has been increasing her po-
pulatlon IN before unknown ratio, and has been
building up her maritime power, her commerce her
manufactures, and all the elements ofher prosperity
has not Eng land been doing the same! When did the
population, the commerce, the manufactures, and
the wealth of England during all the centuries since
the Conquest, increase and advance so rapidly as
they have done during the time that the United
States have been astonishing the world with their
growth, and delighting the patriot, the phanthrops
and the Christian with the picture which they have
exhibited OF human progress What is there in
the future which is to be opposite in its effects othe
past! What new principle is that future to de-
yelop which is to place the two great branches of
the Anglo-Saxon family in opposition There is
not speck any where, even on the distant horizon
which indicates such an evil, and he must be
most ingenious and determined prophet Of calamity
who croaks out such prediction. Rely upon it,
the United States is not, cannot, will not be, the
rival of England, nor will she ever be regarded as
such by England. The two nations are destined
by an overriding Providence to march on side BY
side, benefing each other by an interchange, upon
liberal principles, Of their productions fellow la
borers in the cause of civil and religious liberty,
sound philosophy, useful science, and the arts, ac-
complishments, and adornments OF life.
II IS true there is point in the progress Of
nation, period in its history, when, Judging from
the past, it uniformly ceases to advance, becomes
first stationary, and then retrogressive. What hat
point is, and when that period in English history
Is to arrive, if arrive it must, the future must deter
mine; there is no symptom of its present prox-
unity. The distress arising from deficient har-
vest, and the destruction of the potato crop, was
quite out Of the category of usual events. The