Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-24

Some Of our contemporaries are finding fault with
the National Intelligencer for its opinions matters
connected with the foreign relations OF our country and
some late political movements. Now, 1t SO happens that
in several of these matters do not agree ourselves
with the National Integencer and wish that it had pur
sued different but the Intelligence and honesty
of its Editors we have never u ioned and the ndepen
dence it has exhibited is self worthy OF all credit.
We do not it swimming the current and setting
its sails to catch the popular breeze. The frank and
manly opponents of the Iateig must at least
knowledge that it is worthy Of their highest respect
Alerdndric Gszette.
If we were not averse to giving trouble we would
ask of our esteemed neighbor of the Alexandria
Gazette what "matters connected with the foreign
relations of the country" are they on which we
perceive by the above paragraph of the 18th instant
he does not agree with US, and in regard to which
he wishes we i" had pursued different course ~
We would put this inquiry in all sincerity, for
there is no journal by whose opinions we would be
more ready to rectify our own than by his. We are
not aware that our foreign relations have been
such as to rouse conflicting opinions in the country
since the Fifty-four forty" controversy and the
Mexican war, and upon both of these questions we
had the good fortune, believe, to have the con-
currence of the Alexandria Gazette
We observe, in the friendly article of the Ga
zcte, reference also to some late political move
ments" on which it "does not agree with us. !"
Presuming that this has allusion to the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, we beg to say that, in
regard to our course on that question, we have
hitherto seen no to feel either regret doubt
On the contrary, in addition to our own clearest
convictions of right, we have been cheered by the
general approval of subscribers throughout the
South, of which Indications reach us almost daily
while, with single exception, the voice Of disap-
proval has not reached US from any Southern Wing
outside of Congress. We are not unaware that it
has been pronounced here, IN certain conclaye, by
some whose rghtto speak for the Wing party, North
or South, might well be disputed that the Intelli-
gencer "misrepresented the Wings of the South =
but we might answer that, while the Intelligencer
never professed to speak for the Wing party any
where, it did nat, on the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, misrepresent the Wings Of the South,
however many Of them may have differed from it.
So far from this, we firmly believe, and have many
evidences to show, that great portion if not ma
jority of the Wings of the South dsapproved of the
agitation Of the compromise question: and that very
many Of those who did not openly disapprove of i
witnessed the repeal with Indifference.
We are, nevertheless, sensible Of the kind mo-
tive Of the Gazette in stepping forward in our de-
fence against the of the few violent presses
which have thought fit to arraign the course of the
National Intelligencer, although we have not our.
selves thought it worth while to vndcate it against
the hasty judgments of blind sectional prejudice