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In the course Of long TRADE, in the Executive
organ of yesterday, directed substantially against
every thing like freedom Of either speech or the
press, the National Intelligencer is charged with
prgudgment of the course Of the Administration


in making war upon Mexico, on the following
grounds:


Z" First, that we are, by the unanimous affirma-
ton of all the departments of our Government,
at war with Mexico and, secondly that the Off
cial documentary statement Of the facts which


have led to the war, and compelled it, and justif-
ed it on our part-the case, that is, of our Go
vernment-has not yet, for want of time alone,
been made fully known TO the country"
Upon which grounds, we remark, that the
" first" of them is directly in the teeth of notor-
Gus facts; and that the second is direct admis-
sion OF more than we have ever charged against
this Mexican war-that the PRESIDENT has recon-
mended it, and CONGRESS has adopted it, without
information being spread before the latter by the
former to show what !" led to the war, and compel
led it, and justified 1t on our part


Congress has, then, been driven into the War
upon information confessed to have been deficient
to have fallen short of justification of it. Who
knows, but upon such information as the Executive
has not given to Congress or the People, even ace
might have been convinced that sometng more than
the bunders and mismanagement of the Admins
tration had made the War inevitable on our part 4?


The government scribe who thus springs trap
upon HIMSELF pretends to understand US, in the in
vitaon to all good men to unite their counsels
to repair and mitigate the evils before us by every
means in their power,'' as appealing to party men
and party means to relieve and save the country
from the consequences of Executive mismanage-
ment. We should have supposed that no man with
a thimblefu of brains, or particle of generosity
in his composition, could have understood us as ap-
Pealng to the good men of one party more than
another, or as proposing any thing which could
embarrass the Government in the most vigorous
defence Of the country, or the most formidable pro-
secution of the war, should that become necessary
The PRESIDENT himself having proposed negotia-
tion when Mexico shall be willing either to offer or
receive propositions for peace we could not suppose
that the most bloodthirsty member of the Admins
tration would take offence at suggestion that all
good men ought to unite by such and other civilized
means, to mitigate the horrors Of war, and termi-
nate it altogether honorably and as speedily as
possible.