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We saw it stated in late number of the New
Orleans Courier that the National Intelligencer
"approved and justified the unprovoked aggression
of the English upon the Chinese" We were not
at all surprised at this statement in the Courier
nor should we have been, from what we have seen
in that paper, had it charged with any political
offence, however odious. Nor did we think it worth
while to contradict it, because the {" Courier" has
little circulation beyond the limits of its State, and
we could not extend any contradiction of ours to
reach the mass of its readers.


The Washington Union" having copied it,
however, with the same sort of instinct with which
drowning people catch at any straw, we take the
occasion-not being willing that it shall sustain at
our expense war begun in falsehood and threaten
ing the ruin of our country-to say that the state
ment of the Courier has not the shadow of foun-
dation. Ii is not in our nature-it is not within
the range of possibility, that should ever justify
"unprovoked aggression by our own Govern
ment, much less by any foreign Government upon
any Nation or People.