Daily National Intelligencer

The Debate was yesterday resumed in the House of Representatives on Mr. Webster's motion, and, as we predicted, with no diminished ardor. The discussion has taken a still wider range--the history of the four past years is ripped up, and orders and decrees are again the theme. Each member of the opposition who obtains the floor--
"rails on our state of war,
Bold as an oracle."

The more weak and untenable is the ground on which they stand, the more pertinacious they are in maintaining it. This debate has now assumed such a character that, altho' there is but little opposition to Mr. Webster's motion, it has become necessary for the advocates of the present war, for the friends of the administration, the defenders of their country's reputation, to repel the violence of their opponents, and in turn pursue to the inmost recesses of their coverts, and drag them forth into the light of day. This duty will be performed. The discussion will, therefore, probably continue for several days. The time will not be thrown away. It is important, since the subject has been opened, that each party shall have an opportunity of placing its views before the people, by whose decision alone they must at last abide.