Daily National Intelligencer

STRONG SYMPTOMS OF REFORMATION.

In a former paper we gave an article denoting the symptoms of political reformation in Boston. As UNANIMITY is of the utmost consequence to the Federal Union at this crisis, we wish to say nothing that may increase or irritate political animosities. On the contrary, it is our earnest desire to conciliate our fellow citizens of all parties, and to invite them to take a sincere and a manly part in the cause of their country.

We widely differ with those men who say that the government should not have declared war against England. We are confident that there never was a war so imperiously necessary, so just in its motives, and so essential to the honor, indeed to the very existence, of the U. States as a free and independent nation.

As it appears that there is a portion of the party called Federalists in Boston who now declare, that it is incumbent on them "to obey the law and support government," we copy the following extract from Mr. Dexter's speech at the meeting convened to confer a mark of honor on the brave Com. Perry. It is of the utmost importance at this time; and we earnestly exhort all those who have been disposed to oppose the national will, "to mark, learn and inwardly digest" what is here set down.
Amer.

BOSTON MEETING.
At the meeting on Wednesday last for the purpose of adopting measures to honor Com. Perry for his late signal victory, Mr. Dexter addressed his Federal friends, as near as we can recollect, in substance, as follows:

That many gentlemen, and very good men too, had an idea that their approbating our victories and the gallant achievements of our naval heroes, might be construed into open approbation of the war. He said, from the nature of civil society, it was our duty, and we were bound to support the government and obey its laws. The national spirit and national honor was all that a nation had to rely on for their independence: and that would not be maintained if individuals refused to cherish public spirit, national honor, or to obey the laws, merely because they were averse to the war.

That if two parties in a country were divided, one for war and the other against it, and no tribunal to decide between them, the nation was then virtually at war with itself. But it was not so with us--we had a competent tribunal to decide when it was proper to go to war--they had legally declared war, and we were bound to obey.

The war, he said, was legally declared: and we were bound in duty to sustain the national honor and applaud the national spirit--and that it was not immoral to do so, but an incumbent duty to rejoice at the triumphs and victories of gallant officers. He wished that some gentlemen would consider this war in that point of view, more than they do--that we the Federalists had got into a hobble, and that we must get out of it as speedily as possible, and the best way we could.