Daily National Intelligencer

We are pleased with the maiden speech of Governor Brooks of Massachusetts, & quote some passages to enable our readers to form a judgment of its merits & principles. The new Governor, in imitation of the illustrious Jefferson and Madison, abstains from any allusion to party politics; recognizes the doctrine that all men are and ought to be free and equal, and therefore that "legitimate" government must be derived from the people alone.

He alleges that the governments of Europe do not correspond with those principles, but that those of the American states do. We know not what Gouverneur Morris, the Boston Rebel, or the Essex Junto, who have sung hosannas on the restoration of the old despotisms of Europe, which were instituted against the will of the people; we know not what these disciples of monarchy may think of Governor Brooks' principles; but every American republican will approve them.

A witness of the unprincipled and aspiring efforts of the New England tory faction to raise themselves into power on the ruins of popular rights, Governor Brooks with peculiar propriety avers, that "avarice and ambition wage eternal war with equal rights and public liberty." We are glad to perceive the opinion of this gentleman, that the national government will be protracted for ages; and we hope, with him, that hereafter at least—"Massachusetts will be among the last to impair the union of the states."

Upon the whole, this first act of the new federal governor, must be satisfactory to all true republicans; it presents a complete contrast to the malignant party effusions of Strong and Gore, and has doubtless disappointed and chagrined the violent junto by whom he was nominated. We are apprehensive, from the council appointed to surround him, a more bitter set of violent partisans than whom could nowhere, we understand, have been selected, that he will soon be driven from his peaceful republican ground, into an attitude of hostility towards the republican party and the national government.

Balt. Pat.