Daily National Intelligencer

We observe the following lines in several leading federal newspapers:

"The British cartel brig Maida arrived at New-York on the 15th June, from England, with one hundred American seamen, released from British ships of war."

"Released from British ships of war," were they, gentlemen? This comes with a pretty bad grace from federal editors, who have uniformly said that the late war with England was unjust, unrighteous, and unnecessary--that it was not declared for "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights."

These editors were not apprized of the bearing of this article when it was published. It will not at all suit their Hartford Convention friends. Neither will governor Strong's Committee (which stated that there were only fifteen impressed Americans from Massachusetts) relish this unlucky assertion. It flies in the teeth of all your former writings, gentlemen, and blasts with infamy the disgraceful calumniators of the government.

We repeat, again, that the war with England was just and necessary, and notwithstanding the base efforts of an unprincipled faction among ourselves, it was carried on by the republicans, and ended gloriously. It has secured us an honourable name among the nations of the earth--it has gained us a knowledge of our own resources, and a sense of their importance.

We have, by the war, asserted the rights of an independent nation, by insisting on reparation for wrongs, and demanding the recognition of our rights. We have beaten our old and deadly enemy--we have chastised her insolence: her Toulouse veterans have been routed by our undisciplined troops; her naval pride has been humbled by our heroes on the ocean: her commerce has felt the force of our privateering system: her manufactories have declined by the loss of our trade; and she was evidently driven to make a peace.--In short, England has been defeated and disgraced in the contest.

Let us therefore thank Heaven, that we have saved our honour, saved our independence, the integrity of our soil, and our republican institutions; and have taught the world that a republic, under the most unfortunate auspices, has been able to sustain a war, single handed, against the most powerful monarchy on earth. Rejoice, then, Americans, and be grateful to Heaven; for your independence, constitution and liberties are safe, and your glory is fixed on a foundation imperishable. "God hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad"

"Glory to God in the highest. Peace on earth and good will to men!"

Southern Patriot.