Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-02-24

lltlcal concerns oil other continents, 1t becomes GIL
gantic assumption, which, for the independence of
nations, for the interests OF humanity for the tran
guilty of the Old World and the New should be
Significantly repealed.
Mr.. President, review of the history Of Europe
during the last two centuries will bring with il anoth
conviction In respect to the right OF Intervention
that no reliance can be placed It's restriction in
practice TO the objects TO which it is limited by every
public jurls who admits IFS existence all and that
nothing could be so dscouragng to the friends Of free
government as an extension of the system to this
lnent, If the power existed to introduce it here
Though the combinations it is claimed 10 authorize
may, some instances have protected the coalescng
parties from the danger Of being BY conquer
ing armies, the cases are perhaps numerous, in
which their interpositon has been lent to break down
the independence of staes and to throw whole COM
muntles of men into the arms of governments to
which their feelings and principles were alike
The right, as has been seen-(and it cannot be too
often repeated the utmost latitude claimed for
it by any public jurst, goes further than TO author
ze league on the part of two or more weaker states
to protect themselves against the designs of amb
tious and powerful neighbor. In It's practical uppli-
cation, it has more frequently resulted in combina-
of powerful states to destroy their weaker neigbbors
for the augmentation Of their domnOns or those
of their niles. From a right to combine for
self-preservation, they have made it in practice a
right to divide, dsmember, and partition states at
the strength of powerful adversary-but under the
preience of creating system of balances which is
artificial in its structure, and in some degree, incon
gru0us in It's elements. and which n single political
CONFUSION may overturn and destroy. Do we need
examples of the abuse of the power will not call 1t
a right They will be found in the dismemberment
of Saxony, the annexation of the republic of Genoa
TO the kingdom of Sardinia, and the absorption of We
nice by Austria. There is another and more aggra-
waited of abuse to which recent events have Civ
en- new prominence. In l772, Russia, Prussia, aud
Austria under the pretence that the disturbed cond
tion of Poland was dangerous to their own ranquil-
ty seized upon about one-thrG Of her territories, and
divided it among themselves. In 1888 notwthstand-
ing her diminished proportions she had become more
dangerous and they seized half of what they had left
to her by the first partition. Sir, she continued to
grow dangerous she grew weak; and in two years
after the second PARTITION they stripped her OF all
that remained. In 1915. the five great Powers, at
the Congress of Vienna, from motives OF policy, and
not from a returning of justice. organized the
city Of Cracow and portion of the surrounding ter
ritory, with population of about one hundred thou
sand souls, into a republic, under the protection of
Austria, Russia and Prussia with guaranty OF It's
independence in perpetuty Russia pledged herself.
at the time, maintain her share of the spoil,
as the kingdom of Poland in name and form, with
constitutional government. She kept her pledge Sc
ventcen years. and then virtually incorporated it
an Integral part INTO lne RUSSIAN eiHpTe 1He
republic of Cracow all that remained a nonu-
ment of the dsmembered kingdom. year ago, it
was obierated an independent state by the three
great powers of eastern and northern Europe In viola
ton of their solemn guaranty, and assigned to Austria
The name of Poland, the fountain OF so many noble
and anmating recollectons, is longer to be found
on the map of Europe The three quarters of a CEN
fury which interviewed from the inception to the
summation of this transaction are not sufficient to
conceal or even to obscure its true character. The
very magnitude of the space which it is spread
only 10 bring it out in holder and darker relief
from the pages of history.
If the United States, in the progress of these usur-
patons, has not demonstrated against them, and con-
tributed by her nterposition to maintain the integrity
of the states thus disorganzed and dlsmembered In
violation of every rule of right, and every suggestion
of justice and humanity, it is because we have been
faithful against all movements of sympathy, against
the very instincts of nature, TO the principle OF abb
staining from all interference with the movements of
European powers, which relate exclusively TO the
condition of the quarter Of the globe to which they
belong. But when 1t is proposed or threatened to en-
tend TO this continent and to ourselves similar sys-
TEN of balances, with all its danger of abuse and
usurpaon, hold 1t 10 be duty to inquire on what
grounds 1t rests, that we may be prepared to resist all
practical application of it to the independent states in
this hemisphere.
Mr.. President the declaration of NJ Guizot could
hardly have been made without the previous approba-
ton of the government, of which he was the organ
The same sovereign occupies the throne of France
the minister stands before it the exponent of
his opinions. Is tie declaration to be regarded as
mere idle annunciatlon in words OF design never In
tended TO be carried into practice! Let me answer
the question by the brefest possible reference TO cir
cumstances. France was the coad utor of England
in the attempt to induce Texas 10 decline annexation
to the Union Failing in this. she attempted 10 ac-
comp!ish the object indirectly, by persuading
Mexico TO recognize the independence of Texas, on
condition that the latter should remain independ
ent state These terms were offered to Texas, and
rejected. In the year 1874, | believe less than
twelve months before M. GuIzot's declaration was
made, (and the coincidence in point of time is re-
markable J a book on Oregon and California pub
ished in Paris by order Of the King Of France, under
the auspices of Marshal Souit, President of the Coun
Gil, and nj. Guizot Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
written by NJ. de Mofras, who was attached to the
French legation in Mexico. The first part of the
work is devoted to Mexico, and certainly contains
some remarkable passages. He speaks of the estab-
llishment of European monarchy project which
has been suggested the only one calculated to put
an end to the divisions an annihate the factions
which desolated that beautiful country* He says the
Catholic religion and family relations, with the an
cent possessors of the country, would be the first con-
dtions required of the princes, who should be called
TO reconstruct there monarchical government. He
then adds
dukes of AUSTRIA fulfil these conditions, aud may affirm
that, from whichever quarter competitor should present
HIMSELF he would be unanimously welcomed by the Mex-
can people.
What thep are the interests of France in ques-
tiOns
the day after this speech was delivered Mr. d. received
from friend in New York, who could have had no know
edge of his intention to speak much less of the topics he