The weekly independent. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss) 1848-1853, 1849-12-01
Extract from MIR. Webster'S speech at
the Festival.

DTCSCTlUc ITO luT tlS--N lillC we UlClttlc 10
body, our mission is to show that consti-
tuionaI, representative, conservative gov
eminent, founded on the freeest possible
principles, can do-can do, for the advance
ment of general prosperity, as much as any
other government can.
Gentlemen, two things are to be guarded,
One great truth is. that men in conserva-
tive age are capable of self-yovernment-
tina the enjoyments of equal rights is a
practicable thing, and that freedom is not
dangerous thing for body polite. And
the other is. that freedom from restraint is
no FREEDoM-that lcenliousness-the dis
charge from moral duties and that general
scramble which leads the idle and the ex-
travagant TO hope for time when thew
may put their hands into their neighbors'
pockets-call it what You pease-it is tv-
ranny. 1t is no matter whether the Empe-
ror Of Turkey robs his subject of his prop
erty-or whether under the notion of equal
rights, the property earned by another shall
be taken from him by majority. Iwould
not choose the latter. On the contrary,
give me Turkey, for | would prefer one
despot to ten thousand. Who wond labor
if there were not a security that what he
earned would be his own for his own en-
joyment, for the education of his children,
for the support Of his age and the gratitica-
ton OF all his reasonable desires?
Gentlemen, the events of the past year
are many; they seem to result from an in
definite purpose of those who wish to amel-
iorate the condition of things in Europe
They had no distinct ideas. They may be
incidental benefits arising from it. These
wars may somewhat assuage the imperial
sway of despots. They may serve to con-
vince those who hold despotic power that
they may shake their own throne. ifihey do
not yield something to popular dcmands.-
In that sense some good may come of it.
Then, gentlemen, there is another aspect.
We have all had our sympathes much en-
| listed in the Hungarian effort for liberty
We have all wept at its failure We thought
we saw a more rational hope of establishing
independence in Hungary than III any other
part of Europe where the question has been
in agitation within the last Twelve months.
But despotic power from abroad INTERVIEWED
10 suppress it.
And, gentlemen, what will come of il l
| | feel more indignant at recent events con-
nected with Hungary than at all those
which passed in her struggle for liberty
|
Emperor of Russia demands of Turkey that
the noble Kossuth and his companions shall
be given up. Shame! shame i And I
see that this demand is made in derision of
the established law of nations. Gentlemen,
there is something on ealth greater than
arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning
has its power, aud the whrlwnd has its
power, and the earthquake has its power
| Rrtt lnr., 10 notliinu mn
capable of shaking despotic power than
IOverpowering outburSt of applause that
IS the threatened Indignation of the whole
civilized world. Renewed cheers Cen
tlemen, the Emperor of Russia holds him
self to be bound by the law of nations, from
the fact that he treats with natons-that
he forms alliances, he processes i'll fact to
live in civilized age and to govern an
enlightened nation. | say that if under
these circumstances he shall perpetrate so
great violation of national law, as TO seize
these Hungarians and to execute them, hs
will stand as a criminal and malefactor in
the view of the law loud hnzzas contin-
ued for several minutes. The whole world
will be the tribunal to try him, and he must
appear before ii and hold up his hand and
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cheers.
The Emperor of Russia is the supreme
law-giver to his own country, and for aught
know. the executor of it also But thanks
be to God, he is not the supreme law-giver
or executor of the national law, and every
offence against that is an offence against
the rights of the civilized world, [hear!
hear !! and if he breaks that law in the
| &c IN, nfhnr fhG,
whole world has right to call him out
and to demand his punishment. Right
Our rights as nation are held under the
sanction of national lava law which be-
comes more important from day to day-a
law which none who profess to agree to
are at liberty to violate. Nor let him inn
agine, nor let any one imagine, that mere
force can subdue the general sentiment OF
mankind. 1t is much more likely to ex-
tend that sentiment and to destroy that
power which he. most desires to establish
and secure.
Gentlemen, the bones of poor John Wick
life were dug out of his grave and burnt,
for his heresy and his ashes were thrown
upon river in Warwickshire. Some proph,.
ct of that day said:
"The Avon to the Severn runs,
The Severn to the sea,
And Wicklitle's dust shall spread,
Wide as the waters be-
Gentlemen, if the blood of Kossuth is
taken by an absolute, unqualified, unjusti-
fable violation of national law, what will
it appease-what will it pscify? 1t will
mingle with the earth--it will mix with
the waters of the ocean; the whole civilized
world will snuffit in the air and it will
return with awful retribution ON the heads
of those violators of national law and univer-
sal justice. Great enthusiasm.l cannot
say when or in what form, but depend upon
II, that IL such an act take place. the thrones
and municipalities and powers mus. look
out for the consequences. lOverpowering
applause. t.-
And now, Gentlemen, let us do our part;
let us understand the position in which we
stand as the great republic of the world at
the most interesting era Of the world. Let
us consider the mission and the destiny
which Providence seems to have designed
us for, and let us so take care Of our own
conduct, that with irreproachable hands and
with hearts void of offence we may stand
up whenever and wherever called upon,
and with a voice not to be disregarded, say
this shall no be done--at least not without
our protest.
ePLANK RoADs.---The Savannah Republi-
can, OF 10th inst, says: "Wc counted, yester-
day the load of one ofour draymen,who had
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