The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-11-12

Heus concern has voluntarily gone back to barbar-
isID, and absolved the whole earth from the re-
sraint Ut those laws, which they spurn under foot
tor those laws are said 10 bind civilized nations
alter The fashion at co-pariDershp articles. How
long, Then, Nil all Datons remain associated, aud
by those means Identified with The wholesale de-
snucion OF intelligent aud faithful friends of JUS
nee, liberty ard eIogress, under circumstances OF
ire most hoiIltle atgsavalon And now Is the
tue lme tor The statesmen at America to inquire
INTO their obligation 10 obey, In any case, the re-
cure mems OF that an'iquasd code. 1t Is very GER
tair, that the rights and interests of mankind 70
CURE that Its vcIous enaclm. mis- should be substl
tutt d by the PLAIN rules Of equity aud benevoence
and ue,e seems 10 be nothing IN the way Of the
Uhion iepuoiaung at once The whole code OF
International law. That code, like other statutes,
can only have authority over the people aud gov
eminent OF the United States, in virtue of their
consent Now, II Is certain that there was not any
Original express consent, for the Union did not ex-
Isl whtn The nations OF the Old World adopted the
works OF their jUis cOasuds 10 regulate their own
intercourse. There could be no implied consent,
because the principle Of representative republican
Ism was unknown; and all then exlsting sovereign
ties were, accoIdOg to thar theory of political
ence, actually displaced. few kiags bound up
the earth That was an usarpatiOn or else the
idea OF popular sovereignty is false altogether and
Can never hereafter be asserted by the American
republic TO regulate Its own foreign relations
But republicans are too well satisfied OF the sound
ness OF their system 10 concede away lts nights.
As to any ratification of the law of nations, by
tscit assent, from 1888 down TO our day, it may be
replied that ratification good for nothing uaess
freely and openly made; bat the United States
were compelled TO 90 according TO the laws of ma
IONS heretofore by the higher law Of selfpreserva-
ton. They have been too weak TO get up them
selves the lawgvers of the world, for their
own affairs; now they happen to be strong enough
to assert the obligation of different set of enact
ments, and TO give them sanction, against which
the despots of the Old World Will hesitate. in It's
present and future state, TO offend. The HercLPs
theory, that their right 10 govern all over Europe is
illegal, because the people have been robbed of
their rights, rs OF most contagious nature; aud
while II Is al-lmporan here to propagate 1t, on the
other side Of the Atlantic is the duty of the only
entirely tree government known TO man, to decide
instantly how far II is bound by the counterpart inn
posture, entitled, falsely, not the law of kings but
the law Of Nations"
But does any friend of Dr. Claiming believe
that he would have sat silent in his place at Boston,
II he was informed of the present awful extremity
OF kossuh ana five thousand (some cay nearly ten)
of freedoms warriors, driven to exile by the sword
and Teiuged with the Turk! "Abaadon the Lord
God and his Christ, which you have received from
yourtsthers as the true relig on, and proclaim with
apostolic lips that Allah is Allah and Mahornet is his
Prophet. Leave the Bible and cling TO the Koran, or
your lives are IN danger, because they required
al my hands, by two great christian powers, ana
may not be strong enoagh to protect any but
converted Mussulmen from their rage, even with
III the hospitaties OF my own house." These are
almost the words of Abdal Mejd-the Sultan in
the end of the year Of the Christian era 1919. and
there is hardly corner Of the world so hidden
that, sooner or later, these terrible declarations of
the SulIsn's extremity will not penetrate. One
would think that DIR. Claiming . venerated remains
would revolt, even In the long decay of the scpu.
chre, at sucn an outrage on man and God. Ii Is
undeniable that If he were living man, he would
preach up, IN every village and city, holy crusade,
not against the disappearing Turk, out AGAINST the
blasf hem nous Christian, who prepared to violate,
alike, the sanctuary Of the exes and the triple
code OF laws, divine, national and pagan, by which
is surrounded And II Is also certain that every
true republican in Amerca-that every man, in
short, besides the women and children, would Join
htmseves in the holy enterprise, from which neil
Their public nor private men would dare to hold
back their hands And is the sacred cause to fail,
because there Is . want OF zeal among the vingl
The last bad news from Widdln il, that a Rus
sim general hao arrived 10 demand the refugees.
There seems to be promise on the part Of the Sui
tan 10 keep them prisoners, either there or at the
island Of Gambia, until the clam of the alliance is
settled. Reliance is placed on France and Eng
land but that reliance is not likely to be very eff
Gent, unless France can be put into the difficulty
alone; and France has the old Troan's dstrust Of
England, even In joint labors OF love and interest.
ii il quite probable that the sword Of Nicholas
Is, at this hour at the heart of the Turk, and DIS
tressing to think that lie the thing in the
world for the Cossacks to carry oil the poor Inprl-
soned HupgaTans, by force. 10 the scafIald. What
good vii the English and French fleets do In that
case. outside OF the Durdanelies! Is this a time
for the observance OF the letter of n treaty. when
the wolf howls round the fold, and the trembling
sheep within are bound together for the butcher,
when
"They lick the hsnd just raised sled their blood'
II kossuth were TO escsPenis puIsuers, he would
60 TO America. MARCUS.