Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-05

millions from the brutaixng effects Of system whose ten
dency sAe the faculties Of the SOUL and to degrade
to the level of beasts"
Every where" he says at another Time /" the Interest
in the Grecian felt with the deepest intensity,
pressed every FORM and increases with every day
passing hour !" and he puts emphatic question emphai
cay which repeat to him. and to every one there be any
one, who hesitates 10 keep line, Mr.. Canning said
with the opinions of his ccuntrymen "And the
sentaves Of the people alone TO be insulated from the
mon moral atmosphere of the world" These sentiments
have connexion with the recognition Of independence mol
is their expression claimed the right the consequence
political act. They belong to man, wherever he may
be placed
The honorable Senator describes in burning words the
elites of Spanish and Turkish warfare In Muno we have
the very prototype of Haynau, and Austrian enorm
may be read in the enormes powerfully portrayed almost
thirty years ago and this aposrophe to close the
capitulaon Are mean, base, despcabe, thai
may attempt to express horror and our ndgna
the brutal and aocious that stained the
earth or shocked high Heaven !"
And am happy also to anticipate the cordial operation
of the distinguished Senator from Massachusetts, who, upon
recent OCCASION expressed his sympathy for down-rodden
Hungary and his adherence of despotc sway in strain OF
Indignant eloquence which would have done honor the
elder Pitt in the brightest days Of his intellect " We have
had all sympathies much interested he truly said in
the Hungarian efforts for liberty We have all wept at its
failure We thought we rational hope of esab-
Fishing independence Hungary than in any other part
Europe where the question has been agitation within the
twelve months But despotc power from abroad has inter
vened to suppress il"
And the honorable Senator, in scathng erms which will
touch chord the hearts of all his counymen rebukes the
Russian Emperor for his nsoen demand of the ugves who
had sought refuge within the Turkish frontier
Gentlemen" he says there is something earth greater
than arbitrary despotc power The lightning has power
and the whrwind has its power and the earthquake has iii
but there something among men more capable
shaking despotic power than ghtnng whrlwind earth
quake That is the threatened indignation OF the whole civil
The whole world will be the tribunal try him, THE
Russian Emperor and he must appear before it and hold W
his hand and plead, and abide its judgment"
Nor let him. let any one imagine that mere force cat
subdue the general sentiment Of mankind It is mucr
likely extend that sentiment and destroy that which
he most desires to establish and secure" .n
And now, gentlemen let us do our part let us
the position in which stand the great Republic oil the
consider the mission and the destiny which Providence seems
have and let take OF our own con-
Duct that with rreproachable hands and hearts yod
offence may stand up whenever and wherever called upon
and with voice to be dsregarded this shall not be
done-at least not without our protest"
These were noble words and noby spoken and he who
does not feel his blood rapidly through his veins
he reads them has little in common with the eemen OF thu
broad land. Well the honorable Senator sauted with
tremendous cheerngs" for be spoke to the hearts OF his
auditors when he said .,", = ..
with Hungary than at all those which
have passed her struggle for liberty see that the Empe
of Russia demands Of Turkey that the noble Kosuh and
his companions shall be given up, and that this demand
is made in dersion OF the law OF nations" =
Here comes another episode in the story of this fagitous
abuse of power Kossuh, the Washington OF Hungary is
of those whose great qualities are brought out by
perous times He learned to hate oppression IN an Aus
TRAN dungeon where while he lost his health he learned also
prize the value of Liberty and in the solitude OF his cell to
devote himself to her and noby did ne ulh MS mis-
son till domestic eachery and Russian power Frustrated the
hopes freedom and he driven to seek shelter from the
vengeance Of Christian Powers within the dominion Of the
successor of the mposor Of Mecca And then exhibit
ed that contemptuous disregard Of the feelings OF the WORLD
SO powerfully described by the Senator from
the demand upon independent nation that the expatiaed
leader with his little band of faithful followers should be
rendered to the enemies of his country holocaust upon the
altar of desposm The civilized world watched with anx-
suspense the progress and issue of this demand as lnso
lent it wicked upon the Turkish Government 1t is
twelve years the present Sultan, then lad sitting
the side of his father the great Osmans reforme cross
ing the Bophorus in splendid caique surrounded with all
the imposing pageanry Of eastern magnicence Little DID
then anticipate that the lovers Of freedom through the world
would ever look to the heir of the Ohmans to Christian
patriots from the fangs Of Christian monarchs We do not
know the threats that menaced the Of
red but both the and the other were no doubt proper
toned to the intensity of the to be gutted by me sur
render Of the victims But the effort van The Dvan
faithful the traditions eastern hospitality if not to the OBJ
legations of the law of nations firmly refused the delivery
the ugitve and thus spared another "deluge OF blood
the words Of the great Roman historian, IN this sad
drama of nations overthrow. The latest accounts we have
from the inform that this extraordinary contest be-
tween Russian arrogance and Turkish inexbity was YET
going on, with prospec of amlcable solution OF the
question and this wanton violation of the most sacred rights
may yet furnish pretext for the march OF ano.her RUSSIAN
army and of another attempt drive the Turks from Europe
and TO seize Constantinope The Mahometan has shown
himself better Christian than the Russian, and has won the
appreciation of enlightened age. Success be with him In
such warfare .."
But sir, with their powerful sympahies for human suffer
ing the people of this country, though ardenty attached to
the principles of rational liberty, political Propagan'
dsts They do undertake judge what forms OF govern
ent are best adapted the condition Of the other nations OF
the EARTH and least of all to attempt the establishment else
where of their own To maintain that practical freedom can
not be enioyed under constitutional monarchy would Re to
contradict our own observation and the OF some OF
the enlightened nations Of the EARTH We know that
republic is best for u.s. and therefore have It, Let those
who believe that constitutional monarch Is pest of 'e en-
ioy it. without the dcation Of any other Power But be-
Governments like these and the despolsm which over
MISUNDERSTANDING, may say-some OF the farest por-
tons the Old World, where power Is the only rule OF right
for the governors and obedience the only resource or the
governed there is difference marked and as wide as Is
the difference in their effects upon the character, and progress
and prosperity Of The former when they fuh their
legitimate duties, commend themselves TO ou good wishes
and respect There American true to the political iath
of our fathers who does sincerely the Of
the latter and the restoration of the oppressed masses TO the
rights and dignity of human nature.
Here empire of feenen, separated by the oroad Az
lanc from the of force and opinion which seem TO
succeed each other like the OF the ocean In the mighty
changes going Europe twenty millions OF people, en-
loving measure Of prosperity which God in his providence
has granted to no other nation of the earth Win no interest
to warp their Judgments with neither prejudice nor animosl-
y to excite them and with public opinion as free as the
atey as compatible with that natural sympathy for the OPP
pressed which implanted in the human breast Think you
not sir that their voice. from these distant shores would
cheer the unfortunate onward in their work would encou-
rage them, while bearing their evils TO bear them praSey
as men who hope and when driven resist by pressure
M onoer "a he horne to exert themselves who peril