Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-01-23

try which is the asylum OF the wretched
and oppressed from all quarters Of the
world-somethingt hat shall be worthy the
acceptance Of the gallantry & patriotism
with which those exiles fought in defence
Of their own country. When the honor
able Senator shall have done this, then
he may call on me. and call not in vain.
for succor and support in behalf Of prop
osition such as have indicated.
Why. sir. great is the incongruty be-
tween the premises of the honorable Sem
ator and his conclusion. To recall our
charge d 'affaires. Sir, | think, instead
of pursuing that course. by which We shall
close the door Of intercourse with Aus
tria. by which we shall gain nothing in
behalf Of the suffering Hungarians, and
the suffering exles from Hungary; very
different course. indeed. would have been
the one that ought to have been sugges-
ted by the honorable Senator Instead
Of suspending our diploma attic intercourse.
! would have sent from this country some
eminent and distinguished and enlight-
ened citizen. some one who possessed the
confidence Of the Countrywide honora-
ble Senator himself would have been a
very fit and suitable representative on
such an interesting occasion-I would
have sent him to the Court Of Russia. to
plead the noble cause of the Hungarians.
and if she would not open her ears to the
dictates Of humanity, which might be in
fused into her through an agent such as
have described, | would have instructed
him to demonstrate in the name Of suffer-
| ing humanity--in the name Of Christian
| ity-to rebuke her for her inhumanity.
| The hOpOrahlo Senafor amopO tho 9th.
er documents which he adduced on the
occasion Of his interesting address, refer
red to what had been proposed by eighty.
three members Of the British Parliament
to Lord John Russell and to Lord Pal
merston. What did they proposs9S To
stop intercourse-to deny to the British
Government any access to Austria-to re-
call in moment ofresentment and pas
sion. the minister who represented them
at the Court Of Vienna! No, sir, no.
The requisition Of these members Of the
British Parliament, consisting of Lords
and Commons. was that Austria should
settle the question between herself and
Hungary upon some grounds that would
he satisfactory to both-to suspend the "a
irocinus executions of the victims that ad
fallen into their power. In short. the
course proposed by the eighty three mem
bers Of the British Parliament was to
keep open the door. and not to suspend
all intercourse with AUSTRIA. But sir. to
look little further into this subject, we
naturally inquire, " hat is the object Of a
| foreign minister! The honorable Sena-
tor from Michigan does not propose, as
some of the writers in the beginning of
this century did to do away with ambas-
! Ia
as sort of privileged spy in foreign
country. He does not contend that there
! is no occasion. under certain circum-
stances, of maintaining intercourse with
Austria. lie puts it on none of these
groun Is. He puts it on the sole ground of
Austrian tyl lanny-Austrian excess--Aus-
trian butchery--Austrian disregard of
Hungarian liberty. What. sir. do we
send minister abroad for the sake Of the
country to which the minister is deputed!
| take it to be for American interest that
he goes and resides abroad; that it is to
take care Of our commercial affairs; to
take care Of our seamen, to see that
the treaties existing between those coun-
tries and ours are faithfully observed and
executed. These are some Of the duties
that appertain to foreign minister. We
are asked. then, by the honorable Sen ator
from Michigan. by way Of furnishing Aus
tria for her harshness and ill-usage to-
wards the Hungarians, to punish our
selves. to deprive our merchants and the
sailors OF our coutry of what benefits
might rebound from having minister
resident at Vienna.
Sir. my worthy friend from Michigan.
among the considerations which he SEEM
ed to think entitled him to expect my sup
port. did me the honor to quote what
have said on former occasion. and par
tlcularly upon the occasion OF a PROPOSE
ton made by me for the recognition Of
South American Independence. the inde-
pendence of the Spanish American States.
The gentleman seems to think that the
course which marked out for myself on
that occasion. necessarily calls upon me
to cooperate with him upon this. Sir.
what was tn at occasionl 1t was the bring
ing Of nation into existence. or rather
for that is putting it entirely in too pre-
sumptuous a form-the object was to in
who had been gallantly and gloriously es-
tablishing their independence. The
proposition here is not to introduce new
nation into the family of nations. but it Is
to blot out Of existence nation. so far as
we can do it by a withdrawal of our di-
plomat;c intercourse-it is to blot out of
existence. so far as this suspension of in
tercourse can accomplish it, an ancient
nation. My effort on that occasion was
to send a minister abroad to recognize. to
acknowledge the powers newly sprung
into existence in the Spanish dominIons.
on the coas: of South America. The
proposition now made is not to send a
minister abroad at all. but to bring min
lister home Sir, there would have been
some analogy between the case in which
uttered fhe sentiments which the honor
able Senator has been pleased to quote
and the present. if Hungary had main
] tanned her indenendence. If the IIunOari-