Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-11-22
WASHINGTON.
Liberty and Union, now and forever one and
inseparable.s, ssNe4
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1851
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.

OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
We trust that no reader Of this paper will fail to
notice the patriotic and timely warnings of cor
respondent on the preceding page, against heresy
Of recent importation from foreign climes, fraught
with consequences fatal to the peace and pros
perity of this Republic.
We had not supposed until we read this Letter
from the pen of gentleman Of as high claims to,
the confidence Of our readers as any citizen Of
Pennsylvania that the seeds of this exotic and
Anti Republican doctrine (of the policy of inter-
ference in European quarrels had taken root in the
Philadelphia, where,i if any where on this continent,
the recoleciions of the history Of the War Of
American Independence might be expected to be,
for centuries 10 come, andote to any attempt to
launch the fortunes and the destiny of this Repub-
lie on the whirlpool of European politics. We
cannot, however, contest the facts upon which our
correspondent grounds his apprehensions and we.
are obliged to him for setting us the example Of
calling attention to state Of things against which
it is high time the Public should be put upon its
guard.
Our correspondent having referred 70 the en-
pressions used by two Of our respected fellow
citizens now abroad-for each Of whom we enter
tain nothing but good within which they have
represented the United States as disposed, and
have in manner pledged this People, 10 rush into
the vortex of European Wars and Revolutions, we
now place those Speeches, as reported in the Lon
don papers, before our readers; which we have
hitherto relrained from doing, because regarded
them rather in the light Of spertive or jocular de-
monsratons, than any thing seriously intended
or gravely premeditated. We are disposed still to
regard them as such; but we have no right longer
to withhold from our readers the fact that others
put different construction upon them.
Certain it is, that any pledges, by whomsoever
given, to Europe, Of Intervention by the United
States in the schemes Of Revolutionary leaders or
adventures in any country on the other side of the
water, without warrant in any action or indica-
ton by this Government, or any countenance in the
sober sentiment Of any considerable part of the
American people.
So far from the invitation to the United States,
extended to KossuTH and his companions by this
Government, being susceptible of an Interpretation
which would place it in the light of an engage
ment to take sides with any party in any civil war
or commotion in any country in Europe, it may be
confidently asserted that nothing was further from
the thought Of Congress, in passing it, than to en-
bark this country in any such Quixotc enterprise.
Let the act Of Congress speak for itself. That
it may do SO, we hereto annex copy of it, that
every reader may hear what it says. Itspeaks no
other language, the reader will perceive, than that
of praise of the magnanimity of the Turkish Gov
eminent, and emulation of its disposition to afford
refuge in the United States 10 Louis Kossuth
and his associates g in captivity. There is nnf
word nor syllable intimating an intention or dis
position on the part of the United States to 60
step further. There is no politics in the act 1t
begins and ends with humanity, and it had in vsw
no other end.
COPIED from {" THE STATUTES LARGE"
RESOLUTION FIR hereLef Of Louis KossuA and his
ciafes, eriles from Hungary.
WHxREAs the People Of the United States sincerely synpa
hize with the Hungarian exles Kossuh and his associates
and fully appreciate the magnanmous conduct Of the Turkish
Government in receiving and treating those noble exles With
kindness and hospitality and whereas If it be the wish Of
these exies emgnte the United States and the will Of
the Sutanto permit them leave his domnons Therefore
ResolUed by the Senate and House Of Representatives.
of the United States of America tn Congress assembled
That the President Of the United States be onl he hereby Is
requested authorize the employment Of some one Of the
public vessels which may be cruising in the Meiiter
ranean receive and convey the United States tho said
Louis Kossuh and his associates in captivity.
ApPRovED, March 3, 1851. se s@m
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