Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-12-13

the doctrine of Neutrality-suspicious. It is but few
wears since they were an infant State they were
now probably approaching manhood, and tney sun
held sacred the doctrine that no government had
any right to interfere IN the domestic AFFAIRS OF an
other country Hear, hear.) If the people of
other counties desired the chains OF des-
pot let them draw the shackles round their limbs,
but If they desired freedom let no despotlc power
be permitted to impose shackles upon then1- Ihey
were in favor, then, of the doctrine OF non-lnter
vention, and hoped that every nation IN the world
would establish for itself whatever institutions 1t
might think best calculated to promote It's matefi-
al and other interests Nor were the Americans
nropaoandists, except so far as propagandlsm
MIGHT arise from the success of their own exam
nle But he desired now to indorse the sentiment
of the American Consul-and the people OF Amer
lea would be ready to indorse 1t too-that whist
they were opposed to any Intervention IN the con-
Germs of other countries, the time might come
when if despots should combine TO o.eI'hI - Tue
liberties of any nation, the people OF the United
States would be prepared to unite WITH their an
cestors fond cheers, amidst which kossuth
rose and gratefully acknowledged the tone OF the
sneakers remarks) These islands were from
their remarkable insular position sort OF break
water of liberty between the American ana Tue
European continents, and the Americans lelt thae
if the surges of despotism were ever 70 oreak On
their own shore they must hrst oVefWheiln TINS
country. (Hear hear.) If, then, this alliance
of despots, headed by Russia, which was the soui
and BODY of the whole, hear, hear, shoulu at
tempt to make upon free governments II II
should intimate to England, as 1t did to hungary,
that it must give up its free institutions II II
should say to England, Abandon your Queen,
give up your throne, give up your permanent
Give up your trial by jury, give up your ha6eas
corpus, give up all those great fundamental prln-
ciples which mark you as a free people, If these
tyrannous demands should ever be made, and the
people of England should say to their relatives
for they felt that they were related to them IN
blood, and in language, and by thousand
dearng recollections of the glories of the past
(cheers land they would be related, too, as he
believed looking at those two flags, (pointing to
the flags of the two nations in the room, by the
still brighter glories of the future--and if this
country should ever say to the United States,
The time is come when the great conflict must
commence between the principles of despotism and
those of hberty''--a conflict which he believed
was close at hand-(hear, hear, here were mil
lions of his countrymen who would delight to flock
to the shores of great Britain, and under its and
their standard to overthrow despotism. Immense
cheering.) Why should England and America
united fear the world in arms (''Hear, hear, ="
and cheers.) Was not the ocean theirs Did
not their commercial and naval marine amount to
nine -tenths of the commercial and naval marine
not boast of their power. All he would say was,
that in America there were 1000, 900 of militia,
and he believed that if the day which he had in
Dictated should come, the vessels now built, and
those which would be created by such an occasion,
would not contain the millions who would rush to
the of liberty at the call of their forefathers.
Loud cheers. As to the welcome which await
ed Kossuth in America, he believed it would be a
welcome from every heart and every lip; welcome
would beam from every eye. (Cheers.) They
would take him to their hearts, and give him such
a welcome as had never before been extended to
any except their illustrious benefactor Lafay
cite. (Cheers) His reception would be even
more tender. This illustrious to them
an exile; he came to them a man who, for the
present, had been struck down in the cause OF
liberty Like Lafayette, he had been in Austrian
dungeons, and like Lafayette he had suffered for
liberty Every party would strive to do honor to
a man who had done more, they believed, for the
cause of liberty, than any other man of the pres
ent century. He would conclude by proposing the
following sentiment Louis Kossuth, without
wealth office, but feared by the despots Of
the world than an army with banners