The southern press., 1851-11-26

final, battle OF these adverse principles will be
fought out. Now, the people Of Great Britain,
by its loudly proclaimed sympa ny with the cause
of the freedom aud independence of Hungary,
has pronou"ced itself willing not to remain IN
different, and to side not with absolutism but
with liberty, by supporting and protecting against
all interference Ct foreign governments the SOW
ereign rights of every nation to dispose OF ITSELF
You, yourself, have pronounced by this demon
stration, and by your generous address in favor
of this principle; so, thanking you most ferventy
for il, beg leave to congratulate you on the
sound judgment and on the comprehensive views
you give, and that you entertain, on the duties
of England towards Europe, and on the proper
interests Of England itself. You have right
fully considered that the freedom of England
and that happy condition which you feel assured
that your institutions, your freedom, and your
public spirit, will go on peacefully developing
morally, materially, and politically that all this
is intimately connected with the victory Of the
principle of freedom on the European CONT
nent. In a word, you have pronounced for that
truth, |, since in England, on no occasion have
omitted to express, viz: That there is COM
munity in the principle of freedom as there is
an identity in the destinies of humanity. ..
FREE EUROPE AND FREE TRADE.
| Besides, you have duly considered that the
material welfare of Great Britain is also in the
highest degree dependent on and connected with
| the victory of the principle Of freedom in
| Europe. And truly IL is So On several oc-
| casions have discussed already this important
topic, and will do so more amply yet on another
occasion. Here beg leave only to state briefly
a few plain facts You live by honest labor
You have your manufactured products to dis
pose Of, for which you want large free markets
and free trade. Now, it is as obvious as that
two and two make four, that without Europe
becoming free, England can have no free trade
with Europe. Twill show you by facts that the
amount of trade with absolutist Russia and Aus
tria is l0d. per head whereas the amount of
England with free country, with the Republic
Of the United States of America, is 7s. per head
What difference! Absoutism gives to your
trade and industry market Of l0d per head,
freedom gives you market Of Is. per head.
Is not the freedom of Europe. then, CUES
ton of vital interest with you? Let US look to
consequences. Suppose the price of the bread
which one Of yon consumes be three or four
pounds; upon this price you have, by the repeal
of the corn laws, probably gained not more
than from fifteen shilIines to pound Certain.
ly great benefit. But suppose the millions
who inhabit Russia, Austria, Italy, Hungary, to
become free, and being free, to consume as
much of your manufacture as the United States
Though in part highly manufacturinr them
seves) consume per head that would give a
market of at least sixty millions of pounds
sterling to England, which would prove bene-
fit of two or three pounds year per head TO
you. will not, with my aching chest, dwell
f lrther upon this subject now, but will cheer
fully acknowledge that you were animated in
this noble demonstration by higher motives--
| hvc lnIl cnntit hat tha
noblest feelings, and by that moral dignity Of
man which is the revelation of mankind's Di.
vine origin 4 r
And here meet again another noble idea of
your address, where you say that the name of
my country is linked in your prayers and in your
hopes with the name Of other nations Bless
you for that word You enoble my name and
my country's by it. Yet you speak the truth
The very moment that Russia first interfered in
Hungary, our struggles grew to Euro can
height we struggled no more for our own free.
dom, our own Independence, but altogpth.r for
the freedom and independence. Of the European
continent. Our cause became the cause of man.
kind. My nation became the martyr Of the
cause Of European freedom in the past Of
other nations it will be the faithful champion
of that freedom for the future. |. for my own
h"'"hl" r-..- -hvrI. people and the public
opinion Of the world took for the personifcaton
Of my peoples sentiments-I know where my
place is. | know what duties are entaled upon
me. shall insure the sympathie. of f. gland
by my devotion to my country's European
cause. England will find me faithful to that
place and 10 those duties W. ich my people.
confidence having assigned TO me, foreign vio-
lence could hinder me from exercising, but
whose legitimate character no violence could
destroy.
Let me also hope, that while Hungary and I
are aware of the solidarity Of our cause with the
causes Of European freedom and ndepende CO.
and while Hungary is resolved to stand manTulIy
in its place, the other nations, and England IT,
SELF will not forget that the freedom and indie.
pendence Of Hungary is Indispensable 10 the
independence OF Europe against Russian en-.
croachment and preponderance, and 80 neither
the other European nations nor England will
allow Russia again 10 interfere or to uphold tina,
detested House Of Hapsburg with which, etern
ally aIienated, Hungary will never. through
time, have any transactions, unless TO ban il, ex-
| pulse il or 10 hurl it in the dust Amongst the
nations linked to my country in your hopes
and prayers, your address especially names
France, Poland, Germany, and Italy. To be
sure there are some Of those events which NAV
be scented already in the air.
THE PROSPECTS, or FRANCE.
As TO France, my sentiments are known:
have declared them openly. | will be true 20
those sentiments; and can on'y add, that il j. n
| highly important step in mankini's destiny TO
see brotherly love between nations so substi
tu,ed for the unhappy rvalrics of old AZ TO eliit
in England also such brotherIy welcome to the
French as was seen at the Great Exhibition, and
to elicit such sentiments in England And so,
certainly, it should ever be. The French nation
is great enough for the pulsation Of its heart to
be, and to have been always, felt over the great
es, part Of the EuroT can continent Till now,
il is true that the expectations have never been
realized which Europes oppressed nations had in
France; but it must be remembered that the
French nation has fallen short in the realization
Of it's own domestic hopes also. II would there.
fore be unj asst to make reproach Of that which
was misfortune, which they themselves deplore
most deeply.
attribute their miSchanccs TO the unfortunate
propensity TO Capitalization which the French
duriuu oil ia fri.ls Il