The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-16

| foreign help for the support of that common
law Of mankind, In respect TO your own inde
pendence.
Knowledge and instruction are so universally
spread among the enlightened people of the
| United States--the history Of your country Is
such household science at the most lonely
hearths OF your remotest settlements, that II
may be sufficient for me to refer, IN that respect
to the instructions and correspondence between
| Washington and the minister Of Paris--the
equally immortal FRANKLIs--thc modest man.
with the proud epitaph which tells the world
that he wrested the lightning from heaven, and
the scepter froM the tyrant's hands.
Thus have proved believe that Washing
ton never bequeathed TO you the principle OF
non.interference against the violation of the
sovereign right of nations 10 dispose of them
selves, and to regulate their own Institutions;
but he taught you only neutrality in respect to
the wars of foreign nations.
will 90 further. And | state that even that
doctrine of neutrality he taught and bequeathed
to you not as constitutional principle "A last
ing regulation for all future Ii ne but only AS a
matter Of temporary policy. refer in that re-
spect to the very words Of his farewell address
There he states explicitly that IL is POUR policy
To steer clear Of permanent alliances noih any por-
non Df The foreign porM" These are his very
words. Policy is the word, and you know pol
icy is not the science Of principles, but OF ext
gencies; and that principles are Of course, by a
free and powerful nation, never to be sacrificed
by exigencies. The exigences are passing away,
like the bubbles Of rain; but the nation is i'm
mortal it must consider the future ALSO and not
only the egotstical comfort of the passing hour
II must be aware that TO an immortal nation
nothing can be Of higher importance than i'm
mortal principles.
will go yet farther, and state that even this
policy of neutrality Washington taught you, not
permanent rule, but as Il temporary conve-
nience. prove it again by the very words of
his Farewell Address, when he, in reference to
his policy of neutrality, Explicitly says, that oi
him (Washington) predominant nlotiue has been
10 en- ieaDor 10 gain time 10 your country 10 settle
and mature It's institutions, and 10 progress, with-
ot interruption, TO that degree of Strength and
consistency phich is necessary 10 gre ii The Gem.
mand of as OWn fortunes" These are highly
memorable WORDS gentlemen. Here take my
ground, and casting glance of admiration over
your glorious land, confidently ask you, gentle
men, are your Institutions settled and matured,
or are they not! Are you, or are you not, come
to that degree of strength and consistency to be
the masters of your own fortunes!
On, my God! how thank thee for having
given me the glorious view of this country s
greatness, which answers this question for me
Yes! you have attained that degree of strength
and consistency when your less fortunate breth-
rem in mankind may wei! claim your brotherly
protecting hand. And here stand before you.
to plead the cause Of these, your less fortunate
brethren-the cause of humanity. may sue
coed, or may fail But will go on, pleading
with that filth Of martyrs, by which mountains
were moved and may dispease you perhaps
still will say with Luther, May God help me
II can do not other ,oise."
One word more to prove that Washington
never attached to his doctrine of neutrality more
than the sense. of temporary policy. refer to
of his letters, written to La Fayette, wherein
he says" Let us only have t,oenty gears Of
peace, and our country will come to such de-
gree of power and wealth that we will be able
in Just cause, to defy whatever power on earth"
"In just cause" Now, in the name of
eternal truth, and by all that is sacred and dear
to man, since the history of mankind is recorded,
there has been no cause more just than the
cause Of Hungary. Never was there people.
without the slightest reason, more sacrilegiously,
more trracherously, and by fouler means, at
tackled, than Hungary Never has crime cursed
ambition, -despotsm, and violence, in more
wicked manner united to crush down freedom,
and the very life, than against Hungary. Never
was country more MORALLY offended than Hun
gary is. Ally your suflerings all your mplaints,
which, with so much right drove your forefathers
to take mp arms, are but slight grievances in
comparison with those immense, deep wounds
out of which the heart of Hungary bleeds! If
the cause of my people is not sufficiently just
to insure the protection of God, and the support
of good willing men, then there is no just cause
and no justice on earth. Then the blood of no
new Abel will move toward Heaven. The ge-
MUS Of charity, Christian love and Justice, will
mouruingly fly the earth; heavy curse will
upon morality fall-oppressed men despair, and
only the Gains of humanity walk proudly with
lmpious brow about the ruins of liberty on earth
have shown, gentlemen, that Washington
has never bequeathed to his country the doctrine
of not caring about the violation Of interna
tional law; has not bequeathed the doctrine of
lndfierentism to his countrymen, but only neu
traliiy have shown that these two ideas are
essentially different. ! have shown that even
the doctrine of neutrality he never intended to
recommend to his countrymen as a lasting con-
s,itutional principle, but only temporary
policy, advisable until the Uhitcd States should
progress in strength and consistency, to which
end he judged twenty years to be sufficient, af
ter which he himself declared to be, was re-
solved to espouse any just cause.
will only recall to your memory the message
of President Monroe, when he clearly stated that
the United States would take up arms to protect
the American Spanish colonies now free repub
lies, should the so.caed holy (rather unhoy)
alliance make an attempt either To aid Spain to
reduce the new American republics to their an
Gent colonial state, or TO compel them to adopt
political systems more confofmabe to the policy
and views of th1taliance. eutreat you to mark
well, gentlemen, not only the forced introduc.
ton of monarchcal governments, but in general
the interference of foreign powers in the contest
for independence of the Spanish colonies, was
declared sufficient motive for the United States
to protect the natural right of those nations to
dispose of themselves
beg leave to desire you to remember that
this declaration of President Monroe was not
only approved and confirmed by the people of
the United States, but that Great Britain itself
rined The United States in the declaration of this
decision and this policy.
further recall to your memory the nstruc
tlOns given in 1S2S To vour envoys tn the Con