Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-12-18


ton the United States shall be regulated ov bours
and not by principles! Allow me TO remark thar
there is an immense truth in that which The
French Legation in the United States expressed 10
your Government, in an able note Of 27h October
past which beg leave to quote: A nperica Is
closely connected with Europe, being only separated
from the latter, by a distance scarcely exceednq
eight days journey, BY of the most important Of
| general lnleresis-the interest of commerce The
nations OF America and Europe are at thfs dav so
dependent upon one another that the effects OF anv
| event, prosperous or otherwise, happenin1 ON ons
side OF the Atlantic, Immediately felt on the 9TH
er side.
The result Of this community of interests. COM
mercIal. political, and moral, between Europe
/ and America-Oft this frequency and rapidity of
intercourse between them, is, that it becomes as
dihcult to point out the geographical degree
where American commerce begins, and European
commerce terminates, where may be said to be-
gun or terminate the ideas which are in the as
cendant IN Europe and Americai The second
measure which beg leave to mention, has ref
erence to commercial interest. There was, in
latter times, doctrine stolen into the code of in
ternatlona law, which Is even as contrary TO the
commercial interests of nations, as to their indie
pendenee. The pettlest despot of the world has
lhe faculty to exclude your commerce from what
ever port 1t pleases to do so. He has only to ar
range blockade, and Your commerce is shut out:
or If down-hodden Venice, bleeding Lombardy.
or my oppressed but resoute Hungary rises TO
shake off The Austrian tyrants yoke, as they sure
ly will, that tyrant believes TO have the right,
IRON the very moment, TO exclude your commerce
with the risen nations.
Now, this is an absurdity-a tyrannical inven-
lion of tyrants, violating your interest-your own
sovereign independence. The United States have
not always regarded things from this point of
view. find, in note of Mr.. Everett, Minister
Of the United States, In Spain, dated ''Madrid,
Jan. 70 1885, these words: Gin the war be-
tween Spain and the Spanish American Colonies,
the United States have freely granted to both par
ties the hospitality of their ports and territory and
have allowed the agents Of both TO procure within
their jurisdiction, in the way of lawful trade any
supplies which suited their convenience. Now.
gentlemen, this is the principle which humanity
expects, for your own and for manknds benefit,
to see maintained by you, and not yonder fatal
course, which admits 10 iyrants to draw from your
country whatever supply Of oppression against
their nations, but fofbids TO nations TO buy the
means of defence. This was not the principle of
your Washington; when he speaks OF harmony
offrlendly intercourse, and of peace, he always
takes care TO speak of nations and not Of govern
ments-stl less of tyrants, who subdue by foreign
arms. The sacred word OF nation, with all its
natural lights, should at least, from your political
dictionary, not be blotted out; and yet, am sor-
ry to see that the word nation, is replaced by the
word government. Gentlemen, | hunibly wish
that the public opinion of the people of the United
States, conscious ofits own rights, should highly
and resoutely declare that the people of the Uni
! ted States Will carry on trade and continue its
| commercial intercourse with whatever nation, be
that nation IN revolution against its oppressors, or
not; and that the people Of the United States ex-
/ r.. V
| provide for the protection of your trade am
! confident that your national government, seeing
public opinion so pronounced, will Judge il con-
venlent to augment your naval forces in the Med
| lterranean; and to look for some such statement
! tor II as would not force the navy of republican
| America TO such abrogatons towards tyYants,
| which cannot be consistent with republican prin-
! ciples, or republican dignity, only because the
| kins Of So ana So, De he even the cursed king of
Naples grants you the favor Of an anchoring place
| for the naval forces of your Republic. believe
your glorious country would freely unfur the star
! spanged banner of liberty, with all its congenial
| principles, and not make itself dependent in what
! ever respect, on the glorious smiles of the kings
Bombaste Compagne The third object of my
| humble wishes, gentlemen, is the recognition Of
the independence Of Hungary. Your glorious de-
caraton of independence proclaims the right of
every nation to assume, among the powers Of the
earth, the separate and equal station TO which the
laws OF nature and natures God, entitle them
The political assistance of yonr glorious Republic
Is founded upon this principle, upon this right
My nation stands upon the same ground, and
there IS striking resemblance between your
cause and that Of my country. On the 4th of Ju-
~, l776, John Adams spoke thus, in your Con-
gress: "Sink or swim, live or die. survive or per-
lsh, am for this declaration. In the beginning
we aimed not at independence, but ssthere is a
divinity that shapes ends'' These noble
words were present TO my mind on the 14th of
| April, lS49, when moved the Declaration of In
dependence, in the National Assembly of Hunga-
ry.s Our condition was the same, and if there be
any difference, dare say it is in favor of our
selves. Your country was, before this declara-
ton, not a seli-consistng, independent State;
| hungary was
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