Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-12-18
INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
WILLIAM j. BROWN, Editor.
INDIAN APOLIS:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. II, 1851.
KOSsuth.

Our neghbor of the Indiana Journal for the purpose
warning the people against the designs of Kossuth
quotes the following extract from the New York Tr
bune:
"We are believers in the supreme wisdom OF minding
your own business. We are believers in peace. We
believe in industry and power, gained alone can be-
by STAYING home and working faithfully to develop the
natural resources with which has endowed every
country and the mental and moral resources with which
she has gifted every people We believe IN the good
old American policy of neutrality, and no entanglng
alliances 1t is the policy under which the nation has
grown great and strong, and under which it will grow
greater and stronger"
This extract the Journal Editor fully endorses and
IT, when taken in connection with what follows,
ainy have no objections. Mr.. Greedy here lays down
the general principle which has always governed the
ton To this general principle he makes the following
exceptions which the Journal omits. We ask for them
a careful perusal:
81 But there may be circumstances when eur III
terest as well duty a member of the great
family OF States, must command us 10 step beyond the
strait line of this policy.
Should you. person of respectable strength and
courage able to handle your man, rufhan bruIsing
and trampling little boy in the street, wocd you be
serupuous as to preserving your neutrality! Or You
brute raising hls Inst to strike down deienceISss
woman. would you look in silence till the blow had
fallen and help was impossible? By no means. You
would despse yourself for doing and every body else
would uesptSe EOu intervene anu forbid anu
prevent such outrageou breaches of the peace Sach
would be your duty and your impulse. and all your hon.
neighbors would bear You in it. And the great
moral law of Christianity. would bear in it also
How do the rules Of mutual duty which bind nations
differ from those which bind indivduals2 A weak man
a child may deserve blame for looking silently
when another is violently mallreaed, and so may weak
infant nation. But a mature and strong one
hope be excused it docs not act raise
voice in protest. when ruiianly powers rample on the
iustest principle of public law, and make mock Of
every national rght7 This question will be amply and
plainly discussed BY Kossuh during his stay in the Uni
ted States. He will discuss it from many points Of
view, and bring bear upon great variety Of arGu.
ments- We commend them TO the earnest consideration
Of the American public"
The advice of Washington was good at the time and
under the circumstances which it given. We were
then weak and feeble nation. Our means exhausted
by the late struggle for national independence Self
preservation then first law. We have now
grown to be a mighty nation, numbering over twenty
millions. Neutrality in conflicts between nations is still
true policy, but whilst our part we observe the
laws of neutrality should require all other nations
with whom have any official intercourse t. do the
same. We should require wars be conducted accord
ing the strict rules which regulate between civil
lied nations The conduct of the Austrian Government
in the Hungarian struggle outrageous that our
Government shoud have immediately suspended dplo.
matte relations. The policy should have been
pursued towards Russia. When a weak and feeble
people Ike Hungary struggling for popular liberty,
the Russian Car should not be permitted to put
forth the of his colossal power for the suppression
Of such Struggle. Having, by the aid of La Fayette,
DeKalb Steuben Koscusko and three thousand French
soldiers and large French fleet, secured freedom
and independence, shall nation be unmindul and
unieeng spectator of similar efforts in the old wordl
When in the dark hour of the revolution the great and
good DIR. Franklin Paris, asking for aid Of men
and money from France, he met with the cold and
selfish reply-"We mind our own business" " We enter
into no entGaglng alliaRces?" Mo- France molly re-
spondcd to the Gala loan OF nineteen millions, three
thousand and thirty sail Of vessels Immediately
furnished The Government of the United States is
Government Of the people Whenever the people of any
other part Of the GLOBE attempt to throw off the power
of hereditary monarchy, and establish government
founded popular will if disnIeresIed monarches in.
teIpose to se the voice Of freedom, the peoples Gov
eminent should ntepose protect the weak and feeble
from the strong grasp Of kngly power But long
other nations maintain neutrality, long opposed
to any interference by Government. Popular opin-
ion will compel Government to adopt this policy,
and the the better for national honor.