Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-12-19
The great Corporation Banquet TO Kossut
in New York.

No'oi'HN' ~ i'''H ~ 'hliis W "iiu' u'N '''''
more for the magnificent speech of the won
derful man who was the guest of the occasion,
a speech as remarkable for the boldness and
daring Of its propositions as for logical and
rhetorical combination and power. It occu-
pied more than two hours in the delivery, and
created a Jnyor of excitement and enthusiasm
that carried away the young and the old, grave
Lawyers and reverend Doctors. His main eff
fort was to show that the american Policy"
the Policy of Washington, was NoN-INTER-
vESrIoS, but NEUTRALITY,-between which
he said, and with great ability attempted to
prove there is mighty difference" This diff
ference he illustrated by historical review OF
the policy of the American Government, exh>
biting a power of analysis and comparison, no
less remarkable than his familiarity with our
history.
OF the effect of this splendid speech, our
readers may Judge from the declarations of Mr..
BRYANT of the New York evening Post. writ
ten the morning after Mr.. BRYANT says:-
OF his argument, we will not trust ourselves
to-day to speak. he spell of his eloquence is
still upon all who heard him, and if he said
anything to which, before hearing him, we
were not prepared to accede, we should fee.
still less disposed now to trust ourselves to
speak of them while the tones Of his eloquence
are yet ringing in our ears. If the British
House of Lords felt compelled to adjourn the
trial of Warren Hastings until they would be-
come Disseminated from the spell in which
Sheridan had bound them, a journalist may be
pardoned for lacking repose and equilibrium OF
judgment, after listening to a two hours speech
from the greatest of living orators.
Mr. RAYMOND, Of the Times, in replying to
! cast complimentary to the Press, had less
hesitation in surrendering to the potent enchant-
nent of the eloquent Magyar but he WIS
speaking in 1.-THE charmed circle, and under
the resistless influence of the unreasonng en-
thusasm that surrounded him. After quoting
the fine passage ii. which Milton speaks Of Ly-
cdas,
weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more
For Lycdas, your sorrow. Is not dead
Sunk though be be. beneath the watcry floor
so SINKS the day star II the ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his dropping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spang'ed ore
Fmes in The t"rehsad Of the morning Skys"
Mr. RAYMOND goes on to say
The Morning-star Of Hungary has risen here
to night tCheers. We have seen the radl-
ance ofhis rslng-we shall soon see the bright
ness and the strength of his meridian splendor
Cheers. We have heard tonight. from the
lips of foreigner, who ten days ago had new
er placed his foot on American soil such an En-
M, ,Jo,, .y,I,
nSteu Of uS,-aS Icertainln nerer heart before.
Loud cheers. The accuracy uith uh,ch histor-
zeal erents rtre traced the cLearReSs and the
force riM 'rhich sophistres rere set aside, and
the truth and po,rcr uhich marked his exposition
Of american principles and american latC, hare
erclted IN my breast, as am sure they did in the
breasts Of every one present, sentiments Of the
most protound astonShment I heerS.l
When it is remembered that the great aim of
kossuTH was to show that the American Peo-
pie have heretofore misunderstood the American
Policy of non-lntcryention in the affairs of for
eign nations. - that even if non intervention
tcere the early policy Of This Republic it is un-
suited to Our present position and power,-and
that 1t is the duty of the American People to
engage, by armed Intervention if necessary, in
the struggle between despotism and repubi-
canlsm, on the eve of which Europe now stands,
and when it is further remembered that this
exposition Of American Law and American
duty $50 widely different from the exposition
which tho American People have heretofore
understood to be that Of ashlngton and the
Fathers Of the Republic) was made by for
eigner who had been but week upon our
shores, it seems to us that the passage in Mr.
RAvMoSp's speech we have marked by
italics, will be read with an equally profound
establishment" At this distance from the
scene of this exciting festival and out OF
the personal influence of "the greatest OF
living orators" people will judge moro calmly,
and rush less prcciptately to the gravest and
most startling conclusions,-cven though these
conclusions may prove, in the end, to be una
voldable. Now what does KossurH ask ? We
reply by quoting his own words in the concud-
ing portion of his speech
And so, gentlemen, have respectfully SIT
Od "H"I uic NY HuliIo't l'uutolS W lie SONtT~
elgn people of this country, in It's public and
political capacity. 1t is that the people of the
United States may be pleased by all constitu-
tlonal means to decare-Flrst, tina feeling in
terested in the maintenance of the laws Of ma
tons, acknowledging the sovereign right of eve
ry people II dispose of its own domestic con.
Germs to be one of these laws, and the interior.
ence with this sovereign right to be violation
OF these laws OF nations, the people of tie Uni
ted States -resjlred to respect AND MAKE RE-
SPECIFIED these public a,cs, declares the Russian
past intervention in Hungary to be violation
of these laws, which, If reiterated, would be a
new violation. and oou'd not be regarded in If
ferently BY The people Of the United States-that
you, therefore, invite your government to &C,
accordingly, and 50 invite Great Britain to I'M
( lite with the United States IN THIS policy. Sec.
ond, that the people of the United States arc
resolved 10 maintain its right of commercial IN
/ tercon-sc with the nations Of Europe, whether
/ they be in state of revolution against thci
governments or not and that with the view o
approaching scenes on the continent of Europe
the people inuitss the government 10 take appro
PIRATE measures for The protection Of The trade o
The people on The Mediterranean and 3D., tina
the people of the United States pronouaces IL
In h. 81,