The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-11-20


-- The arrival at New York Of the steamship
Mississippi without Kossuth will be quite 4
disappointment to- the impulsive and sight
seeing population ofthat city. They had
prepared grand popular denonstration Of
enthusiastic wecome which mnst now wait
for some weeks before itcan be displayed
before the illustrious exile we we're 40.
prised, Indeed, that Kossuth had decided np.
on visiting England, but it Wassupposed that
the Mississippi might wait for him at Gibral-
tar. His departure for England, and her
arrival without his, confirms We fear, the ae-
count OF a disagreement between him andthe
captain Of the Mississippi, as to the nature Of
the mission Of the mississippi in his behalf.
: If.we understand their affair rightly, tseens
to have been the belief Of Kossuth that the
tender Of a passage to this country on ma
tional vessel was designed not merely as a.
tribute of national respect for his heroism
and his misfortune, but political demoRstra-
ton in behalf Of any projects he may enter.
tain of reviying, exciting and organizing re-
publican revolutions against the existing des-
poti-ms on the continent of Europe To
suppose that the captain Of a Government
vessel, whatever might be his personal SYM
pathie5, and however firmly he might rely
upon the sympathies of his countrYmen, or
believe in the prediction of his Govern
meut in such an issue, would feel authorized
to countenance or encourage movements in
direct hostility to other Governments was
a misconceptions of the duty of that officer,
which takes an ungracious aspect when it.
assume the tone ofreproof Capt. Long, we
doubt not, feels the desire which all Ameri
cans feel for the downfall of European despo-
tlsms, and the elevation OF the nations to-
the dignity and blessings of self-government;
but his mission on the Mississippi was to be
the bearer of an exile hero to the shore of an
admiring continent, and not to compromise
his Government even incidentally, before it,
had.timc to speak for itself with authority and
deiibcration.
All the news from abroad indicate terrible
commissions about to agitate all Europe; wars
OF opinion against force--of the masses of
many nations against hecrowned despotism
that have oppressed and robbed and brokeni
faith with them, until the next struggle
threatens to be desperate and final If we
are destined to be involved in these wars-ifI
it be the wish ofour people, and wise policy
IN our Government to take part atany timeI
in their progress, on the side ofhumanity and
freedom, let US do it with the dignity of fix !
ed purpose and national will, and prepare
ourselves for that issue by forbearance from
all temporary and subordinate grounds ofdis-
pute and aggravation.
England evidently prepared to take place
IN the great struggle; and without pretend
ing to the gift of prophecy, even a dull obser-
yer can toretel that before many years perhaps
before many months, England may be the
ra!lying ground of every hope of freedom in
Europe; and that in the wars she nay be
compelled to wage the United States will be
relied upon as her chief ally in maintaining
the freedom of the seas. and ia keeping in
check the march of allied and barbaric despo-
tism which threatens to overrun the continent.
Ii is not our desire to see that bloody strug-
gle involve this nation in its vortex. But
without desiring in, and desiring rather that
II should be avoided so long as is CONSTANT
with scIl-rcspcct, self-defence, and an enligh-
eugd knowledge Of our duties and responsible
ties as people, we cannot conccil from our
selves the tokens Of an approaching mighty +
CONFUSION, in which we may have to decide
when and how it becomes Us to take part
aud that ought to be in state Of prepared
ness TO make that decision in full view Of
the magnitude of its consequences. What
we may say or do on our soil, ia honor Of
stranger guests of whatever race, whom we
regard as heroes and patriots, or abroad in
maintaining the rights Of our citizens to Just
treatment on foreign soil, concerns ourselves,
and Will give no reasonable cause for hostili-
= tyor alicnation. between our Government and
tLatuf anl other Government which we rec
ognizc as established. 1t is not for US to 60
abroad, or send agents abroad as diplomatic
representatives,, or in national ships, to foment
revolution or insurrection, or encourage it by |
their pnblic acts, however just may seem 20
our individual sympathies the canse of the
oppressed. When we move in such contro-
VERSES let it be in the name of the nation,
and in a manner to enforce our opinions by
the exhibition, at once, of the power as well
as the wish of a nation.
The reception of kossuth in England APP
pears to have been extremely enthusiastic.
Such it viii, doubtless, be every where in
this country when he reaches here. What
Russia and Austria may think of it will not
weigh feather. Here in America, on our
own soil, we shall pay honor to high endow-
ments and heroic conduct, to lofty principles
aud generous impulses, to unmerited suffer-
iDls and macaanimous endurance, and care
not it the echoes of our welcome to the illus
trious Hungarian, who combines all these
titles to admiration and reverence, disturb
his prosecutors i'll the midst of their entrench-
ed armies, with an irrepressible dread of an
inevitable tuture.-N o. Picayune.
The Interregnum.
Judao Barnett. Of this. and judge PoseY Of