The southern press., 1851-12-31
Mr., Dallas to KOssuth.

anu eAtTaVaBant promises tDat nave character
ised most of the productions on similar occa.
sons. The difference between the statesman
and the demagogue is to be observed on such
displays as these
Mr.. Dallas, presiding officer of the ban quet,
then rose and said:
GENTLEMEN: The toast am about reading
to you, has suggested to my mind few refec-
tons, which hope you will induIgently permit
me to express.
In recent debate in the now abrogated
Chamber OF Deputies, one of the abest writer's
aud stesnest republicans in France. depicted the
partizans Of legitimacy, or absolute government
as, on every political stir, bending their ears to
earth, and listening for the distant thunder of
the Russian cannon.
do not believe, that among the American
people, there are any to whom this description
of recreant timidity can apply. IT, however,
few and too small to be detected, amid the gen.
eral effdlgence of national and independent
spirit.
Russia is vast barbaric empire, portentious.
ly impending like an overchargcd cloud upon
the civilization and freedom of the eastern con-
tinent. Her structure, her policy, her cunning,
her superstition, are inherently and irreconcila-
bly, adverse to human progress, rights, aud hap
piness That she will, one day or other, spread
her hordes over the enervated nations south
of her, is the ambitious hope kept constantly
burning in the secret closets Of her al-pervad-
ing diplomacy. That she will be thrust back,
and her hope baffled, may depend-I had almost
said must depend-upon two contingencies
which will marshal to confront her, as the only
obstacles she cannot urmOunt-principles SEN
timents, feelings, minds, and morals, immutably
antagonistic to her despotism. These contin-
gences are, in my humble Judgment, neither
more nor less than--hrst, the substitution of
repubcanism for monarchy throughout endang-
cred Europe, displacing antiquuted and withered
forms of policy by modern ones, in which the
invigorating sap of freedom quickly circulates !;
and. second, the cheering protectorate of Amer.
ica Whether, and when, and how such events
can be brought about, will not discuss but,
without them, invited by the aristocracy which
Victor Hugo portrayed, the Cossack's hurrahs
may stir the Universities of Germany and his
lance twinkle on the dykes of Holland, and the
plains of Andalusia, while the "Boyje- Cara.
Kranye :" God save the Car y will boom from
the Baltic TO the Mediterranean, submissively
chimed from the domes of ST. Sophia, ST. Peter,
Notr. 1ame, and possibly, st. Paul. Such is
the momentous alternative for humanity, attested
on the face of Europe ty the extinction of Po-
land and the butchery of Hungary-and too
clearly indicated by the actual military usurpa-
ton at Paris.
Bnt, as have intimated, gentlemen there is
something in the inspirations of constitutional
liberty, which gives perennial strength, and al
most magical ascendency. That is sgnally H.
lustrated by him whom we have assembled TO
u,alo 70 n. "a. IL.
a humble individual, toing in the paths of in
dustry, now printer, now a writer, now an at
torney, has gradually concentrated upon himself
the devoted attachment of fourteen millions of
men, and has been npeded (rsther say delayed y
in the glorious achievement of establishing the
independence of his native land, only by the
colossal Intervention Of the Car? How is it,
that when captive, in the custody of strang.
ers, and with a scanty group tf kindred heroes
sharing his bondage, mighty thrones, encom
passed by artillery and bayone,s, are deemed
unsafe, and the mere canking of his fetters
makes every Felix irembe? And why, when
wandering defencelesA exile from strand to
strand, far separated from the sustaining sympa-
thies Of country, race, and home, does inexora
BILE tyranny, with agitated eye, follow his track
while it's poisoned arrows of defamation are
lnritlyely shot IN advance, TO obstruct his pro-
gress, or TO deaden his appeals Let me remind
you, gentlemen, that fear and hate and calumny,
nre the instructive homage which vice renders
to virtue and that despoli-m, writhnc like the
hinge reptile under the darts of Apollo, uncon. |
sciously recognizes the might, the majesty of
liberty Gov. Kossutb, With no armor but the |
full soul Of a free man, no panoply but holy |
cause no support but divine enthusiasm, has
enlisted and embattied the universal heart of |
humanity into power far greater than his i'm.
perial antagonists can ever WELD MAY that /
power to-day or to-morrow--but soon and Ger.
the yiol,ted laws of eternal
Justice, and give TO prostratcd Hungary rctribn-
tion, independence, and peace
thought more, gentlemen, and have done. |
In l777 the Father Of our Country encarnped |
with the revolutionary army at Valley Forge. |
The period and the prospect were calan,Itous and |
gloomy Even Washington with the same ha. |
bitua reliance upon God, for which our lIIustri. |
ous guest is distinguished, ,mourned over the too
probable issue Of the struggle. All of Won have
studied The personal character Of that venerated
patriot, and are aware that his demeanor was that
OF the mingled sage, warrior ard saint, uniformly
calm, undistnrbed, dgnfed and grave Sudden |
ly, ut the epoch to which refer, information
reached him that the monarch of France had
ally and materially" to aid the American cause
u is difficult TO realize the effect produced upon
that sacred leader by this glorious intelligence
II revived every hope, dispelled all oppressive
doubts, and trumphed over his aecu stoned stern
ness. Lot me read you short extract from his
order Of The day" Immediately addressed TO his
troops:
Upon signal given, the whole army will
huzsa, long lice The hing cf France the artil.
ery then begins again and FIRE thirteen rounds
this will be succe, ded by general discharge
of the musketry in running FIRE, and husra,
long hue The friendly European po,oers the last
discharge Of thirteen pieces of artillery will be
given, followed by general running fire, and
husza, the American Mates ~
Nor was this all. lie signalizcd the rejoicing
py a banquet; and when retiring from that, says
the historian, thousands of hats were tossed into
the air with exulting cheers, and Washington