Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-12-16

| will go further And | state that even that
doctrine Of neutrality he taught and bequealhed
to you, not a constitutional prnciple-a lasting
regulation for all future time, but only nat
ter of temporary policy. | refer in that respect
to the very words of his Farewell Address
There he states explicitly that sit is your policy
10 steer clear Of permanent alliances With any
portion of the foreign lcorId" These are his
very words. Policy is the word, and you know
policy is not the science principles, but of eAi-
gencles. The exigencies are passing away, like
the bubbles of rain; but the nation is immortal;
it must consider the future also, and not only the
egotistlcal comfort Of The passing hour. 1t must
be aware that 10 an immortal nation, nothing can
be of higher Importance than immortal principles.
will yet go further, and state, that even this
policy of neutrality, which Washington taught
you, Ire taught, not as permanent rule, but as
temporary convenience.
prove 1t again, by referring to the very words
of his Farewell Address, when he, in reference
TO his policy of neutrality, explicitly says, that
,cith him, Washington a predominant motive
has been 10 endeGUor TO gain time for your coua-
try TO settle and mature its institutions, and to
progress, acithom interruption, to that degree Of
strength and consistency aohich is necessary to
gice ii the command Of its ooon fortunes"
These are highly memorable words, gentlemen
Here take my ground; and casting glance of
admiration over your glorious land, | confidently
ask you, gentlemen, are your institutions settled
and matured, or are they not? Are you, or are
you not, come to that degree of strength and con-
sistency. 10 be the masters of your own forunes
Oh, my God! how | thank thee for having Civ
en- me the glorious view of this country's great
ness, which answers this question for me!
Yes! you have attained that degree Of strength
and consistency, when your less fortunate breth-
rem may well claim your brotherly, protecting
hand.
And here stand before you, to plead the cause
ofthese, your less fortunate brethren-the cause
of humanity. may succeed, or | may fail; but
| will so on, pleading with that faith of martyrs,
by which mountains were moved; and | may
displease you, perhaps; still, will say with Luz
Their, "yNay God help me- can do no Other
aoise.'
One word more to prove that Washington new
attached to his doctrine of neutrality more than
the sense of temporary policy. / refer to one of
his letters, written TO Lafayette, wherein he says:
''let US only have twenty years of peace, and our
country will come to such degree of power and
wealth, that we will be able in jttsl cause, to
Gefy whatever power on earth!''
''In just cause!'' Now in the name of eter.
nal truth, and by all that is sacred and dear to
an,-snce the history of mankind is recorded
there has been no cause more just, than the cause
OF hungary Never was there people, without
the slightest reason, more sacrilegiousy more
treacherousIy, and by fouler means, attacked,
than Hungary Never has crime, cursed amb-
ton, despotlsm, and violence, la more wicked
manner, united to crush down freedom, and the
very life,--than against Hungary! Never was
country more MORALLY offended, than Hungary is,
All your suferngs, all your complaints, which.
with so much right, drove your forefathers to take
up arms, were but sg ht grievances in compar-
Son with those immense, deep wounds, out of
which the heart of Hungary bleeds! If the cause
ofmy people is not sufficiently just to insure the
protection Of God, and the support Of good, will
ling meI, then there is no Just cause, and no JUS
tlce, on earth. Then the blood Of no new Abel
will move towards Heaven. The genius Of char
lty, Christian love, and justice, with mourningy
ny the earth; heavy curse will fall upon mortal
ny, oppressed men despair, and only the Gains of
hEH g y Nfk O Pgrqygd aS g Mh mpous brow about
1 have shown, gentlemen, that Washington has
never bequeathed TO his country The doctrine Of not
caring about the violation of international law: has
moi bequeathed the doctrine of ndiferentisn to his
COUNT ynen, but only neutrality. have shown that
| these two ideas are essentially different have
shown that even the doctrine Of neutrality he never
! intended to recommend TO his countrymen as a last
ing constitutional principle, bnt only as a measure of
sPo, "iy Pocy, ADVISABLE until the United States
snould progress IN strength and consistency to
which end, he judged twenty years to be sufficient
alter which, he himself declared to be resolved to
espouse any just cause Now allow me briefly TO
consider how your policy has been developed m the
course OF tune, wta respect to the principle Of non
| intervention IN foreign concerns.
VIII only recall to your memory, the message of
President Munroe, when he clearly stated that the
United States would take up arms to protect The
American Spanish Colonies, now free Republics.
snoula the so called Holy (rather unholy) Alliance
make an attempt either to aid Spain, to reduce the
new American Republics to their ancient colonial
state or to compel them to adopt political systems
more conormable TO the policy aud views of that AL
nance lentreat YOU TO mark well, gentlemen. not
ony lhe lorced introduction Of monarchaI govern
men's' but IN general, the interference OF foreign
powers IN the contest for independence Of the Span
Ish Colonies, was declared sufficient motive for the
United States to protect the natural right of those
nations to dispose Of themselves.
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