The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-02

ever meeting YOU may pass resolutions on O ues.
lions OF reform, remember that have asked you
III England to assist US Hungarians in our resolve
that no foreigner shall mix with our internal
Questions, and therefore respect the principle
myself, but | speak only in general-entirey
convinced as you may be, that il is the cause oil
progress aud reform alone which can secure the
world against the dreadful conclusions SO dan
gerous TO social order that thus alone will
triumph those great and holy principles of Sc
carity OF person and property, and that reform
and progress nowhere can have a fair field and
free course where the principle of absolutism is
permitted to encroach on mankinds destinies.
Then will you not humbly petition the Parlia-
ment and the government that the sovereign right
OF every nation may be respected by England,
ana by whatsoever power in the world [Vehe-
Inent cheering
mus, Tor instance, you have the trade question
10 consider The meeting may be in council
or chamber OF commerce, or it may be on any
other OF those various opportunities when men
meet to discuss and consider interests highly i'm
portant, not only to the country, but also to hu-
manly; but humbly entreat that on any such
occasion you may not forget that the question of
free trade is In intimate connection with the
question OF the freedom of the world lChpers |
earnestly hope that when those who meet
give IT merely as nm example-take into their
hands the statistical accounts of English com
merce in Europe, and see that this commerce is
from year to year in Europe lessening and les.
senlng-when they see that the products Of Eng
lish industry meet with less and less demand
! ask that those men who meet on that basis may
take counsel, not of my words, but Of their own
just understandings, and put the question TO
themselves, what is the reason and what the
mOllVp of This uubappv 4
confident they will come to the conclusion that
1t is because absolulsm cannot admit of Tree
trade with a free people, otherwise it won very
soon cease to be absoluiism hear hear] pnd
That IL the cause why the commerce of England
decreases more and more every year on the Eu
rOpean contln mt, whilst absolutism is gaining
ground continually Cheers And, come that
conviction to the minds If men meeting, not
upon the Hungarian question, but npon the ba-
SIS OF their own commercial interests, then ]
beseech them to remember not myself, bn; that
principle OF the coincidence of those TWO great
and Important interests and after they have
passed such resolutions as they may deem expe-
dent in respect to their own interests, then they
may proceed TO declare the alarm which they
the bank rs,merchants, manufacturers or trader
experience on observing the trade of England
decrease from year to yeer declaring also that
they have searched out the cause, and have found
1t Is because the European continent is not free.
Hear, hea.. They will see that, although they
have gained from Parliament cheaper bread, they
have not carried free trade, because the obi cts
OF free trade are abroad Icneersl and it is hun
deIed by alsolutism; and, therefore, trust they
will petition Parliament and government to act
so That no foreign interference, by whatever
power, may hinder nations from becoming free,
and tins fbair rtata 10, fro traJn
Cheers. A peace association meets, inspired
with the most noble and phianthropic motives,
to denounce the crimes that are CON nitted bl
public robbers and murderers ; and where is the
man who can refuse to admit the Justice of such
denunciations |, too, believe in respect to the
moral character of murder and of robbing, that
there is no smaller mputation before God and
man, when the murder goes on by thousands,
than when il goes on by units. Hear, hear
believe those wholesale murderers, or de-
stroyers of mems lives, are not less criminal nay
thousand times more criminal; vet there are
some quarters of the world where men bow
with respect before these murderers and rob
bers, whilst they would hang poor man for
having stolen loaf of bread Loud cheers |
Now, when the peace association, animated AS
have said by the most noble and phanthropic
Sprinciples, meets, and looks around to see how
human life may be secured--for one Of the sa
cred principles of that association is nviolabliIy
of human life--when it examines the statistics
of life in the countries of the world, it will see
that in Russia under an absoutist government,
the average duration of human life is only TWEEN.
ty-fve years, whereas in England it is forty. six
years, and in the United States, though IN
healthy in great part because in new country,
it is thirty five years. With this comparison be.
fore it, seeing that in Russia, owing to the con-
dition of the people, which is not happy because
not free, and therefore cannot freely deyelope
even It's material force, aud personal welfare,
every year 100000 persons die whereas, if
the average length Of human life were the same
as In free England, the amount of deaths in
year would not be more than ! 100000; and
thus il is proved that 100000 human lives
are annual sacrificed to the Moloch of absolut
ism--more than pershed in any war which his
tory mentions. Then believe the peace asso.
citation, logically enforced by reg ,rd TO the invi
olatiIity of human life, will pass resolution
saying that they wish peace, because they con
slider that human life should be invonble and
therefore they humbly petition the Parliament
and the government, that nation may not be
hindered, by whatever foreign interference, fron
becoming free. Cheers Allow a nation to
become free by those means which is circum-
stances point out and impose, and by its becom
ing Free you will have the high philanthropic
qualification Of knowing that human life will
not be left, in such countries, in the terrible con
dition in which it IS now, bit that its average
length will be increased Loud cheers |
will not fatigue you longer trust to your own
consideration to show you that tits sc rely pos.
sibe there should be enc man, whether in The
peace ISOLATION or eseu here, blind to the truth
of II reasoning.
But have been told that some public organ.
have sneered at these I'd as, and have said-as
for Russia, we know very well what Kp-suih
would wish TO have do with her-that OF
course Ia clear enough-uut how certain men OF
peace can accord with his views, we cannot see
Therefore, | must confidently state, as believe
! have learned ON history, that there has been
no despot yet seen in the world who gave up
his absolute power without being forced hear,
hear and, Therefore, If we will have no absolut
ism, but freedom, we must force the despots to
abandon their despotism. Cheers. They will
not yield of themselves; the internal fiend will
never become an angel Vehement cheering I |