The republic., 1851-12-16

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Tended than Hungary is All your suferngs, all
your complaints, which, with so much right, drove
| your foreiathers TO take up arns, but slight
| grievances in comparison with those immense,
| deep wounds, out of which the heart of Hungary
bleeds! II the cause Of my people is not sufficient
just to insure the protection Of God and the sup
port OF good willing men, then there is no just
cause, and no justice on earth. Then the blood oi
no new Abel will move towards Heaven The ae
nius of charity, Christian love, and Justice will
mournngly fly the earth; a heavy curse viii upon
morality fall, depressed men despair, and only the
! Gains Of humanity walk proudly, with impious
brow, about the ruins of liberty ON earth!
| have shown, gentlemen, that Washington has
never bequeathed to his country the doctrine of not
caring about the violation of international law; has
not bequeathed the doctrine of indfIerentsm to
! his countrymen, 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
lasting constitutional principle, but only as a
temporary policy, advisable until the United States
J should progress in strength aud Consistency, e.
which end he judged twenty years to be sufficient;
| after which he himself declared 10 be was re-
solved to espouse any just cause Now, allow me
briefly to consider how your policy has been de
veloped. in the course Of time, with respect To the
principle Of non .intery entiou in foreign concerns
| will only recall 10 your memory the message OF
! President Monroe, when he clearly stated that the
| United States would take up arms to protect the
| American Spanish colonies, now free republics,
should the so-called Holy (rather unholY) ALI
ance make an attempt either to aid Spain 10 reduce
| the new American repubcs to their ancient colo
nial state, o. to compel them to adopt political sys
TENS more conformable to the policy and views oi
that Alliance. ! entrcnt you To mark WE'LL gentle,
men, not only the forced introductio of monarch.
ical governments, but in general the interference
OF foreign powers in the contest fJr independence
OF The Spanish colonies, was declared sufficient
| tive Tor the United States TO protect the natural
! right of those nations TO disposc of themselves
beg leave to desire you TO remember that this
! declaration OF President Monroe was not only ap
| proved and confirmed by the people of the United
States but that Great Britain ise JOINED The United
States in the declaration of this decision and this
policy
! further recall to your memory the instructions
given in 1926 to your envoys TO the Congress Of
Panama, Richard Anderson and John Sergeant,
where it is clearly stated that the United States
would have opposed, with their whole force, the
interference of continental powers with the slrug-
| gle for their independence.
1t is true that this declaration to go even to war
oprotect the independence oforeign States against
foreign interference, was not only restricted to the
continent of America, but President Monroe de-
clares In his message that the United States can
have no concern in European struggles, being dis
tant and separated from Europe by the great At
lantic ocean. But beg leave to remark that this
| indifference to European concerns is again mat
ter not OF principle, but OF temporary ergency-thc
| motives of which have, by the lapse of time, en-
tirely disappeared-so much that the balance even
turned to the opposite side.
President Monroe mentions distance as motive
OF the above stated distinction. Well, since the
prodlgious development OF your Fulton's glorious
invention. distance is blotted out Of the dictionary
or rather replaced by the word time. Distance is
| no more calculated by miles but by hours. And
being 80, Europe is of course less distant from you
than the gi eater part Of the American continent.
But, let even the word distance be taken in nomi-
nal sense Europe is nearer TO you than the great-
est part OF the American continent, yea, even
nearer than perhaps come parts of your own ter
rtory.
President Monroe's second motive is, that you
are separated from Europe by the Atlantic. Now,
at the present time, and in the present condition
of navigation, the Atlantic is no separation but
rather connecting benefit-the facilitating source
OF that commercial intercourse which brings the
interests of Europe home TO you, connecting you
with it with every tie of moral we'll as material
interest.
II is chiefly in New York that feel induced to
speak so because New York is by innumcrable
ties connected with Europe-more connected than
several parts of Europe itself
1t is the agricultural interest of this great coun
try which chiefly wants outlet and market.
Now, II is far more to Europe than the American
continent to which you have to look in that
spect This very circumstance cannot allow you
TO remain indifferent to the fate of freedom on the
European continent, because, be sure, gentlemen
and let me have spoken this chiefly to the gentle
men OF trade-should absolutism gain ground in
Europe, 1t will, il must, make every possible OBJ
stacle to the commercial intercourse of republican
America, because commercial intercourse is the
most powerful locomotive of principles and be sure
the victory OF absoutism on the European conti-
nent will in no quarter have more injurious ma
tional consequences than in the extent Of your
agricultural and commercial interests.
Then why not prevent it while yet there is pos
sibility 10 do so, With none comparative small
sacrifices, rather than to abide that fatal catas-
trophe, and tomourn the immense sacrifices it would
then cost?
Even in political considerations, now. a. dave, YOU
have stronger motives to feel interested in tie fate
o Europe than even in the fate Of Contra or South
crn paris 9f America. Whatever may happen in
the institutions OF these parts you TOO powerful
to your own Institutions ahec ted by t. But let
Europe become absolutslical-a as without the re-
storation OF Hungary to its independence. and the
freedom ofItaly, go strongly connected with Hun
gary, 70 be sure il w--and your children will sec
those words, which Your National Government
spoke in 1927, fulfilled on larger scale than they
were meant, that "the dbsoIatism of Eiuope mil
not be aPpeased until evry oestise Of human free
dom had been oblteated eoen here" And oh do not
rely too fondly upon your power IL is great to be
sure. You have not to fear whatever single power
on earth; but look to history. Ancient Rome has
fallen, and mighty empires have vanished from
earth. Let not the enemies of freedom grow too
strong. victorious over Europe, and then united,
they would be too strong for you! And be
sure they hate you with an Internal hatred. They
must hate you even more than mo. They con-
slider you as their most dangerous opponents. All
solutism cannot TRANQUILITY sleep while the repubi
can principle has such a mighty representative as
your country Is.
Yes, gentlemen, il was the fear from the politi-
Cal reacuon Oh aO5olutl5tlc principles which In
duced your great etatesmen--that principle which
they professed Cor Central and Southern America
not to extend to Europe also. and by no means the
publicly avowed feeble motives. Every manifesto
ton Of your public life out Of those times shows
that am right to say Europe's nations were,
about 1923, in such degraded situation that in
deed you must have felt anxious not to come into
any political contact with that pestilential atmo-
sphere Of Europe whep, ae Mr.. Clay said in 1873
in his speech about tho emancipation Of South
America: "Paris was transferred TO St. Peters,
burg"
But scarcely has, within year later, the Greek
nation come in its contest to important standing
which gave you hope that the spirit of freedom is
waking again, and at once you abandoned your
principle of political indifIerence for Europe You
know how your Cays and your Websters spoke
as if really they were speaking for my very oasc
You know how your citizens acted in behalf Of that
struggle for liberty in that part OF Europe which
is more distant than Hungary; and again, when
Poland fell, you know what spirit pervaded the
United States.
So have shown you how Washington's doctrine
OF perfect neutrality in your foreign relations has
by and by changed into the declaration to oppose
with all your forces, absolutislcal Europe in inter
ferng with the independence or republican institu-
tons Of Central and Southern America | have