The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-12-19

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ducIion Of MonhrchicOl Goysrnmehts and
the interference Of foreign powers in the
contest for independence Of tie Spanish col
onies, was declared sufficient motive iot The
United States TO protect the nataalright oi
those nations to dispose Of themselves; and
this declaration of President Monroe was
not only approved and confirmed BY the
people ofthe United States, bat Great Brit
Jaia hersel joined the United Stats in the
declaration of this decision and this policy,
But this it has been said was confined to the
American continent alone. This he knew
was Mr.. Monroe's declar, tion, but why
shoa'd it now be regarded os The policy d
the American UnionY If the principle
was good as to American States struggling
ior freedom, it was also as good for Europe.
an nations. The weakness of the American
forces added 10 the distance at which we
were separated from Europe might then
have been sufficient reason for non-interfe-
renee. But both Of these objections are
now removed. The population Of the Uni
ted States, now numbering twenty three
millions, and the facilities Of steam naviga-
ton had silenced all such arguments. In a
struggle between the inhabitants of the Is
land of Cuba and the Government Of Spain,
would the United States permit any foreign
power TO interfere TO prevent the indepen-
dence of the people? Not at all. Is there a
difference in principle No. Then what
The difference is that Cuba is at six days dis
tance from New York, and the port of Hun
gary (Fiume) at eighteen. That is all.
of course in this brief summary Of the
arguments upon the subject of non-interfe-
renee it is impossible to convey ANYTHING
like an adequate idea Of the style and Ian.
guage OF the orator-or even to state the
heads OF his discourse. Kossuth concluded
by stating emphatically what he desired to
accomplish by his visit to the United States.
"FTst, That the people of the United States
may be pleased by all constitutional means To
declare that, feeling Interested IN the maintain.
ance of the laws of nations, acknowledginp
the sovereign right of every people to disnose
OF It's own domestic concerns to be one of those
laws, and the interference with this SOVEREIGN
right to be violation of these laws of nations
the people of the U. S., resolved to respect
and to make respected these public laws-de-
clares the Russian post Intervention in Hunga-
ry to be violation of those laws which, if re.
iterated, would be new revolution, and wou;d
not be regarded indifferently by the people of
the U. S.-that you therefore invite your gov
eminent to act accordingly, and so invite Great
Britain to unite with the United States in This
policy.
"Second, That the people of the U. s. Is
resolved to maintain its right of commercial in
tercourse with the nations of Europe, whether
they be in state of revolution against their
government or not-and that with the view of
approaching scenes on the continent of Europe,
the people invites the government to take an.
propriate measures for the protection of the
trade OF the people on the Mediterranean |: and
"Third, That the people of the u s. nro.
nounce its opinion in respect to the question of
the independence of Hungary"