Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1851-12-20
flse President Ills course towards
Cuba aud Hungary.

~eotfse towards Cut,a atal Hungary !
lie repeuFs Mad begun and stopped Will
| tha apros Ilioal, no nosias would have teaai
taken Of Il. Theif buaineaHis ~ lind lanlt
aud anything hey ean Ink tilsif bands 90
Il Ii expected they VIII lise. But. faref'
pretending 10 neutrality. have fglIessef
aluss upon the lieel III tlley have mt l'e'al
IL lAe liead) 81 thase attneks, charging tlls
President with pursuing different eot,fHes
towards reaple esigFuged III the sainp
eBiige. Being considered independent
they %ettnlrst III Il great measure The piblle
mild. and Hfn more apt To lead asifHN iliit
violent tlHftizata. II il hf this reason
| that vie notice them. Eeeause Tile Pre-.
sideni srid that chr persons wlio lift Ellis
country under he command Of Ispes had
itaen misguided md Hllfpritinste-Atllnt
they had violated oiitowlilnws. aud placed
themselves Ia sicll a position az rendered
# impossible fof The ltaveftineut 70 eotiii-
~tenanee Or protect tIlem Willie n the
same message lie announced the arprpaeli4
Ing arrival 81 RpssusIi aid recommended
Congress 10 make sneh preparations Nc
his reception as II might tlliht prurer--it
II charged agaiiiat hin that lie looks tlrup
Lopez and HE companions "a pirates.
while kossuih is magnffied iato n hero
and Jellvefer
A more nnfodnlled charge was never
laid at my mali's door-a more unjust one
never eanie from atiy!Houree. Those whu
hnow anything nftl,e laws of the country.
mhHl acknowledge lllat tire President liah
only lone those filings which lie was ali.
solutply bound 10 d., AMI That throughout
The whole affair, 10Th with regard To Calle
and kassnth. he has int been giving effect
70 aets Of Congress, lie il t,laeud h tie
head q The Government To execute lawg,
not 10 make them ard lie Il honna TO ace
the laws carried out, no matter what they
be. There II ali act 81 Conffu#s relative
10 The f%ittints out Of armed expeditions Ii
this country, making tliaee eDgnged II Il
subject to heavy penalties The Cuban
expedition was set on fept Oh orr el,ofeHA+@
The President II the executor of the lsNt.
What was he 10 do Stand quietly Fy
and ace this positive Infringement ofthentf
Had he done su, what Ia The cry how Al
gainst him, TO what il Weuld have been !
A storm Of opposition would have heral
raised about his cara which Il would hive
been impossible for I.ttu 70 have witfHtoea
IN Justice ii himself and lis jaty lie had
but cue course 10 p,ifaue J 70 insist .tfpta
the proper law officers Of the governments
interfering with all their power to prevent
an open violation Of the law-to see that
the treaties between oar government aud
Spain were properly observed, and 70
III fHMLE Et6 fME M& HEfEaMH1z&
warn his conntrystien ~ the refils they
were exposing Themselves ,o-4alI thia be
ala. Had ~ rot done this, There who
have mournsl tAe loss ID friends and rela.
lives who persisted III That III starred ana
m dirested expedition, might with the
gssntest Justice have teliEured him saying,
IL the Government had not stood Idly by
looking on at the open violation OF the
law, tllese these things would not have
happened. As Ii IL, no censuse. lio ne
preach can attach 10 him for i moment. HE
did his duty. and all right minded men
viii applaud him for Il.
II II possible that the law under which
he acted Il a ad one, II 4 possible that
that o,fr sraas should bc Il the service OF
every people, Indeed Il seems te be the
opinion or a certain class that We aliould
wsge i crusade ugalnsa all nations whose
form ef government differs from oars il
may w that onr shores should ID lille START
ling point ior sllsexpeditiofis lawful or nn.
lawful, n seeh he tho cave repeal Il. bur
as lotag asit is the law, tho President isa
much bonngl BY Il IS any man III the ne
public. II WINS hot Intended 10 ls d apad
lctser upon the the Statute Book and he
il under every obligation moral and eivil,
10 soc its provisions complied with,
Has This law been winkel d, when TIP.
rlied 20 Kossuthi Has any expedition
secretly started from New York to aid the
Haugarians Ia their war! OF l to pro-
cure Kossu,h's release Has tho Psusi.
aens teen couniyiag Il, and assisting il
this saasser--iatsriering viii, Austtia and
the faste, thereby violating our neutrality
laws, when Ne y stronsly condemned III
The Caban causes Leaving out altogether
the difference letween The two cases--ed.
hitting them ever 10 be parallel, there II
not she shadow of ground fdr any im.
pntaticu DC this SORT, for here III Ii ths Cn.
ban case. Tie President was hat acling
nnaer the entl.otisy of Congress. III YEAS
Congress passed tlse resolution requesting
The President ID ask for Kossusla's hbera-
ton. q was Congress requested tl.at j
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