Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-12-27

sKossuth" is still the exciting topic at the
North, and in fact throughout the country; the
papers everywhere, as they ought, canvass
fearlessly himself and his doctrines. Every
where he is regarded with mingled wonder, ad-
miration and fear-and we begin to think that
he exhibits too greata mind to be treated with
contempt in consequence of his bold and APP
parently audacious assumptions. Reared in
the heart of Europe and in the hot-bed of des-
potism, and where the English tongue is but
seldom heard, he suddenly makes his advent
upon our free soil, speaking our language in a
style not to be surpassed, and with oratory CO.
eval with our greatest men openly denounces
the doctrine attributed our immortal Washing
ton. This he did in his great speech at the
editorial banquet at New York, and found able
and distinguished men to re-echo his senti-
ments, which a few days since would have been
thought wild and visionary in the extreme
His views now, however, are rather modified,
and his appeals made to the people: instead of
the Government. 1t really seems to us that
KossurH's arrival upon our shores will be the
date of renewed glory and power to the Re-
public, or the date of its downfall, and the era
of its curse.
In his address at the banquet, he stated in the
following definite terms, the objects which he
proposes to accomplish by his visit to this
country:
l.. That feeling interested in the maintenance
of the laws of nations, acknowledging the SOW
ereign right of every people to dispose of its
own domestic concerns to be one of these
laws, and the interference with this sovereign
right to be a violation of these laws of nations,
the people of the United States-resolved to
respect and to make respected these laws-de-
clares the Russian past intervention in Hungary
to be a violation of these laws, which, if reite-
rated, would be a new violation, and would not
be regarded indifferentIy by the people of the
United States-that you, therefore, invite your
Government to act accordingly, and so invite
Great Britain to unite with the United States
in this policy.
2. That the people of the United States are
resolved to maintain its right of commercial in
tercourse with the nations of Europe, whether
they be in a state of revolution against their
governments or not, and that with the views of
approaching.scenes on the continent of Europe,
the people invite the government to take APP
propriate measures for 1.-THE protection of the
trade Of the people of the Mediterranean; and
8. That the people of the United States pro-
nounces its opinion in respect to the question
of independence of Hungary, so as I have had
the honor to state. l hope no body can reproach
me to have done by this anything inconsistent
with the high regards which l owe to the Uni
ted States, or not appropriate to my capacity.
! would regard it as a very judicious and bene-
fetal thing, if those generous men who SYM
with the cause ofHungary would form
through the different parts of the
United States, with the purpose to occasion ap-
propriate meetings, to pass such resolutions as
| had the honor humbly to suggest. |