New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-26
kossuth and the House of Representatives.
Correspondence Of The N Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec %, 1851

Correspondence Of The N y Tnbune
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Dec %, 1851.
The fear of the effects of our example
is, perhaps, in the main, wise and salutary fear.
But II NAV be INDUCED so far as 10 be pemlcouS
and even ridiculous 1t is being very strait
laced to refrain from doing thing perfectly
proper in itself, because of some imagined, dele
FERROUS, remote influence of the act.
But perhaps we ought to excuse the extreme
apprehensivenosS of the House OF Representa-
tiyes in refusing suspend The rules in order to adj
init the Kossuth resolution the ground that that
body very seldom maDifests anything like scruples
Of any sort Ii they will be professedy viiuous on
occasion, the habit ought 10 be encouraged IN the
hope that their simulations may sometimes grow
into CcalIitS
The excuse given for the vote Of yesterday, by
which that bOOy made 10 Stulty ITSELF Is, That
coming directly upon the heel OF hoSSurH'S Bar
speech before the New-YorA Bar, farther compl-
meptary vote would be tact Endorsement. of that
speech and as the publ, mind Is already IN state
of tnultous excitement ID regard 20 the great Mag
var II was conscientious duty of that pious and
conservative body no, to pour pitch upon the hsmes
hui to sndeayor by dash o. cold water. TO de den
the fire iii the public mind
These were the considerations that influenced al
least portion Of the my eigh who we're found Vo-
ting against suspension Of the rules and thus caok-
ing down MI CARrrER'S resolution.
Having IN this way relieved their consciences by
a single act of virtue, they vii, probably either on
Monday next ihe mex. resolution dayD or sooner,
md a way OF passing Mr. CARTrER'S resolution.
The position in which the House has placed Itself oy
It's former vote makes II impossible II should do 9TH
orwise.
surely il is childish 70 assume thu: by beng civil
70 ko>sUrH Congress Is seeming to commit i'sel' 10
the doctrines OF the Hungarian. We can SympA-
thl7e ytry deeply and sincerely with Hungary, es-
pecially now that her sufeIingS are brought hone
so CLOSELY 10 us BY the presence Of her distinguished
chief, And We need not stop IA the expression OF
our sympathy TO weigh every word OF ours or AIS
nicely IN balance, Of plug up utterly tie iouGtAlns
of our nature because somebody may inief tdA' ouf
acts or WORDS mean more than taey really 40 mean
The idea ina: VIC going to precip,a'e The coun-
try Fad over heels with all the Europe an
despotisms because we shake hareS with koS>UrH
and admire his character am del h: IN Ills presence
and wish him success, Is simply absurd. We are OF
those who swear by kos>UTH. and mos; ierven'iy
pray tina, he may go oacS 20 Europe aud go on con-
oueIine and to conquer I'll every accused despot
sm of the Old World Is tspp!ei fTom lis lowest fcun-
dations and TO a .cOmp'.sh ;a'S glorious WORK We
are fully disposed 10 see the country and Govern
ment do all We can eford 10 60. But 1t occurs TO US
tina, no government, was ever yet ADMINISTERED on
a sentiment. selfshness is an ancontrolmg prlnci-
nile in men and IN nations, and always was. And as
twas IN the be ginning II Is now, and we fancy ever
viii be individuals are nations are, the world is,
if sou please, internally mean. And "mle men
may be temporarily wrought upon by some power
ful genius ike kossJTH. and made Tor a time to
forget the proclvties Of their common nature, ana
under the influence OF such noble eforrs, may be
even wrought mp TO the performance OF some
great act Of generosity, yet, like the pendulum
which has been forced 10 extraordinary oscil'
lation by some extrinsic power, 1t gradually sub
SIDES to It's ordinary movement SO do tue extra
ordinary vibrations OF human conduct, after beng