The republic., 1851-10-29
A instrumentation Noticed.

Ii is not our custom OF our intention to no
tice the correspondence Of contemporaries CON
cerninp ourselves; but we think it right to put
on record specimen of the reckless disregard
of truth exhibited by writer in the Union of
yesterday, in order that the reader may have
an idea of the stuff Of which certain self
styled 'ssympathizers with the cause of free
dom'' are composed.
The burden OF the communication is, that
this journal, In common with the InteAigencer,
is opposed TO I" the cause of freedom in other
countries We are described as declaring that
eve should reserve all our sympathies for our
selves'-that KossUTH and men OF his class
care rebels and disturbers of social ORDER"
that "we must have no compassion for the un
fortunate''-that, in short, ''w we must smile
upon the oppressor, and spurn the oppressed. "
To this, and much more of the same char
acter, we have simply to say that it is
grossly, scandalously untrue, and that the
writer Of it, if he knows any thing about us,
knows it to be untrue. On every fitting occa-
sion we have expressed sympathy" with the
oppressed, of whatever country; we have de
clared our admiration OF kossUTH, our sympathy
with his sufferings, our pleasure at his release,
and we have given utterance to hope that the
proposal to prepare for him something more sub
stantial than a mere passing welcome, would be
generously sustained. But what has incurred
this writer's displeasure, and the displeasure
of the Union, is, that we have condemned as
strongly as we could the vllany of men who
make stalking horse of pretended sympathy
and patriotism to inveigle young and unsuspect-
ing men--who prate about Liberation of the
oppressed" as a means of making dollars
who would trample upon all the warnings of
the fathers of the Constitution, and all the
rights Of other peoples, and plunge this
country into war and anarchy, that they
may carry out their manifest destiny' doc
trine. We know of no words too strong to
apply TO men of this stamp. Good faith,
honesty, truth, are, with them, considerations
of no moment. They will say or do any thing
TO advance base ends and having chriStened
their license "liberty," they would no longer
tolerate" the "dcspcable journals" that
raise voice against them. They are anxious
to carry out Mr.. CORY's idea Of a crusade
against all the despotic governments of Eu-
rope; and the Unions correspondent proposes
that they should begin their struggle for liberty
abroad by sitting the liberty of the press at
homel He would gag the Republic and Intel
igenecr, and then sally forth to upset tyrants.
He is a fair sample of filibustering iberality.
In another part of his communication, and as
though desiring to bring his fulminatons against
us 10 a telling climax. the writer exclaims;
"what shall we say of the hcartless beings who
sympathize with the Haynaus, the Francis Josephs,
the Ferdinands, the Conchas, who stand unmoved
at the cry Of oppression and at the blood of butch
cred victims' How characterize them2 They are
accessories in heart to the foul Deeds and ought TO
be universally condemned The Journals Of such
a temper, and such tendencies dcserye reproba-
tioD."
Again we say that the writer knows this TO
be untrue. At the proper time we denounced
the buteheries of HAYNAU; we condemned the
conduct of CoscHA; and we are sure that We
have done quite as much as the Union To ex-
pose the treachery and insane absolutism Of
the rulers of Austria and Prussia. The differ
ence between us has been, that we have not
Joined in the cry for war against them, and all
the world, under pretence Of exhibiting "sym-
pathy with the oppressed"
We can scarcely believe that the communi-
cation which has called forth these remarks
appeared 10 the U,ion with the full sanction Of
the editor that paper The points involved