The republic., 1851-12-20

no help until the battle of Hungary is lost or
won; and, therelore--arguing sylogistically--
it may be concluded that KossUTH will have 10
go through the thiekest of the conflict without
aid from this side of the Atlantic.
This reputation of English alliance
though inevitable, as we have already said
will place KossUTH in an embarrassing posi-
tion. 1t knocks TO pieces one of the ideas
on which he has dwet with the greatest en-
phasis. 1t does more it raises up an enemy
where he had calculated upon finding friend.
1t eXcites the enmity of power whose friend
ship is Indispensable 10 his success for it can
not be expected that England will stand quiet
ly aloof while the various principalities and
powers of Europe are struggling for existence.
She has interests to protect-objects to ad-
vance-friends to serve; and who that knows
her history, and the character of her Foreign
Minister, can doubt that, whenever the hour
comes, she will be in the thickest of the fight,
on one side or another If not with kossUTH, she
will be opposed to him, fighting against hscause
in the field, or fighting even more effectually
through the agencies of that secret diplomacy
which he has so well denounced as the main
stay of misgovernment and oppression. Our
own desire is to leave TO England the undivided
honors that accrue from universal meddling.
We can dispense with the glory as we would
avoid the ruin that grow out of her policy. On
this account we are willing to regard Mr..
SIcKLEs's antipathies as not wholly useless.
They may save us from from eulisting under
the "non- intervention" flag which England
may deem it expedient to unturl; and we are
sure that no other power will be ready to join
us, whether in behalf of France, Hungary. or
Italy. Necessity, if not principle, will confne
us to our own continent.
OF course, and in spite of all reservations,
the Democratic address abounds in belligerent
phraseology. 1t reproduces the Tammany Hall
resolutions repudiahng '' the dogmas of neu-
trality," and advocating the commencement of
a dauntless crusade in favor of liberty every
where it affirms the inherent pugnacity of the
so-called Democratic party; it repudiates ''mer-
camille, financial, and domestic" considerations
in support of peace, and pledges any future
Democratic government to intervention in Flu
IOpSdll IL iiouo out a PiohiioC 'ii"'
lO0 900 armed men will, "at the tap of the
drum, :" orally round the first American stand
ard which is sent across the Atlantic;" and it
closes with the assurance that the party whose
opinions it Processes to represent "have the
courage and the will TO enforce with their
arms the ideas which their voices proclaim"
Ii is not wonderful that the confiding heart of
stranger thrilled with JOY Through every
string'' at the sound of words like these,
or that the gratitude they inspired should
prompt him to covet renewed intercourse with
spirits SO completely chivalrous. To talk
in this strain is to talk after kossUTH's own
heart; but beyond the similitude that may ex
lst in the sound of his words and theirs, there
is no likeness or comparison. He speaks, he
tells us, from sense of inspiration, and his
tongue does but give utterance to what his soul
has already felt. He has yet to learn, we fear,
that the Tammany Hall orators are heroes of a
different stamp-that their patriotism is neither
more nor less than desire to advance the ends
of party-that their promises are ingeniously
constructed bats, designed to catch the un
that their columns of lofty words are
simply so much chaff, thrown mp advisedly,
and for purpose widely different from that
nrofessed