Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-20

flower, when fhe Pilgrims were their way from Delft
ha ssar to this coantry
i These, sir, were all cases without precedent Why,
sir the history Of this country has been without prece
dent sf we far from following In the footsteps of
those nons whclrhave gone before u.s. have been making
shall continue to do.
and good feeling and whatever else it may be- with Kos
sutf-what the effect Of 1t nay look to some
thing Interior in the mads o. some esntlsmen bat It
does Of itself indicate ay thing of c sort It dOsS
Dnd the people of this cbntfy any hng else but
it simply expression Of what the w,oIs people feel
OF deep sympathy with Kossuth They Iook upon him
has been the idol of their Affection and reyerently
cherished They eok upon hira the vindcator in the
struggles which he has sustained in his country Of
those great sentiments which the most dear to the
whole American people and the most deeply Impressed
the whole American ,hear And, SIR it is because the
people of s country look upon Mtdas the representa-
tive Of those principles sud the ibodiment those
characteristics which dear their Affections
that they desire in the solemn form in which the
American people and the Congress Of the United States
can do it. TO express all those feelings by giving this
distinguished individual rhc has shores
pubic and hornxable recepu And sr, shall the rep
a s s,pls asslssss ssall n tlsy
tost solemn and effective muaAer II xiSb fhey can do
entertain Sir We are 10 psss before ~ give utter
ance to the sentiments Of resolution like this
fear that they win give offence q Of the other
tions OF the EARTH, may well abandon the idea
carrying out the principles which implanted in the
| constitution under which we arc organized to-day.
have no doubt sir chat the very forms of that constu
ton and the sentiments which there contained gave
offence, and that this Declaration of independence gave
offence. at the time of their PRONUNCIATION The
doctrines when promulgated, give offence now and they
will continue to do until the latest period time
the despots both Of the Old World and the New They
will never be pleasant and palatabre and if the people
and Government of the United States pause and reckon
and calculate how the expression and utterance of their
sentiments may be made palatabe and avoid giving Of
fence to those who entertain directly contrary
might well shut up mouths in eternal silence at
IL is because the utterance of these sentiments
will give offence to those that offended whenever the
sentiments of liberty uttered that they of value
1t is because they will testify to the victims of oppression
every where that there is feeling Of sympathy, of
mseraon of coincidence and of respect in the hearts Of
all the American people with them in their misfortunes
it is because of this that this resolutions has any value
And if you stop fortfy it with provsoes qualifications
reservations and exclusions and conclusions it may be
good special plea but very poor channel through
which the sympathy Of the American people is to find
vent, utterance, and expression
No. SIR let the expression Of these sentiments be broad
manly, open unqualified, and direct Let them be ex-
pressed in the panest terms in which the English Ian
guage capable of presenting those sentiments and ideas
which to-day beating and vibrating in the hearts Of
the whole American people Let the heayngs and up
rsngs of the great American heart which has been moved
by the advent of this to shores as has not been
moved for than quarter Of century past, find
corresponding emotion here in the hearts Of their repre-
sentatves in the Senate and Congress assembled Let us
not be afraid that there is any danger of compromising
ourselves of giving rise to any step which we may
hereafter have need retrace and retraot trust
has been said by distinguished American statesman
another OCCASION that he g takes steps backward
Such will be the language Of the American Senate and
the American people, " that take step backward.
They have planted their banners they unfurled they
wratts their ssAtents h.rs the world may read
them, and from whence trust in God that all time
them And let it never be told to the victims
of oppression and despotism in the Old World, who
strainng their eyes and looking with anxious and throb
bng see what the only free people the face Of
dn ho hat hovn
hesitated halted ailed and fured glorious banner
lest the characters that have been written there in the
blood of fathers by being repeated and reutered by
might give offence to those to whom the principles of
liberty offence trust that instead of going
back instead of retrograding instead of pausng will
make this resolution full extended, and
explicit; and the sentiments there expressed, in
tended to be expressed want meaning let be given
to them; and in doing do not give words to any
thing and every thing that body else has said but
do give words to the great principle Of fidelity to the great
which at the foundation Of our Revolution, and
which is imbodied in Constitution trust that far
as that we prepared to 60.
But as am desirous that this resolution should pass
will respass longer upon the attention of the Senate
but win give way hoping that we may arrive at an early
conclusion in reference to this matter
Mr. MILLER. Mr.. President desire at this point Of
the debate while the amendment Of the Senator from
Georgia is before the Senate to say few words Three
months ago the object Of this resolution prisoner
in Turkey. Driven from his country forsaken by
every Christian nation in Europe his life and liberty de-
pended upon the mercy of the Sultan In this situation
Christian spirit sought him out and rendered to him
national ship in which he brought to this country
under the aag of the Union. When he landed the
shores of this continent he received he is recev
ing the sympathies of millions of freemen. Who was it
that the attention and the sympathes of the
country? It was Louis Kossuth the exile, not Louis
Kossuth the governor Of Hungary 1t not Kossuth
successful hero and statesman but the deserted and
the unfortunate Kossuth to whom extended SYM
pathy and courtesy In the spirit of the resolution
which passed at the last session of Congress- asking
Executive interfere by the peaceful yet powerful
influence of diplomacy with foreign nation to pro-
his release from imprisonment and to bring him to
our shores we willing receive this noble exile
and his companions In that spirit am willing to receive
him and in that spirit the American heart receives him.
Louis Kossuh governor of Hungary that this
resolution extends We receive him not with the crest
upon hclnaot, with sword and spear; not as Cesar
clothed in armor but Cato in his gown the great
apostle Of liberty coming here after having been driven
from his native land seeking that liberty upon shores
which with all his noble exertion he could not obtain at
home.
Il is common passion to gorify the successful and
conquering hero But it isno common act for great
nation the deserted and the weak and the down
trodden and award to them their sympathes and
dial greeting confess that consider this ntercesson
the proudest chapters in the history Of American
diplomacy 1t accomplished not by armed force but
by the great influence that is gathered around this
try Of liberty and aw-to take from the dungeons on
Turkey who had been troddcn down by the despots
Of Europe and without interfering with the rights Of
any placed him at liberty and brought him here to tss
Western World where he enjoy the rights ana pr1v
leges of freeman.
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