Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-13


utter words that win sink deep into the popular heart Of
America. He riH SIR sp sentiments there that ,rM lire and
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His coming hitler M Be e INFLUENTIAL event Of
mary years"
Who is there among candid and considerate men
that could, after reading this inflated adulation,
seriously blame NJ. KossUTH, had he, this NOR
tai, thus Landed, thus raised to the skies, deemed
himself made Of no human mould, but, at the low
est rank, an incarnate Demi-God Who can be
surprised at any lofiness of port that he has as
sumed, may assume, when even his particular
friends thus PROSTATE themselves before him
At the close of this burst Of idoatry, ought it to
add any thing to our wonder to find the "Tmes'
representing the coming of M. KossUTH as "a
new Crusade" and comparing the Hero himself to
4 Peter The Hermit, to whose preaching of the Cru
sades the fierce resolves and the excited discourse
of the Exile Of Hungary are evidently supposed by
the Times" to have some Ineligible analogy !?
Yet certainly it Is very novel thing, in this our
day and generation, and in this Government of law
and order, to be referred, standard whereby to
estimate the magnitude Of the object of NJ Kossuth,
whatever it may be) to the fanatical Crusades of
the Eleventh Century, which, in the name Of COP,
at the time depopulated one-quarter of the
world and desolated another, and to Peter the Her
nit, the pioneer Of enterprises abhorrent to hui
nanity, as the type Of the great Chieftain whom
this Government has, in the spirit of chivalry of
d far different order from that of the Crusaders,
assisted to redeem from captivity and place beyond
the reach of his enemies We had not supposed that
the Crusades, which impartial history denounces
the most signal and most durable monument Of human
folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation,
could, upon their mere merit, have found among us
any admirer and least of all that Peter the Hermit
could have found onehe the visionary and senseless
enthusiast, who, injecting multtudes with his own
furious ZEAL led hordes of centious barbarians into
Asia, hundreds of thousands of whom persisted on
the way, but whose small remnant having at length
taken the city of Jerusalem by assault, put its
whole population to the sword, itnour distinction
sparing no age or sex, nor age nor infancy How
great must not be the excitement of an Editor, of
more than ordinary ability, who could imagine for
M. KossUTH such career Of propagandism
| But what is the sense Of the prophecy that the
arrival Of this parsonage in the United States is to
be the most Influential event Of many years? fit
any thing, it is that his presence is to be in
fuential in reversing the settled foreign policy of
the United States, and Of converting this Govern
ment into Power which, in alliance with that of
Great Britain, according to the understanding at
the Southampton banquet) is to subdue and control
all Europe at least if not, in the language used at
that banquet q the world in arms
Nor are we on this point left to conjecture.
The Times" Of the 9th, in noticing NJ Kossuths
arrival at Staten Island and the Addresses there
gives us further insight into the objects Of the in
Auence" which the coming of the Magyar is expect
ed to exert upon this country, in the following pa
ragraph:
Gle has come hitler upon MISSION. He viii pursue it
zeaously and with the most open painness Of purpose
and of speech He has come TO tell the American people
that position should not be of ISOLATION that they
ought be content with being free themselves that
they bound by powerful ties to all other nations and
that they profoundly interested in the struggles ofthe
people of Europe for their freedom and their rights He
plead the great of the sovereignty of
nation over its own affairs and to show the American
People that they be Indifferent any in which
this may be crushed by Foreign Power even if it should
the heart Of Europe He M be heard and what
he says will command attention We believe it will not be
without effect and that he will into life and acti
POLICY OF THIS GovERNMENr for years to come. We
hope that it will with other agencies make the influence
of this Republic upon the current history of the World
what the greatness and freedom of country should
entitle it to be-"
1t is then placed beyond doubt that the object Of
M. KossuTH's visit to the United States, should
he succeed in it, is to interfere, without the shadow
Of a claim to do so, in the affairs Of this Govern
ment, or rather between the Government and the
People, regard to fundamental policy as old as the
Constitution and sacred in the eyes Of all thought
full men as any part Of that instrument
| To disarm him of the power to accomplish any
thing by this attempted intervention it is only ne
cessary that his purposes be understood. AS he has
obviously been misled in this matter by the repre-
sensations of others, it is possible, indeed, that he
may, upon advice more worthy of his confidence, OF
his own accord relinquish his design.
Upon the expediency, as a general rule, of adj
Reminded by this reference to the Staten Island adj
dresses the gratuous pledges to Mr. KossurH contain
ed in those addresses throw into note brief extract
from each of Them for the purpose of making single
mark upon them:
/ From Mr. Hagadorns Address-For my part and ask
no one to be responsible for what say although hon
esty believe that speak the sentiments of the great mass
of nv and especially the sentiments of
those and half millions Of salrar able bodied young