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


hands Of comparatively few while all the rest arc re
81 duced to of practical slavery of the worst kind
obliged work for masters who under ecrrespend
Of things in England is subvesive II all the eds Of JUS
lgovernment Their workhouses crowded % overflow
Ing their home prisons and their convict Receptacle
abroad peopled with the miserable results Of the
domestic serfdom The end of all government should b,
the promotion of human happiness the elevation of hu
man nature, and republican government is best cacu
lated to realize these results The issue in the coming
struggle, disguise it you may, is between kings
repubcanS and, in myjudgnent has commenced in The
amicabe struggle going for British American
ascendency the The national sensibities on
both sides are keeny excited with reference
TO the contest For my part desire the ascendency Of
republican principles. All kings alike to me- de-
sire the asccndency of my country all others
desire from my heart in this gigantic struggle
for supremacy the desire to the trident
wrenched from the tenacious grasp of that
hanghty and kngy empire; not for the purpose Of am
extension not to tyrannize dictate in the spirit
Of ntermedding propagandsm but to the time
when the sword shall longer be the arbier Of national
disputes Peace is the true policy of this repnblic-peace
is the animating genius of our institutions.
When the United States shall become the most power
full of all the nations Of the globe then believe the time
will have arrived when the principles of right reason
humanity and of Christianity, viii their natural and
superior power in making longer the last resort
for the settlement Of national quarres we shall then
presume dictate viii dictate peace the sovereign
law Of all nations and the violation of that
yersal law If ambition for the ascendancy my eoun
try for such purpose be censurabe invoke the censure
it merits but before the world declare this to be the
4 spirit of my ambition.
Mr. CLEMENS said: Mr.. President regret very sin
eerey that this resolution introduced 1t is painful
t do any thing seemingly discourteous, and must OPP
rose the adoption of this and all similar resolutions
ssGH sHs a s bss a nc G ssSs him X the
hands Of the people, without attempting to commit the
Government to any Of his schemes for revolutonzing
Europe s.4 49,
have listened Mr. President with great attention to
all that has been said in this debate and if have been
convinced Of nothing else, at least satisfied that the
resolution your table furnishes excellent subject
for speech-making possesses the peculiar advantage
that the less we know aboutt the better talk upon
it, We may then give free rens to the Imagination and
fancy supply all that is needed to give beauty to
tence symmetry to the whole discourse. great
bent but not broken by misfortune exile pleading the
Of his bleeding country; gallant people, struggling
for freedom against overwhelming odds, overpowered
word Of sympathy, to rise again upon their oppressor all
these themes upon which dull might grow
eloquent The misfortune is, that much Of it acy
little is fact understand the friends of Kossuth to
base his claims public reception by Congress partly
upon the assumed fact that he is republican in principle
and has been the great dissemination Of republican sen
ments throughout Europe; and have heard must con-
ess with regret that he was expected to h6eraz
still more the already liberal ideas prevailing upon this
continent In other words that he is to give lessons
the descendants Of the patriots Of 76 and teach this
nghted land the rudments of civil liberty. Sir think
well enough to inquire, before enter his school, when
he became republican? If have read the history Of
that struggle Alright it not until defeat and misfortune
had overtaken him. In the zenith of his power in the
pride Of his high place Dictator Of Hungary he saw no
beauty in universal equality, and knelt altar erected
to freedom. The contest in which he engaged
not contest between despotism and repubcanism 1t
of races Kossuth and his associates were the
oppressors not the oppressed So far from rebelling
against the Emperor Of Austria, they pettoned him. in
the humbest terms for liberty not for the security Of
their rights, but for aid enable them keep another
people subsection. have that petition before short
extract from it will enable the Senate determine how
far the Magyars at that day deserved the character Of
puhicans:
From memorial presented the Archduke Kossuh and
Hungarian Ministry July 4th, 1S4S.
i" his highness the Archduke John viii bestow careful
convinced the character of the rebellion of those States
which make great pretensons Of fidelity to the Sovereign
that even their offer joining Austria merely feigned pre-
text in order to give at the crisis of the struggle such
TSF 70 sa m mus u that the
Austrian throne, the empv into independent
Sclavh Kingdoms and the very existence Of the Austrian
Imperial House shall be thus buried
"And yet loyalty and attachment to The King Is deeply
rooted in the heart Of e Hungarian nation that the nyrian
rebels ,ccU that openly exhibiting their Intentions
they N not meet any sympathy They have therefore
forward in the spirit reaction the Of the
royal authority and against the nation who have
not attacked the royal power for whom legal independence
and constitutional administration is not recent grant, but
ancient right sanctioned by nnumerable royal oahs-
against Hungarian nation which, this present moment
when almost every throne in civilized Europe lettering
s.s ss s %
the kind assistance Of his highness the Arcduke John with
spect to the Nyrian rebellion" #E*
"The dsloya rebels actually boast Of the support Of the
offended ruling House ITSELF And when requested his
Majesty in order enlghen the unhappy and deceived
Pile by his hand writing to let the people know that his
Majesty disapprove Of the rebellion and determined to
maintain in all their integrity the olemnly affirmed nrioabl
o Hungaa Groom and the authority Of the laws the lead
the rebels deceived the people by declaring that this has
been done voluntarily the part Of his Majesty but that
it merely unwilling expression, extorted by the Hga
rian Ministry through means of compulsion"
The Hlyrian rebels, against whom Kossuth so humbly
petoned the aid Of the King, had demanded, and
struggling to obtain small portion of the natural
rights Of man, and the which finally ended in the
keep the Sclavonian in subjecton-a people every
way their equals and Who if to judge from the
different character Of the petitions presented by them
have been far better entitled to the sympa
hies of free people than Kossuh and his associates
have read the petition of the Magyars; let me now
call the attention Of the Senate to that Of their antago
nists:
Emperor if you reject prayers shall know how to
yndieae liberty without and prefer to die hero
cay like Savonian people, rather than to bear longer
such yoke is imposed upon by Asiatc horde from
whom nothing good receive to learn Emperor
that prefer If must choose between hem the
will not any terms, belong to the Magyar Remember,
that if Croatia forms but thirty part Of empire, the
Croatans constitute third of your whole infantry"
Sir the who uttered such sentiments deserved to
be FREE They words ct to be spoken by feemen and
be excused if cannot feel any extraordinary
thusasm in the Of who sought to hold them
in bondage. The question with is, not whether he
preaches freedom and equality when hcis wandcrer
and exile but rather what his practice when power
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