The southern press., 1852-01-15
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In the preceding numbers have endeavore
to show that the interests Of America and Europ
have no natural affinity with each other, but ar
rather antagonistical than otherwise; that tn
establishment of republics in the latter, woul
have no tendency to change these relations
that Russia is our natural ally, and England Gu
natural enemy in Europe that by adopting TIL
policy of Intervention, the United States woul'
be inextricably involved, mol only in the politics
but wars Of Europe and that by making tina
declaration in conjunction with England, they
will inevitably become instruments in maintain
ing, if not greatly increasing, the power and in
fuence Of a government which has at all times
employed both to their prejudice
If am right, there is then no motive of poll
cy or interest operating with sufficient force to
induce the United States to adopt the system
of intervention, SO eloquently enforced by the
Hungarian exile. The obligation to do this
must then rest on the basis of some high moral
principle, equivalent or superior to all domestic
interests, and not only justifying but demand
ing the sacrifice of that policy and those inter-
ests. This obligation is supposed to arise out
Of the great principle of universal philanthropy,
which, as now interpreted, discards all the duties
of patriotism, and converts the love of our coun-
try into crime against the rest of mankind.
We are told that Hungary has been trodden I'M
der foot by a combination of despots that
Europe is either in similar condition, or about
to become SO that liberty is now on the eve of
a last decisive contest with oppression in that
quarter of the globe !. and that the result will in
all human probability be fatal to the former, un-
less the United States become party with Eng
land, in checking the progress of those who are
in league for its destruction. Two questions
are here presented. First, are the United States
bound by any duty which they owe, either to
the people of Europe or to themselves, thus to
nterpose? Second, would their interference be
decisive in establishing the liberties Of Hungary
and Europe
Until within brief period of past time, the
first question would have been answered in the
preceding letters, which, unless | am greatly
mistaken, show that the United States have no
interests involved in this struggle, sufficient to
call for their interference. But the world-at
least considerable portion of it--has lately got
on higher horse than it ever mounted before,
and fear is galloping off pretty much in the
same direction with the beggar, immortallzed in
the old proverb Talk of comets their speed
is nothing compared with this little ball of ours,
which is whizzing and smoking round like a
squirrel in his cage, and raising such cloud Of
dust it can't see its own way, but believes it is
making most prodigious strides towards the
millennium. The Golden Mean, so lauded by
the sages Of yore, is scoffed at and despised !;
and extremes are now your only effectual ex-
pedients for reforming the world, which like
blind old woman has been poking her way, for
the last six thousand years under the guidance
of a Deity, apparently as blind as herself Man.
kind, it seems, ever since the creation, have all
been set Of selfish villains, wilfully and wick.
eddy attending to their own happiness and that
of those Immediately connected with, or depend
ant onahem; and with diabocal depravity,
limited their duties to their families, their neigh
bors, their country, and their God. The new
sect of reformers-to wit--the Mormons, Soci
alists and Abolitionists, think it is high time to
correct this system of enormities, and that, in.
stead of concentrating our affections in this mar
row circle, it is our bounden duty to expand
them to comprehension of the whole universe,
including the planets, most especially the moon,
all the inhabitants of which are without doubt
within the sphere of universal philanthropy
They insist upon il that we are bound not only
to love our neighbor as ourself, but great deal
better, and that this obligation equally extends
to all men, and most especially to all women
According TO their doctrine, II is the extreme of
selfshness in man to attempt to monopoize
woman, and the extreme Of folly in women to
suppose herself under any obligation to submit
to such an absurd pretension. She is bound by
the canon Of universal philanthropy TO love not
only her neghbor as herself, but all the rest of
mankind and to limit her duties to her parents,
husband, children, and those Immediately with.
In the sphere Of her practical duties, is asserted
to be an offence to the Great Being who pre-
sctibed them To be disciple Of universal
therefore, is to discard all domestic
and social duties, as we'll as all the obligations
Of patriotism for If the duties Of universal phil
anthropy are superior to all others, and incom-
patible with them, it clearly follows that they
cannot exist together. One or the other must
be abandoned, and the question is thus directly
presented, whether il becomes a rational, free,
and happy people to relinquish all those social
moral and political principles on which that free
dom and happiness is based, and rush into
whirlpool that will inevitably swallow them in
its vortex Are they ready to stake those insti
tutions and that happiness, which are the envy
and admiration Of the world, on an experiment
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