Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-02

the community from foreign war; or domestic con-
vulsions, is lodged in this Government The power
to prosecute foreign war, for example, not ex-
pressy granted, has been repeatedly exercised But,
retorting upon the gentleman in more serious
strain than his, we ask, ought this Government,
because it has the power to repel invasion and de-
fend its commerce. to set itself to intermeddlng in
the internal dssensions of other nations and espous
ing their quarrels, without understanding their
merits, or even the grounds of them? The answer
to this question will be decisive against the prin-
ciple of Intervention, in every form in which it
presents itself to the delighted imagination of the
Democratic orators as ready means Of indulgng
their belligerent and acquisitive propensities.
Intervention by the United States in any inter-
national question must, after all, be question of
expediency, to be determined by actual circum-
stances. Armed Intervention by this Government
in the contest now going on in Europe between
arbitrary power and free principles, would be the
mere madness of folly, and could not do otherwise
than postpone for an indefinite period of time any
reform whatever, in any Government in that quarter
of the world, favorable to liberty.
mIntervention for the sake of non-intervention,
understood to mean intervention by remonstrance
and protest, is bubble unworthy of logical mind
1t betrays an ignorance well Of history as OF
the present state of Europe and of the character of
its Governments If the Absolutist Alliance of old
is really reconstructed, then what sound mind
quainted with the past, can suppose that remon-
strances or protestations will restrain stop action
in Europe against liberty? Are the results of the
Congresses of Laybach and Verona SO distant as to
be forgotten Notwithstanding the protestations
of Mr.. CANNING, and notwithstanding even the
portly reluctance Of LOUIS the XVIII, the French
troops crossed the Bidassoa and destroyed the
stitutional government of the Peninsula; and all
under the pressure of the Holy Alliance. The
memorable confession which VILELLE, the French
Premier, made at that time in the Chamber of De-
puties, remains an historical evidence of the fact
| For all the revolutionary era, of which nobody
can foresee the final solution, intervention will
tinue to be the necessary policy Of the European
States and Intervention from both sides No hui
man power, no demonstration whatever, will pre-
vent it. Revolutions will support their sister revo-
lutions and, in the natural course of things, anti
revolutionary powers will unite in a common cause
is-througha general confict-that the question be-
| tween liberty and despotism, which divides Eu-
rope rather morally than geographically, will be
decided.
Intervention, however, must be strictly confined
to parties really interested in the game. Thus In
terested are exclusively the European nations and
Powers. The United States can have nothing to do
20 tba hnp mil
lions of the European populations, with all their
colossal resources, monetary as well as other, are
unable to secure for themselves the benefits of a
social and political freedom, when parts of them
support the despos it proof that either the time
is not yet come, that the next revolutionary
luton will reveal new force or be moved by
new and perhaps now unknown conception. In each
of these eventualities, the support of whatever
ture it be, sent there for special case from these
shores, will prove untimey or Intellectual In the
present moment the orbits and the destnies of the
United States are wholly different from those of
Europe Should events change, then the inward
wisdom of the American people will at once
recognise the necessity of modifying its policy. But
such an evolution ought to be the result of
able, deliberate, and calm reflection, rather than,
it has lately been attempted to make it, one of ex
element. 1t must flow from the pure and genuine
sources of the popular wisdom, and not be evoked
from the mist by magical incantations.
We are happy to be able, in conclusion of this
article to offer to readers in the following ex
tract from a statesmanlike Speech of Mr.. Senator
BELL, Cat the late session of Congress- some re-
Elections upon this subject much more worthy of
perusal than any of our own lucubrations:
EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF MR.. BELL
81 trust, sir may now be allowed without taking my
final leave of Europe, to pay short visit America
America, always open and exposed every disease
conagon moral and physical that originates in for
eign atmosphere. We it proclaimed through the
columns Of thousand presses this country that the
spirit Of Democracy is necessarily progressive ask
pardon for intended TO divest myself as far as posi-
be Of every partisan view and feeling in delivering my
sentiments this great subject; but am unable TO
proceed in my argument without the use of and
illusions which may to have O partisan cast We |
told that reform In this free country laggard
that it fingers far in the Of the advancing spirit of
the age Sir IL is said through the same channels and
proclaimed the people Of this country that too much
Of the old tdemocratic leaven still turks and fermens
in constitutional forms and in legislation BY
circumscribed party but still widely dfused
the country and of insignificant influence institu
tons denounced being oppressive and unjust the
natural rights of mankind, alien to liberty upholdng
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