Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-01-23
Alliances Offensive and Defensive.

AFhl1RCeS OlIcHS1S dnu DeRcNsltc'
The Norfolk (Va.) News thus endorses the
views CT Senator Douglas ON the question of In
tcrycnt;on.
The extract is taken from his speech in the
Senate.
The following extract from speech, lately
delivered by Senator Douglas, deserves to be
written in letters of gold:
Sir. something has been said about an alliance
with England to restrain the march of Russia
over the European continent. am free to say
that | desire no alliance with England, or
with any other crowned head. | am not willing
to acknowledge that America needs Eng land as
an ally to maintain the principles Of our govern
nIcnt. Nor am | willing to 90 to the rescue OF
England to save her from the power of the Au-
tccl;it, until she asSimilatcs her institutions to
ours. Here is halfway house between deSpo-
t;sm and rclmblcanism. She is responsible, as
any power in Europe, for the failure Of the revo-
Iutionary movements which have occurred with
in the last four years. English diplomacy, Eng
lish intrigue, and English pcridy, put down the
revolution in Sicily and in Italy, and was the
greatest barrier to its success even in Hungary.
So long as England shall, by her dip plonacyy,
| am utterly aversc to an alliance with her to
sustain her monarch. her mobiles and her rr1vl-
legged classes. England must sustain her constl-
tut;ona monarchy, even against absoIutisln, with
out receiving aid from republican America with
my consent, and especially so long as she con-
dcmns to imprisonment and transportation for
life, the noble Irish patriots, whose ony crime
consisted in attempting that for which the POOR
Hungarian is now idolizcd by the English pco-
pie. She must do Justice to Ireland, and the IT.
ish patriots in exile, and to the masses of her
own people, hy relieving them from the opFres-
'sive taxation imposed to sustain the privileged
classes, and adopting republican institutions, be-
fore she can have my sympathy, much less my
aid even against Russia. wish no alliance with
monarclls. No republican movement will ever
succeed 50 long as the people rut their trust
in princes. The fatal error committed in Italy,
in Germany, in France, wherever the experiment
was tried, consisted in placing prince at the
head Of the popular movement. The persons
all sympathizrd with the dynasties from which
they were descended and seized the first oppor-
tunitv to produce reaction, and to betray the
people into the hands oftheir oppressors.
1ncr2 Is TTdSOl 10 D'liNc lidG Hi"'Ii VI ti''
was accomplished through British diplomacy
and intrigue What more natural? The pow
er of the British government is in the hands Of
the princes and the nobility. Their sympathies
arc all with the privileged classes of other coun-
tries, in every movement which does not effect
the immediate interests of their own king
dom. Rcpublicanism has nothing to hope
therefore, from England, so long as she main
t;ns her existing government. and preserves her
present policy. repeat, | desire no alliance
with England We require no assistance form
her, and will yield none to her, until she docs
Justice to har own people. The peculiar posi-
ton o. our country requires that we should have
ali American policy in our foreign relations, bas-
ed upon the principles Of our own government,
and adapted to the spirit Of the age. We should
sympathize with every liberal movement -r"cogs-
nina the independence Of all rcpun'ics--trom
commercial treaties and open diplomatic rcla-
tons with thrm-protest against all m. IONS
of the laws of nations, and hold ourselves ready
to do whatever our duty may require when Il
case shall arFisc.