Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-10

garden Of Capitalization where the senomoas plant OF an
bition thrives dare confidently affirm that in you
great country there exists not single tn rough who's
brains has passed the thought that he would wish
raise the seat OF his ambition upon the ruins of your coun
rys liberty II he could. Such wish is impossible in ia
United States Institutions upon the character
nations lie who sows wind will reap storm. History
the revelation Of Providence. The Almighty rules b.
eternal laws not only the material but the moral world
and every law is principle, and every principle Is law
Men well as nations endowed with free will :,
must be abided.
With selfgoyemment is freedom and with freedom h
justice and patriotism With Capitalization Is ambition
and with ambition dwells despotsm. Happy your grea
country sir, for being warmly addicted 10 that grea
principle Of sefgoyemment Upon this foundation your
fathers raised home 10 freedom more glorious than the
world has Upon this foundation you have de
yeloped IL TO living wonder of the world Happy your
great country sir that il selected by the blessing
of the Lord to prove the glorious practicabty fee-
atye union of many sovereign States all conserving their
State rights and their selfgoyernment and yet united In
one-eyery star beaming with its lustre but all
together constellation mankind's canopy
Upon this foundation your free country has grown
prodgous power in surprisingly brief period
tive power in that your fundamental principle You have
conquered by in seventy five years than Rome by
arms in centuries. Your principles will conquer the
world BY the glorious example of your freedom welfare
and security mankind is about 10 become conscious Of its
aim The lesson you give TO humanity viii not be lost
The respect for Staterghts in the Federal
Of America, and in its several States viii become In
structve example for universal oleraon forbearance
and justice to the future States and Republics of Europe
Upon this basis will be got rid of the mschieyous
ton OF language nationaes, raised by cunning des-
potsm in Europe to murder liberty Smaller States
will find security in the principle Of federatye union
while they win their national freedom by the
principle of sovereign selfgovernment and while larger
States abdicatng the principle of Capitalization, will
to be bloodfeld to sanguinary usurpation and
tool to ambition of wicked men, municipal institutions
will ensure the development of local particular elements
freedom formerly abstract political theory, will be-
the household benefit to municipalities and out Of
the welfare and contentment Of all parts will flow happi
ness, peace, and security for the whole
That is my confident hope. Then will atonce subsde
the fluctuations of Germany fate. Ii will become the
Southern frame the South into Northern not by alb
sorbing historical pecuarities by centralized omnipo
tence; not by mixing in one State but by ederating
several sovereign States into a Union like yours.
Upon similar basis viii take place the national re-
generation of Sclavonic States and upon the sacre
gious idea of Pansavsm, equivalent to the omnpotence
of the Car. Upon a similar basis will fair Italy
independent and free. Not unity, but union viii and
must become the watchword of national bodies severed
into desecraed limbs by provincial varies out of which
flock Of despots and common servitude arose To be
sure it will be noble JOY to this your great Republic to
feel that the moral influence of your glorious example has
operated this happy development in manknds destiny,
and have not the slightest doubt of the efficacy of your
examples influence.
But there is thing indispensable to it, without which
there is no hope for this happy ISSUE This indispensable
thing is that the oppressed nations Of Europe become the
masters of their future free to regulate their domes
tic And to this nothing wanted but to have
that " fair play to all, ALL which you, sir, in your
toast pleased to pronounce right of my nation,
alike sanctioned by the law of nations by the dictates
Of eternal Justice Without this fair play there is
hope for Europe--no hope of seeing your principles
spread
Yours is a happy country, gentlemen. You had more
than fair play You had active operative aid from Europe
your struggle for independence, which, achieved
you wisely used to become a prodigy Of freedom
and welfare and a book of life @ nations
But we in Europe-we, unhappily, have such fair
play With us, against every palpitaton Of liberty all
despots are united in common league; and you may be
sure that despots will yield to the moral influence of
your great example They hate the very existence of this
example 1t the sorrow of their thoughts and the incu
bus of their dreams To stop its moral influence abroad
and to check its spreading development home is what
they wish, instead of yielding to its influence.
We will have no fair play The Cossack already rules,
oy LOUIS Napoleons usurpaton to the very borders OF
to deep sorrow bound the sick bed of far advanced
age immense sensation -(alas that deprived of
the advice which his wisdom could have impaired to mel
great statesman told the world thirty years ago that
Paris transferred to ST. Petersburgh What would he
now when ST. Petersbgh is transferred to Paris and
Europe is but an appendage to Russia?
Alas Europe can no more secure to Europe fair play
Albion only remains but Albion casts sorrowful
glance over the Still viii stand place,
sink swim, live die" You know the word il is
your own We will follow it; it viii be bloody path to
tread Despots have conpred against the world Terror
From Paris TO Pesh there is gloomy silence, like the
silence Of Nature before the terrors of hurricane 1t is
sensible silence only disturbed by the thousand-fold
rafting of muskets by which Napoleon murders that peo
pie which gave him home when he exile and by
the groans of martyrs in Sicily Milan, Vienna,
and Pesth. The very sympathy which / met in Eng
land and expected to meet here throws my sisters
into the dungeons of Austria Cries of shame shame
throughout the room. Well, Gods will be done
The heart may break, but duty will be done We will
stand our place. though TO in Europe there be fair
play. But so much hope, that just earth
can charge with unbecomng arrogance when here
this soil Of freedom kneel down and raise my prayer
God Almighty Father Of Humanity will thy merciful
arm not raise power earth protect the law of
prayer and nothing else. What would remain to the OPP
pressed If they were not permitted to pray? The
rest is in the hand Of God
Gentlemen, know where / stand. No honor,
couraging generosity, will make ever forget where
stand, and what due from to you Here my dutys
silently to await what you, in your wisdom will be pleased
to pronounce about that which public opinion knows to be
my prayer and my aim and be your will to pronounce
or be IT your will not to take notice of IT, will understand
your will and bow before it with sincere reverence and
viii 60 back over the ocean, hopeless perhaps but my
heart full OF admiration love- and gratitude your gener
Gus people, to your glorious land.
But one single word here / may be permitted to
say-only such word ms may me from being mis-
understood. came to the undetermined people Of the
for the impending struggle Of oppressed freedom the
European continents and freely interpreted the hopes
and wishes which those oppressed nations enteran but
ms to your great Republic, State Power earth,
stand before the statesmen and legislators of
that Republic emily TO ascertain from their wisdom and
tional law and international right. | hoped, and
that NV the forebodino he other