Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-20
NJ. KossUTH AND Ma. CLAY.

while AT Louisville he committed very grave If not
fatal indiscreton The indulgence with which he has
been listened to thus far while disputng OF
the most cherished maxims Of American policy has not
had the Just effect of increasing the decacy with which
he is bound by all considerations Of prudence and Of
ttude to deal with matters of merely local interest and
personal feeling We make, we have made, large
allowances for his absorption in the ruling object Of
ensting America the side of his countrymen in
their struggle for freedom and admire the
ouerabe spirit which persists in its abors against denia
and almost against hope and renews with increasing
of zeal the arguments that have failed
convince We have joined in the Of Kossuth
for pleading with ndefa gable zeal against the public
sense of this country, and strongest convictions
for national declarations and material aid" for Hunga
ry But if the statements from Louisville be in part
true that he made direct personal issue with Mr. CLAY
on the doctrines expressed by that venerable statesman
in the interview between him and Kossuh in Washington
and held them and their author up to rdicue to Ken
lucky audience it plain that he has abused the priv
eges of hospitality has essened the dignity of his char
acer and fatally damaged the reputation which all sides
have been disposed to concede to him as man Of extra
ordinary wisdom and equanimity. Denuncation leveed
at so high mark for the utterance of sentiments which
are in such absolute accord with those Of the great
of the people whom Kossuhs mission is to conciae and
son which has brooded disappointment until it has
swept away every barrier Of discretion and inpatient
Of temper which proves absolute unness for
the direction of great affairs
The opinion of Mr.. CLAY any public question is re-
ceived with profound respect by his counymen, even
when he differs from their own, at times too when the
active leadership of political party made him the target
of attack They likely, therefore, to listen with
when he is arragned for public rebuke by
stranger when the threshold of the grave, he lifts
his voice in solemn admontion his countrymen against
departure from the ancient ways in which they have
found prosperity and greatness The best friends of Kos
suh cannot fail to lament this great bunder and his enc
mics could not desire effective plea with which to
combat his influence.
1t strikes us as very absurd idea, that of Kossah,
that the conference between him and Mr. Clay conf
DENTAL and that it is breach of faith in Mr. Clay to
allow the views he expressed there to be made public 1t
is So to maintain that consideration and at
tachment for Mr. Clay alone prevented the Hungarian
from replying to and refung the American statesman.
On all these points Kossuth has been addressing the pub
lioay and hourly for months, exhausting every thing
that be said his own side, and again,
with wonderful variety and eoquence of defamation,
indeed but without producing fresh argument novel
Observation-Disclosures Orleans Pcayne.
We believe in the entire devotedness of Kossuh the
welfare and glory of Hungary but have very little
faith in the discretion wisdom of the He leaves
behind him quite many enemies friends and changes
many friends into enemies from the bad temper he dis
plays and the injustice of his conclusions He talks
Americans they children and argues with them
rather with the authority of master than the kindness
and courtesy of friend If opposed he flies into pas
sion flint strikes fire from the iron and to
pect supreme obedience from all with whom he holds in
tercourse-NeV York Express.
< = Some Of the dangerous elements Of future
trouble appear be concentrating in what denominat
ed sthe American Revolutionary League for Europe"
Its constitution which has been published far and WIDE
significant of its objects From that gather its de-
sign agitate Europe and America This Is 70 be done
by means Of vast Revolutionary Fund and by companies
Of armed men, be we drilled or, in other words kind
of standing army raised by the acknowledged State
but by an authority known in law To eectuate the
purposes Of this society every member besides contri
buting penny week. pay such shall be enacted
5y each association into fund, to be invested
when such shall reach hundred dollars Erey
member prom,e, and binds himself 70 obedience.
1t is difficult to say which is the alarming feature
Of this scheme, the agitation in Europe or America In
both it menaces peace and welfare II carries out
its plans whatever they may be-ths win be known only
to its conryers-by subverting the theory Of Gov
ernment and assuming TO egisate instead OF our own
Congress, whose name il usurps the most important
affairs Of external and internal policy 1t is necessary
consequence that obvious Of power will be q
systematic pressure upon the elections and by overawng
voters render them subservent to their projects Can
the public mind in this country remain long in healthy
with such restless Of disorder and dsquet
collected its heart ready to be put action by uneasy
and fear too maeyolent spirits whose aim is neither
to benefit this country any other 1t easy to per-
ceve that hundreds and thousands OF disappointed men
may obtain in this irregular way power and profit which
they have failed do by the usual mode Of political pre-
ferment in constitutional government and in the ordi-
nary walks Of industry and business The question for
Americans to decide is whether they prepared to
make the functions Of the State under which they
have lived for hree-quarer Of century to an irrespon-
sble association Of men. who have stake whatever
either in the property welfare Of the United States
whether they resolved maintain the Government Of
the country il is. They cannot be too prompt OF
peremptory in their decisonNerark Daily AdreTtser.
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We have conversed with JonS MoRRrs very intei
gent and respectable coored man from Eznbeth City