Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-03

therefore upon the platform Of non-nteryenton but n
eyed that good faith and humanity required the adopto
OF the resolution Of the gentleman from Ohio
MIR. GENTRY after some preliminary remarks sal
that this House now called upon to extend courtes
to Louis Kossuth and the only question for them to cor
slider was that they should be careful to esteem them
selves as gentlemen This courtesy was required at the
hands, and they should certainly receive him with all III
ciyftes that under existing circumstances Gen
tenen seemed to be afraid that in the enthusiasm 70
kossath the longesablshed policy of the Government
would be overthrow, and Washington forgotten He va
not afraid of this and he perfectly willing that Kos
suh should speak in every Congressional district in III,
United States. He (Mr. g. was such Democrat tina
ne was willing to submit every question the arbitra
ment OF the American people. II the people were no
competent to solve all the questions submitted to them
this Government founded upon a false foundation
The only thing which they had to look to was to tax,
care OF their dignity and not permit amy thing to be over
DONE lie had the most perfect confidence in the gentle
man from Ohio Mr.. CARTTER) forming lust conception
OF what the propetes of the occasion should be- Kos
suth could come here quietly and take seat and let thai
De the end OF It, lie could speak, and he Mr. g. would
give hve or ten dollars to hear him. Laughter Let
kossuth speak he could Amercanze him nor this
Congress of the nation Ii he was wrong in this he de-
sired to be undeceived Immediately If Kossuth should
ask our Intervention, could tell him that keen
the light OF our example burning and shining upon the
pathway OF nations to guide Them the cloud by day
and the pillar of fire by night which led the Israetss to
the promised land We would keep it luminous upon
their pathway to guide them from the darkness of tvn
ny and desposm to the light of liberty 1t did not seem
proper that the two Legislative branches of the Govern
ment should entertain difference of opinion ON such
question This resolution ought to have been passed
without debate, and in a very quiet way
Mr. STEPHENS, of Georgia, did not view Louis Kos
suth as coming to America the special
OF Hungary The principle Of which he was the repre-
sentative was the principle Of intervention Had he not
made this issue in New York. and did he not there STATE
that he did not wish to be eastcd but desired the armed
intervention of the United States if need be?
Inc gentleman from Tennessee Mr. GENTRY said that
he not afraid of Louis Kossuth He MIR was not
much afraid of Louis Kossut great as lie believed him
to be- Every speech every thing he had said marked
him as man of mind of genius and of intellect It was
because he admired him that he did wish him to 90
through is solemn mockery that gentlemen would urge
upon Congress.
1t was wise saying of Patrick Henry that the price
OF liberty was eternal vigilance They had sworn to-
support the Constitution of the United States and that
instrument prescribed that each House should provide
rules for its government One of their rules declared
that no person should be privileged to enter this hall but
such as were there designated another rule declared that
these rules should not be changed but by day notice.
yet we witnessed here to-day majority of the House
overriding their own law and the constitution of the coun
y as defenders of other peoples liberty while they would
not maintain the bulwarks of their own If there were
any to fear Kossuth it would be to see him here
dlsorganizing the House of Representatives
He admrer of liberty friend of constitutional
liberty, and friend of his country. When he looked
upon the face OF the earth, and the people of the
United States presenting the only free countrywhen he
1t as the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night
to direct other nations of the world he asked what made
II SO How it that this great liberty was protected
The constitution and the supremacy of the law were the
pillars which upheld this towering dome in its majestic
height and ne called upon every gentleman who regarded
his country and who would its principles extended to
other countries to maintain the principles upon which it
is founded.
Gentlemen had said that Kossuh had been invited here
and they closing the doors against him. He had
never been invited to this country they had simply offer
ca nm settlement here when he pursued and hunt
ed down by foreign Powers They had bade him welcome
as an exile, but not a propagandist But he did not
come as an exile, for he said that he scorned it.
For one he not prepared for the resolution
although he entertained disrespeet toward Kossuth
In his opinion he would be very great if he could
carry his measures but he never would if he Mr. s.
could prevent it. If the gentleman from Virginia Ir
BAYLY was correct that not twenty members of both
Houses could be found who would support the nteryen
ton measures, let them make the fact known.
Mr. GENTRY replied to Mr.. STEPHENS and commended
that by the action proposed they would change no
standing rule of the House. If they should agree to
invite Louis kossuth upon the floor the standing rule
would remain unchanged They would simply, by virtue
of the power of the House, make exception to one
of the standing rules which they had made for their
government, and that standing rule would still remain
unchanged.
Mr. RANT0UL desired that this resolution should pass
originally introduced because considered Kossuth
to be identified with the great Of European liberty
and worthy Of sympathes, all who are cham
pons OF that simply because he stood before
there higher hoier cause in which man could
be engaged but because he here as the representa-
tive OF principle almost peculiar to institutions
that of Staterghts. 1t this alone which he persona
fed, and which other that ever came from the
whole world personifed This higher claim he had upon
his regard.
Mr.. r. saw in this Government symptom of mortality
If this Government should perish it would perish by the
encouragement of central power the rights of soye
reign States What the that liberty had been
impossible in Europe? Simply because they did do as
we have done. Ii because all the powers of Govern
ment were concentrated in central power and that
power was OF necessity too strong for any effort liberty
to succeed in any way. When he that this danger
threatened our country he asked himself could be pos
sibe that who had devoted his life his energies
his genius, and all the power that God had given him to
the single purpose of defending his country against the
central power of the Government would be refused well
come by any who that the reserved rights Of the
sovereign States is the bulwark Of lbertie By adj
hitting him here, they would sanction all his prin
cpes. If he would have been invited here For
himself he would glory in welcoming America the great
advocate of American institutions.
Mr.. EWING said that Kossuth was proclaming in this
land doctrines, the necessary result Of which, they should
prevail would result in war; degradation to this coun
try in the face Of the civilized world Whilst he gave
kossuth all due credit for the open in which he
disseminated his sentiments he desired know how much
further we were to go? He would ask those who had
complained here and elsewhere of the exercise Of implied
and doubtful powers by the Government whether the
doctrines of Kossuth were in conformity with the strict
construction of the constitution They could find that
the Federal Government possessed the power approp
ate or two millions for the improvement of the nav
CATION OF the Western waters while they could readily
find power to sanction the doctrine of men who contended
that it had power to appropriate millions for the purpose
Of redressng the wrongs of every oppressed people, and
of course every oppressed individual He could not
the consistency of this