Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1852-02-11

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had more
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dependencs
ly used as to sthws
welfare, and sSl ent, Geo d
in Europe, we, un3 the entire iHles
play. With us, against every Ipifl
liberty, all despots are united in cdmlI |0fi
league, and you may be sure despots will never
yield to the moral influence of Your great ex-
ample. They hate the very existence Of this
example. 1t is the sorrow Of their thoughts
and the incubus of their dreams. To stop its
moral influence abroad and to check it's spread
ing developments at home. is what they wish
instead of yielding to its influence. The Cos
sack already rules, by Louis Napoleon's usur-
patton, to the very borders of the Atlantic
Ocean.
One of your great statesmen-now to my deep
sorrow bound to the sick bed Of far advanced
age-alas! that l am deprived Of the advice
which his wisdom could have impaired to me
your great statesman told the world thirty
years ago that Paris was transferred to St. Pc.
tersburg What would he now say, when St.
Petersburg is transferred to Paris, and Europe
is but an appendix to Russias Alas Europe
can no more secure to Europe fair play Albion
only remains, but even Albion casts sorrow
ful glance over the waves. Sill We will stand
our place, sink or swim, live OF die. You know
the word. 1t is your own. We will follow it..
1t will be bloody path to tread.
Despots have conspired against the world.
Terror spreads over Europe, and anticipating
persecution rules from Paris to Pesth. There
is gloomy silence like the silence of nature
before the terrors of ahurrcane 1t is . sensi.
Bile silence, only disturbed by the thousand
fold rattling of the muskets by which Napoleon
murders that people which gave him home
when he was an exile,and by the groans of the
new martyrs ir Sicily Milan, ,vieAsa sd Pesth
The very sysnPathy fbist Ia .Ss!asd
and was expected to meet herd tny sis
ters into the dungeons of Austria. Well, Gods
will be done. The heart may break, but duty
will be done. We will stand in our place. tho
to us in Europe there be no fair play
But SO much hope, that no just man on earth
can charge me with unbecoming arrogance,
when here, on this soil of freedom. kneel
down and raise my prayer to God-"Almighty
Father of Humanity, will his merciful arm not
raise power on earth to protect the law of ma
tions. when there are many to violate it p
1t is prayer and nothing else. What would
remain to the oppressed if they were not per.
mitted to pray. The rest is in the hand Of
God.
Gentlemen, l know where stand No hon
or, no encouraging generosity, will make me
ever forget where stand and what is due from,
me to you. Here my duty is 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 ii
your will to pronounce. or be it your will not
to take notice it, will understand your will
and bow before it with devotion, hopeless, per
haps. but my heart full of admiration love and
gratitude to your generous yeople. to your glo
rious land.
But one single word, even here, may be
| Pe'"tIeo W say, ohly such WORD as may SC
cure me from being misunderstood. came tc
the noble minded people of the United States
to claim its generous operative sympathy fol
the impending struggle Of oppressed freedom
on the European continent, and freely inter
preted the hopes and wishes which ths
pressed nations entertain; but as to yoI
Republic. as State, as = power on
stand before tha S1otesmen. Senator'S
islators of til ic only =,
ternational jusslc1, Ind consontuV~
republican institutions and their de
life. That is all know and Europe
the immense weight of such q pronun1