The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-01-08
KossUTH AND WAR.

precedent 40 TO our allowsour paper to b
issued without containing one word in 10
Ia,ion to the great Magyar chiefiain.-'
While NO honor the man we cannot but re
gre. to sec the growing fondaess smons
tho American people to fawn upon dis'in
guishsd foreigners. Il appears to " to b
an approach towards monarchy. syco
phancy is a'promineut feature Of monarch'e
Il governments, but in land where Tree
dom Of the press and freedom cf action !
not only tolerated but should b admired
such conduct beirsys an absence Of inde
pcudence better suited 10 countries wher
favor follows fawning.
How degrading is the spectacle now pre-
scented BY some Of no conductors Of ,h
American newspaper presto atlacl
more importance to the declarations Of
kossuth, . stranger in our land, unac
quainted with our institutions, with Oh
policy Of our government, or the spirit Q
our Constitution, than to the matured opin
ions Of the eminent American statesmen Q
this and the previous ages.
A leading New York paper titles an Ar
|ticle 10 relation to Kossu,h, ihus:--"Tht
Washington Of The eighteenth century, in
,erpreted BY the Washington Of the nine
,eenth," and maintains that The policy q
Washington was never understood, unit
placed "correc,ly before The country" b
Kossuth. Tia, Hamilton, Jefisrson, Mar
shaI, Clay, Webster, and other distinguish
ed statesmen, oil the superiofs Of kossuth.
did not understand the policy Of Washing
ton. To what extremes will fanaticism
sometimes carry men.
Kossu,h, with candor worthy the man.
has declared that he asks not the sympa.
thy Of the American people-he came
not to this country for that purpose. Then
why did he comet The resolution Of Con
gress offering him an asylum here, said
that the people Of the U. States sincerel,
sympaihized with him and bis associates,
and that if il were the wish Of those exiIes
to emigrate to this country, the President
was authorized 10 place a vessel at their
disposal. 1t appears to have been their
wish, vessel was placed At their disposal
md they are in this country. But now
that they are here Kossu,h says, | do no,
ask your sympathy would not live here
il you would give me your broad republic
What then does be ask, he will not accept
sympathy, be would scorn the offer of pub.
lie lands, and beyond this it nerer soas the
intention Of Congress to go. This MIR
Foote, the Senator who introduced the res
oluiion at the saggestion Of DANIEL WEB
srER-the man whose letter was received
with Kisses by the friends Of Kossuth Al the
editorial banquet-has since declared ia
bis seat in Congress. Then what would
Kossuih have! He wishes, in brief, GU,
government to furnish him with money,
men and arms that be may achieve Mag
var independence. This is the gist Of bis
request, il resolves itself into smoothing
else" it canno, be construed otherwise.
He asks for armed Intervention 10 favor o,
Hungary, which would be a violation upon
The part Of our government Of those prin-
ciples upon which hiss rested the safety and
perpetuity Of our Union.--To discard the
admonitions Of Washington, to place q, de
fance The spirit Of our Constitution, to pull
down the white banner Of the Prince Of
Peace, and erect tho red standard of Mo
ioch. "Man," says an eminent author,
lis beliigerant by nature, and the thought
Of war summons up sensations and even
faculties within him, that in the common
course Of life would have been no more die.
cernable than the bottom Of the sea-
Those who are 10 favor Of our govern
ment intervening in behalf Of Hungary.
admit that crisis is approaching 10 Eu.
rope, BY the spread Of liberal principles,
when an effort WILDE made by the people
to throw OF their present forms Of govern.
ment and assume those more in unison with
tho great precedent furnished upon the
Western contine nj; and yet they counsel
that we violate the principles Of non-inter.
vention that have ever governed our ma
ton and which they canno, but admit is
the secret Of iss prosperity, and launch in
to the whirlpool Of war boiling up in the
old world. Oh, rash and inconsiderate nd
vice. We cannot but exclaim ia the Ian
guage Of old Nestor in the Council Of the
Greeks, when we think of the efforts beins
made to embroil US ia war:
ssCursed 10 the man, and void Of law and nigh,
Unworthy property, unworthy light,
Unfit for public rule, or private care,
That wretch, that monster, who counsels war
And if the cause Of Hungary be JUS
one, does that argue that we are to throw
down the gauntlet 10 Russia 10 her de
iencei We stood aloof when bleeding Pc
Ia nd was crushed beneath the iron heel o