The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-12

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Intervention Speech OF General Cass.
-,ho speech Ct General Cass, il the United States
Senate, on the great question Of intervention, is
publiaAed at length in cur columns to-day
Uponthe frst blush this is great speech, learned
in the lars Of nationc, well posted up in the autho
rites and uesdy, consistent, and powerful in argu
ment. But, upon little inspection, it is snowy
snS Architectural structure upon q sandy founda-
ton. ltisa giant Of brass spon legs Of clay. II
is not the formidai e monste. it appears, but a
scarecrow, stuffed with stra& !. covers vast field
Of diplomatic research, and shows abundantly that
in the maxns, precedents, authoittss, ano sechni-
calities Of International usage and hissory. 0en'
Cass ia perfectly at home-in fact, that he is
diplomat Of the fret water, and can shake the
heavens and rend the earth asunder, without the
slightest damage TO anybody. Some of the num-
mics taken from the catacombs Of Egypt have beer
found encased in almost numberess bandages Of
linen OF various oualies but in unfolding them, it
has been uniformly discovered that they have only
encased mummy at last. SO with tie speech Of
Gen. Cass. We unfold it, wrapper by wrapper,
in some apprehension Of discovering an internal ma
chine; but it turns ont to be nothing but mummy
20 dried skeleton, Of 3 dark mahogany color and
an Anticipated, bituminoas smell.
The pith and substance Of this learned and long,
winded harangue Of General Cass, amount to
simple protest against despotic intervention, coupled
with the condition that we pledge ourselves not to
incur any rsk in enforcing it upon the powers OF
Europe. For example, we declare against the in
tervention Of Russia, should Hungary rise again
in open rebellion. Upon this hint Hungary rises,
Austria is driven to tho wall, and again implores
the Car to help her. Nicholas sends again
swarm e Cossacks over the Ca-pathians, and the
Uzited States Of America back out. We shall
have told Russia tina. such conduct is vilanoup,
and cannot be tolerated. but if she disregards the
warning, very we'll; let the Hungarans look to it;
it is none Of our business. We will undertake to
do everything required in the defence of liberal
principles in Europe, as far as paper declarations
will 90; but when it to the plain question Of
gunpowder it is none Of policy to take sides in
the European squabbles, one way or the other.
We will do eur very best to get up 6 row, but the
parties engaged in i. must fight i. out among
themselves.
Stripped ofau ve7biage, such is the Intervention
policy Of Gen. Cas-. We ought to intervene to
excite revolution in Europe. Bat whatever the
expectations Of the people who may rise in arms
agains. the despot., Of aid and comfort" from the
United States, they must help themselves. We
have done our duty in getting them together by the
ears. Such policy is worse than nothing a. all.
It nothing but deception to the party and the
cause we intend to promote. What striking
illustration ofthe old fable Of the mountain and the
mouse. And such is likely to be the conclusion Of
this whole business. After all the uproar, tiaore,
parades, professions, triumphal marches from city
to city, and from State to State, Of Kossu!h Kin
Lel, and INSTRUMENTATION all the show, all the
bapquets and subscription and promises and gas,
and CANNON, in behalf Of s'Enancial, material and
political aid" to the cause Of European liberty, we
expect the whole result will be 80 ne forty thousand
old muskets, at two dollars apiece.
The best declaration on the part OF this great re-
public, in behalf Of liberty throughout the world is
to be found in the Declaration Of independence and
the Constitution Of the United States, and the
glorious fruits which they have produced Our
growth, progress, prosperity, wealth, and power
our railroads and s.eamships-our great commercial
emporium, and its worldwide conmerce-our skill
and energy in war, On the land and On the sea- at
home and abroad, regulars and volun.eers-all
speak with an eloquence to the people and the
powers Of Europe, a hundred fold mare potent in
the cause Of liberal principles than all the Kossuth
hunbugs got up by specializing politicians, and all
the Congressional distractions on International lew
PIT together, including, also, the forty thousand
muskets at two dollars apiece.
In Presidential view of the subject, the inter-
vention speech Of General Csss may gain him somo
friends in the North, but will lose him the whole
South, where he has already been weakened by his
doctrines Of noninterventon in the territories Of the
United States. In fact, if NO mistake not, General
Cass viii end, in the Baltimore Convention, that
Kossuth, Kinke and their allies, with the will o.
the-wisp Of TIE speedy liberation Of Europe, have
beer leading him into the bogs and quicksands Of
political destructon; and that the imagined popg-
larity OF this tang Of outside is The
finsiest Of al the fimsy bumbugs Of the day
pres!dentfai Movements.