The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-03-25
Yoe,,1Trrs SPEECH AT ST. LOUIS.

Koss,ITIrs SPEECH AT ST. LOUIS.
The St. Louis Republican thus comments
anon the speech made by NJ. kossu'h IN
that city on Friday tho l2th inst;
i W. have no belief in 'iuauspicious days,
hu, certainly tho speech OF The great iiah
pariau al Lucas Market, was a most unaap
Inv one. The introduction and the seqae'
we're alike calculated to do injury to ms
4 eause and awaken the worst feelings III Tue
community. We regard l.. hossuIn as y
great. intelligent and extraordinary man
J Thus far public sentiment awards 10 h'nl
this distinction. TO the man, as an moi.
/ vidual Of eminen, ability, and devoted pa
trie,ism TO his coaary, no one, we thlnK,
can iuterpose a doubt. We heretofore
have. and still do distinctly repudlalo his
! IDEAS of "inlerveu,ion," and boldly pro-
claim that we think it neither becoming
nor proper. under the circumstances which
released him from Imprisonment and hroi
i him 10 our shores, that he should go through
1.-The country preaching crusade against
The settled policy and best interests OF our
4 government. II he we're content to eyer-
else his4alents aud influence upon tho IN
diyidual citizen, we should have no obJec-
ton. Bat this is not the case. lie IS mol
content, after our Government has shown
him marked, we fear q mistaken dIsiiac-
ton, in releasing him from Imprisonment,
and in transporting him mud his family 10
1 our shores, certainly with no other idea
THAN that they were releasing him from the
thraldom Turkish fortress, aud That here
he would find home, in the qnietude aud
endowment of which his days might be spent
in peace and safety. II Congress or The
Executive had supposed that in soliciting
the liberation Of NJ KossuTH aud his com
patriots from the Turkish fortress, and plac.
ing national ship at their disposal, ior
their transportation to this country, they
were introducing set Of new Poiai cal az
ifdtors, cotere Of men, the soles oil whose
shoes were scarcely soiled with the decks
Of our vessels or contaminated with the
earth of o3r continent, before they began
Ito dictate terms 10 our people, aud pro
nounce themselves the missionaries Of a
new order OF things in our Government,
they would have paused before the act was
lconsummaied.
What we have learned from infancy 70
regard as the sacred and oracular lessons
of our Revolutionary sires, their warnings
and precepts, are laughed to scorn hy the
more modern aud profound Statesman Of
Hungary.
There have been times, in our political
Id ,sf
the heighth of presumption: but We mus
confess hat these latter days g beyond All
their predecessors 10 such Developments.
We ere lectufed and hectored for oar adj
hosion to the advice contained in the fare
well address of WASHINGTON, the Father o.
his Country, and the sage opinions of all
the great compatriots Of his tune, and this
too, By one the nation has just imported, At
its own expense, and who claims u kanw
our interests, governmental purposes, du
ties and obligations much better than We
understand them ourselves. This Is de-
cidedly cool, it nothing more. Esp has
fable Of the torpid serpent, and the Uni
led States has the illustration Of q man, in
yited by her TO her wide borders for home
and an asylum, becoming her instructor IN
her policy, her duties aud mission. BIZ
general nsiioual politics are not alone sut.
ticent He descends to the minutia Of The
SchlsmatIc divisions ol our social and re
lgious relations, and attempts 10 rouse q
war between sects--or what is probably
still more accurate, fan up conflict be-
tween members Of The same religious OF.
der. With proper device, he does not as
sail the Mother, The Catholic Church, bui
praises in unbonuded terms her beauty,
goodness, aud all else, and at the same time
violently assails enc Of her children, ''ihe
Jesnits.'
Now. We hive not a word 10 utter in be
half Of the Catholic Church, or the "Spcie
" Of Jesus" We are in 90 form shape, or
manner, directly or indirectly, affiliated
with either. We are Proiestauts in our
sentiments. and as far as family and do
mestic affiliations 20, we are entirely The
reverse Of Catholicism. BIT enough Of the
personal.
We complain, and VIC think with Justice
and without disrespect, that one, invited by
distinguished and unusual courtesy, to our
country, should como here the missionary
and promulgator of new clements of dis
cord Heretofore Protestant and Catho'ic,
Jew and Gentle, Infidel mud jesuit, have
gone along quietly and peaceably together
each taling his own direction, and each
disposed TO triumph in his peculiar views
by the light Of reason and truth. This is
the glorious element Of free and tolerant
country, where men Of all creeds and opin
ions are tolerated and protected.
| We will not do the distinguished guest
of our country the injustice 10 suppose hi.
remarks are the result Of full and proper
understanding of his Or our couniry's posi-
ton. OF all the men we have ever known.
We believe he has The most cause TO OK
claim :"Save me from my friends
The llnngarians have sold out their
claim at New Buda, and about to coonize
in Texas-the climate in iowa being too
cold and inhospitable for them. We would
advise Nj. Kossuth to employ The Hungari-
an contributions. in purchasing home for