The republic., 1852-01-08

play 70 ALL for all, which you, sir, in your toast
were pleased to pronounce as right OF my ma
tion alike sanctioned by the law Of nations as by
the dictates of eternal justice Without this "air
play" there is no hope Tor Europe-no hope OF geo
ing spread your principles abroad.
You're is happy country, gentlemen You had
more than fair play. You had active. operative
aid from Europe in your struggle for ndepend-
| ence, which once achieved you wisely used rs TO
become prodigy OF freedom and welfare, and
| But we in Europe, we unhappily have such
fair play. With us, against every palptaton Of
liberty all despots are united in common league.
And, to DC sure. despots will never yield to the
moral influence OF your great example They hate
| the very existence Of this example. 1t is the
| row of their thoughts and the incubus of their
dreams To stop its moral influence abroad, and
to check its spreading development at home IL what
| they wish. instead Of yielding to its influence.
we VIII have no fair play. The Cossack already
rules, by Louis Napoeon's usurpation. to the very
borders of the Atlantic One of your great
statesmen-now to my deep sorrow bound to the
sick bed OF far advanced age, (alas! that ] am de
| prved of the advice which his wisdom could have
| impaired to mel your great statesman told the
to st. Petersburgh. What would he now say when
Petersburgh is transferred to Paris, and Europe Is
| but an appendix to Russian
Alas! Europe can no more secure to Europe ialr
| play. Albion only remaine; but even Albion casts
a sorrowful glance over the waves. Still We will
| stand our place, "sink or swim, live or die" You
know the word, it is your own-wc will follow it.
| II will be "a bloody path to tread Despots have
conspired against the world. Terror spreads
Europe, and anticipating persecution rules. From
Paris to Pesth there is a gloomy silence, like the
silence OF nature before the terrors of hurricane.
1t is asensible sicnce, only disturbed by the thou
sand fold rafting of muskets, by which Napoleon
murders that people which gave him home when
he was an exile, and by the groans of new martyrs
in Sicily, Milano, Vienna, and Pesh The very gym
pathy which met in England, and expected to
meet here, throws my sisters into the dungeons Of
Austria. Well. Gods will lie done ! The heart may
| break, but duty will be done We will stand
place though to us in Europe there be "iair play"
hut 80 much ! hope, that no just man on earth
can charge me with becoming arrogance, when
here. on this soil of freedom, kneel down and
raise my prayer to God: "Almigbty Father of bu-
manity, will Thy merciful arm not raise power
on earth to protect the law of nations when there
are 30 many to violate it," 1t is prayer, and no
! thing else. What would remain to the oppressed
| if they were not even permitted to pray? The rest
is in the hand Of God
| Gentlemen, ! know where stand. No honor,
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
| III your wisdom will be pleased to pronounce about
| that which public opinion knows to be my prayer
and my aim; and be it your will to pronounce, or
be II your viii not to take notice OF 1t, VIII un-
derstand your will and bow before it with sincere
| reverence, and will go back over the ocean hope
| less, perhaps, but my heart full of admiration,
| love, and gratitude 10 your generous people, to
| your glorious land.
| But one single word even here may be permit
| ted to say-only such word may secure me
| from being misunderstood. l came to the noble
minded people of the United States to claim its
generous operative sympathy for the impending
struggle OF oppressed freedom the European
continent; and freely interpreted the hopes and
wishes which those oppressed nat ons entertain;
but, as TO your great Republic as State, as a power
on earth l stand before the statesmen, Senators,
and Legislators of that Republic only to ascertain
from their wisdom and experience what Is their
Judgment upon question OF national law and in
ternauonal right hoped, and now hope, that
they will-by the foreboding events the other
great continent-feel induced to pronounce in time
their vote about that law and those rights. And
hoped, and hope, tha., pronouncng their vote, it
will be in favor OF broad principles of international
justice, consonant with their republican institu-
tions and their democratic life.
That is all know, and Europe knows, the inn
Inense weight OF such pronunciation from such
place. But never had the impious wish to try to
cntange this great Republic into difficulties in
consistent with its own welfare, its own security,
Its own interest. l rather, repeatedly, earnestly,
declared that war on this account by your coun-
try Is utterly impossible and mere phantom. |
always declared that the United States, remaining
masters OF their action under every circumsta
will act as they Judge consistent with the supreme
duties to themselves. But / said, and say, that
| such declaration of just principles would insure
to the nations of Europe "fdir plap in their strug
gle for freedom and Independence, because the de-
claration of such power your Republic is will be
respected even where II should be not liked and
Europe's oppressed nations will feel cheered in
ioton and doubled in strength to maintain the de-
eison OF their American brethren on their own be-
! hall with their own lives.
There is immense power in the idea to be
| right, when this idea is sanctioned by a nation
| like yours And when the forebodiDg future will
become present. there is immense field for pri
vate benevoence and sympathy upon the basis of
the broad principles Of international justice pro-
nounced in the sanctuary of your peoples collec-
tive majesty. So much TO guard me against mis-
understanding.
Sir, most fervcntly thank you for the acknow-
lcdgment that my country has proved worthy TO
be free. Yes, gentlemen, feel proud at my ma
tion's character, heroism, love Of freedom, and
vitality; and bow with revcrential awe before the
decree OF Providence, which placed my country
into position that, without it's restoration TO indie
pendence, there is no possibility for freedom and
Independence Of nations the European coni-
ncnt. Even what now in France s about TO pass
proves the truth Of this Every disappointed hopo
with which Europe looked towards France is n de-
gree more added TO the importance Of Hungary to
the world Upon our plains were fought the de-
cisive battles for chrsdcndom; there will be fought
tho decisive battle for the independence of nations,
for State rights, for international law, and for de
Inocratic liberty. We will live free, or die like
men. But should my people be doomed to die, il
Will be the fret whose death will not be recorded
"a suicide, but as n martyrdom for the world and
future ages will mourn over the cad fate of the
Magyar race, doomed to pcrish, not because
deserved IL, but because in the nineteenth century
there was nobody to protect the laws OF nature and
Of natures God.
But look TO the future with confidence and with
IA pc. Adyersities manifold of n tempest tossed
life could of course not fail TO impress a mark of
cheefl, ssness upon my heart, which, if not source
OF JOY, Is at l,ast guard against saDguine illu-
sions. j, for myself, would not want the hope OF
success for doing what is right. To me the sense
OF duty would suffice; therefore, when | hope, il
has nothing common with that desperate instinct
of drowning man, who, half sunk, ia still grasp
ing to "a straw for help. No, when ! hope there is
no motive for that hope. / have a steady faith in
principles. dare say that experience taught me
the logic oil events in conncxion with principles
j have fathomod the very bosom OF this mystery,
and nowhere was deceived in my calculations
thcreabout. Once in my life | supposed n princi.
pie to exist in certain quarter where, indeed no
principle proved to cxis. IL was horrible mis-
take, and resulted in horrible Issue. The pres.
ont condition of Europe is a very consequence of
1t. But precisely this condition OF Europe provcs
that did not whnionly suppose principle to exist
there. where found none. Would il have existed,
the consequences could not have failed TO arrive ns
have contemplated them Well, thcrcisa providence
in every fact. Without this mistake the princi. |
pics OF American rcpublicanism would have for a
long time yet not found fertile soil on that con.
tueut where considered wi tn hclnn,,