Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-03-25
From the Missouri Republican
kossutiA's Speech on Friday.

days." but certainly the speech of the
great Hungarian at Lucas Market. was
a most unhappy one. The introduction
and The sequel were like calculated to do
4 injury To his cause and awaken the wors,
feelings in the community. We regard
l. kessuth rs great, intelligent, and ex-
tra ordinary man. Tins far public senti-
m ent awards 10 him This distinction. TO
the man, as an individual of eminent a.
billy. and devoted patriotism TO his coun
Try, no one, we think, can in,erpose
: doubt. We heretofore have, and still do
distinctly repudiate his ideas of "inter.
venlion,'' and boldly proclaim tha, we
ihink II hcisher becoming nor proper, un-
der the circumstances which released him
from imprisonment and brough. him to
our shores, that he should go through
the country preaching crusade against
the settled policy and best interests of our
government. Ii he were content TO ex.
ercise his talents and influence upon the
individual citizen, we should have no Oh
lection. But this is moi the case. He is
not content, after our Government has
shown him a marked, we fear mistaken
distinction, in releasing him from inpris-
onmen'. and in Transporting him and bis
family 10 our shores. certainly with no
other idea than they were releasing him
from the thraldom Of Turkish fortress,
aud that mere he would find home, in
tho quielude and enjoyment of which his
days might be spent in peace and safety.
Ii Congress or the Executive had sup
posed that in soliciting the Liberation of
Nj. Eossuth and his compatrots from the
! Turkish fortress, and placing a national
ship at their disposal, for their transpur-
,aiion to this country, they were intro
ducirg sci Of new poiiticat.ogita.ors,
a co,erie or men, the soles OF whose
shoes were scarcely soiled with the
decks of our vessel or contaminated
with the earth of our continent before
they began to dictate terms 10 our people,
aud pronounce themselves the mission
aries of a new order Of things in our
Government, they would have paused
before the act was consummaied.
| What we have learned from infancy 10
regard as the sacred and oracuar lessons
OF our lsevo!, lionary sires, their warn.
ings aud prerepts nre. Laughed to scorn
| by the more modern and profound states
man Of Hungary. -.
j There have been times, in our political
experience, when we thought we dis
cerned the higsh cf presumption; bul
we mus, confess that these latter days 90
beyond all their predecessors in such de,
relopemeu:s. We arc lec;ured aud bee,
to-ed for our adhesion to the advice con-
tanned in the farewell address of WASH
lNGTos, the Father Of bis Country, ard
The sage opinions OF all the great com
patriots of his fine, and this too, by one
the nation has just imported, at its own
expense, and who claims 10 know our
interests, governmental purposes, duties
and obligations much better than we
/ understand them ourselves. This is de.
cidedly cool if nothing more. Esop has
a fable of the torpid serpent, and the
United States has the illustration of a
man. invited By her to her wide borders
for home and asylum, becomeing her
Instructor in her policy, her duties and
mission. But general national politics
are moi sufficient. lie descends TO the
minu,is O. the sch!smatic divisions Of
our social and religious relations, AMI
attempts TO rouse war between sects-
or what is probably still more accurate
fan up conilic, between members OF the
same religious order. With proper de.
vice, he dues not assail the Mother, The
Catholic Church, but praises in unbound
ed terms her beauty, goodness, and al
else, and al the same time violently as.
sails one of her children, .',l,e jesuit
Now we have moi word 20 utter il
behalf of the Catholic Church, or the
Society OF Jesui,es.' We are in no form
shape or manner, directly or indirectly
affiliate! with ,iiher. Weare Proles,an, II
our sentiments, and as far as family aul
affiliations go we are entirely The reyerst
of Catholicism. But enough Of thu
personal.
We complain, and we think with jus
ticc, and without disrespect, thai one
invited by distinguished and unusua
courtesy, 10 our couatry, shonld come
here the missionary aud promulgator o.
new clements of discord. Ilere,ofor,
Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gen
lie, lnidel and Jesuit, have gone along
quietly and peacebly together; each Ia
king his owa direction, and each dis
posed TO triumph in his peculiar views b,
the light OF reason aud truth This i.
the glorious clement Of free and iol
: Grant country, where men Of creeds ant
opinions are tolerated and protected.
We will not do the distinguished CUES
, -of our country the justice to suppose bis
remarks are the resu; o. full aud prop
err understanding OF his or our country,
position. Ofall the men we have eve
known, we believe he has the most caus,
: TO exclaim: ''Save me from my friends
FATAL RENcoNTRE.-The Maysyill'
, Watchman says a fgh, took place a
+ S!erburn Mills, Fleming county, on III,
9Th inst, between Mathew Wilson ant
Robert HALEY in which tho latier ws