Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-27

still until its proud head shall have pierced the clouds
Of heaven, and be bathed in eternal hight From It's
proud summit may the light and the truth Of freedom and
liberty 20 out into the whole world until all It's dark re-
lcesses shall be enlightened by the reyiyfying ys tha
flow from it, and al the world be filled wlfh glory, and
be wrapped in one eternal flame or Liberty ana Freedom
now and forever This is my hope this Is my expecta
ton God grant that may be the destiny Of our happy
and glorious country! have done
Mr.. CASS. There were some remarks wnich ,,e nonor
able Senator from addressed personally to my
self that desire to notice. Ii the Senate will indulge
me- will go now, and say all have TO say In very
short In the first place. the honorable senator from
Tennessee has come here claiming the honors OF martyr
dom and he has invoked the Senator from New York and
myself as his Judges and believe, his executoners
Let me assure the honorable gentleman that he is not in
the slightest danger There IS no martyrdom IN TINS
country for opinions If there had been martyrs
in the early ages Of the world than there are now, we
should have had very few Christians carried to the stake
and very few bloody pecaces Of that nature recorded on
the pages Of history But the martyrdom OF speech IN
the Senate is very small affair.
am not all satisfied with the view which the honor
able Senator took in relation to the votes on the resolu
ton for defrayng Kossuths expenses here he meant
any thing by that allusion he meant to convey to the
American people the idea that those Of us who voted
against that resolution unwilling to defray the ex
penses occasoned by Kossuths visit II he meant any
thing he meant that. The honorable gentleman knew
that not opposed to the payment He knew that
in another shape had declared should have voted
for it, Our votes turned entirely different point
and that was the power OF the Senate 70 make sucn
through the usual and forms OF legislation and
receiving the of the House. He might as
well say that if had claim for hundred thou
sand dollars and should vote against paying IT out OF
the contingent fund should therefore be opposed to the
claim 1t the process by which the money was to be
obtained to which objected believed it to be wrong
did not oppose the payment itself; and said would
for it if tho proposition we're put as It should have
| BEEN in the form of an act of Congress.
The gentleman began by finding fault with my resolu-
because it expresses the deep concern of the Amer
,n nf lam mfr
by Russia in the of Hungary Does the honorable
Senator to maintain that the American people have
the subject? Does he take the Of
the proposition He conunds the consequences of that
concern with the feeling itself He says that different
constructions Of duty and policy will lead to differ
ent results; that will insist upon protest
upon war; and some, perhaps, upon other remedies Al
low to say sir that here the mistake of the honor
able gentleman The principle lay down expresses the
dsapprobation Of the American people at gross VIOLA
ton Of the public laws and the Senator objects to it be-
of its phraseoogy using the term deep concern
repeat sir that to lay down the principle is thing
and that the consequences to flow from it hereafter is
other and quite different thing and it is the latter he
is anticipating Why, sir the resolutions of the honora-
bic Senator from Rhode Island Mr. CLARKE and which
the Senator from Tennessee his determination
support lays down certain great principles Of the law Of
nations Why does not the gentleman object that this
resolution may lead to the consequences the
other-to war; to evils if there any worse?
repeat the gentleman goes out of the principle ITSELF
and looks to the consequences while obectng to the
down great principle but that it leaves the future
the course of action which the future may require.
AS the Senator proceeded took some memoranda of
such parts of his remarks related to myself must
ask the indulgence of the Senate while briefly examine
them
He objects that practical good to result from such
measure as that which propose. He says appeal
to the force Of public opinion and draws picture,
ceedngly well painted Of going to Russia and pre-
sentng this declaration the Emperor Nicholas telling
him to look at it, and take how he acted The Sc
nator asks what good win result from that? Now L
dreamt Of making of the Emperor Nicho
las to this true doctrine But all tyrant ancient and
in modern days, know and sometimes feel the force Of
public opinion What Frustrated Napoleon from his high
position and sent him to die prisoner and exile
little island in the great southern ocean The public
opinion of the world which he had desped and vioated
II is that public opinion to which, in grave like
these, we should appeal And am sorry to hear
American Senator the floor of the American Senate
casting any dersion upon the force Of that great moral
| agent.
former Speech anticipated and this very obec
ton The Senator from Tennessee not its author and
cannot, THEREFORE claim the merit of originality Lord
Palmerston when Intercepted this Hungarian
ton in the House of Commons touched this very point
with great force 1t that this is the only
try in the world where public opinion is decred and de-
spsed There are also men there who do not believe in
its efficiency. The British Secretary Of State
| Of them. In answer to the objections, he said
at urged that there in these public declarations,
for they be thrown back by arbitrary Power which
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them against opinions who have large armies
smand to back them. Which strongest opinions or
armies n Sir he continues-and recommend the noble
sentiment to all who doubt the progress Of the age my
answer is that opinions stronger than armies Opinions,
they founded in truth and justice win in the end pre-
vail against the bayonets Of infantry the fire of artillery
and the charges Of cavalry And he adds THAT armed
with opinion if that opinion is pronounced with truth and
Justice 1.-THE people Of the United States well the
people Of England indeed strong and in the end likely
to make our opinions prevail"
And repeat the regret that such noble sentiments so
noby sustained in England should such fierce
opposition here in this land Of moral and not of physical
force Who thinks Of going to the Emperor Nicholas
the gentleman suggests with this declaraton The pub
lie opinion Of the world thank God, is independent OF
him. He can neither make unmake it. This is an
age of mutations and vicssitudes. Power to-day may
become weakness tomorrow. Monarchical life Of one
hour may be terminated the on the scaffod The
light of and truth may yet penetrate the Botian
darkness Of Russian atmosphere. This public opinion
gaining strength, and is moving UPWARDS and win bear
oil before it. like the Of the ocean dashed into fury
by storm
The Senator has called up an old aIusion Of mine made
some time since in connection with political offences The
sentiment has relation to the subject before us at all
but is apparently brought forward with the sole
object Of placing in unfavorabe position But
1t is in vain the effort viii fail The ground took il
mpregnable Isad that political offences had lost
racter which formerly chased them with theft and robbery
and other such crimes and explained that alluded to e
forts made through the world to throw off the yoke des
potic Government And named the very which the
Senator has just invoked and asked il Washington was
maefactorif all the men, from the earliest the latest
patriotic effort to the blessings Of freedom to the
outcasts OF society The gentleman talks of treason
though all treason he would ruocle al