Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-09

both parties excludes sAss non both which ether
permits recruits 20 70 each excludes from sssA
and thus to put the two parties upon equality 10 III
things, and leave the spirit Of freedom 10 struggle against
the power Of despotsm. [Long- continued spblsass.
Gentlemen, win not detan you BY making speech "A
these Wing enormihes The catalogue long and should
attempt to go through IT, should occupy much tune
that my honorable friends who follow would
have an opportunity to be heard tonight" lApplause
X These two paragraphs are directed against some
thing which the learned Judge and senator denomi.
mates neutrality To US il is very original and
notable application of the term. The matter In
hand is the arming and dispatching military cxpe-
ditions from borders, TO invade the territory a
nation at peace with us and with all the world
The word neutrality" has known and definite
meaning. 1t may be said to be technical term in
the Law Of Nations Did any body ever dream be-
fore Of applying it to describe the state Of Govern.
ment, in time of profound peace, refusing 10 en-.
courage, actively or passvely, the organization and
expeditng of armed predatory bands Of spectators
in blood and amateurs in revolution TO invade and
make private upon her friends Yet this is not
only neutrality" but is in fact "a SYSTEM or
ALLIANCE Nth European erowned heads against
patriots struggling for liberty in their native land "
Is it denied by Mr/DouGLAs that as well by the
rudiments Of international law by express statute
Of our country, such expeditions criminal and
forbidden? And can the faithful observance of the
requirements of the public and municipal law be de-
nounced a system Of alliance with crowned heads
against patriots struggling for liberty fit be So
then it remains only to choose between such alliance
on the one hand, and utter accommodation from
the society of civilized nations throughout the world
on the other. There is no third course. If we are
within the pale Of the law of nations, we must re-
spect its principles. We cannot claim its privileges
without conforming to its authoritative and explicit
dictates, alike vital to the existence of all nations,
whether ruled by crowned heads or the free hearts
and free voices of the people. The alternative is to
become an Ishmael among States, with our armed
hand against all others, and all others against
More monstrous, if possible than all the rest, is
the perversion of fact and reason which seeks to
throw upon the Administration of this Government
the odium of having actively aided the Royal stand
ard in Cuba with provisions and supplies, while
preventing them from being furnished to the g Pa
triot cause" Did Mr.. DOUGLAS himself ever pro-
pose that should abrogate Treaty of Amty and
Commerce with Spain, and 60 to war with her out
right, upon the faith of the New York and New Or
leans speculation Does he hold that any thing short
of such abrogaton would have justified an nterdic-
ton of the ordinary advantages of our commerce
Spain And is the failure to violate that treaty,
and, while nominally friend and ally to become
actively an enemy, departure from " neutrality"
and an active alliance, aiding the Royal cause
directly and e6ectuqHy as If zoe had entered he
field and fought The battles Of the Queen ?" And
can this honorable Senator really confound with
breach of neutrality either the observance Of a
treaty like this, the refusal to lend active aid by
supplies or otherwise, to what he thinks fit to demo-
inmate the Patriot cause 7" Strange patriot
cause" indeed, which had no root or germ in the
land to which it claimed to belong; which, having
its origin and mastering its armament on foreign
shore, came with band of armed men only to plum
der and to devastate and found no friendly hand so
much as TO give drop of water crust Of bread
The renewal Of scheme like this; the attempt to
dignity it with the, name of patriot cause J" the
effort to embark this country in it, under eircum-
stances such we have adverted to- proof enough,
if it could not be found elsewhere that this is no
true and genuine sympathy with "patrots struggling
for liberty in their native land" but consequence
Of the general thirst for plumber and for conquest
avowed by the ultra-Democratic leaders. If any
mans heart was enlisted in that expedition by any
generous impulse to bleed where patriots bled for
freedoms sake, sad and dreary indeed must have
been his waking from that dream. Whose was
warmed by that generous impulse must have felt
thereafter with the indignant poet
Hereditary bondmen, know ye not,
Who would Be free themselves must strike the blow
If half the oratory which the so-called 2 Demo
cratic " leaders have expended on this theme came
really from the heartif they felt that Cuba really
groaned under frightful bondage-their sympathy
would be turned to bitter contempt, and they would
grudge one drop of American blood expended for
those who hug their chains and join in hunting
down their deliverers Some other motive must
now be assigned for such excursions. What that
motive is, it requires no wizard to divine What
ever it may be, it has pledged for it in advance the
countenance, the protection, and the active aid Of
the most aspiring heads Of the Democratic party.
Not on Cuba only may it turn its eyes. 1t is to
have as large charter as the wind Here again
We instructed by the distinguished Senator from
Illinois In his speech at Tammany Hall he says