The republic., 1852-01-10
PRESENTATION OF REsoLUTIONs

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On Friday, shortly after IL O'Clock. Chancello
Walworth and the committee, with a large con
course of ladies and gentlemen, assembled u
Browns Hotel, and the resolutions were presented
to Governor Kossuth with the following address b,
the Chancellor as chairman of the committee:
CHANCELLOR WALWORTHS ADDRESS.
GovERNoR KossUTH: Myself and others, who ar
now present, were deputed by meeting of cii
zens from different parts of the United States, tenn
porarily at the seat Of Government, present yot
certain resolutions hold in my hand, which reso
lutions were adopted unanimously at that meeting
Resolutions adopted at meeting Of citizens from
different parts of the United States, temporarily
at w ashington, on the 7th Of January, 1852; O
which meeting Edwin M Stanton, esq, Of the
city OF Pittsburg, was chairman.
/. Res0iued, That the people OF the United States
feel deep socitude in behalf of every people strug
| Cling for the establishment of free government
and have an abiding interest in the maintenance
and enforcement OF those great principles which
constitute the law of nations.
2. ResolUed, That it is necessary principle o
the law of nations that every State and people have
the right to regulate their internal affairs in &C
cordance with their own judgment Of their owr
| interests and happiness.
3. Resolved. That the intervention OF Russia
which struck down Hungarian nationality anc
freedom, was fragrant violation of this grea
principle, essential to the independence and SOW
ereignty of all nations
!. ResOlufd, That the present combination O.
European dospots to crush the liberties of the world
| by armed Intervention should arouse and unite the
people everywhere to maintain national indepen
dence.
B. Resolred, That, American citizens, we
welcome Governor Kossuth as a patriot and states
men, and eloquent vindicator of national ri ghts
and we recognise him "a living protestatiou
against the violence by foreign interference, op-
pressing the sovereign right Of nations to regulate
their own domestic concerns
The first resolution. you perceive. sir. pro.
W hDl of he I1ptcd n
states; and have doubt ii fairly expresses the
sentiments Of every citizen OF the United States,
whether native or adopted, who is at heart Amc-
rlcan. In relation to the other four resolutions,
they only profess to speak for those by whom they
were adopted, and those who have accepted the ap
pointment Of a committee to present them But
we believe the four last resolutions will also receive
the cordial assent Of much the largest portion oi
the American people.
Your own exertions and the suiferings Of your
cell and her who is most near and dear to you for
the cause Of Hungarian freedom nd national inde-
pcndence have been very great, and they justly
enttle you to the respect and sympathy of the
friends of freedom everywhere. But do not ad
drers you merely as an individual for coun-
uy-the asylum OF the oppressed of all nations
s filled with those who have also manfully and
cloquenuy contended for the establishment of free
governments in the countries of their births. and
who like yourself have been driven from their ma
tive homes by the iron hand Of arbitrary power
VIC welcome you to America the proper repre-
sentative of the great principle of civil and reli-
gious freedom and independent nationality upon
the continent OF Europe, which vas stricken down
in the Of Hungary by the armed intervention
of a foreign government.
In passing through the different sections OF this
Republic which you may have leisure to vsit during
your stay among us, you will find that the great
principles for which you and the Hungarian alton
so nobly contended in the land Of your nativity
are loved and cherished in every State of our
tended confcderacy, from the Atlantic to the Lake
of the W6ods-from the Madnwasca to the shores
of the Pacific.
And if you have not been welcomed by the mu-
nicipal authorities of this District with the same
cordlality which has been and will be hereafter
manifested elsewhere, presume you will attribute
II TO the social influence which the residence of the
diplomatic agents Of SO many arbitrary govern.
ments may naturally be supposed to have over a
part merely Of the permanent and limited popula
tion of the District Of Columbia
The doctrine OF fnon-intcrvention, which you are
80 cloquently and so efficiently advocating before
the people of the United States and of the vio-
lation Of which principle by the Autocrat of the
north Of Europe for the destruction of Hungarian
freedom, independence and nationality you 40
justly complain, IL no, only founded upon the i'm.
inutuble principles of right, but also upon pre-
ccpts OF the gospelhosc principles of re gion and
Christianity which that combination of dcspots
misnamed "the Holy Alliance, !" once professed TO
aeknowledge ss the only proper foundation of all
vontion Is based upon that high and holy precept
of the gospel which commands us TO do unto Others
ms we would that others should do unto us in like
WHICH preCcpt has very properly
been applied to the conduct Of nations as well as Of
individuals in these beautiful lines of the poet OF
Nature:
"liigh on yon scroll, engraved Natures shrine,
Live in bright characters the words Divine:
In all LIES changing scenes to others do
What you would wlsh by others done to you.
Winds wide DER earth the sacred law convey
Ye nations hear 1t and yo kings obey"
The non-intervcntion principle Of natural law
which is that every State or nation has the abso-
turca nd he rtn ,,r.lca a,fe
reignty to regulate its own international concerns
aud government in its own way, without the in j.
terventon or Interference Of any other State
ton, is one which commends itself TO every Amer
ican patriot and statesman; for il has not only been
asserted by our Government in reference to Euro
pcan interference with the internal affairs Of our
south American neighbors, but acted upon in our
intercourse with all nations. IL is nlso the funda-
mental principle OF the Federal Constitution which
makes the United States, with its confederation of
free and independent sovcreigntics the freest as
well the suongest and the beet Government, /,
which the world knew. And If republican
France had organized her government upon the
same principle, instead Of subjccting il TO the alb
solute control OF Parisian mob, the control of a
standing army concentrated at the capital, che
would not now be subject to tho will of a despot,
acting in concert with the destroyer of your coun
try.
With US each State in extended confederacy
except go far as she has voluntarily restricted her
right OF sovereignty, or confded n portion of
II to the General Government for the better pfotcc
ton OF her rights and interests has perfect right
TO regulate her internal affairs and institutions AZ
she may think will best promote the interest and
secure the happiness of her people. And other
state or government, foreign or domestic, has an y
right to interfere, either by force fraud TO de
prive her OF any OF her reserved rights of self gov
crnmcnt, to affect or alter her domestic policy or
to impair any other rights guaranteed To her by
the federal compact. The doctrine OF non inter
ventlon, therefore, is the great JcfIcrsonian doc
trine OF State rights, ss held by the author Of our
Declaration OF Independence.
And here permit me to say, sir, that, during your
soJourn in the United States, have noticed with
great pleasure that you have slwnys respected this
principle OF non Intervention in reference to the
varied internal institutions Of the different States of
this Conicderacy, and that you have given no en-.
cOuragemcnt TO thoso Who sometimes have sought
TO divert your attention from the important mis-
sion IN which you are engaged, in order TO obtain
from You an expression OF opinion upon questions
relating TO the internal policy Of somo OF our con
federated soyeregnties especially upon those
qseations which have sometimes threatened TO dis
turb the peace and welfare of the Union, by array