The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-24

WASHINGTON CITY.
MIR. AouIe,s speech.

u,ents. 10 leave the Senate chamber when Mr.
SouIE's speech was only half over. We have
however, intercepted the following letter of a
friend, who heard it all:
81 listened to-day with great delight, to a
speech from the Hon. PIERRE SoULE, on the
great subject of the position of the American
people in, and their relations to, the great family
of nations The Senator poured forth for two
hours. and halt, to full Senate and galleries
crowded with IN interested auditory of both
sexes, the results of his Investigations of the
question of non-intervention He speaks the
language with purity, elegance and force that
falls TO the lot of few native tongues, while his
French accent adds marvellous charm to the
eloquence and affluence of his diction. He took
astep in advance, in the position he assumed, of
any other man in either House of Congress, in
his views of the obligations of this republic to
itself, to humanity and to posterity, as connected
with its external relations. He reviewed the
early diplomatic history of the government, and
particularly the recorded opinions of General
WASHINGTON, to show that absolute neutrality
andampassiveness was not the policy incucated
by the sages of the republic. And the argu-
ment which KossurH began, he finished, and in
my judgment, fully indicated. Mr.. SOULS did
not utter sentiment, or state principle which
did not carry my feelings and judgment along
with him. have no idea that this great country,
with its population, greatness and consequence,
expanding and swelling with every beat of its
bounding pulse, can or ought to be bound an in
animate corpse to the presidents and policy
which grew out Of the exigencies of her infant
past We belong to the great family of nations
the laws OF nations are code in which we have
as deePa stake as in our internal laws and we
have right and duty to perform in protesting
and commanding against their violation To stand
still, said Mr. SoULE, is to lie dead If the colo
MES had stood still, when numbering millions
OF souls, he would not to-day be speaking to a
Senate representing thirty-one sovereign States,
and twenty-three millions of freemen. If JET
EERsoN had stood still, Louisiana had not been
ours; II Polk had stood still, our flag would not
now wave on the Pacific coast. The wisdom
OF our fathers was not our wisdom; WASHING
TON approved OF the first bank of the United
States-who was for it now The administra-
ton OF one OF the revolutionary sages advocated
and enacted the alien and sedition laws,-should
we adopt them now? The wrongs of the past were
irremediable,-it was to the future, he said with
Impressive earnestness, that statesmen must
look. The despotc governments of the old
world, had not and could not have apy SYM.
pathy with US; but their down.lrodden
subjects had common cause with us, and
stood with us under the Egis of the code OF
nations. which it was our duty to see was re-
spected, for their sakes as well as our own
lie turned aside to give whitening glance Al
The precepts and practice of the present admin
istration on the subject Of Intervention in for
eign affairs. 1t interviewed with its proclama
tlons and its navy, to follow from our shores an
expedition which went to Cuba to aid MS it was
believed, the people Of that Island to throw of
the yoke of Spanish despotism; but did not in.
tervene to save the lives of the gallant the
chivalric, but deluded citizens, who, calum.
mated as pirates and plunderers by the chief
Magistrate Of their country, suffered the death
OF pirates at the hands of Spanish power, JUST.
fled by an American President. It suffered
England to send fleet into the Gulf OF
Mexico, with the avowal by the British minister
TO the Department Of State, that its object and
orders were to seize upon any expedition, un.
der whatever flag, that should be suspected of
an intention to invade that Island an avowa
that re-arrested, in its broadcast terms, the very
principle for which we went to war with Eng
land in 1912; and which the American Secre-
tary of State to this very hour has not com
PEELED the British government to retract. Mr..
SoULE declared that the result of the negotia-
hons of Mr.. WEBSTER with the Spanish minister
at Washington, growing out of the Cuba affair,
ana ending with the ceremonies of the return
OF the Spanish consul at New Orleans. was the
most splendid and complete diplomatic triumph
to the Spanish minister that was recorded in
history. DoN CALDERoN DE La BARcA stood
nve feet from the Senator as he spoke, and all
eyes were turned towards him, and a smile of
mingled modesty and pleasure passed over the
conntenance of that amiable and estimable
gentleman Surrounded by his mustached at.
faches, all listening attentively to the eloquent
Louis'anlan, he might well have felt proud OF
the compliment to his.frm and successful di.
piomacy--a pride in which no friend of the
ioreign department of the American government
could have participated. He gave the govern.
ment another coup de force in the matter o.
English interference in the Mosquito territory
and OF American inpasspeness. as illustrated
oy WING administrations. The eloquent Sena
Tor evidently thinks that our government need
TO have infused into its sluggish veins som
OF the vigor and vitality Of +" Young America
to prevent the stand still policy from bccomiu
reirograde movement until we come to be
APised by the crowned heads of the earth, ar
no longer the object Of the hopes and prayer
Of their oppressed subjects Verify, the countr