Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-02
ISSUES BEFORE THE PEoPLE-No. III
INTERVENTION.

First in immediate consequence, Of these issues,
is the attempt on the part Of certain Democratic
leaders, backed by host of younger aspirants-
many of them tired of the dull pursuits of civil
life," and ready to abandon them for any exciting
from the great American Republican policy of Peace
and Amity with all the Foreign World, into a
policy of INTERVENTION in the affairs of the Ma
tons of Europe generally, and in their relations
with one another. Against this novel and dangerous
doctrine, the Wing National Convention, with a
probity and good faith which do the highest honor
to its character, unanimously protested follows
That, while struggling freedom every where
enlists the warmest sympathy Of the Wing party,
we still adhere to the doctrines of the Father OF
his Country, as announced in his Farewell Ad-
Dress of keeping ourselves free from all entangling
alliances with foreign countries, and Of never quit
ting our o'cn to stand on foreign ground, That
our mission as Republic is not to propagate our
government by artifce or force, but to teach By
example, and show By success moderation, and
justice the blessings Of sesfgoue,mmen and the
advantages Of free institutions"
Directly the reverse of this policy, though not
vention they justly fearing public opinion too much
to hazard their party interests upon that plank-is
the doctrine of the Democratic party. The doc
trine of Intervention, though carefully excluded
from the "platform" of the Democracy, is proclaim
ed, with others equally obnoxious, by the travelling
orators of the party, it had before been by the
same individuals in the Legislative Halls
- IL AZ l,,@,r
reference in the affairs of European nations is, as
every reader knows, of foreign origin. The seed of
the pest was brought to this country by one who
was redeemed from captivity by humane impulse
of this Government, and, being scattered about the
country, has produced crop of the most baneful
weeds that ever sprung up in a fruitful soil We
should not designate the individual here alluded
to-whose name, so far as it is connected with his
crusade against the pacific policy of the United
States and the institutions which are adapted to it,
is even now hardly remembered but as it serves
g to point moral or adorn tale were it not ne
cessary to show the foreign origin as well the
anti-Republican features of this doctrine.
1t was in Speech made by M. KossUTH, in the
city of Albany, few weeks before the assembling
of the Democratic National Convention that he
expressed himself in the following terms:
am informed about what the great political parties
consider for the issue of The next Administration in regard
to interior affairs but Unjust sayand take tor prophecy
you please, but for knowledge of factsI must say
that the great of the next Administration is not
be found in those comparatively small internal questions,
5aa the question Of foreign policy Such the circum
Of the world that the question of foreign policy u
undoubtedly ougegh in Importance and in RESULTS, all
domestic questions There the real difficulty of the next
Administrations It viii have 10 meet uncommon circum-
stances requiring the energy and resolution Of
actipy which it will in vain strive to fnd-in vain it will
strive to rise the level of circumstances the question
Of foreign policy does NOT positively enter into the PLATFORM
upon which the contendng parties settle the character of
their intended administration"
Notwithstanding this earnest direct appeal to the
Democratic sympathizers, and perhaps in conse-
quence of it, the Convention did not, as we have
said venture to introduce the exotic doctrines of NJ
KossUTH into 'sthe platform" of its party. The
leaders of that party are, however propagating that
and other yet more odious doctrines, with con-
formity and perseverance that leave no doubt of
a common purpose on their part to involve this
country in schemes, which, in the name and under
color of favoring liberty, would not only make our
country the reproach and the adherence of the
civilized world, but would react most ruinousy
upon ourselves
Let no man deceive himself into the belief that
there is no danger in all this; that the schemes Of
these agitators too visionary to be feared and
the partners in them too few and feeble to excite
any apprehension. Such belief would be but the
weakness Of virtue, confdng too much in the same
quality in others There is danger. Desperate
fortunes make men dangerous. Disappointed am
bition in individuals under the cloak of devotion to
liberty, and the leniency and ineicency Of laws
in regard to offences against national law, tempt
of ardent spirits to combine, under pretence
other, for the perpetration of fragrant moral as
well political wrongs. And to prepare the minds
of the People to look with composure, and even APP
probation, on such wrongs for example, as Inter-
vention by this Government in the political jea-
lousies and conflicts Of European Powers; as a ca
of conquest and plumber of neighborng nations
and territories; federation of Flibustierism in
general is the direct tendency of the most applaud
| Y Such reaction" plainly limited at, as q cher
ished object with the Magyar's proselyes, in article
| in the New York Evening Post Of the 18th July an
nouncing the departure Of M KossuTH for Europe We
| quote its language, follows:
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