Southern shield., 1852-03-13
DF We copy from the Hickman (Ku.l


 DF We copy from the Hickman (Ky.) Argus, strong Democratic paper, the fol- lowing well timed and sensible article:-
 THE KossUTH ExcIsEMENT.-JennvL Lind made her grand entree into this country, and our people made asses of themselves. Next Gov. Kossuth comes, and similar excitement is created. We regard this as foible of our people. Against Kossuth we have nothing to say. He is unquestion- ably man of exalted talents, but a great enthusiast. He is a genuine patriot, and loves his country, but the object of his mis- sion here shows that he is wofully misguid- nd Those of our people who entertain the notion that the United States government should take part in the Hungarian struggle for independence, cannot have surveyed the height, length, breadth, and depth of the important question and the principle involv- ed. However devoted we may be to the cause Of human liberty, and desirous for the speed of the alea of freedom at the expense of monarchca governments and tyranncal rule, we have stiN stronger attachment to our own country, and her glorious insti,u- tions-aye, and her interests.
 If we may take part with Hungary, even so far as 10 hold Russia at bay, the same par
 ty of reasoning would tolerate our govern ment in rushing 10 the rescue of every re- bellious province that might strike a blow for separation, and for reformed govern ment. Such policy would very soon crip- pie out commerce and involve the nation in wars interminable, and prove the bane of our free institutions.
 Let us, by our example in the sciences of government, prove to the civilized nations of the earth that civil liberty is calculated to render nation prosperous and her peo- pie happy: and that will have more infiu- ence in the cause of human rights than the constant use of 100000 stands of arms by land, ana potent naval force on the high seas. It is the policy of our government to cultivate friendly relations with all nations, and to live neutral life.
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 Success too often sanctions the worst and the widest schemes of human ambi- ton. That such man as Cromwell should have been enabled, under any circumstan- ces, to seize the reins of mighty empire, is matter of surprise 10 some, of indignation to all. Could we call him up from the dead he is the very last man that could rational ly explain his own success, which, no doubt at the time, excited as much astonishment in himself as in beholderS; but he owed as much to the folly, tmidity, and fanaticism of others, as to his own sagacty, courage, and craftiness. In fact, the times made him, not he the times. If a civil war ragged at this moment, and the sacred names of king and parliament again array ed against each other in the field, such man as Cromwell, at present, would never arrive at any sta ton higher than an adjutant of dragoons. He might preach and pray, and write and fight, and buster and harangue, but not one step higher would he get. If every thing in his character had not been artifi- caI, except his courage, he had been no, body, and if he had not carried his hypoc- risy so far as at times to deceive himself, he had been ruined. When he cleared the house of commons, and exclaimed, "you are an adrlterer, you are an extortioner, you are gIutton, and you are no longer, parliament;" suppose single member had rejoined, and you are hypocrte, and by this illegal act have forfeited your com- mission, and are no longer an officer; sol- diers, at your perls proceed! Such a speech might have turned the whole tide of affairs, and have sent back Oliver to the tower instead of to Whitehall, never again to quit it, except to lay his head upon the block-Locon,