Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-09
From the Public Ledger. |
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| Politicians.
| Before Kossuth leaves our country, he will
learn that intrigue and time-serving and self
| seeking can flourish even in democratic repub-
lies. And he must have perceived already, what
istObvious to lookers-on, that each of the various
parties which have exhibited themselves since his
arrival have changed front more than once in
relation to himself He speaks of the perfection
which intrigue has reached in Russia. He must
now be able to say that Americans, if not equal
to Russians in diplomatic skill, fully equal them
in diplomatic disposition-that Yankees have di-
plomatic hearts, if not diplomatic heads.
| On landing at Staten Island, he found every
body at quarantine ready to join him in war
against European despotsm. This was all that
he asked, and doubtless more than he expected.
But on meeting the military within terra Jtfrn.a all
under arms, he was told that discretion was the
better part of valor. This was certainly change.
But with the tact and address which he has al
ways exhibited, he accommodated himself to cir
| cumstances, and spoke less of fighting and more
| of protesting. Soon the parties approached him
black, sohte and grey and the clques, of all part
colors. Each tried to appropriate him exclu-
sively. But the great Magyar was not SO easily
caught and proclaimed his entire neutrality upon
all domestic questions. AT length he got out of
New York, having doubtless fully learned that
the people have warm hearts and open hands,
| though their leaders or would-be leaders have
willy heads He got through our city in safety,
his address and tact not being much taxed in
lodging special committal seekers.
Behold him then at Washington, the great me-
| tropolis Of magnificent distances, magniloquent
| speeches, and magnanimous-pretens He
went there as the invited guest of the nation,
hopefully, but with experience that must have
taught him to wait patiently for the end, for it
had not yet come. So soon as he reaches the
door of the house to which he had been invited
he finds it still closed, and hears dispute in the
family within upon the question of his reception.
To invite company, and then keep them waiting
at the door, while we quarrel about their recep-
| ton, is not very polite. Mr. Foote is on foot
with resolution, and on hand with q speech of
welcome, and unexpectedly encounters opposition
and shower of amendments. He lodges behind
the Secretary of State, and thus tells tales out of
school, He had consulted with the Secretary,
| and the Secretary had prompted him to all this
alacrity. But the Secretary, enlightened by such
an unexpected contrariety of opinions, saw things
in new lights, and therefore, in his reply to the
invitation of the New York press to the dinner
in honor of the great Magyar, was as short as pie
crust. And wisely did he decline that invitation
for as the gentlemen of the press got by the ears
directly under the great Magyar's nose, the Sec
rotary would have been more puzzled about which
side to take than he was by the squabbling in the
Senate. In the midst of all this Senatorial SQUAD
bling, Gov Seward, like your little Mr.. Nicholas
in John Bulls long law suit, whips in with reso
luton so smooth that nobody could hang any
doubts upon it, and carries it almost unanimously;
and Mr.. Foote, COMPOUNDED at the loss of his
thunder, blabs and absquatuates. As each
didate is in doubt about it, the wrong passenger
may be walked up, and great speeches may fall
on the wrong side. So explanations and nom
committals and prudent delay and sagacous wait
ing for the cat to jump are the order of the day.
Did any of our readers ever see peacock, while
spreading his tail, surrounded by ring of be-
holders He faces and shows his feathers to
each in turn, and thus no one can appropriate an
exclusive compliment. Either peacocks study
candidates or candidates study peacocks.
And why all this backing and filling, as the
sailors say? Each party, each clique of each
party, would appropriate the great Magyar as
an eectioneering machine for the next Presi-
dency, besides using him for individual benefit;
and some of them, finding that he cannot be
caught by their opponents, endeayor to get him
into some trap that shall spoil him for such pur
pose. Thus in New York, deputation of
"colored gentlemen" or "niggers," or, as ace
| should say, Africans were sent at him. Who sent
| them? Those who, unable to catch him for them
selves, thought to spoil him for their adyersares
| by raising a cry about his being appropriated by
the Abolitionists But the great Magyar under
stood English well enough to comprehend the
trlck, anu was as snort ana dry 10 ueputauOn
as the Secretary of State was to the New York
press. He who has comprehended and battled
| with Russian diplomacy, is not to be caught with
wooden nutmegs, Northern or Southern, Eastern
| or Western.
In view of all these things, we advise the great
Magyar to rely upon the people, not by appealing
to them against their own government, like Citi-
zen Genet, but by relying on their generous and
manly sympathies for aid to his cause, without
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muskets can be bought, here and in England;
and as they will keep" as the provision dealers
say, they can be slowed away against the time of
| need, which will surely come. In one of these
days British feet-a fleet from liberty glowing,
democratic Engand-wil be in the Adriatic,
| touching at Otranto and Fermo and Ancona and
Venice and Trieste and Fiume, and all along
shore and then will be the time to send said
muskets, with plenty of powder and ball, to their
proper destination.
The European volcano is not extinct and its
fires are too wide and deep to be extinguished by
the NepheW The time to try mems souls is not
far distant and the great Magyar will do wisely
to profit by American and English sympathies
against the time Of need, without being diverted
or discouraged by the exclusively selfish games
of petty politicians. Our government will act
prudently, and our people will act generously
So Eben KoSsuh
| GEN. FooTE, OF MissIssIPPI.-This gentleman
has closed his mission to Washington, and to the
United States Senate and returned to Mississippi
| to become Governor of that State. The business
of the Senate will proceed much faster in his
absence than he permitted it to proceed when
present
He resigned from and after the LIST of January.
This enabled him to visit Washington on his mis-
sion, taking full mileage and pay up to the 1st
instant, though he left before aud it also enabled