The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-02-04
GOV. K0SSUTH'S
aECEPTION IN PITTSBURGH
. Address of Col. Black.

- ossi9 AQuE6SS OF COl. 0ldcKs ..L
.LiGoVERNoR OF HUEGARY--Sir: 1t is my
duty, on behalf Of the citizens of Pittsburgh
and Allegheny, and other places in this eoun-
ty, to offer you warm welcome to our fire.
sides. The duty isa pleasant one, and l
perform it with gladness and gratitude. g9
The people for whom / speak, are frugal
and industrious people, not given to pagsan-
try nor display; nevertheless, they count the
time as not lost which is taken from the
common labor Of the day, and given to the
labor of love in freedoms cause. -a u=.a
For yourself personally, and the sacred
ministry in which you are employed-for
your country, and every step of her career,
her glory and her gloom, her past rsnown
and present sorrow--for everything which
can make her heart sink or swell, the sym
pathies Of those around you are earnest, anx-
ious and sleepless. aUnceasing anxiety and
expectation have strained the strings, of ma
nv hearts, and, if we would, We could not
he Indifferent to your cause, Resistance of
oppression, devotion to independence and
self government, have made and preserved
eas q nation. These are vital parts of our
system, and a,portion Of the food with which
We bculloh tilSLIl, 10 SClGSsJ
and active love for those who struggle with
the spiritthatdwells in us. That is bad
Intervention which comes between US and
our affections.
The people whom it is my good fortune
now to represent, are lovers of law, and re-
,cognize, its obligation with no reluctant 10y
atty And because they do love the law,
national as well as municipal, they are .oppo-
sed to unlawful ulinterference with the rights of
men and nations. If there is any law which
Ihas the sanction of sound principle and es-
gtablishsd antiquity, it is that much neglected
and unconsidered law of nations. Many
seem to regard it as a lately conceived in
stitute, unreal in, substan and barren of
obligation; not remembering that there is a
natural law Of nations, unregistered in mem
3 ory, and which never dies. When Antigone
answered Kreon, she expressed its ancient
elements and sang the praises of their per-
petuity-"These are not Of now, nor yester-
day, but live for aye, and no one, knows
their hour epiphany .....---s
1t is one Of the fist aIticles Of that law,
that different nations should do each other
asmuch good in peace and as little harm in
war as possible, looking. properly to their
own interests. If this be true, what right
sosld Russia have TO begin witkout provoca-
tion the slaughter of a nation with whom she
was at peace? @' =
f'a3'A And if she has thus broken the most pre-
'teious precepts of its code, making desolate
s,Qne of the family of nations, and there is no
common civil tribunal to which the injured
can resort, where shall the tyrant be tried?
The American nation is now sitting in iudg-
ment on the case, and these thousands a.
round you are part ofthe jury.
'iS And, sr, your country, banshed from her
self, sone, wandering, but not lost may
rely upon just and friendly verdict, for the
Women Of America are empannellcd with the
men upon the jury.
Our Government as a partly interested,
and also possessing judicial functions, has a.
right TO snnlnon any other government to
show cause why the Law of Nations is bro
ken, as | have right to summon my neigh
Dor to show cause why he breaks the Mum
pal aiFLaysswhieh binds rs both, and protects
JUS both. ,..ss
Your opponents try to drive us into prema-
ture extfemties by assuming false positions,
not justified by the ground on which we
stand. We do not say that our country
should run herself rachly into war. But
we do SAY, that the language of Mr.. Web
ster inhis great speech on the Greek Revo-
luton is good Gospel, and we adopt itwith
all our heart as etdown in this interrogative /,
1proposition. ritEToI taEa6i1
I'd sIlocs sitsnot become us then---is it not a
duty imposed on us to give ourweight tothe
side Of liberty and justice--:o let mankind I
know that we are not tired of our own Insti
tutions- and to protest against the asserted
power ofaltering, atpleasure, the law of the
civilized world?'aa .tS3 t4GtF o I
That Law, sin, is the Law Of Nations, and
Russia, with her Austrian appendage, claims
tbs right not only to alter is at pleasure, butt
70 trRmple it under foot before,it is altered
She doea with it as she pleases, laughing to
7scorn all Responsibility, and the civilized
sskorld muststand still, subdued into unrnanly I
Ss!ienes, by her finsolent and arrogant preten-
sions! s
As for others, itisnot our busir ass to speak; /
but Iofusand our children we are solicitious I
~ say, that the side of Liberty is our side, !
and the Institutions Of our country are very
dear to US. And we claim the right for our
country 70 protest against the cruel comb- |
nation BY which your country for while is !
crushed y And when we pr6testagain that, |
we done more than our duty and if Des-
iPetsHa sees ftto be offended, and the Of
Hence Heads to war, the offence taken at Just
complaint is the cause Of the war, and the /
party offendedlis responsible to, God and the
civilized world for the evil. 4 Il,
II is possible, sir, that ere long the old |
wcrid may be 'convulsed to its centre, but it
as mot because this nation, wills It. No, sir. I
ForsentloRs omenS, to which we cannot close
onf eyes are showing every hour that the
DARK oar days Of Despotsm arc coming to an
end. Frost and snow may, for a while,
keep back Che imprisoned flowers Of Spring, j
sbtI lbsripe and decaying fruit of Autumn
VIII faltat ;its.a appointed hour, and no mans
band can hold it back. Despotism is very
ripe and, not many days are needed to bringt
s1tito the fall Lofsitsyeaf. tameeis ebl U eai i
.saqb sirothere is exquisite pleasure in the
hspe Of living to hear the last crowned head
on. earth IBID this world good niehtpa
tSdsbE, the asingularlsp ID presented of
nasion which administered its own govern
rnsnt for . thousand years, stretching o,,t its |
AEniE Across the sea to ask lfor hem Enf one
1slllshAsaabss jast passed stasI tAfeel.cofel
years and ten Of one mans life. 4 aWoadsffull