The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-02-04

I"hich eStADHsheS the ngnt OF every u1tiOu-
to dispose ofits own domestic concerns
against that fragrant violation. by foreign
interference, to rob freedom. Independence
and seif-goyernment Of the European Con
tnent, now lies sacrificed bleeding victim
And, suppose / succeed in my mission--e
which indeed consider to be sacred one,s
because it is the cause of all oppressed nsa
tons, and of all who will yet have to feel
the weight of the league of absolutism, rais-s
ed upon the principle of Russian intsrfer.
ence in Hungary. Suppose succeed IN my
sacred misslon:-what will be the immedi-
ate result oft? Russian interference check
ed, Hungary will crush the tottering power
of the Austrian dynasty. That dynasty
crushed, Italy becomes delivered from for-i
eign dominion, and will playfuIly dispose Of
! its little domestic tyrants, alike powerless as
furious by themselves In Austria, the ma.
ton will become free, and instead of being
employed to fetter Hesse Cassel or Schles-i
wig Holstein, will become an important in
gredient of German ependence--German
liberty. And, at the contemplation Of this
GLORIOUS result of anew and successful struga
gle in Hungary, burning shame viii mount
I to the cheek of the French, and the inglofi-a
GUS usurpation of Louis Napoleon will be
shaken off like empty straw. aeH A'8
I Those who are, and those who fear 10 be-
oppressed in Europe, those who are inter
ested in the cause by their active suifefings;
and their well founded fears-those who ex-.
perence in their own condition, the dreadful
progress Of the mischeveus results of Rus
sian interference of Hungary, all understand
full well, the Importance of my cause, and
the weight of my mission. 1t is, therefore,,
that the poor Hungarian exile, once 7GadeFl
the protection of the Star Spangled Ba,ner,.
was hailed with unparalleled sympathy, and
accompanied In his mission by the warm
wishes of nations of different climates Of
different races, from Sweden down to Portu-
gal and Italy Who could hare imagined
that, having this verdict Of Europe with me-
here in ffIa153 Republican America, should
meet the objection that I plead egotistlsany.
but my own country's cause, which, afTeya
all, is but one country, and nothing clsea
To be sure | advance the principle Of
non-interference, because it is itten in the
eternal laws of Nature and of Nature $ God, ii
because without this principle there is no.
independence Of nations on earth, and Mith-I
out independence, no freedom, no self gov-A
ernment. But / advocate this principle not
as an exclusive privilege for my own coun-'
try, but as Law of Nations, as a common
benefit to all humanity. And, il il should
| be my lot to succeed in this my mission, I
would feel entitled to the conviction THAT I
have more effeetually served the cause Of
Freedom on earth, than if were going on
with an army of half million heroes, from
land to land, to proclaim Republican institua
lions with. a
Let interference be checked; let nations
become--as they ought TO be---masters OF
their own fate, and rely upon the magic
power of your glorious example Republi-a
can institutions will spread as the light Of
the sun from the clear sky. Yes gentle
men, though the cause Of my country were
in itself, worthy of your generous sympathy,
still it is not upon tile narrow ground of one
countrys cause, that ask your generous
support. My ground is broad as the world
because it is the ground of eternal principles
ofinternational law, common to all humanity.
MIR. President! A great crisis in hlnlan
affairs, instinctiyely, universally felt to be-
approaching, has placed my humble self 10
the singular position of being able TO claim
for the cause represent, a universally which
is not restricted by the geographical limits
ofterritories, or by the moral limits of ma
tionalides. preach principles indispensA-'
Bile to the Independence of nations, aud the
crusade of these principles preach not a.
gainst Austria, which has no vitality by it-
self, but against the principle of evil, Russia.
can appeal TO my political course since my
departure from Turkey--nay, to my suggcs-
tions in Turkey, which homer and love-
that have always dismissed Austria in VI
few words, as dead body which moves
only by russian galyaiism. Ihave dismiss
sed that Austria we have twice crushed in
the field, and will crush easily third timeg
now her independence in evil is gone. Z
have dismissed her in few words; TO attack
the Russian despotism, that common enemy
of Hungary, and of all mankind, which has
nothing left in Europe but its enemies and
its tools--not even worthy to be classed any
longer its mere. accomplces. a gsaFa
No man, therefore, on the pretext of his
being connected with or member Of differs
ent people--a German, Italian, Pole, Frenehs
mal---nor on the ground of the comprehen-
siee nature of universal sympathiea too largo
to embrace less than q whole continent
no one, on the pretext that he is universal
philanthropist, who feels but interested I'M
the civil and religious liberty, when be can
vindicate it for at least.all Europe, canrefuse
TO grant his sympathies especially to tho
cause OF Hungary; because il is the circnrmr
stancial privilege of that cause 10 epitomiz@
all other, II, in fact. were, for instances
a Pole, German, or Italian, egotistieally
patriotic, and anxious only to serve Polands
Germany or Italy, 4 could not more
readily attain my object than by attaeking
Russia, their only substantial enemy. kea
6s What would the petty princes Of Germany
in 1913, have been without Prussia? And
what was Prussia when her Capital wss u
the hands of the people without The certain
ty of the CzSr's support, Whieh impsftsa
boldness to the King u Prussia, 70 bu:eheF
The people of Berlin, such be couldnot hAxe
dared to do without the reliance Of biz som
in.law, the ambitious Cxarg What would
the petty despots of Italy hare been witbor
Austria? And what WIS Austria Mhea her
armies, driven from the soil of Hungary y
!. series Of pitched battlas, were % demoral-
lied that nothing but The tresshsroqs diso-
bedicnce OF General prevented our aFsafee
from exhnguishing in Vienna and 0lmnsm
The dscrepit absolutism Of the Hapahuras
What prevented me from Afterwards cTnsk-
ing it? The aid Russian desp0tism n
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