Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-02
From the Richmond plspalshl
Genet, Adet, Fauchet, and Kossl

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miles off-when there are many who believe that
it is right and proper for this country 10 oonsti-
tute itself the grand arbiter Of all international
dsputes-and when the lessons Of the past seem
to have fallen into disuse, III may be well TO re-
cur to that period Of our history when the doe
trine of non-intervention was first proclaimed by
Washington.
The French revolution Of 1889 was at first, as
all the world knows, domestic affair, which
concerned nobody but the French nation. The
impolitic and wholly unjustifable interference Of
foreign powers (such as Prussia, England, and
Austria) gave il the European Importance which
it afterwards bore. Maddened by opposition
from abroad, and by treason at home, the French
Convention proclaimed freedom, equality, and
fraternity to all nations; and 1t was under this
last name that they chose to express principle
analogous to, if not identical with, that which
Kossuth is promulgating at this moment. 1t
meant propagandism in its widest sense; and it
was calculated, more than anything else, to alarm
the jealousy of the surrounding governments.
Wishing to include this country in their frater-
nal embrace, the Convention sent citizen Genet as
Ambassador to the government, at the head Of
which was General Washington. The time
chosen was most auspicious. The people Of this
country, still devotedly attached to France, on
account of the services she had rendered them
not ten years before, were intoxicated with joy at
her having become republic. The point at
which Genet landed was also chosen with great
Judgment and with view to make the most of
circumstances.
Philadelphia was, at that time, the seat Of
government. Genet landed at Charleston, deter
mining to traverse the intervening space of nearly
one thousand miles ut his leisure to mingle freely
with the people, and to stir them up to the war
point SO effectually as to render vain every effort
Of the government to preserve neutrality; for,
before his arrival in the United States it had al
ready determined to take and maintain neutral
position. The first thing Genet did at Charleston
was to authorize the fitting out of vessels, and
enlsting of crews to man them, for the purpose of
cruising against the vessels Of nations with whom
the United States were at peace, and to give COM
missions to such vessels and to their officers.
The reception which Genet met with at Charles
ton was enthusiastic in the extreme, and his pro-
gress through the intermediate country to Phila-
delphia resenbled triumphal procession As
he entered the last-named city, the whole popu-
lation turned out to meet him. The entire nation,
for weeks, seemed to be mad with joy and excite
ment and had they acted upon the spur of the
moment, the country would inevitably have been
plunged into the terrific wars Of the French reyo-
luton. But there was at the head of affairs the
coolest and the wisest head that ever presided
over the destiny Of a nation.
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British Minister had, with justice, complained Of
his hostile proceedings at Charleston. But there
was no necessity for any such complaint, for
Washington had already forwarded to all the
Governors Of the different States instructions by
which they were to be governed, and which en-
joined upon them the duty of preventing all the
belligerent powers from arming and equipping
vessels in American ports for hostile purposes,
and from permitting any act which it was i'm
proper for neutral either to do or to permit.
Enraged at the firm stand thus taken by the
Genet determined to take mat
ters, still more decidedly than he had done at
Charleston, into his own hands. He made large
calculations upon the gratitude of the nation, and
its affection for France. He construed the pro-
clamation of neutrality which the President had
made into a breach of national faith; by claim
ing for his nation all that the two contending par
lies were restricted from conceding to others, he
converted negative limitations into affirmative
grants to France; he openly threatened to appeal
from the authorities whom the people had estab-
lished to the people themselves; he made use of
every conceivable method to evade the rules for
neutrality in conjunction with many
friends who espoused his cause, he made use of
every means to excite the animosity of the people
against England, which they were sufficiently in
clined to hate without any stimulant, and against
Washington, who was represented as having
formed q league with her to crush the French
nation.
Strange as it may appear, SO deep-rooted was
the national attachment to France and SO wild
was the general joy at what was believed to be
her political regeneration, that the colossal popu
larity of Washington, founded upon the mighty
services he had rendered his country without pay
and without emolument was shaken to the very
foundation. But fortunately this state of excite
ment did not continue long, and returning reason
enabled the rejecting to see the danger of in
voving the country in q perilous contest for no
other reason than attachment to France. The
threat of Genet, to appeal from the constituted
authorities to the people, filled everybody who
thought at oil with disgust and indignation; for it
was, in effect, nothing more than an insult to the
whole nation. Washington desired the French
government to recall Genet, and it did so but,
the faction by which he had been sent out having
been put down, and its members guillotined, he
declined returning to such lions den as France
was at that day, and spent the remainder of his.
life in the city of New York.
Adet and Fauchet, the successors of Genet
were more moderate, but they pursued the same
object with untiring pertinacity. They strove
by every means in their power to enlist the peo-
pie of America against the confederacy of kings
and, by way of stimulating them, taunted them
for allowing the British to search their vessels
and impress their seamen. This reproach was
founded in truth, and it arose from the want of
q navy on the part of the Americans. All their
efforts, however, failed; for Washington was too
wise and too resolute to be thrown off his guard,
and the nation had not yet forgotten his services
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