Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-20

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the right TO do thing and the policy proprey Of do
ing IL are quite different questions. Any get
ton TO prevent intervention very much like getting into
hight TO prevent fight Intermediates with other peo-
pies business generally off worsted. BE misled
BY appeals TO your sympathy. II is for no want Of
the prooundest sympathy for the misgoveed tribes of the
race OF man in all parts of the world that speak do.
IL was for no want Of sympathy for them that Washington
spoke as he did. wish that all nations had good a
Government as we have. But should peril our
own life in hopeless efforts rescue that of others Let
us not IN fit Of misguided zeal for the liberties of
kind, lose All not suited for constitu-
tona free Government One of the most Of the
popular errors of the day is that any people having the
rtsh 10 be free also have the ability be Free This is
great mistake Constitutional liberty, liberty regula
ted by law-the only liberty that is worth the name-is
not SO easily acquired. If it were, would to-day
be the only people earth in its enjoyment II true
the people OF almost any nation with firm resolution
can overthrow the strongest of depotsms but they
not build up republic in its stead This requires
than physical force 1t requires virtue, intelligence
rality patriotism, and craftsmanship. Brutus and few
associates found difficulty in removing Cesar from an
imperial throne But they did thereby restore lost
freedom to Rome France found but little difficulty in
bringing Louis the XVI to the block but France did not
thereby establish republic. She found less diff
Guilty in driving Charles the Xth from the kingdom he had
badly governed but she did not thereby succeed in
establishing good Government for the people Louis
Philippe, her citizen king, had in like manner in short
time to be carried to her Tarpean Rock 1t now Just
four years since she made her last effort at repubcansm
And what do we now behold? Louis Napoleon Presi-
dent King.
And SO it will be- fear, with all the nations Of Europe
until there be change in the minds habits education
and modes of thinking the part of their people Lib
erty in their estimation is RIGHTEOUSNESS awlessness
They do not understand appreciate its first principles
Men to be capable of maintaining law and order in free
Government must be schooed in the elementary principles
Suppose the autocrat of Russia four years ago had
taken sides with the exied Louis Philippe, and had
te,rened to prevent his Intervention. What would have
been condition to-day After the expenditure of mil
lions money and the loss perhaps of hundreds Of thou
sands Of our bravest in foreign wars should have
found the people of France shouting huzzas the Emperor
in the person of the nephew of his uncle" All such
sades are idle. And if to-day should 60 and surround
s3poor down-trodden Hungary with wall high and
deep that Russian could neither scale il under
mine it. and leave the people Of that Inflated country to
perfect sfan play amongst themselves, should expect
nothing with certainty than that quite short
time France has been trying experiment we should
have her tickle and restless population crying for the
restoration of the House of Hapsburg Why then again
ask in the language Of Washington, g Why quit
10 stand foreign ground2 Why be terreaping de
tiny wih that Of any part Of Europe entangle peace and
prosperity IN he tolls Of Euopean ambition, riuah interest,"
huaor, or capriceY"
Here, perhaps, should stop. But there are some re-
Elections growing out of these topics which,
may be appropriately connected with them is
just hundred and twenty years since Washington was
born. What was the condition of our country then
What is it now And what is it to be one hundred and
twenty years hence if continue follow that line of
policy which has marked past career? Baltimore
then hardly hamlet; her population is over
canvass
commerce whens every the face of the globe,
while her productive industry annual yield
of twenty millions Of dollars! What is of Baltimore
in Improvement and advancement of almost every
other part of country-not in extent but in
relative degree In 1882 the population Of the colonies
which afterwards became the United States less per-
haps, than two millions. The population Of the United
States now is twenty-three millions. Then
broken wilderness extended from border the
distant Pacific The great valley of the Mississippi
reposng under the shade of her prmeva forests which
hv pof
civilization. Now behold her teemng population her cul
tvated plains her villages towns, and cities sprngng up
if by magic and her majestic rivers alive with her
cumulating See the hundreds and thousands
of emgrans annually quitting the despotsms of the old
world and taking shelter and protection in this favor
ed land. To these give hearty welcome. We offer
safe retreat for the exile and peaceful quiet home for
the emigrant but theatre for foreign propagandiss
But these all the subjects suitable for
temptation this occasion What advancement have
made since this Government formed in letters in me-
chanc arts discoveries in inventions, and in science
Consider the number and character Of schools of
learning, academies colleges, and universities col
leges for the education Of women well See
what has done under the power and control of Anne
rcan genius ostered by the influence Of free wise
and benefcent institutions Behold the mysterious work
ings of the telegraph 1t Franklns honor seize
the hghtnngs wing and to talk to thunder friend
to friend" But it has been Morse's glory in own
day. seize the spirit of the lightning ITSELF and to make
| it the swift messenger of thoughts. What has
caused this mighty change? Need tell you is the sp
rit Of institutions? 1t is that Government which
makes not only people, but people with whatever
diversity Of interests pursuits having all like
rity home and abroad That Government which here
tofore has looked only safety welfare peace
quiet prosperity and domestic tranquility, without med
ding with the affairs Of others further than give them the
influence Of noble example. Shall this state of things
continue? Shall in the bright career we have COM
menced !? Have we national immortality before us
Or is the Of glory to go down in darkness to
rise more These questions which will spring in
the anxious mind but TO them answer can be given
They involve the subtle problems of human destiny Pro-
violence has wisely yelled the future from vision All
have dois with the present Let take that
that is done rightly and need not fear for what shall
come after.
But bear with when assure you that have an
abiding living hope that there richer of
national greatness in store for than we have yet
attained You may call it superstition, call it what
you please but believe there is experimenting Pro-
violence that controls the destines of nations well
consider the circumstances under which its settlement
by our ancestors first made, and trace its history
from Plymouth and jamestown to the present day, have
we many evidences TO impress minds with the be-
lief that peculiar and favore people, and that
| we have some high mission yet to perform See the
perls we passed the hand Of deverance when
hope has been sinking in despair How often in the war
Of the revolution in the formation Of the constitution and
its adoption by the States did fortunes to be
trembling in uncertain balance How often since
then have pushed safely through crises Of danger
when the soutes Of parrot hearts beat with apprehen
1 sion that oil might be lost
Some who hear me doubtless recollect how 1t was