Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-03

rope the people invite the Government TO take appropriate
for the protection Of the trade OF our people IN
the Mediterranean; and,
80 Third That the people Of the United States should
declare heir opinion in respect to the question OF the in
dependence of Hungary and urge the Government to act
accordingly
Resoed That the people Of Hungary are and of right
ought Il remain, free and Independent nation; that
Louis KDssuth is their lawful Governors and that the
Hungarian people should not be prevented from exercising
the rights OF reemen BY the tyranny OF Austria and the
Intervention of Russia.
Resope That we extend to Louis Kossuth Governor OF
Hungary and the Hungarian nation that has made such
noble stand in the cause Of freedom, that sympathy AID,
and support which freemen alone know how to grant
These resolutions were read by Judge LEGRAND,
but in such low tone of voice that very few per-
sons coud hear any portion of them or gather their
meaning Subsequently the Judge stated briefly
the purprt of the resolutions, when (says the Anne
rcan) the question being taken, they were received
with shut Of approval.
We hare here again scene in entire keeping
with the deception which has been practised upon
M. KossUrH from the moment of his stepping on the
pier at Staten Island by persons who have mistaken,
doubtless, in some cases. their own excitement of the
moment for the sober conviction of their Senses but
large majority of whom have made no such mistake
but have passively surrendered themselves to the
direction of Others or have been content to with
the current rather than take the trouble to resist it.
Who can believe that the People Of Baltimore, for
instance, are prepared to "endorse and approve"
the propositions in these Harrisburg Resolutions,
without knowing aehat they were-for the reading
of them was heard but by every few persons -
or that the approval of them can with any certain
ty, or even probability, be presumed from "the
shout" which went forth upon the occasion? We
do not doubt, indeed, from what we have heard Of
the character and intelligence of Judge LEGRAND,
that he himself, who moved these propositions,
would be among the last to give serious assent
to them.
1t is quite possible, however, from the incidents
Of the scene at the Rooms of the Institute, and
especially from M. KossUTH's having requested
these propositions to be moved, that he considers
these resolutions of town meeting of the borough
Of Harrisburg containing resident white popula-
ton, all told of less than seven thousand sous-as
expressing the sober sense of some considerable por
ton of the People of our country, and that he has
been encouraged by them to reiterate at Baltimore
the claims upon the Government of the United
States which he had broadly presented at the late
Bar Dinner in New York.
From the tenor of the Harrisburg Resolutions,
and of Speeches delivered on several late occasions
by citizens of the United States it cannot now be
doubted that there persons and among them those
who ought to'be learned in history, in the laws of
Nations, and the Legislation and policy of their own
Government who have become so unmindful of
their duties as good citizens as to profess to be
ready, at all hazards, to plunge this Government
into the vortex of European politics, with the pros
pect of the almost certain wreck of every principle
on which its existence depends. Against combina-
tons reckless regardless of the public welfare,
contemptuous of the wisdom of our ancestors and
the highest interests of the present generation and
of posterity in all time to come we here enter for SO
much as it is worth, our solemn protest
Desiring to have nothing further to say on this
subject during the stay of NJ KossuTH in this city,
we embrace this opportunity of placing before our
readers certain views from the highest judicial
authority as to the duty of good citizens in all
cases of appeals to their personal feeling preju-
dice, prepossesson, in regard to revolutions or
connections in any other country than their own.
These views are extracted from Charge delivered
to the United States Grand Jury for the District of
Ohio; in the year 1888, by Mr. Justice MCLEAN, in
reference to the then recent enterprise by citizens of
the United States against the British possessions in
Canada.
off there be any one line Of policy in which all
political parties agree, it is, that we should keep
{ aloof from the apitations of other Govarpnants
That we shall not intermingle our national con-
Germs with theirs. And much more, that our citi-
zens shall abstain from acts which lead the sub
jects Of other Governments to violence and blood
she'd"
"Tfese violators Of the Law show themselves to
be enemies of their country, by tramplng under
foot is laws, compromising its honor, and involving
it in The most serious embarrassment with foreign
reflect, that such men, under such circumstances
may hazard the peace of the country.
off they we're to come out in array against their
own Government, the consequence to it would be
far less serious In such an effort they could not
involve it in much bloodshed or in heavy expen.
diture; nor would its commerce and general bust
ness be materially injured But war with pow
erful nation, with whom we have the most extern
sve relations, commercial and social, would bring
down upon our country the heaviest calamity. 1t
would dry up the sources of its prosperity, and
deluge it in blood.
" The great principles Of orr republican institu-
tions cannot be propdgdted Iy Die sword This
can be done by moral force, and not physical
off we desire the political regeneration of OPP
pressed nations, we must Stow them he simplicity,
The grandeur, and The freedom, Of orr o,ca Gorern-
aleaf We must recommend n In the intellioan