The southern press., 1852-01-14
For the Southern Press.
Intervention.

when a case shall arise.
For the Southern Press.
Intervention.
No. 8.
Unquestionaby the principle of non-interven-
tion, as applied to the interference Of Russia
with the struggles of Hungary, is founded in
justice and equity; nor can it be controverted
without her entire abandonment of the funda.
mental maxims of our own government. But
adopting great general principle, | conceive
imposes no obligation to maintain it against the
whole world, except it should be violated in re-
ation to ourselves Still less does it authorise
or justify us in attempting to impose it on
Others for that would be a violation of our own
principle. If Russia, against which this con.
tempated declaration of Intervention is prnci-
pally, if not altogether, directed, has no right to
intervene between Austria and Hungary, by
what right does the United States interpose to
prevent that Intervention 1t may be said that
one is right, the other WRONG. But "who shall
decide when doctors disagree" and who shall
decide when nations disagree Such contests
are not settled by arguments but the sword.
No nation can assume and act on this doc
trine of non-intervention with any but weaker
States, without entang on itself long strug-
gle for it's maintenance and conceive there is
no obligation on the United States to become
its champion, except when they themselves, or
their immediate neighbors, with whom their in
terests are intimately connected, are directly
assaed The United States would be fully
justified in making such declaration against
the intervention of England in the affairs of
Nicaragua, or the pretensons of England and
France to right of interference between them
and Spain, and, in my opinion, it is the duty of
the government promptly to take that course
If it neglects to do this, how can it consistently
maintain principle against Russia, which does
not in the slightest degree affect itself, or its
neighbors, while, at the same tme negecting
to apply it in cases in which they are directly
and deeply concerned? Willnot such course
distinctly show to the world that the mputation
of subserviency or partialty to England so Of
ten made against the party now administering
the government, is not without foundation?
1t should not be lost sight of, that the Hun
garan exile, in proposing this cooperation of
the United States and England, though he does
not directly assert, assumes as certain, that the
British government is ready to sanction his
proposition We are then solicited to make
common cause with England in her system of
European policy. say European, because she
has one policy in Europe, another in Asia, and
third in America, all based on opposite princi-
pies, adapted to her interests in those different
quarters. In Europe, it seems, she is ready to
become the great champion of intervention
in Asia, she has laid Hndostan at her feet, and,
one by one deposed the native sovereigns, or
rendered them her tributaries, by melting and
mingling in their domestic conflicts, and finally
subjugatng them by the aid of each other /;
while, in America, she is protecting" the native
savages of the Isthmus, by direct Intervention
with the rights and sovereignty of the indepen-
dent State of Nicaragua. If the United States
become associated with England in this declara-
ton against Intervention, they are equally bound
to apply it to Asia and America, as well as Eu-
rope, and, 10 cooperate with England in all
these various systems of contradictory policy.
This wond be asserting great principle with
vengeance--a principle with almost as many
heads and horns as the beast in the Revelation,
and sufficiently flexible to suit the interests of
England in all parts of the globe.
| In what have said, or shall say in future,
beg to be distinctly understood as having not
the remotest intention of impeaching the motives
| of the illustrious exile, in thus attempting to
| draw the United States into the contradictory
and conflex policy of England, and engulf
them in the vortex Of European politics. He is,
in fact, attempting to place the milestone of an
old sinking world, about the neck of young
one which is rapidly rising to glorious matur-
| ity But no man who has watched his past ca
reer, or listened to, or read his appeals to the
people of the United States, repete with all the
force and fervor Of a sincere and matchless elo-
quence, can for moment doubt that his sole
object, that which fills his heart to overllowing,
is the freedom and happiness of his beloved
Hungary. For myself, do not believe for a
single moment, that the policy or interests OF
England have the slightest influence over his
acts or his words, any further than they admin
lister to the attainments of that great and only
object. ! believe truer patriot does moi
breathe, either in the New or in the Old World
and nothing but the higher duty ! owe to my
own country, could induce me to point out to my
countrymen the stubborn fact that he is, without
intendiugit, the organ of British, as well as Hun
garian interests; and that his project of cooper
alton between England and the United States
is one of most dangerous tendency to the lat
ter so far as regards its future consequences
These appear to me little less than certain ant
inevitable, and shall proceed briefly to poin
them out.
The frstconsequsnee Of an interference in the
i great struggle between Russia and England
l from European "A we'll as Asatc ascendency