The southern press., 1852-01-10
lastssa bAme1eati4 lsss>latleu.

following, IN addition, Of the proceedings at the
banquet of The 9th OF January:
FP. Blair, esq, then delivered the following
address:
GEsrLEMEs The Association proposes an
expression Of its feelings and opinions in a toast
which requires n few predatory remarks, to pre-
vent tho conclusion that il contemplates change
in the policy OF our government-an interfer
ence in the concerns OF foreign States, the ait
tude Of which does not involve interests OF on,
own to warrant it,
The right we vindicated as a nation in estab
fishing the government we enjoy brought with i
! the right to interfere with the course Ofany gov
ernment that endangered it. We called to our
aid foreign power to sustain the independence
we asserted; and the judgment OF all--ipclud
ing that Of the government which opposed it
now justiiies the act Are not the principles
admitted in our own applicable to another
precisely similar The King Of France inter
posed in behalf of our country, because he saw
in the colossal power of England, growing to
omnipotence, through its imitab!e increase on
this side of the Atlantic, danger to the independ
ence OF his nation and this justified his inter-
vention in the eyes Of all mankind. Ii the peo-
pie OF this country see in the march OF military
despotism on tho old continent danger to the
liberties of the newt they see in the oyer
throw of the independence Of Poland lin the dis
memberment of that republic, and its dfstrbu-
ton among the despotisms of the NOrth--ifth they
see in the bloody sacrifice of Hungary, in the
utter subversion Of its tme-honored independ-
ence and the bitter oppression of it's people un-
der the lash, the hangman's halter and military
executions en- masse--if they see in Austria and
Prussia the pledges Of the reigning houses to
pNar fo hair
power violated, and their adhesion given to the
Cars principle of extirpation of all govern
ment save that dependent on the sovereign's
will, enforced by the bayonet--if they see
the proposed German confederacy of States
vanish, and every petty prince become a
despot under greater de- pot--if they see
France, that but yesterday had representative
government founded on a written constitution,
put in an instant under the foot of Il standing
army, hired by largesses to immediate Il hecatomb
of the friends Of tho republic, and to force the
survivors to vote Dictatorship with the sword
at their throats, and the cannon still sounding in
their the knell of the constitution and its
defenders--if they see this war of exterminn-
ton triumphing over the principles on which
they repose for safety, and arraying the whole
power of continent in deadly enmty to their
institutons--may they not be permitted to look
abroad and gather some strength for their de-
tence-may they not make an effort to inLerpose
the masses of the people, who are the immedi-
alto objects Of attack, and by sustaining them,
ward off the danger threatened by the coalition
of despots--may they not be allowed to resus
citate Hungary, and make her the barrier against
the encroachments of Russian ambition, as she
was once the bulwark of Chrstendom against
Malomet3s religion and the rule of the Janissa-.
ries! May they not discharge, in some small
degree their obligations to France, by giving
their countenance at least to the revolt of her
people against the substitution of the sword for
their constitution! And if the French people
should fail in maintaining the free principles
which they carried from our shorss to their own
may not ours be allowed to unite with kindred
nation, from which they Inherited their kindred
institution (now threatened alike with COM
mon danger,) for the purpose of arres ing the
progress of domination which would desolate
the earth!
If the conflict shall be renewed in Europe
between the free and the despo!ic principle,
England, beyond doubt, must have share in it,
She is too rich, too tempting, to lie almostin the
bosoms Of the victorious usurpers of the CONT
nent, and escape undes spoied, it she should be
nentral and wait until every other people have
suffered spoliation. And what have we to ex-
pect from neutrality while Russia wages her war
for universal dominion, and England, and such
allies she may attach to her cause, make re-
sistance! We may anticipate the treatment
which we received from the belIigerents when
Napoleon pressed on to empire over all the nl
tions, as Russia does now. Then our commerce.
and the pursuits which bring civilized nations in
contact, exposed our unarmad shps and citizens
to insult and robbery our sailor to impressment,
and our government to contempt. To secure
our country from the outrages inflicted by both
belligerents, it was compelled to declare war
against that one whose insults and injuries We're
the least toerabe. Can we hope now, when
the war is intended to eX erminate TIE principle
of which our government is the great exemplar,
that our people " i'll be allowed the immunity Of
free trade and Intercourse with the beligerents,
to grow rich and strong amid their calamisies,
under the pretext of non intervention in con-
troversy which originates in the indictments and
longings of the revolving nations growing out
of the blessings they see conferred by our repnb.
lie.
fla general war grows out of the attempt to
establish absou'ism, we shall in vain try to eva lie
our responsibility by pacific professions. The
impending danger can only be averted from us
by the ability of the people of Europe, now kept
down by military mercenaries, to rise, like the
French against the Bourbons, and assert their
own rights. To encourage such efforts is the
duty of every free people, and Of all that would
be free.
The Sultan, although sovereign, did not
withhold his encouragement from Hungary in
asserting her ancient rights and independence.
He gave safe retreat aud deiverance TO the
chiefs relied on for renewal of her struggles
under happier auspices. He detied the Autocrat
and his ally, who demanded their surrender, and
rsked the war denounced as the consequence of
refusal He maintained his own good faith and
vindicaied the law Of nations. An shall we
shrink from this duty! Shall our ,vernme
hesitate to denounce as violation OF the law Of
nations the Intervention Of the Gar to crush
the free nations of the earth! Shall it hesitate
to declare it justfcation-as counter-nter-
vention on the part of every independent gov
eminent, and especially of that whose principles
are struck down by the aggressor!
Onr countrymcn will not assent to the one.
sided doctrine. They will intervene to lift up
those stricken down by Intervention.
sThe exes from Europe Liberty and Louis
KosSuth ~
The band struck up the well-known Mar
70 a