The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-27
.Mr. kouIe,a Npeeeh.

SouLE's speech was only half over. We have,
however, intercepted the following letter of a
friend, who heard it all
81 listened to-day with great delight, to a
speech from the Hon. PIERRE SoULE, on the
great subject Of the position of the American
people in, and their relations to, the great family
of nations. The Senator poured forth for two
hours and a half, to full Senate and galleries,
crowded with an interested auditory of both
sexes, the results of his Investigations of the
question Of non-nteryention. He speaks the
language with purity, elegance and force that
falls to the lot of few native tongues, while his
French accent adds a marvellous charm to the
eloquence and sffluence Of his diction. He took
a step in advance, in the position he assumed, of
any other man in either House of Congress, in
his views of the obligations of this republic to
itself, to humanity and TO posterity, as connected
with its external relations. He reviewed the
early diplomatic history of the government, and
particularly the recorded opinions of General
WASHINGTON, to show that absolute neutrality
and impassiveness was not the policy inculcated
by the sages Of the republic. And the argu.
ment which KossUTH began, he finished, and in
my Judgment, fully indicated. Mr. SoULg did
not utter sentiment, or state principle which
did not carry my feelings and judgment along
with him. have no idea that this great country,
with its population, greatness and consequence
expanding and swelling with every beat of its
bounding pulse, can or ought to be bound an in
animate corpse to the precedents and policy
which grew out Of the exgencies of her infant
past We belong to the great family of nations
the laws ofnations are code in which we have
as deepa stake as in our internal laws and we
have right and duty to perform in protesting
and commanding against their violation. To stand
still, said MIR. SoULR, is to lie dead If the colo
MES had stood still, when numbering 8 millions
OF souls, he would not to-day be speaking to
Senate representing thirty.one sovereign States,
and twenty-three millions of freemen. If JET
EERsoS had stood STILL Louisiana had not been
ours; if Polk had stood still, our flag would not
now wave on the Pacific coast. The wisdom
OF our fathers was not our wisdom: WAsHIse
TON approved of the first bank of the United
States-who was.for it now! The administra.
ton Of one Of the revolutionary sages advocated
and enacted the alien and sedition laws.-should
we adopt them now? The wrongs of the past were
irremediable,-it was to the future, he said with
impressive earnestness, that statesmen must
look. The despotic governments of the old
world, had not and could not have any sym.
pathy with rs; but their down.trodden
subjects had common cause with us. and
stood with us under the Egis Of the code of
nations, which it was our duty to see was re.
spected, for their sakes az well as our own.
lie turned aside to give whitening glance at
the precepts and practice of the present admin
istration on the subject of Intervention in for.
eign affairs. II interviewed with it's procIama.
tons and its navy, to follow from our shores an
expedition which went to Cuba to aid, as il was
believed, the people Of that Island to throw of
the yoke Of Spanish despotism; but did not in.
tervene to save the lives of the gallant, the
chivalric, but deluded citizens, who, calum.
mated as pirates and plunderers by the chief
Magistrate Of their country, suffered the death
OF pirates at the hands of Spanish power, JUST.
he'd By an American President. II suffered
England TO send q feet into the Gulf OF
Mexico, with the avowal by the British minister
10 the Department Of State, that its object and
orders were to seize upon any expedition, un.
der whatever flag that should be suspected of
an intention to invade that Island an ayowal
that re-arrested, in its broadcast terms, the very
principle for which we went TO war with Eng
land in 1912; and which the American Secre.
tary OF State TO this very hour has not com.
PEELED the British government to retract. Mr.
SouLE declared that the result Of the nepotia.
tons Of DR. WEBSTER with the Spanish minister
al Washington, growing out of the Cuba affair
and ending with the ceremonies of the return
oil The Spanish consul at New Orleans, was III,
most splendid and complete diplomatic triumph
10 the Spanish minister that was recorded il
history. Dos CALDERos DE LA BARcA stooC
Eve feet BIN the Senator as he smoke. and al
eyes were turned towards him, and smile o
mingled modesty and pleasure passed over tn
countenance Of that amiable and estimabl
gentleman. Surrounded by his mustached al
taches, all listening attentiyely to the eloquen
Louisianian, he might well have felt proud o
The compliment TO his firm and successful d
plomacy-a pride in which no friend Of tn
foreign department Of the American government
could have participated. lie gave the govern
ment another coup de force in the matter Q
English interference in the Mosquito territor,
and OF American impassireness, as illustrate
oy Wing administrations The eloquent Senf
tor evidently thinks that our government need
to have infused into its sluggish veins som
OF the vigor and vitality of Young America,
to prevent the Stand still policy from becomin
retrograde movement until we come TO be dc
spised by the crowned heads of the earth, an
no longer the object Of the hopes and prayer