Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-01-17

by the bayonets OF Louis Napoleon. Ihey nave
all the liberty which they can take care OF more
would make them a nuisance to themselves and
the world. believed SO four years ago, and ask
no particular credit for sagacity in the conviction
time has demonstrated its soundness. But, sir,
repeat, all nations who desire and rightly appre-
ciate civil liberty, acquire and preserve it, and are
invincible in that cause.
TMr. Venable was here interrupted by calls OF
" Question Question !" from a particular part of
the House
Mr.. V. continued. Mr.. Chairman, there
persons even in this Hall who either from defective
breeding or obtuseness of perception place them
selves beyond the pale of that courtesy which regu-
laes the intercourse of gentlemen and can assure
those persons who interrupt me by calls Of "Ques-
ton Question:" whilst am in possession OF the
floor that they only awake sensations inmy bosom
which it would be unparlamentary for me to de-
signate in this House
I would return, and remark, that we not left
to our own experience on this sub ject l shall not
90 to the lore of Greek and Roman records. Look
at Switzerland surrounded by despotism, the OBJ
iect of hatred and the of assault she stands
! like her own Alps, and, free as the winds which
sport amongst her glaciers, unmoved and unsub-
dued Her own Mont Blanc is not more fixed than
the neutrality of Switzerland, because she under
stands and appreciates liberty, and is invincble.
am unwilling to sec our Government become a
knight-errant in the great of national liberty
and independence over the whole face of the earth
] For this diffilsve benevoence have not much re-
spect. Like other ghts-errant, in the zeal to
redress wrongs there is no estimate of wrongs per-
petrated. If Hungary is to demand interven-
ton, what shall we say to Poland, to Ireland, and
to the revolutionists of Naples? Where will our
mission end? I think the first and most obvious
remedy for such zeal would be the publication
and diffusion of cheap edition of the adventures
of the Knight of La Mancha, Familiarity known as
Don Quixote. Sir, /, statesman and repre-
sentative of the people, can neither encourage nor
ndorse the doctrines of Louis Kossuth i'll this
try. protest against any interference on the part
of our Government or its flnctionares, such, in
the affairs of Europe any further than they con-
Germ ourselves. l would reserve our remonstran-
ces and our demonstrations for our wrongs and
insults which are not wanting the history of the
present time; and l would refrain from giving the
sanction of a representative of my district, to the
opinion of one who demands Intervention in the
affairs of Europe, and calls upon the people to
make pronunciamentoe in his favor l trust that
my amendment may prevail, that the Speaker may
invite the distinguished Hungarian to a privileged
seat-such courtesy as Father Mathew and Others
have received-and leave him to the impression
which speeches may make upon the public mind
Let all contribute who choose, but protest against
any act which seems to complicate our Government
with the affairs of others who have claim fol
our protection and no right to ask intervention.
am not afraid but l know that the intermeddline
in private life becomes contemplate, and it is equal
ly true of nations. Let Kossuth be invited to a
privileged seat, treated with due respect welcomed
with cordially, and made free to come and free
to 90.