Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-08
Non-Intervention- Speech OF senator
JQnes.

Baltimore Clipper, IN compliance with the request
| of its author We would remark however, that
the great temperance orator and statesman needs
no words of praise The people are seldom slow
| to appreciate such a man, and the voice of defa-
| nation is powerless to assail him. With the
illusions Of the writer to Senator's Cass and
Seward we have nothing to do
WAsHrNaToS April 3, 1852.
MEssRs. EpIToRs: The new-fangled doctrine
| OF "non-intervention, so ably advocated by the
great Hungarian, and SO bliudy adopted by GER
| tain great guns of the New York press, seems
| doomed to u brief and sickly existence. Indeed
we may say that that 'ssnaker is already not
only 'scotched," but ''kied" Whether taken in
the broad, frank, and bold acceptation in which
it is put by the noble Magyar, or in the miti-
gated sense conveyed by the resolutions of the
honorable Senator from Michigan, intervention. il
is now plain, finds no favor with the people Of
| these United States.
| One of the most powerful and effective blows
| by which this monster has fallen was admins
| tereu in the Senate week or two since by the
| ablc'and eloquent Senator from Tennessee, Ex-
Governor Jones. His speech on that occasion is
| acknowledged, by all who had the good fortune to
| hear it, to have been one of the best to which
those old walls have resounded this many q
day. As "maiden speech it electrified even
the elder members of that dignifed body, and
carried with it full share of tn It magnetic power
which cannot be transferred to paper, and of which
no printed report can give an ade, uate idea At
any rate it has at once won for the young and
gifted Senator from Tennessee an enyiable posi-
ton in the highest council of the nation, and
given him J" leverage" which may be turned to
the great advantage of his constituents and of the
country Mt large.
The report of that speech has already gone to
the four quarters Of the republic, and, though
containing many typographical blunders which
10 no credit to the printer, it has everywhere
elected the warmest paudits, well for the
| many bursts Of genuine eloquence as for its
soundness of its principles. What appears par
ticularly to excite the admiration of the country
| are the specimens of gladiatoral skill displayed
by Governor Jones in his encounters with Messrs.
Cass and Seward. There is, indeed, something
striking, if not sublime, in witnessing with what
apparent ease this young and inexperienced Sen
ator meets and overcomes such veterans as the
practised and ponderous athlete of Michigan,
and the 1.-the and supple short-swordsman of New
York. They went down before him if stricken
by glance from their orn manifest destiny"
Cass indeed, was the only one who made any
fight at all and he, like General Taylor did not
seem to know when he was whipped, until the
closing rejoinler, when the Tennessean's trench
ant blade again passed through and through him,
and left "the great Mchigander'' prone on the
ground
e. his back TO the field, aud his feet to the foe!n
The gifts of some men are wonderful to behold.
One of the secrets of Gov Jones's power and in
| variable success in debate, perhaps lies in the
wondrously concentrated singlemnded momen-
| tam with which he hurls himself on his adversary
Whether on the stump or in the Senate Chamber,
this momentum the lightning-like rapidity with
| which he attacks in front, flank and rear; the
brilliant flashes of eloqucnce constantly breaking
out and binding the enemy while the stunning
| blows fall from his sfalwart arm like rain-whether
| before the people or in the grand arena of SEN
atorial strife, this strange gift of momentum
power-force-call it what you willis equally
resistless, and has never failed to win him the
victory against all odds and from the very DEGREES
Of Fate herself.
The great and leading characteristic Of Gov
Joness career hitherto has been his readiness
and ability on the instant to grapple with, aud
rise superior to, any emergency that ght occur.
He seems to have within him native, untaught,
unacquired power, which, whenever occasion Of
fers, forces him up to a level with--nay, always
above-the oldest heads, the brightest intelects,
the strongest arms, with which he may be brought
into antagonsm. Scarcely yet in his fortieth
year, he has won twice rs many victories on the
stump and in the forum as any other man of his
| age in the Union. OF tall, 1.-THE, "lean" form.
weighing but little above q hundred pounds, but
| glowing with health, and as we'll knit m In
| dian runner, his frame is equal to the severcst
and most protracted labor, and is animated with
vital energy enough for three such men. Pos
sessng in early youth comparatively limited ad-
vantages of education, since his attainment to
manhood he has been busy storing his mind
\ from all the garncrs of knowledge, and now, with
! his unresting zeal, trcess industry, and indom-
table resolution scarcely feels the want of those
alventitious aids to mental culture difficult to
be obtained in Tennessee twenty-five years ago,
and which, indeed, are amply compensated for
by n combination Of natural gifts amounting in
him to genius. Add to all these a noble mien
and lofty dignity Of carriage, gay and winning
address, bland and manly courtesy--as bland
and free among the farmers Of the hills and val
leys Of Tennessee as in the saloons of the great
rs frank and hearty among the poor as among the
rich, with the young rs with the old-and you
have the portrait Of one Of the most remarkable
men Of the age, the conqucror of Polk, the Clin-
ton Of the South.
Such is the man who from his place the other
lay in the Senate, in speech Of singular elo-
qucncc and power, and which commend to the
perusal of all my countrymen, sent the last mur-
derous broadside into . the long, low, ralish-
looking" craft ycleped "Non- Intervention" Such
is the man who triumpaed over Seward and
Cass And such the man who, sooner or later,
lit may be sooner than we Think will be called
on to assume the helm and guide the destinies of
this republic, SEMEN.
FoRGrRIEs n New MExrco 1t has heretofore
been stated that Nr. IIarcourt, for a long while
employed "a a clerk of the Quartermaster in the
army in New Mexico, has lined his purse finely
and made his escape. Harcourt, 1t is alleged
had 50 kept the books, by erasures and false en-
tries. as to pocket $4,000 in October. Captain
Easton, on making the discovery to Gen. Jesup,
started to Santa Fe after Harcourt He there
learned that he had forged his name and that Of
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