Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-03
MACHINATIONs OF FOREIGNERS.

themselves Une 'A1nef1CNn i1cdSuC
for Europe These gentry held what they de-
nominate a Revolutionary Congress- at Phila-
delphia about the first of February, and adopted
a constitution and an address to the American
people. The object of this League is declared
bv the constitution, to be the radical liberation
of the European Continent, for which are re-
quired the overthrow of monarchy and the estab-
lishment of the republic; the abolition of stand
ing armies; universal suffrage; and the Union
for these ends of all persons, associations par
ties and nations. The means by which these
great things are to be accomplished are, first,
agitation in Europe, as well as America; see
ondly, the accumulation of revolutionary fund,
and, thirdly, the formation of armed organiza-
tions, DESTROYS of entering personally into the
struggle, and preparing for it by military exer-
cises.
The constitution provides for the formation of
auxiliary corps in every city and county of the
Union where materials can be found. Every as
sociaton is at liberty to collect contributions and
appoint ..emissaries'' to forward the objects of
the League. All these associations are to be
under the supreme authority of the League,
and this supreme authority is Congress of all
the Revolutionary Associations There is to be
an Executive Board, to which, in the recess Of
the Revolutionary Congress, the business of the
League will be entrusted. The next meeting
of the Congress is to be held the 18th May, of
the present year.
Such is brief outline of this extraordinary
olo oF fol11 opd ,,,iccbiaf What
these desperate Adventures have the har
dihood to propose, is nothing more nor less than
the formation of standing army in the bosom
Of our country, consisting of military corps,
scattered throughout the land, from one extrem-
ity to the other Their ostensible object is to
revolutionise Europe, but may they not exert
their power, if they ever acquire any, in inter-
ference with the domestic affairs ofthe q. States,
even to the extent of attempting to revolutionize
our own Government The abolition of standing
armies in other countries is one Of the primary
objects of the League, and to attain this end,
these philanthropic sages very coolly propose to
establish one upon the soil of the United States.
We have treaties of peace and friendship with
all the countries of Europe, and laws prohibit
ing our citizens, under heavy penalties, from
fitting out any military expedition against them.
But, in open and contemptuous defiance of the
spirit of these laws and treaties, band of for
eign adventures assemble in the light of noon
day, proclaim scheme of universal interven-
ton in the affairs Of other nations, and adopt an
organization, the avowed object of which is, to
seduce the people of the United States from
their allegiance to the laws and traditional poll
cy of their country.
1t may be that this grand Revolutionary scheme
amounts to nothing worse than an attempt on
the part of few unprineipled individuals, to
extort money from the ignorant and credulous
under fraudulent pretences, and that the ..fitnd'
is, after all, the grand object of the American
Revolutionary League. But we incline to the
belief that the organization has deeper and
more dangerous meaning than this, and that
it is the legitimate fruit of the Kossuth crusade.
The eloquent and enthusiastic Magyar has fail
ed in his immediate object of enlisting the ac-
tive cooperation of the United States in favor
of Hungary, but we fear that he has done much
towards unsettling the minds of men on the
great subject of Intervention, and that he has
sown the dragons teeth, which will one day
spring up in the shape of armed men. The
National Intelligencer speaks follows, in re-
ference to this novel movement of the foreign
srs at Philadelphia:
The partial encouragement which certain foreign vis
tiers to shores have lately met with in parts
of the country, in their attempts to seduce the people
of the United States into affordng them aid and
tenance in their iigested and desperate schemes for
revolutionZing different countries of Europe, have
doubtless stimulated the organization of a design, of
foreign origin, the object of which is take of the
hands OF the constituted authorities of the United States
the control OF the foreign ations of this Government
with all the Governments of Europe, for the avowed
purpose OF overthrowing all those Governments
This announcement may startle such of readers
as have not watched closely have, the signs
OF the times But it is no less true than startling
and 1t demands all the attention from the fact of
this organization being the natural consequence of the
teachings and the preachngs of certain public Journal
lists politicians and enthusiasts operating upon persons
OF weak minds, of Missionaries, and persons of
foreign BIRTH uniformed and not sudious OF the nst
tutlons under which they have to live. The mis-
sons OF NJ. kossuth and Dr. kinkle are undoubtedly |
the eaven which has excited this fermentation among
the continental European immigrants to this country |
and that portion of the native population North and
West of the Susquehannah which is subject excite
ments from light causes, and liable be influenced
by every fresh one as light substances attracted by
electric bodies
9-We learn from tabular statement in the
Enquirer ofyesterday that the following states
have already elected delegates to the Democrat
&c National Convention, to wit:
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio.
Alabama, Mississippi Texas.
lnaiaha Wisconsin, California,
Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. |
Massachusetts, New York,
Thirteen others will appoint delegates be-
tween this time and the Sd May. -Four states
not heard from.
B"Ihe Land Warrant Bill, of which we
gave synopsis few days ago, we observe
has been defeated in the House Of Renresan-
tatives.