Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-27

snail convince IL is not ~ iia-
pute motives to any It's enough for me to know
that ready ia do what consider to be just and
proper and right and leave other Senators TO DO wnat
they choose peal to the facts speak TO the record
and intend to impnte improper motives But there
is this fact that among the objections urged to the pay
ment of these expenses gentleman put 1T upon any
higher ground than that of usage proprety no gen.
teman put it upon the ground Of constitutional OBJ
lection.
Mr. CASS The gentleman from Tennessee is mistaken.
Mr. JONES. If there any objection Of that kind
not aware Of it. am happy to be informed Then
understand the honorable Senator from Michigan to say
that there is power under the constitution TO appro
pirate money from the contingent fund Of the Senate to
pay these expenses If that is the ground he occupies,
then he may be able to sustain his position before the
country How it is shall pretend to argue because
it is not material to my purpose
before heads of Departments Senator'S Representatives
and citizens of this republic heard him there portray
the wrongs of his country in strains Of touching eloquence
heard him there tell the tale of his countys wrongs
and confess that heart moved with the deepest
sympathy for the wrongs and expressions OF his country
saw him. sir to borrow his own classic anusion, stand
ing like Cneas Of old before the Roman Senate not
ambassador clothed with power and authority but exile
from the land of his fathers saw him thus standing
and speaking for his counry and Senators and Re-
and people swayed by the power
of his eloquence and yielding ready assent to its gentle
teachings Sir upon that occasion not unfortunate
that Appus Caudus there to speak, not for Rome
but for America? There were sir lustrous and distn
gushed Senators there American Senator'S called to bear
conspicuous parts npon that interesting occasion But,
Mr. President, Claudius there voice Of warn
ing remonstrance heard Acquiescence, if not ap
proval, seemed to rule the hour.
But we have an American Appius Claudus, not there
upon that interesting occasion like the Claudius of old
with disease feeble and attenuated in FORM with
intellect bright and unclouded the meridian of fe
heart whose every pusaon for his country and his
counrys honor who feared any thing but dis
honor loved nothing better than his country whose
proud spirit quailed before the impending storm
who ever dared to be as frank he free For him
the noble task of standing up in the of
the august stranger there speak for his county there
to proclaim In the presence of that lustrous exile in
the name Of his country his countrys honor his coun
trys interest in the name the sacred of liberty
throughout the world there protest against the doc
rines OF his uopan scheme Of modern intervention.
Sir, it was spectacle upon which patriotism might
have dwet with rapture and delight; it was spectacle
upon which the genius of American liberty smiled with
holy rapture /" In the my country dying man.
protest against these doctrines"
Sir these days of evanescence. Time and change
are passing over u.s. but these words to live and
ter into the affections of grateful country when their
lustrous author shall have been gathered, he
must, to his thers and his pure and patriotic spirit
shall be baskilg in the sunshine of endless and
fading glory.
As for Kossuth, Mr. President let him 20 on This
sir is free country and told that all power
sides in the people As for myself Ihave fear of the
people. Let him 90 and proclaim his doctrines let
the people hear them feel that there is virtue nte
gence and patriotism enough in the public mind and in
the public judgment to correct whatever of folly and
ror there may be- would not intervene between
him and the people As for him, trust that his pathway
through life may be bright and glorious it has
been hitherto uncertain and difficult May he yet live to
enjoy the triumphs Of that patriotism which willing
to accord him may he yet live to his country
deemed ana Regeneration, ssasd out the
admiration Of the word May tia, bright and glorious
day come when Hungary shall be redeemed from her
bondage and Hungarian spirits shall breathe the pure
the genial atmosphere of republican institutions! 6
Having disposed Of him, Mr.. President, the question
arises, whether not the foreign policy Of Govern
ment should be changed? This, sir be conceded
by all to be important question: and which
to me to commend itself to the calm ieberaon Of every
Senator If nothing else should shield the policy of this
Government which is coeval with its existence from rude
assault it TO that its very antiquity ought
afford it immunity The policy Of this Government
of WISDOM and experience It has the endorsement of
the fathers of the Republic it has results following in
its train which must command the respect and the adm
ration and the devotion Of every American heart Now
ask you if il is matter lightly be treated? If it is
matter Of mere policy, involving consideration Of
principle, whether that policy shall be changed not
Gentlemen seem to treat it of the passing ques
tons OF the day, as TO whether this little thing the
other may be DONE when, If they up and inquire
deliberately, they find that it is to change radically the
foreign policy OF the Government from the days Of its first
conception down to the present time SIR do the advo
Gates Of this doctrine Of Intervention come up and offer
any arguments in favor of change of the policy No.
sir they offer us adequate inducements but they
upon us with sort Of special pleading and ask what
is the danger to be apprehended from itf Now, sir,
think the burden the other side If they propose
change the policy Of this Government it is incumbent
uOeS
possess, but they are bound to show that evil
suit from It, Have they effected thsg 1t may be
but confess that am not thus impressed Well, sir,
when we call upon gentlemen to tell why should
change this policy why shonld abandon that path in
winch our fathers trod and which have pursued with
results the most stupendous and astounding how
metz we are met and told that this is the age of pro-
gress, and we are called upon to abandon that policy
which have pursued steadily through all our national
existence and for whatf That may become worship
at the shrine Of this new divinity modern progress
When arguments fail to satisfy the minds and consciences
of Senator's told that this Is an age of
and that that is sufficient nducement for us TO fall into
these schemes Sir by that spirit Of progress is
meant the wonderful developments that are constantly
being made in the country in all the arts and sciences
moral social physical and political, then own just
divinity But Mr. President by the constant presen-
taton Of this divinity here il is to Justify or
TO afford pretext for innovation upon the usages and
habits of country where the constitution and the
Of the country and where argument itself docs not
lead, then for one ask to be excused; not ready
to bow down and worship any such altar fear, sir,
that it is often presented for the purpose of aordng
pretext for innovations the dangerous character
Sir another doctrine is advocated here which is in
trayention of the have suggested. When we are
told that this Is the age of progress that must for
ward-go on steadily, firmly mady, you choosen
the development of these great doctrines then
turned upon and tainted and told yours is the stand
still pohcy-you are standing still, and doing
thing" sf
No, sir am not for standing still am for going for
ward but am for going forward in the path that dis
tinrtly hy bv