Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-20

American statesmen to direct its foreign policy
with reference the interests, honor saIety, Ia
of America cheersl vet that its fundamental Phcipe
was mpartaty and Justice to all the nations o. ne earn
This wds the new testament OF diplomacy w0h ing i'e"
offered to the Old World. lGreat applause
have told you that our experience of siA yeais mas
his pocy and mark you, my friends we have
had experience on both sides we nave had IN
intervention and entangng alliances Of binding our pohcy
n Enronean policy and Washington struggled through
the whole course Of his administration, tied down and
red nv the contract had entered into in the darkest
pers Of our Revolution. 1t the price of National
denendence il came strangling its offspring
The French treaty was the most difficult question of
Washngtsn's administration. His great struggle was to
faith of the country and the safety OF the
country They would have been incompatible in any other
hands than his own. Z
was in the year 1898 that the Congress of the United
States determined to strike the treaty Of ITS from our
statute book cut the knot they could not unite and to
disentangle America from European alliances. APP
plause This is great fact in foreign policy, BY
the treaty Of l77s entered into alliance offensive
and defensive with France guaranteed her West Indian
possessions. She to with England these pos
sessions became endangered she demanded the guaran-
ty compliance became impossible without national rum
therefore acting the great principle Of sas op the
Congress Of the United States repealed the treaty and
stood upon the ground of deliverance That was
the only way left to rid ourselves Of the embalrass-
ments occasioned by the violation Of this policy OF Wash
ington.
This is memorable case in annals, and American
statesmen should lay it heart II illustrates the dan
gers both of entangling aancesp and propagandism
We with great difficulty escaped war with all Europe on
Of the former ancient ally lost her liberties
account Of the latter France became the patron Of
this doctrine of Intervention She had overturned the
monarchy and brought the head of the descendant OF
Louis to the block She had swept away the abuses Of
ten centuries she had established Liberty Equality
and Fraternity Not content with that she determined
those great blessings, she esteemed them and
esteemed them should be enjoyed by the whole human
She proposed crusade against all monarchies and
desposms the earth and what the result? Why,
in trying take of other peoples liberties, she lost
her own Applause The Directory of this Government,
Of this Republic it termed called join in this
crusade for the liberties Of mankind believe that is
what we asked to do now
Well then asked with far better claims to favor
able consideration than now because you had agreed to
defend France against her enemies you acknowledged
the obligation Of the treaty you agreed aid her in main
tanning her West Indian possessions England, old
enemy had already snatched them She said "We have
free country, and you have free country The des-
pots Of Europe against you and Come, now unite
with on this great principle, and we will overturn
monarchies and establish republics 1t well for
berties-for the present and unborn generatons-tha
the chair of the American Presidency filed by the
Father of his Country. Great cheering You had then
too foreign emissares here Citizen Genet here He
too appealed from the Government to the people He told
them In the days Of your weakness you called upon
and defended you upon condition that you to de-
fend ALSO Redeem the pledge and strike with for
the down-trodden of Europe Washington and
the American Congress and people, guided by the rues
wisdom and the soundest policy refused to trust
rights and liberties to so dreadful a hazard.
Sir, we have had many other occasions to try this doc
trne since this Government established but all Of
them have been wise enough to practice the precepts
Of Washington. We have had two European But
believe we have had protest against other nations
managing their affairs to suit themselves Those wars
in defence of American rights and American inter-
est and of the rights and interests of any other peo
pie (Applause. The first to maintain indepen-
dence the second was to maintain rights indie
pendent nation [Applause] The first war was to main
tain the fact Of independence the second maintain
the incidents of independence Since got rid of the
French treaty, in 1885, by the courage magnanmity and
bodness Of the American Congress from that day to this
have been freed from that great danger which Wash
ngton warned against-entanghng alliances in Euro
pean politics Nobody since has advocated making any
more such We supposed had this point settled, until
we sent TO Turkey at the national expense and brought
over brilliant oratoran exile from his country,
with magnificent genius and more than oriental ancyto
lead the opponents of this great American policy He says
that this principle well enough in Washngons time
but not now that circumstances have changed and
with more ingenuity than force urges that if it be yet APP
pcable, his policy maintains it, he desires intervention
for the sake Of Ihonor any earnest
y engaged in the of his country and pardon
his facies far they ought be pardoned though
Of cannot approve of them. With these sent
mens beg to offer few suggestions those two objec
tons Of the great Magyar and his converts and adherents
in this country.
Sir Washington foresaw and answered the first of these
objections in advance He predicted the present strength
and power of the country and he cheered and animated
his countrymen to stand firm and resist the temptation in
the day Of their weakness to depart from their principles
with the that their increased power would
place them beyond the necessity for such reacherous aids
He knew that when weak from colonial depend
had to sacrifice them to Franceto sacrifice them
for the safety of the country He onged for the advent
Of that day when America should be strong enough
maintain her policy against the world Applause;
and in that Farewell Address he tells you that you will
be united and adhere honesty and justice the time will
when other nations will not readily interfere with
you in asserting this great doctrine of neutrality and that
we may choose peace war; interest guided by
justice, shall counsel" Applause
The other objection is that must intervene for the
sake Of noninteryention This faacy has been happily
illustrated and exposed by distinguished judicial
Judge Wayne Sir it amounts to this that intervention
is wrong and therefore you must do another wrong to
eradicate that wrong; put still more strongly that
because other nations commit wrong-not to but to
otherswe must turn knighterrant initiate the knight Of
La Mancha and travel up and down the world revengne
rghting the wrongs Of all injured nations This is the
whole argument [Applause.] Again, it is said by this
in the affairs other nations is against the laws Of nations
Sir, deny it. want to know where the authority is
Where the laws Of nations gathered from say tina
it is not against the laws Of nations for nation to in
terfere with the affairs Of another The law of nations
not thus laid down by any of the approved pubcsts;
is not confomabe to the judgment the history and
ce of mankind. shall not NOR your festivities by quo
tations from their authors from ancient moderr
history but win content myself with the statement tina
they all affirm contrary doctrine, and that it has beer
uniformly held to be question Of pecy for ever,
nation to determine for itself whether it shall interfere II
the quarres Of other nations not Did France
Spain interfere in the quarrel You made with England
And you called upon fight Russia for doing thu