Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-06

the action OF Congress In calling for and publishing
the Mediterranean correspondence is that SO far from
being "dshonorable," as ntmatcd in the close of his
letter, was frank and honest and Indispensable to
right understanding of matters which the adherents
of NJ Kossuth had labored, through the public
press to obscure and distort
The publication of the foregoing Letter-being
the only whisper of dissent to our course, on the
subject to which it relates, that has reached us
from reader in any friendly quarter-has induced
to select from volume of Letters of an opposite
tenor which have been addressed to us from differ
ent points, North, East, West, and South, the two
following, which are submitted to our readers with
out comment
KENTUCKY, JANUARY 81, 1867
Messrs. GALES g. SEAToN have been subscriber to
your paper with very short ntermsson since the year
1885, and in taking calm retrospect of your course and
conduct public Journalists in my judgment you have
commended yourselves the good and the wse and most
especially the sincere and enlightened friends of cons
tutonal freedom in this hemisphere Your general
duct the advocates Of sound stable, and conserva
tive liberty; your views Of public policy, and your con-
strucon Of the Constitution have powerfully contributed
to the formation Of healthy public sentiment and pub
morals, and in leading public into that frame of
knowledge, wisdom and virtue which has made al
ready great and happy nation and will, hope, be
instrumental in the hands of Providence of wide diu
sion the world of the principles Of liberty as Illus
trated by experience.
But have not witnessed in your whole career any in
stance in which you have laid the country under deeper
obligations than in the in which you have treated
the claims and conduct of LOUIS KossUTH forth in
his public speeches and writings
The subject presented the most serious difficulties in
country like in which the sympathes and affections
Of the heart prone riot with the sober judgment
of the head y
But the crisis is past, and the Kossuth emeue is
hope scotched, if not ended and thanks to you, with
other public sentinels, that public opinion and public
have been influenced and guided by such safe and
wise counses
think may you that there is q fixed public
sentiment in Kentucky, and throughout the entire West
which is wholly opposed to any active Intervention by
Government in European Governments. do not mean
that there may not arise in European struggles
point in which may be involved the great principle Of
free government in this hemisphere which would call into
action the law of selfpreservaton The of Hun
gary, much as it commands affections, and how
depore and condemn the manner and motives of
subugaton is not which should call out that
treme remedy. Hungary is part of the Austrian
dominion consolidated by Austrian and Russian bayo
nets and before the struggle properly of
the provinces of AUSTRIA under certain guarantees of
stitutiona right. If Intervention by protest force
allowable the time and occasion has passed
away Mr. WEBSTER may be right in asserting that
nation of twelve millions of people, wishing to set up
free Government for themselves, have just claim to
separate existence and he may think correctly when
he urges that Austria would be stronger without the
forced servitude of Hungary. But to erect
Government into udicature to settle and determine such
causes What proofs have We except the testimony of
few interested and defeated Hungarans that the people
Of Hungary would now wish to engage us in war for
them? If they should, to man, invoke help,
they constitute but fraction of the Austrian POSSESSIONS
and how dangerous is the principle of hrustng ourselves
party in the civil Of other nations! With feel
for Ireland stronger and deeper by far than this
statesman has seriously proposed that should
counter the British lion account of Ireland. Our Pc
cuiar institutions, being confederacy of States,
ing immense scope of country, should admonsh of
the great peril of the principle that foreign Govern
shsud look into domestic brols foment them
by the offers Of assistance interfere in the dissolution
of this Union.
do not entertain doubt that whenever the people of
great European other nation c to be Free and have
sufficient intelligence virtue and religion to enjoy it, they
capable of and win their freedom in de-
spite of the bayonet Until people prepared by edu
cation morals, and pety for free government 1t is pre-
mature to attempt it. Red Repubicanism is
tainly for Europe than monarchy, and from
best information the friends Of free take
that view Of the question The of free Gov
ernmen illustrated by the increase of population by
its growing wealth and commerce. by the abundance Of
food fuel and clothing; by the absence of paupersm by
the peace and order which is the necessary result of
obedience to the law and by the deep of obligation
to the law of God win do to propagate the of
freedom in Europe and the world, than any armed
Intervention The press the railroad the steamship and
the telegraph powerful auxiares in international
quaintance. We should and denounce the
that every people who cry out "libery, liberty, is pre-
pared for its enjoyment and may be assured that,
whenever any people have been educated to under
stand their rights they win have liberty if they fitted to
enjoy it. What intelligent statesman does not observe the
constant steady and rapid growth of the rights Of
developed in all European Governments not in the
or FORM but in the substancef England is yet mon
archy but like the monarchy Of Henry the Eighth
Charles tA First than her courts Of justice and
her star chamber then The Emperor Of Russia now al
though despoc would think Of exercising preroga
tves which claimed by the Kings Of England and
France less than century ago. Commercial intercourse
and national acquaintance to be educating the
world the condition of its inhabitants Public
opinion and the judgment of the learned and wise
undertake call to its criticism and its of trial the
conduct and actions Of all the princes and potentates of
the world. We shall have more Neros or Caligulas