Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-01-26

guage nalionali;ies, raised by cunning des.
4. po,ism in Europe to murder Liberty with.
Smaller states will find security in the
principle OF federative union, while they
| will conserve their national freedom by the
i princinls of sovereign self government; and
while larger States, abdca ing The Princi-
pie OF Capitalization, will cease to be.
blood field TO sanguinary usurpat!on and a
tool to ambition of wicked men. NUM-
cipal institutions will ensure the develop
mont OF local particular elements; freedom,
formerly an abstract of political theory,
will become The household benefit to mani
Icipafi,ies; and out Of the welfare and con-
tentmeni Of oil parts will flow happiness,
peace, security for the whole.
That is my confident hope. There will
once subside The fluctuations of Germaby's
| fate. II will become the heart Of Europe,
not by rubbing North Germany into n
Southern frame, or the South into a N ORTIZ
ern; nor by absorbing historical peculiari.
ties by centralized omnipotence; no. by
mixing in one State, but by federating sev-
e.al sovereign States into Union like
yours.
| Upon similar basis will take place the
national regeneration of Sclavonic States,
and no, upon the sacrlegious idea of Pam
slavism, equivalent TO the omnipotence of
Gear. Upon similar basis will we see
fair Italy independent and free. Not
unity, but Union, will and must become the
: wa,chword. National bodies, severed into
desecrated limbs by Provincial riyalriss,
out Of which flock Of despots and common
servi,uds arose. To be sure it will be a
noble joy to this your great Republic TO feel
that the moral influence of your glorious
example has operated this happy Develop
nent in mankind's destiny, and have not
the sligh,es, doubt Of the efficacy Of your ex.
ample's influences. But there is one thing
Indispensable to it, without which there is
no hope for this happy issue. This indis,
pensable thing is that the oppressed nations
of Europe become the masters of their fu>
ture, free 10 regulate their own domestic
concerns. And to this, nothing is wanted
but to have ,ha, stair play'' to all, for all,
which you, sir, in your toast were pleased
to promise as right of my nation, alike
sanctioned by the law Of nations as by the
dictates of eternal justice. Without this
"fair play" there is no hope for Europe
no hope for seeing spread your principles.
Yours is happy country, gentlemen. =
You had more than fair pluy-you had oc-
tive operative aid from Europe in your
struggle for independence, which once
achieved, you so wisely used us to become
| a prodigy of freedom and welfare, and q
book of life to nations.
/ Blu, we in Europe. we unhappily have
no such fair play. With us, against every
palpita,ion of liberty all despols are united
in common league, And, to be sure,
despots will never yield TO The moral infu
ence of your great example. They hate
the very existence of this exrmple. 1t is
the sorrow of their thoughts and the incu
bus of their drenms. To stop its neral
/ influence abroad and 10 check its spreading
development at home is what they wish,
instead of yielding TO its influence.
We will have no fair play. The Co.'S
sack already rules, by Louis Napoleon's
usurpaton to the very borders Of the Allan
tic ocean. One of your great statesmen
now, to my deep sorrow, bound 10 the sick
bed of far advanced age, (alasl that am
deprived of the advice which his wisdom
could have impaired 10 me)-your great
statesman told the world thirty years ags
that Paris was transferred to ST. Peters.
burgh. What would he now say when ST.
Petersburgh is transferred to Paris, and Eu,
rope is but an appendix to Russia.
Alas! Europe can no more SECURE to
Europe fair play. Albion only remains;
but even Albion cass a sorrowful glance
over the waves. Still we will stand our
placs-"Sink or swim, live or dle'-you
know the word, it is your own-we will
follow it. 1t will be bloody path to tread.
Despo,s have conspired against the world.
Terror spreads over Europe, and an,icipa.
ting persecution rules. From Peris to
Peslh there is gloomy silence Of nature
before the terrors ofthe hurricane.
Il is a sensible silence only disturbed by
the thousand fold rat,ling of muske,s, by
which Napoleon murders that people which
gave him home when he was an exile,
and by the groans Of new martyrs in Sicily,
Milan, Vienna and Pes,h. The very sym.
pathy which me, in England, and was ex-
pec:ed to meet here, throws my sisters into
the dungeons of Austria. Well Gods will
be done! the heart may break, but duty
will bs done. We will stand our place,
though to US in Europe there is no fair
play" But so much hope, that no just
man on earth can charge me with unbecom-
ing arrogance when here on this soil of
freedom, kneel down and raise my prayer
to God-"Almighty Father of humanity,
will thy merciful arm not raise power on
Earth to protect the law Of nations when
there are 50 many to violate tl' 1t is a
prayer and nothing else. What would re-
main 10 the oppressed if they were not
even permitted to prayl The rest is in the
hand Of God.
Gentlemen, know where stand. No
honor. no encouraging generosity will
make me ever forget where stand. and
what ia due from me TO you. Here my
duty is silently TO wait what you in your
wisdom will be pleased to pronounce about
that which public opinion knows TO be my
prayer ard my ain; and be it your will to
pronounce, or be It your will not to take no.
lice of it, will understand your will and
| how before IL with sincere reverence. and