Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-21
THE ROAD TO RUIN.

Certainly, were any considerable portion of the
people Of the United States affected with the conta-
gion Of folly which seems to have attended the pro-
gress Of M. KossUTH from Harrisburg to Pitts
burgh, in Pennsylvania, and from Pittsburgh to
Columbus, in the State Of Ohio this country might
with reason be considered on the road to ruin-of
its character for political wisdom at least and even
for common sense, if ns Of its present prosperity
and future hopes.
Upon the reception Of NJ, KossUrH at the rooms
of the Maryland Institute in the city of Baltimore,
it will be rccollccted thst certain Resolutions, iden-
teal with those Of the Harrisburgers, were moved
for adoption by Of the Judges Of the State who
submitted them, as he himself declared, al The re-
guest Of NJ KossaJ., and they were announced to
have been unanimously adopted by the shouts of
the People, all absurd and preposterous those Re-
solutions were.
II was reserved for the. State Of Ono, however,
to ouistrip the Baltimore Kossnthites in the blind
ness of their idolatry and the profundity of their
prostration. In evidence Of which we place before
our readers the following publication by the " Ohio
State Association Of the Friends Of Hungary" of
which the Governor Of che State (the Hon REUBEN
'WooD) is President, surrounded, in the discharge
of his Hungarian functions, by galaxy of the lead
ing stars of the State:
THE OFFICIAL p@oosAMME
aThe folln-;ag resolutions express che leading
ssqlcs Of the address Of KossETu before the State
Association of the Friends Of Hungary, on Satur-
day evening last and were drasra BY Kossnh for |
The Associations, AT THEIR REQUEST, after having |
been formally adopted a. the eof the meeting
J. Rssosed That acknowledging the sovereign right
of every nation dispose Of its domestic concerns
and its institutions and the form Of its Govsr
rssnt as suits its necessities be of the unds-
mental laws of nations and the armed interference Of
whatsoever foreign Power with this sovereign right TO
violation Of these laws do deem Russian inter
yenon in the affairs Of Hungary violation the law Of
nations which, if repeated would be their fresh viola
ton and should not be regarded with indifference by the
people of the United States this the more because
In the late struggle in Hungary people Of the Uni
ted a1ss Gin the language Of the resolutions of the
Ge.sTel Of Ohiol recognise struggle in be-
half Of those principles which underlie the struc
ure of the Government of the United States and there
fore consider that armed interference against
In effect insult and attack upon the United States
and any narrowing of the sway Of those principles is
most dangerous weakening Of the influence and power Of
the United States themselves
a. Resolped That ii is the duty Of the United States
to maintain their right of commercial with
all nations willing to accept it, whether they be in
state Of revolution against their Government
and that with the view of approaching on the
continent of Europe do urge upon the General Gov
eminent to take prompt for the protec-
ton of the trade Of the United States in the Medterra-
mean
Is. Resolved, That we acknowledge the legitimate
character Of the Declaration Of Independence of unga
nv issued in IS49 declare that that Declaration Of
Independence has lost nothing Of the legitimacy Of its
character by being omentary overthrow by Russian
armed Interference which itself violation of the
laws of nations and that anxious see Hungary re-
stored to this its independence, regard it the duty
the Congress Of the United States recognise its
proclaimed independence the earliest convenient oppor
tunity"
From this statement of the q Association itself
it is plainly apparent that the hzzas at the concu
sion Of his speech before the Association were con-
sidered as adoption of the "leading topics Of
that speech whilst as if to show how i'll able they
were to define the positions which they had formal
ly adopted" they resorted to NJ KossUTH himself
and, giving him blank sheet of paper, requested
him to write down their Resolutions. And of this
act of serylity to the purposes of this Peter the
Hermit of new Crusade, 50 far from manifesting
any conjunction or mistrust, they come forward,
and, with the most winning simplicity, tellthe whole
story of how they came to knowledge of their own
conclusions
And see with what gee the Magyar exults in the
easy faith of these worshippers of his and how he
plays with their creduty whilst he magnifes these
Resolutions and their professions and huzzas into
consequence remarkably contrasting with their ac-
tual insignifcance and emptiness The following
the closing paragraphs of the Speech delivered
by him before the Legislature of the State
Sir, there two remarkable condolences. The
State Of Ohio and myself haze The age The very year
when your Constitution framed born. M treat
has aludys hedped ,ci at the Of Ohio
It if something of supreme Importance lay hidden
for that name, to which my future bound by
the very year Of my nativity This day my anticpatons
are realized.
The second coincidence is that the dings the pre-
sent day will just reach Washington city when the Sena-
tors Of the United States sit down in judgment about the
question of international law and pronounce upon your
counrys foreign policy. Ohio has given its vote by the
resolutions had the honor to hear Ohio Is one Of he
brightest stars Of The Union 0hos is the vote Of two
millions IL will have its constitutional weight in the
councils where the delegates Of the peoples sovereignty
find their glory in doing the peoples will"
VIM. YERoER, Esq has been elected to the va
cancy in the High Court of Errors and Appeals Of
Mississippi, occasioned by the resignation Of Chief
Justice SHARKEY. The Flag Of the Union says
that Mr.. YERGER possesses in eminent degree all
the qualities which should be united in an able and