Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-08

with million OF armed men, assisted by the despo. d
Austria, Brennus like filings into one scale the sword
aud into the other the yalorous Senator from Michigan
huyls his potent Congressional resolution Of deep con-
Germ" Laughter. What is to be tue result what the
issue OF this great conflicts Why Lord Palmersoa tells
that opinions stronger than armies and of
the result must be that the puissant Senator from Mch
gan viii come forth triumphant from the conflict But,
sir II is not Congressional resolutions carefully consider
ed automatically penned ably advocated by the Senator
in the othereeAd Of the Capitol resolutions dictated
by Kossuth at Harrisburg, and voted by accamaon by
mass meeting-these are not the opinions which are
stronger than armies. they those opinions which
take possession Of the soal which become Deep abiding
convictions of the heart and mind Ind which be
severed from it which pass from heart heart with
electric communication. These the opinions which
stronger than armies because they take
armies themselves, and turn them against the tyraEts
whom they served And, sir how those opinions
gnated, propagated and sustained BY the contempa-
ton Of the example Of greatness prosperity
progress, and power The very fact that we in do
ing nothing more than taking of ourselves have
prospered is sufficient for the propagation and
support of such opinions these Such convictions
powerful than armies. Why the moral influence of
our example has gone throughout Europe with power
imposing than the mnrch of armies the weight
of navies Irresistible, subverting empires overurning
dynases, and awakening whole nations Of people to
consciousness of their rights If ever the deyerance of
Europe is to be effected it is by such these If
the preudces OF thousand years be cast aside
old garment worn out and to be abandoned fthey can
break those letters which have eaten into their very eh
that chain which clanks about the very heart itself; If
they rid themselves of institutions and the preu-
does which those institutions founded which have
lasted long to become tmehonored very part of
their POLITICAL and social life ITSELF almost inseparuble
from their natural and social existence this is their hope
and their only hope One man cannot govern an anwil
ling nation It is absurd When whole people become
fully impressed with the conviction that free institutions
with enure to their happiness they will become free and
when they come fully to understand and appreciate the
nature Of those institutions they win establish them
firmly and make them enduring.
Sir love progress love the word for in my coneep
ton OF its Specification do not abuSe the term, and il
was not Wing sheuld say that was "young Ame-
rican' Laughter But have not that classification
yet this side Of the House, and like conform
the customs and usages of the party to which belong
been for fifty years American idea There in that
idea Of an "ocean-bound republic ut least something
patriotic something which stirred the heart and appealed
20 the pride Of every lover of his country love natural
American progress, the development of true principles in
all their consequences the advance happiness
true greatness Bat let not turn back and attempt
what fear is hopeless task, to regenerate the DID,
wornout, eete institutions of Europe Let crumbing
dynastss and falling republics take of themselves
let the dead bury the dead. fear shall learn
the relative geography OF Europe and the balance Of the
world. We seem never to remember, that of the nine
hundred millions inhabitng the globe only frac-
ton dwell that small spot of earth Sir when hear
men talk politics, R Europe the world and her
chances and changes and her fat its destiny think of
the Yankee who went to London during the Worlds
Fair and being asked his opinion of England which he
saw for the first time; said it was fine country-weN
cultivated but mighty smahe felt cramped ever since
he had been the island-had exercise at all he
afraid to take morning walk for fear Of walking off the
edges somewhere. [Langhter.] Let learn for once
that Europe is but small portion of the habtable GLOBE
and that things viii not and cannot always remain they
are Eet us In the true spirit Of American progression
ook to the future and not to the past This continent
broad enough to satisfy all aspirationsa theatre
large enough upon which develop the principles
modern American civilization Why, sir, the march of
like the march of christianity has been from
the days of the wise of Chaldea down the
time, from East to West You might well attempt to
turn back the natural in its to revere the
sun Of civilization in its westward way This the course
It ever has pursued and this must be the which
ever viii pursue Following its way, ourselves have
already planted feet upon the shores of the Pacific
md there has sprung up mighty empire, more like the
work Of magic than the slow growth of nations. My
friend before me Alr McCoRKLE looks the personifca
lion OF patriotic pride utter it. From that Western
shore the genius of American progress already looks be-
You'd the ocean to that great and wonderful country
whose trade has enriched every nation which has enjoyed
its harvest. greet with pleasure every scheme which
speedy rapid, and frequent inter-
course between that rich land and My heart
responded cordially to the spirit which prompted the
cent Japan expedition Quiet and unpretending as it is,
there Is more OF the genuine spirit of in 1T than
in all the fine harangues about the principles Of universal
humanity of liberty fraternity, equality-of Hungarian
French, Italian Independence The farseeing eye Of
Napoleon turned 10 that land rich In the gifts OF
rich in historical associatons-with its dim annals half
mythc, half historicalgong back to the time when in
FAINT had left the tuteage of the parent Crea
torto that land he looked as the battle ground
upon which the struggle for European supremacy was to
be fought And in the last days of his retirement looking
back upon his career he felt that his mission unfu
filed He declared that Sir Sidney Smith had stood at
Acre between him and his destiny Sir upon that battle
field isto be fougha battle Of emulation, Of philanthropy
struggle between Christian civilization and the semi
barbarsm Of ignorance and superston-a struggle far
nober, with far different weapons with far higher ends
and nober purposes, and hope, for mankind with far
happier results than the struggles Of Napoleon There
where the lamp Of religion and learning first lit up
its light viii be relumed-here where began the long
chequered history of the misery and happiness the bar
barism and civilization the degradation and the elevation
of man. the closing Of the grand drama win be
summated.
SUMNER EXCURSION TO THE NORTHWEST.
FROM THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN, OF MAY i.
party of ladies and gentlemen leave here this morn
ing, by the Central Road, excursion TO the