The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-01-15
SUBSTANTIAL AID TO HUNGARY.

A mass meeting of the citizens of Philadel'
phia was held on Saturday night, Sd instant
Hon. John X Kane was chosen President who
warmly advocated declaration by the United
States that our people protest against the arm
ed Intervention of foreign Power in domes-
tic struggle between Liberty and Despotism.
He said
al suppose we have the right to make such
declaration If zoe choose ) and suppose, too
that If we do choose to make it, no foreign
Power will have the right to complain 1t is
hardly worth while to tumble over law books
to prove common sense proposition like this
But. for those who think wisdom more truthful
because it has passed through printing Office,
let me quote to you a single sentence from
venerable handbook of International Law.
The volume copy from was published ninety
two years ago.
aWhen tyranny" says Yattel, becoming
insupportable obliges nation TO rise in de-
fence Of its fundamental laws every Power has
a right to succor an oppressed people who inn
plores it's assistance for he adds, "when
people, from good reasons, take up arms against
an oppressor, Justice and generosity require
that brave men should be assisted in the de-
fence of their liberties "--Vattei Book 2 oh. 4,
sec. So. Much cheering and applause
A letter from Kossuth was read also, letters
from Hon. Thomas S. Bell, Hon. Thomas b. Flo
renee. Senator Gwin, Hon. William H. Seward,
Hon. James Buchanan, and others. The letter Of
Senator Seward contained check for $50
DIR. Elder submitted an Address to the People
of the United States, urging that our duty as
well as our Interest, requires that our influence
be actively exercised in behalf of liberty The
address thus closes
There were many reasons for neutrality in
the wars of ambition which agtated Europe
at the close of the last and beginning Of the
present century, besides the supposed indifier-
ence of our position for there was nothing in
them which Immediately involved the hope, or
asaredly promised the blessings, of purely free
institutions: and il must not be overlooked,
either that we were then incapable of effective
Interrogation But, new conditions and new
occasions teach new duties and to answer to
the changes Of progress and time, they must
upward still, and onward, who would keep
abreast Of truth
"What place do we occupy to-day in the
scale Of nations? What part are we appointed
TO perform in the drama Of the worlds life !!
The map of Europe unrolls to our startled
vision as one great battle-chart. A war-shont
thunders along the nations and our name
and principles are heard distinctly through
the din
"What il our answer TO the call which echoes
our own birth-cry when we appealed to God
and the reserved power of our fellow-men !!
The pvot-man of the great revolutionary move
ment s On his pilgrimage Of prayer among us.
Urged by an impulse like that which sent out
the Mag Of old when they saw the star of the
Redeemer in the East and followed its light
till it stood over where the young child lay
he comes TO us for the word that TO worldin
bondage, shall prove the Word Of Life. For
we also in far distant but true correspond
ence, are the desire of nations' And We can
not, we will not send the messenger of suffer
ing humanity empty away -a
Mr.. B. Rush Plumley then addressed the
meeting in a spirited speech, and offered the
following resolution, which was unanimously
adopted l--7 -
aWhereas Hungary under the administration