Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-02
The Non-Interventionis,s.

The Boston Courier, and the bunker Wings, who
are attached TO the amiabe class of journals of which
it is the representative are still most vociferous in
their opposition to what they term the ''nove inter.
vention doctrines" which have been introduced in
to this country by Louis Kossulh. In order to COM
bat those Doctrines, they employ every weapon
which their own diseased imagination can invent.
making history lie in order to answer their purpo-
ses, and taking such liberties with logic as would
make any modest school boy blush. They assume
the name OF Washington, because they know it is
endeared to the heart Of every true man in the ma
ton, and they employ it for the purpose of combat
ting the progress of those principles Of liberty, of
which he isthe immortal representative.
The declarations which Washington made, when
this nation was poor and in her infancy are again
and again repeated as arguments, against her SYM
pathizing with struggling freemen now when she is
rich and strong. Such application of Washing
toms words, is an insult 10 his memory-a desecra
ton of his name. Washington loved liberty too
well, and understood his duties as a man and re-
publican too well, to have refused his operative SYM
pahy to nation struggling in the grasp ofdepotism.
But, even though the policy of seventy years ago
had been what the hunkers say it was, that is no
reason why the men Of today should lock up the SYM
pathies OF their hearts, and see, without word of
protest, the liberties of Europe expire.
We do not think that the wisdom Of our ances.
tors was sufficient for both them and us. We do
not believe that venerable antiquity is strong enough
or wise enough, to answer all the possibilities and
exgencies of the present. Experience is the parent
of wisdom, and the old have certainly the advantage
OF the young, in this respect But, this fact only
holds good in relation to individuals who live at the
same time.
The past was youth in comparison with the pres
ent We have had all the practical fruits of our an
cestors' wisdom, aud we have had more extended
experience than theirs to enable us to improve upon
and progress from their times and ideas. We
have lived 10 see the principles Of our revolution
adopted by the nations of Europe, and rrejected by
the hunkers of Boston. We have lived to see the
day, when the despots of the old world no longer
dare TO threaten though they still hate We have
grown poweriusin the days of our fathers weak
ness and they could protest against the viola
tion of the law ofnatons, because Of the paralysis
produced by eight years, civil war, we do so,
in voice that shall command both attention aud
respect.
As specimen Of the kind of argument used by the
Non-Intervention hunkers we extract from the Bos.
ton Courier of Monday the following choice NOR
ceau.
"Blackwood's Magazine, in an able article on Eu-
ropean politics. exhibits the following words tile
results Of the doctrine of Intervention as pracsed by
have ended in the establishment ofmiary lespot-
ism in all its principal states, supported by l5O0,-
600 armed men,"
The Courio 5 afinities induce it to bring ''Black-
woods on the stand as witness against intervention
-Blackwood, which is Laudas in its religion, and
Haynate in its politics. and it has the ehrontery to
parade the results of the despotic leagues OF Mon
archs, to crush freedom in Europe, as reasons why
great republican nation should refrain from decar-
ing that every nation has right to make its own
laws and elect its own government.
When did the government of Great Britain ever
intervene in the cause of European freedom? Never.
1t cost her ten thousand millions of dollars, and
tens of thousands of men before, 1885, she saddled
France and Germany with the 'sholy aance'' of
royal despots. Her Greek intervention in 1922 was
to break the power of Turkey. And her support of
Turkey, and bombardment of Beyrout, st. Jean
d'Acre, and the recent blockade Of Athens,
were to check the influence and power Of Russia in
the east.
The British government has never given the first
word or sign Of encouragement 10 revolution in En-
rope. Revolution is hateful to the aristocratic rulers
of that country, and has always been. So that the
sptelul allegation of the tory Blaekwood, and its
dorsement by the tory Courier, simply COM
pound falls hood.
1.-THE continent Of Europe is military DIES.
polish, through British Cabinet Intervention, then
that is just what the British government, since the
days Of Pitt the younger, has been helping to
mate; and il is what the Courier would prevent US
from pr otesling against if it could.
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