New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-04
WASHING ron.
The In,cllig.ncer on sn'srvsntien-h0- o. 'n
and Clay.
Corres9oEdenos Of Tie \. '. ITf'uh. -
WASHING ROW. Saturday, Jsn 81, ie'~.

Correspondence Of Tie \. '. rr,bun.
WASHINGTON. Saturday, jan 81, 1857.
Yesterday was petition day, aud to-day Is
play day with both branches. THIS suco'nc'
statement will suffice 70 dispose ID Congress io'
the latter third of this present week
The National Intelhgeace1 furnishes near SIX
columns on Intervention this morning Tor Sun:
day reading. Uncle Jo' is always strong re-
snectable and conservative III his elaborated e.
forts. He likes the old Ways OF the world ana
thinks not much OF the new. Canal BOAT sahMg
pleases hin better than steamdriving agencies.
He anchors himself always firmly IN the past
and so resists the currents that sweep along anu
ont mon the broad sea of the future every I'M
nooyed craft. Intervention by word OF deed
finds no favor from The IafeIigencer.
But is there any reasonable probability thai
the course of events Is to result IN Intervention
on the part Of our Government When the
proper time comes and We shall have run our
population up to fifty millions or so, which time
will arrive in a very few years, Will not there De
an inevitable flashing Of our light out upon the
darkness of Europe Can we hinder, II we
would, the escape of the sparks that shall fire the
trains of revolution throughout that Continent;
Surely not. Intervention is manlfesty our des-
tnv. Soon we shall be the great nation OF the
world The despotisms Will be the lesser ma
tons. VIII a resolution declaratory OF national
rights. and the rights Of man, stick IN Congress
then We profess to have no apprehension,
even now. of the " world in arms" SO, at least
onr Congressional orators declare. How must
it be twentyfv or fifty years hence with our
fifty, and our hundred millions of people Inc
affairs OF the Old World are eliminating apace
They move with fearful velocity toward tre-
mendous crisis. They gallop toward q fatal
goal And we are the precipitatlng force, pro-
polling or attracting, we are to the OLD nations
the great mischief maker; we are the great IN
cendiary we are, indeed, OF ourselves, to them,
a consuming fire. lnterventiOniss we are, ne
cessarily of the most intrusive and dangerous
order. few paper declarations, few ships
or men and muskets even, would hardly make
our influence more potent
But of KossuTH and the immediate effects Of
his mission, who can speak specifically! We
are in immediate contact with the beginnings Of
a great era in human affairs How vast its pro-
mnence is to be in the great march OF events,
we cannot now determine We are too close
upon it to be able to tax in its full magnitude a.
the eye. We know not its form or dimension.
We should have to remove far into the future to
be able to measure it Alright. But the future Is
not for us. 1t is a sealed book. We cannot read
it, It's pages are for poserity. To us KossUTH
is only the voice OF one crying IN the wilder
ness" But whether be is, or is to b., the i'm
mediate precursor or forerunner OF new dispen-
sation, time alone can disclose. We see tempo
rarv hindrances to his success-hindrances that
did not even exist when he landed on our shores.
Such is the coup d'5tot of Louis Napoleon. Not
that it pOstpones the day, perhaps OF revolution,
but that the result of the vote that confirms
his usurpation, loses the confidence Of our peo-
pie in the fitness of Europe for freedom. That
bitter result seems to prehgure utter disap-
pointmen, to the generous hopes OF our people,
that by aiding other nations to unhOrse their
riders, they would help them TO secure for them
selves free institutions and less despotlc rulers
This hindrance has come in aid of tina. other
great hindrance, namely, the traditions and the
policy Of our Government. Our great men are
old and cautious and fearful; and they are against
Intervention, naturally enough-perhaps proper
ly enough. We shall OF even gansay that. The
fact OF Mr.. CLAWS improving health is likely to
prove very significant fact in KossuTHs per-
sonal history.
"One blast upon that bugle horn
Were worth a THOUSAND men -
Let Mr.. CLAY get to the Senate and Intervention
will be dead horse with the thousands and
tens of thousands of whom he is the oracle in
this nation. lie will wlther it with the fiery
breath Of his nostrils he will, by the force Of
his logic and his eoquence, cut it up by the roots
III thousand localities where 1t IS now green
and hourishing LISP.
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