New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-01

THE CITY CHARTER.-The Act of Consolida
ton, together with the Supplemental Act an
nexing Lafayette. as published for the use
the members of the Council, in pamphlet form
can be obtained at the office Of this paper
Price one dime
Intervention for Non-Intervention.
The speech of NJ. Kossuth, on last Tuesda,
evening, contained the following remarkabl
words;
They represent me to you as man advocating jus
that principle to which 1 mortally opposed. The
charge with being intervention man, while an
soul and body for the principle of non-inervention
besides some material aid require but that principle
noninteryenton secured very to my down rod
den country independent and freebecause do AS
others to fight batteswe will fight them by our owl
hands, and all that desire is to have any interft
renee, but fair play.'
Wequote literally from report which we ar
more than confident is taken from the manu-
script of M. Kossuth
NOW, common sense man would say that M
Kossuth asks intervention for the sake of non
intervention, which can readily be demonstrate,
o contradiction in terms and facts. We hay
high respect for the enthusiasm of the advocate
We have entire faith in the zealot of peculiar
creed or set Of principles. We are firmly con
WINGED that M. Kossuth is an enthusiast of a
special interest.
He asks Intervention for non-intervention
and we ask, for what Well, we will let M.
Kossuth himself answer. In his speech Of Tues
day night he said
"A protest maintaining the great principle that every
nation has right to regulate its institutions AM,
choose It's own form Of government and that foreign
power can dare to interfere with this right Such pro-
Sest obges you to do nothing but leaves you free to
all or SO much as deem convenient do 1t points
out only direction to your foreign policy but does not
impose how far you should go in that policyand you
have thousand ways to add practical weight to YOU,
protest without resoting waro for instance YOU car
recognize every government de acto, established by
claIation Of independence, which toward Hungary yo
neglected to do and thus contributed much cur down
iaI You may by such recognition empower the free
government of nations asserting their Independence
carry on lawful commerce with you even to issue
en.erprsing men letters Of may establish
ne principle Of true neutrality which, mark well gen.
tiemen now you have not The Gear Russia-the un-
lawful Emperor Of Austrathe usurper France-eyery
despot IN wordhas the right to their vessels-to
enst Volunteersto propose armed expeditions against
their own people, but the unfortunate Polish nation-he
outraged French nation you do not permit to do the
II would fit out an armed expedition only out of my
own fellow eSies, you would send to prison ten
years ls that neutrality No. it is submission to the
aespots-t1s charter granted to them against Repub
can aspirations Of downtrodden millions it is almost All
AnaFce with Kings against nations.n
M. Kossuth is an ardent advocate Hespeaks
OF the right ofevery nation to regulate it's Owl
institutions, and choose its own form of Govern.
ment. Now two questions, the one special, ant
the other general, arise at this point The spe
clal question is this &C Hungary is divided int
number Of races or classes of people, one o
which is the Magyar race; which race ha.
claimed certain sovereignty over the remain
der Of the inhabitants of Hungary. We have
understood that the Hungarian revolution was
contest for the special privileges claimed by
the members of that race, almost every one Of
whom claims to be noble, or a descendant from
noble, and as such, to enjoy certain aristo-
cratic privileges. We are not ignorant, nor
can the world be ignorant, of the fact that the
Ban Jellachich could and would have made
hungary free, had it not been for an unfortu-
nate-division and hostility of races; nor do We
forget the fact that large mass of the citizens
OF Hungary, and especially the Sclavonians, had
no sympathy whatever in the struggle, which
hossuth wrote in the closet and Georgey bat.
tied in the field. Are we to intervene where
connecting races are concerned and hostile to
one another, even if Kings and Emperors be i'll
the held If Hungary have fifteen millions of
inhabitants, how, if they were united, could the
contest have been so briefly ended They were
not united, or else we are most strangely be-
trayed by false rumors. The Sclavonians tool
no part In the contest, and the Sclavonians ar,
no lhconsiderable portion of the people of Hun
gary. the jealousy of races, unextineuishet
IN the current of centuries, burns so warml,
ana 50 hercely, where is the issue which should
warrant to interfere even against autocratie
power.
Da' intervention for the sake of non inyen-
uon What is thisi How are we to under
s'lhu when and why this intervention for non
intervention is required of us? The large ma
Jority OF nations have alliances offensive and
defensive Such alliances have existed in oil
WV HISTORY OF the world. If we assume the
hossuth principle of intervention for non.i infer.
Ventlon, we must constitute ourselves the indces
ana the regulators of every alliance. offensiv,
and defensive, made by any nation on tho 60 =,
OF the globe. If we are so to constitute onr.
selves, our mission spreads out before us like =
vast and shoreless sea. Once embarked upon it
we know not when we shall again anchor in GU,
home harbors; when we shall cease to pursue
our crusade against such errors as we may have
concluded exist in any government in the world
"A wrong or crime in Hungary is neither less
nor greater, socially or morally, than wrong
IN Japan, China, Ireland, France Russia, Pata
gonia, Chill, Austria, Spain, Portugal or Turkey
A man is man the world over. One nation
has the same individuality of rights as any
other Now, if he demonstrated to us that any
nation or race is grievously oppressed, and i
we should then be called upon to interfere in be
half Of that nation, why should any one argu,
special preference over all other oppressed ma,
lions in its behalf' Why should we mix our
selves up (and we ask the question most en-
phatically) in the jealousies of rival racesa /
Hungary he oppressed, is not Ireland also on
pressed poes not the wall of misery rise from
Foes not the gloom Of misfortune larken, does