Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-17
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IA, 1852.
THE PEOPLE or WASHINGTON

M KossuTH, in the character Of second Pegl
the Hermit has been indicated as the leader, it III
been our lot to see the most revered principles \
| this Government and the wisdom and forecast !
the Fathers of the Republic, derided and ridicuel
and almost spat upon, as entitled to no respect,
comparison with the ecstatc visions Of universal w
and bloodshed which foreigner, just landed upo
our shores has unfolded to the wistful gaze of az
miring thousands
But, Unless in the case of the disgraoeful scene
the New York Bar Dinner, in which venerable Juris
of that State was hooted down when attempting |
express his sentiments upon what was taking plat
! Immediately before him, we have seen no instant
of a violation of the common decences of life md
worthy of reprobation than one which, as we leap
from the newspapers has just occurred in this CIV
of Washington, wherein gentleman, who has bill
self discharged in his own State, judicial functids
of the highest character for length of years. traveH
out of his way to cast gross insult and reproach up
the Municipal Authorities of city, and int
dentally upon the political integrity of its who
population.
The occasion of this splenetic assault upon whde
community, which had certainly done nothing to ID
vite it. was the delivery, on Wednesday hst Of an
Address to NJ. KossUTH, by the Hon. B II lNA-
WORTH, of New York, on behalf of meeting Of
citizens of various States, held at the Irving Fote
in this city, to express @ the respef Entertained
by American citizens now at Washington fol Gov
KossuTH" To such an expression on their
part, nobody-certainly not we-cotld take my ex-
ception But, in deceiving himself md M RssUTH
with an expectation of the unitersal acceptance of
has views of orr National responsibilities anddutes
their Chairman turned aside to hssail the Municipal
Authorities of Washington in The terms of he fol-
lowing extract from his published Address:
In passing through the dfereit sections Of This Re-
public which you may have leisun to visit during your
stay among u.s. you will find that tie great principles for
which you and the Hungarian nati,n noby conended
in the land of your nativity lived and cerished in
every State of extended Confedeacyron the Allan
tic to the Lake of the Woods-from The Madasca to the
shores of the Pacific.
s'And il you hare not been celcsmed by ii Municipal
Auhores District with the cordially which has
been and will be hereafter manifested else'here
goa cH attribute TO the sociaIfuence 7hich the resi-
denee Of the Diplomatic agents of many arbitrary Govern
ens may naturally be supposed hare part merely
of the permanent and limited population ofthe District of
Columbia
When language similar to this has been heretofore
employed by unprinciped caterers for presses of no
character, it sometimes is, toexcite vulgar reju
dice against journals published ID this District hey
have known how to estimate it, and to pass IL by
with due contempt. But when person occupy
ing the elevated position of Mr.. WALwoRTH, having
no just ground of offence against or people, nor any
nnSsihla Cor xyho+ ba do,n ndc
launch against them, as community, venomous Gbels
such as this he cannot expect to escape the rebuke
due for 50 unwarranted an outrage
To those who have had any opportunity OIL Know
- - -l----4-- r n-~.lo &c Washington Of
every class, we appeal against this malignant ca
lumny. We defy any man to produce title of evi
dence of any influence Of association with Foreign
Diplomatists or Agents, such as Mr. WAL
WORTH desires NJ. KossUTH to :'presume" upon
Would to Heaven that the same devotion to the
Institutions and established policy of their own
country, and such aversion or Indifference to foreign
Intervention from any quarter or upon any scale
the true Nationality which has ever character
lied the body of the People of Washington, under
every dynasty, and under all circumstances OF
peace, war, and political excitements- same adj
herence to principle had equally distinguished every
other part of the People of this country. Had
such been the case, we should have had none
of the scenes Of self-abasement-none of the tram
ping under foot of the principles and the policy
most sacred in the hearts of intelligent Republi-
cans, which has attended every step of Ex Governor
KossUTH, until his arrival in this city, where alone
he has been treated, by the actual population, as
MAN and an EQUAL, whom it was no part of the
vocation or education of the People of Wash
ington to worship or bow down to- The People
OF this city are accustomed to the sight of states
men and heroes. Some Of them have seen WASH.
INdToN himself They are all personally ac-
quainted with the names and the persons of the
great men of our country of their own day and ge
neration, and large majority of them with the his
tory Of those who have preceded them in life whose
wisdom and works have glorously illustrated the
annals OF our country. The People of this city have
no occasion to cast abroad for idols or to raise to the
skies any Foreign Agent coming hither with or with
out official station who undertakes to instruct them
in duties with which they have been familiar from
their infancy, and upon which they would scorn te
turn their backs at the bid of any human authority
whether native or foreign This honest ndepen
dence, manifested all fit occasions is lust pride
for them, though they have never made boast O
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