Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-11
The Kossta Affair.

The Kossta Affair.
The latest European news superinduces
the conclusion that the Kossta matter is
beginning to create most intense excite
ment over the continent. Ours is the
only government on the face of the earth
to which the liberals Of the old world
can possibly look for the assertion of
principles land their maintenance that
tend 10 leave open the door for the quiet
spread of views of the rights of the gov
erned, which must be spread broadcast
everywhere, before the various peoples of
Europe may reasonably hope to obtain
their liberties. All well-informod liberals
of the old world understand that with
the now extensive intercourse between
the people of the United States and those
of Europe, commercial and otherwise, at
any moment something is liable to trans
pire to compel the United States to ignore
government practices growing out of the
pFetence of divine right. Something
which will assure the suffering millions
over the Atlantic that they are not alrays
to be victims of oppression "by the grace
of God, and will thus nerve their hearts
for still another revolutionary effort. The
universal longing for such an event it is
which has brought about the enthusiasm
of the European populations concerning
our share in this Nossta affair. They
clutch at it in the eager hope that it is the
first move in the chain OF events which
are in time to break their chains. 1t may
be that they are right in this anticipation:
for the end of the kossta affair is not vet.
Its discussion between Austria and this
government, will lead to the PRONUNCIATION
throughout Europe of more such views of
the rights Of divine. rights governments
and those of the United States and her
citizens, as marked the patriotic, liberal.
and able Hulseman correspondence of
Daniel Webster. That correspondence,
in being spread over the continent, proved
a severer blow to the moral power of the
Austrian government, than eventuated
from the recent Hungarian war and her
concurrent Italian contests. The liberals
every where realize this truth, and, doubt
less, pray that this matter may lead, as
it will, if Austria " demands rcparation,"
to more of just such PREPARATION as Web
ster gave her through her minister at this
point.
We are q firm believer that the United
States are destined to disentilral the OBJ
pressed of the old world. Not by step
ping beyond the line of their duty, as
that was laid down by the early fathers
of the confederacy, but by the moral
force of the better economy of free insti-
tutions and government, as manifested
here. Whenever all the European world
come to realize the difference in the con.
dition of the people under the two sys-
TENS of government, the time will he very
near at hand when the privileged classes,
backed by the bayonets of all corrupt
and ignorant enough to aid them in their
work of oppression, will prove too feeble
to maintain their present ascendancy. In
the current political condition of the
world, it must be that each year will give
occasion to one or more such collisions
of authorityas that involved in the Kossta
affair, in which the United States will take
and maintain grounds which must weaken
''divine right in the estimation of such
of the governed as yet bow to it with
hearty submission. The weakening of