Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-05
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER |, 1858.
THE SPIRIT OF pRoPAGANDIsM.


our land, the general prosperity which attends all
The pursuits of civil life, and the amcabe relations
Of our country with all the rest Of the world win
perhaps sufficiently account for the variety of new
and dangerous heresies which are daily exhibiting
themselves in certain class of journals in different
l,alts Of the country Among the earliest Of these
indications was the effort to convert the reception
of the exilod KossUTH on his visit to America
some two years ago, into a means Of propagatng
doctrines in relation to the duties of the Govern
nent of the United States foreign to the just
objects Of that Government as to its history from
its foundation to that day, The sound discretion
Of the body of the People of the United States,
is true, discovered aud frowned upon the purposes
of that demonstration, and in few months il was
heard Of no more. 1t did not fail, however, whilst
In the Of development, to scatter in Its way
the seeds from which have sprung up, like noxious
weeds, doctrines of the most pernicious tendency to
she peace and welfare of the Republic. The evil
dence of this was in the avidty with which the
case Of Koszta, one of the disciples and followers
of hossuth lately occurring in Turkish port, was
seized upon in different quarters the ground of
sorting doctrines never before advanced either by
this Government or in popular controversies.
Among the journals which have taken advantage
of this case to inculcate what we consider to be
most dangerous heresies, there are, it must be
knowledged, some, and not few, of respectable
standing, and conducted with distinguished ability.
One of these is the New York Daily Times
IN which successive essays Of this tendency have
lately appeared and refer to this subject at this
momentin order place before readers certain
tracts from article in that paper Of the 18th instant
under the title of :" Moral of the Koszta Case
We do this in the first place, that readers may
be made aware Of the fallaces to which their as
sent is demanded by class of politicians who seem
to be disposed to erect new school of politics, the
sphere Of which is to transcend the boundaries of
this Union, and embrace the whole EARTH within
the scope of It's legislation and in the next place,
to invite their attention to few observations which
perusal Of that and similar articles, in other jour-
nails have suggested to our minds.
ExTxAcTs TINES ARTICLE REFERRED TO.
The immense interest which the American people
have shown in the gallant conduct OF Capt ISGRAHAM
and re general satisfaction with which the able State
paper Of Secretary MARCY has been received quite
sufficient 10 indicate that national mind is advancing
Beyond the limits Of domestic politics. and Goa
+SNit Win feSefhel questions states
nanslip KoszTA himself accident in the
matter. And yet fortunate accident lie was; for there
something agreeable to countrymen in the fact
that poor Hungarian, who personifed the
his PROSTATE land should be the immediate in tie
Smyrna controversy But the principle was the true
,Koszta"
- direct point stake-thc protection Of initial
American citizenship and the sacreduess OF neutral
ritOry but beyond this the patriotic AMI phlanhropc
haSr
any against the hot haste Of despOsm lay its Grim
clutches any all whom it may be pleased to
semporize into the guilt Of heretics"
The popular mind Of our country is beginning to
concentrate itself ~ ~ sSet 81 Forega Policy Every
man must ser this movement II is deeply laid and
broadly based Il is repubcanism seeking carry its
husehod lessons wherever its interests in jeopardy
and declaring that the cole home shall be the code
abroad, if accredited and salutary authority inerposes
barrier 1t is 177C 1872 reproduced, 50 much
the legitimate coroary that follows the working out
Of their vast problems"
Had not the strife Of domestic parties blinded our
eyes and engrossed ZEAL the pressing demands
reign relations would have this period settled all
such considerations"
To talk Of Government like ours with its spreading
and universal activity with its life dfusinp
itself every where and its interests multiplying every
quarter Of the globe to talk Of such Government re
manning an lde spectator IN the oncoming strife OF Europe
Is the language for clustered monks or i'm prsoned deyo.
tees We q necessity the world and the world i
necessity II We belong to new continent we
part and parcel Of the old carh and we must lose
both AmeTicansm and manhood ere we can consent to
hold peace fetter in that warfare which
awaits the Of human advancement"
If the doctrines held forth in this outburst Of pro-
pagandism be indeed the moral intended to be taught
by the actors in the affair." we shall have more cause
% gicye than to be proud that were able to offer
az asylum to any poor Hungarian" Of them all.
II We arc indeed bound by "the gallant conduct Of
Capt. lNGRAHAM, and the general satisfaction with
which the able State paper Of Secretary MARCY has
been received" to advance beyond "the narrow
limits OF domestic politics." in order to concern our
selves IN what the writer is pleased to term "he
marc rcscrCcd questions of statesmanship" then We
must have learned our ethics as well az our politics
IN false school. And yet we can hardly bring
ourselves to believe that WASHINGTON, whom we
acknowledge to have been our teacher, was either
false moralist unpatrotic statesman. The
moral Of his life and actions taught us a lesson
somewhat different from that now sought 10 be en-.
forced upon If what might then have been truly
called the narrow limits Of domestic politics" oaye
ample scope to him and the wise statesmen Of his
day, surely now that those limits arc almost ryiout
limit, our statesmen might find "amplc room and
verge enough to exercise their craftsmanship .