The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-10-13

amounts to nothing at all. He does not become
citzen-nothipg of that eort-there are other
conditions to be complied with before that takes
place; he has to live here for i've years, and to
renew the oath. But | contend that the duty
OF protection attaches on the moment he re-
n0unces his allegiance to the land from which
he has fled, for that Of the land to which he
comes. This was the position of Koszta. For
temporary purposes he had gone abroad Well
the moment q man steps outside the limits of
the Republic, does he lose its protection? Why,
certainly not. When man goes abroad, he
carries that protection with him wherever the
Government is known or its energies reach
Have you not an analogous case in this very
State? You require man to live here cit
izen from another Statel 80 many months be-
fore he can vote. But does that man, if he go
out of the State on business or pleasure for a
short time, lose the residence he has common
ced! Not at all That was the situation of
Koszta; he was in Smyrna, and the officers of
the Emperor of Austria found out he was there
and seized him violently and in contradiction
and contravention of the laws of nations
Call in your thoughts for moment, and look
at the desolateness of his situation What hope
was there for him! He was in the hands Of
one of the mightest monarchs of Europe; he
looked around and there were the fleets of all
the soveregns of Europe, but there WAS no rep
resentative of the United States there. Dark,
indeed was that day for the poor exile; but it
happened, day after there was seen moving
up the Bay of Smyrna a little gallant soop.of
war, and at her masthead floated that flag
with the stars and the stripes. Great cheer
ing. When Koszta saw that he thought there
was hope, and from the day when the star of
Bethlehem led the wise men to the infants era
die, where reposed he who was to shed a new
revolution on the world, and who was 10 light
even the darkness of the grave, there was no
star that beamed with such effulgence as that
star on the breast of Koszta. Loud applause
My friends it may be said, this was 6" &C
cidental" Oh, yes-accidental! There are
some men, however, 80 superstitous as TO be-
lieve that there is God in heaven who reigns
over the world, and they believe that, instead
of being accidental" it was Proyidential
Applause. Not to 60 to much detail may
say that little ship was fortunate in another
particular: she happened to have a man in
command of her, who has, what am sorry to
say every individual commander has Dot-he
had heart Applause And when he was
told of the position of Kozsta--that he was an
individual entitled to and claiming the pro-
lection of the American flag, what did he do
He asked Kozsta, did he claim the protection
of the American flag? and on the second in
terview he said he did "And you shall have
it." said the commander. Enthusiastic ap-
plause.
There is another feature in this affair which
| confess strikes my fancy wonderfully and
that is, Captain lngraham made short work of
it. 1t was now about eight o'clock in the
morning and the final message was sent to
the officers Of the Austrian man ofwar, that
Kozsta must be delivered up by eleven O'Clock
A. MIN three hours-not the time that it
would take to make one prosy speech about it
in Congress iApplause. If KOszta was not
| delivered up in three hours they were to learn
what Captain Ingraham had in reserve to try
the question. [Applause There is another
thing about it. lngraham was prudent
mantle word was given to have the ship
ready for action. Applause Every man at
his post; and there was hurrying to and fro,
| and all the preparations were made that could
possibly be made for the desperate contingent
| cy of the fearful contest that was befose him
The force on tho other side numbered forty
guns, and he had but twenty Some people
think that great discrepancy; not 80, my
friends, to the brave captain--it was only two
to one. The word was given to prepare fol
action and there might be seen all the prep
arations for the cOnfict--there the surgeon
getting ready the dreadful appliances he had
in reserve for those who were 80 unfortunate
as to get wounded and the Austrian saw that
Ingrsham meant what he said, and before the
hand of eleven O'Clock had arrived, Koszta
was sent on shore. Applause.
| What language can add to the sublmity OF
that simple recitsll There was that little flag
at the masthead of vessel of twenty guns,
and she was surrounded by the feots of the
most powerful empires on the earth but her
gallant and intrepid commander put himself
in the situation Of brave man who knows
how to assume and with the humble dignity
of his position, and the majesty of the doc
trines he proclaimed he achieved triumph
in the face of all the old Powers of the earth
| Applause Now, | tell our precedent friends,
they cannot ind precedent for IT, No. it is
a new era in the history Of the world | tell
you that the image of Liberty advanced some
degrees that day on the alplate Of human
destiny, further than it advanced any day be-
fore. Applause
And now, my friends, the question is put to
you, Shall the shadow ever 90 back on that
dial, [Cries of No, Mol or will you maintain
it where it is? My friends it is most gal
liant act | tell you it is like the Fall of Nj.
agara when you first look at it. it does not
come up to the conception you have formed
but as you stand there hour after hour and
look in silent astonisbment and wonder at this
great creation Of the Almighty hand, and it
grows on you, and swells out into all the mag
nitude which it is calculated to excite in the
breast of that one who looks upon it with the
right emotion And 30 it is with this transac-
ton: the longer we look upon it, the grander
it seems, the more lofty are its proportions,
and the moro momentous the consequences that
are to follow it,
Well, it is said that Austria, Russia, and
Prussia, have protested against it, and it is in
timsted that England and France have joined
in the protest do not exactly know what
"protest" means in political parlance, but
understand that in mercantile affairs pro
test " is the winding up Of series of measures
which is calculated TO charge the drawer and
cndorscr with the bill. Laughter and ap-
plause think if that is all the object they
had in protesting they might have saved their
protest for some other occasion. A great deal
has been said as to the view the Administra-
ton will take of it. The people have approved
OF it-down deep in their hearts they have en-
tered their verdict and judgment upon it. and
it cannot be shaken; and woe to the party and
destruction to the Administration that under
takes to reverse it. Applause.
1t has been said, with truth, that this is des-
tined to be question that will enter largely
into the discussions and questions Of the times
that are coming on us. Il seems AZ if we had
lived up to that period when the truths that
have been proclaimed for generation after gen.
Grafton and century after century, have be-
come so fixed in the minds Of men that they
are about to produce their legitimate fruit it
does seem to the eye of faith that the fulness
Of time has well nigh come-as If the hosts OF
Freedom the world DER were about to marshal
themselves for the great contest which IL to set
tie for future generations the questions which
our iorefathers settled on this continent. Those
hosts are marahalled and have been in DAYS