Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-01-12
CONGRESS and Captain Insraham.

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on the pnd Of July last, in extending tire protec-
t;on of the American government to Martin kosz-
IA, and rescuing him from forc;bic and Illegal
seizure and imprisonment ea board the Austrian
hrir of war, Huzzar, " and requests the Presi-
dent TO cause medal--with sei,able devices--to
be made and presented TO hdn vas testimonial
of the high sense entertained by Congress of
his vslor, rromptness and judicous conduct on
the above mentioned occasion. "
From the debate which followed III appel
that the resolution was designedly 50 worded as
70 avoid all expression of opinion as regarded
THE citizenship of koszia,and forebore intention
ally to mention the reason ju-iifying Capt, LIS
interposition Messrs. Bayly, Millson and Smith,
of Virginia, were among the speskers-each APP
proving the conduct of Capt. L. but each for
different reason. Mr.. Millson said he did not
concur in much oil the reasoning ct the Secreta-
nv of State. lin his reply 10 the Austrian Minis
teri and wished to examine the resolution 10 sec
whether it committed Congress to the assertion of
questionable principles, and whether it was so
framed that he could support it.
Mr. Bayly said the country had been too long
tho plaintiff lie wanted new era. lie wanted
to see this nation sometimes the defendant "
He apprc we'd Capt lngrahams conduct thorough
ly and entirely.
Mr.. Chandler, of Penn, said. that few months
ago, while abroad,he had the opportunity OF listen
ing 10 discussions upon this question,and though
many doubted whether we were not involving
oatselves in diictaaics, in undertaking to de-
fend a citizen whoseclaim not full ono, still
they believed that humanity and the progress OF
human rights justified the action of Capt ingra-
ham and called for applause upon IL.
Mr.. Smith, of Alabama, the same who moved
the arrest and prosecution of Kossuth while he
was in this country, replied to the remarks Of
one of his colleagues, basng Rosetta justification
on the great law Of humanity, and declaring that
the aaction OF Congress called for by the
-.movenent of ahe American heart" in the follow
ing pthy speech
Mr.. SMITH, said he would vote against
the resolution in all its forms. On former ocea-
sion he was in minority 81 onc, when rcsoiu-
ton wilder aud frantic and enthusiastic
ahnn this, was before the House. Therefore he
did not dread mnorties. 1t now proposed
TO thank a simply for doing his duty IN an
extraordinary manner. 1t was not surprising
that some CONSERVATION was caused by u man
doing his duty, when two hundred and thirty
seven men waste fifteen days of the first month
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ture time show that The letter of the Secretary of
State is fun of fallaces, however deliberately mud
ingenously drawn. 1t has more tallacies than
any like document of the last % years. lie
took the liberty of denying the doctrines assert
ed in that letter. His colleague (Nlr. phlps)
said they responding TO the great movement
of the American heart. Statesmen hud better be
governed by the head; the Statesmen who follows
the heart, would be like Pericles at the feet of
Aspasa, and Sampson in the lap of Denh.-
lLaughter.) He remembered the wdness of the
country about Kossuth, and now they were wild
about koszta--a parallel case. Some of the gem
tlemen who are now so earnestly CONNIE ding In
graham, refused to give to the gallant Scott a
simple compliment. Let us be consistent.--
When Capt. Long in the frigate Mississippi, at
Marseilles, prevented a rupture between France
and the United States, which rebeous kossuth
was endeavoring TO produce, his great frmness
was denounced from end of the country TO
the other by the papers, pandering to the public
heart, and the distraoting foreigner. The House
actually refused to print his letter of yindieaton
lie remembered another case. When Capt. Hun
ter alone captured Mexican town, he was
tried by Court Martial and dismissed from SER
vice. He thought it time these things should
cease. As a man he applandcd Capt. lngraham,
but did non wish to commit the government 10 an
act of questionable proprety.
Mr.. Smith, of Va, (Extra,) in the course Of
his remarks, said that the Committee aa Foreign
Affairs had skuked their duties in order to avoid
a commitment. He insisted that the Secretary
of State does not justify Captain lngraham on the
ground that koszta was in whole or in part an
American citizen. lie should vote for no resolp-
ton unless the conduct of Capt. Ingraham was
placed ON a principle to which he wished to be
committed.
Mr. GERrlr SMITH, tof N.Y. the old abolition
dotard said that he would not have risen bat for
the remarks of the gentlemen from Alabama mir
Smith,) He would say to him, the heart is the
schef ingredient of his fellow man, in all the inn
aginable circumstances of life. He approyed
FROM the bottom of his heart, the resolution be-
fore the House, and hoped it might pass unani-
mously. He liked the resolution especially and
exceedingly, because it avoided all questions of
nationality aud citizenship, and because il justi-
fed the act of Captain lngraham on the ground of
humanity. He was glad to hear the gentleman
from Virginia, aud the gentleman from South Car
.elina jastifying Captain lngraham on that broad
ground He held the law of humanity TO be
paramount-iust that law, without which, in
Bible language. there is no law. He could not
admit any law which overlooks and outrares and
brushes humanity. He knew of no law for the
destruction of rights. He reioiced that the re-
solution represents Captain Ingraham as not suf
fering his sympathy for his fellow man to be
bound by state or national lines He saw in
lhoszta a man kidnapped q outragcd,an because
he was man, Captain Ingraham determined TO
rescue him. lie was pleased with the quotation
of the gentleman from Penns ylvania Mr. Chan
,dler,) "He gives twice who gives quickly:n this
associated at once another latin quotation, name
ly: ''Nothing is foreign to me which concerns hu
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