Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-16

use whatever means were according to the laws OF
way and of nations to get possession OF bis coun-
try end be restored to what he claims to be DIS
owD rightful Office. Let me take the case OF Mr..
acknowledgements Kossuth-in regard to whom
the Senate exhibited the civilized world the re-
markable spectacle of inviting him here 10 snow
himself off. Some few years since, be went through
the United States begging aid and comfort."maS
terisl aid !" think, was his term-to enable him
90 back and reinstate himself IN the power from
which he had been thrust by Russia and Austria.
By whom was General Walker driven out OF me
presidency of Nicaragua? Was it by the people oil
Nicaragua? Il was by foreign INVASION, aiueo oy
Commander Davis of the United states Navy, tnas
he was driven from power. Costa Rica invaded
Nicaragua: Honduras and the other Central Amer
lean States Joined in the invasion; and he was thus
driven out Governor Kossuth said a foreign in
vasion had driven him out; and be got not only
sympathy, but, | think, disgraceiul sympaSny,
from this BODY believe the Senator from New
York was one of the leading spirits in paying ho-
mage and tribute that distinguished refugee, who
was driven from his own country, as admit, by
fJreign bayonets.
I saw there ia no law authorizing the President
to make this arrest, and he can have no such au-
thorty unless you give him a right to use the Arr
nv and Navy for the purpose OF engaging ID the
civil wars on this continent. That Is where the
case stands it cannot be evaded or avoided SEN
ators may vaunt the distinguished Commodore
Paulding, whose coarse brutality must be admit
ted by every human being who has read the cor
respondence. 1t shows that he IL totally unht to
discharge any duty. The language which he uses
shows that he is not only unworthy to be the COM
mander of ship, but that he is 10 worthy TO De It's
cabin boy. He violates all the courtesies and de-
cencies of official intercourse in tramplng upon an
| individual who with his men committed miracles
of valor, as he himself says. He, in ship OF war,
with four hundred men, bears down upon one
hundred and fifty vsgabonds, runaways, muroerers,
and pirates, as he politely designates them.
Sir, it will not do to get rid OF this question oy
| denouucing General Walker and his men. AS has
been properly asked this floor, if the President
| of the United States enforcing your own laws,
| if he had the right to capture these men, why mas
| he not held them amenable to the laws OF the
| United States? Why does your aged and venera
| ble Secretary of State say, when General walker
| is brought before him, 4" take him away nave
nothing to do with him do not bring him near
me?" Why turn loose in one OF your ports, WITH
out succoT, without friends, without means, one
| hundred and fifty men who are you DO not kho"
whst-Americans or Nicaraguans? The Govern,
ment seems to have found itself in a scrape, ana
it threw away, will not say the stolen goods, bat
the evi of its wrong; it dropped them al
the first port and then comes to Congress and at
| tempts to vindcate, before the nation and the
world this outrage on our Constitution and on the
law of nations, by turning round and villiylng the
actors in this scene; and believe the President
attempts to mend the matter by quoting Scripture