The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1851, Page 4

: ery peop! chosse for itself, and make and alter its political insti- tutions to suit its own condition and convenience. I take “ y ground upon this principle esta- Diirhea by Washi making the basis of your own existence, and nd acknowledged by your very eeent govermment—only to show that {em aware of | Eoc‘petity and political opinion of your presest govern: | ment, also, I beg leave to quote your present Secre- | tury Cf State, Mr. Webster's, statement, who, in bis speech on the Greek question, speaks so :--“ The law of petions maintains that, in extreme cases, resistance is lavful,axd that one mation has no right to iaterfere im the affairs of another.” Well, that precisely is the ground upon which we Hu: staud But! may, | perbs ps, meet the objection! am sorry to say I have met it sivesdy—* Weill, we own that it has been violated oy _ Russia in the case of Hungary, but, after all, what is | Hi tous! Let every people take care of itself, whet isthatto us’ So some speak, it is the old doc- trine cf private egotiam, » Every one for himself, and God | for a.” I will answer the ebjection, not by my own | bumble views, but again by the words of Mr. Webster, | who, io his alluded to speech on the Greek question. baying prcfessed the sovereign right of every nation to cispese of ita own concerns to be a law of natioas— thus « going on, ~ But it mey be asked ‘wha: is all ‘that to us’? The question is essily answered. We are one cf the nations, and we asa nation, have precisely | the same interest in international law as 4 pri- vete individual has im the laws of bir Rang 4 ‘You see, gemtlemen, I had in a good suthority quate tie waeahe au son honorable Secretary of War professes, is « principie of eternal truth No man ean Cisavow it, no Tg can disavow it Thus I am in the happy condition to address my humble prayers in that respect, not to 4 party, but to the whole — ople of the United states, which I will go on to do so oe ‘ne I have no reason to contemplate one party op- posite or indifferent to my country's cause, because else of course I would have to address those who are friends, ‘and not those who are either indifferent or antagonistic. it may be from certain quarters avowed. ~ Well. we acknow! the justice of that principle of every nation’s sovereign right; we acknowledge it to be # law of nations that no forelgn power has @ right to interfere in the af- faire cf another, and we are determined to respect thi common law of mankind, but if others do not respect | ‘that Law, it is not our business to meddle with them = L+t ‘That is an acknowledged principle of the United States. Consequently every nacion is in respect to interna- | tiotal law, precisely in the same condition as a pri- ete individual is in respect to the Inws of his country. Well, «hat is the condition of private individual in Ferpect to the laws cf his country’ it only that he bas himself not to violate the law’ or ie it that so far ‘ee is in his power he should also prevent others to vio late the law’ Suppose you see that a wicked man is | ‘about to rob—te murder yeur neighbor, or to burn hi bouse, will you wrap yourself in your own virtuous law- fulness, ard say, “i don’t rov—don’t marder—don't burn; but what others do is not my business. I am not my brother's keeper. I sympathize with him; but | am wot obliged to help him that be may mot be robied, murdered, or burnt.” What bonest man of the world would answer so’ None of you. None of the people of | ‘the United States. I am sure That would be the damaed | maxim of the Pharisees of cld, whe thanked God that they were not as others were. Our Saviour ws not > tent to ge bimeelf treading im the ball of the tempie, be ted driven cut thoee who were treading there. N. ‘whet the duty of an individual is in respect to th of his country, the same duty hes a nation, in respect to ivternaticnal law. This duty has no other limit, but | oaty the power to fulfil it. Of course, it camnot be ex- ed that the republic of St. Marino, or the Prince of Tinaseee, should stop the Czer of Russia biticus annoyance. It was ridiculous when the Prince of Modena refused to recoguise the goverament of Louls Philppe—but “to whom much is given, will much be expected from him,” seye the Lord) And every coa- @tcn hes not only ite rights, but also its owa @eciree; and any ome who is in the condition to be s power om earth bas the duty to consider lmself, es & part of the executive power of man. Kind, called to maintain the law of vations Woe. a thourend{cld woe to humanity should there be mobody epesrth to maintain the laws of humanity. Woe to Bomacity, should even those who are as mighty as they are free uct feel interested in the maintenance of the lows of mankind—becaure they are lawe—but only ia 0 far ae some scanty momey interests would desire it. Wee to humanity, if every derpot of the world may dare to trampie down the laws of bumacity, end po free nation Grises to make respected these laws. People of the Unied Grates, Dumanity expects that year glorious republic ‘Will prove to the world, that republice are founded o YVirtce—it expects to see you the guardians of the la of bumanity. Well. I will come to the last poasible jection. I may be told, You areright in your prinsiples, Your cause is jast,and you have our eympathy; but, afver ‘0. we cannot ge to war for your country; we camnot fur- mith ya armics and fleets; We canmot fight your battle foryea”’ Thereiethe rub Who cen exactly teil what Werld bave been the issue of your own struggle for in- Gependerce tho: your country war ina far happier phical position than we, poor Bungarians. should ce hare rach an an<wer to yeur forefathers in ‘T778 and 1781, instead of —* x a eight men -cf-war troops. 2 = — Poms can of nineteen millions’ And, what is far more than all this dees it not show that France resolved ‘Wich ail ite power to espoure the cause of your indepen- vence? But, I will be told that France did this rot ext of love jom, but eut of hatred against England. ‘Well, let it be: but let menlso ask shall the cause of ied times— hatred—be more efficient im the destinies mankind than love of freedom principles of ‘tWe iawe of ap my A I wilt be told that Burcpe te so far from But let me ask is Ame Tice iB the days of steem navigetion more distant from Berope to day than France wae from America seventy- three years ego’ However. | most solemaly declare that it ie cet my imtention to rely Lit u this ¢xam- ple. It ie not my wish to mangle the United States in ‘War, cr to engage your great people to out aries And teets to Teewere Hungary to its sovereign indep-n- | Genee Not at all, eentiemem; I most eclemnly declare 1 beye never entertained euch expectations, euch rie here [come to the practical point. be principle of evil in Europe is the enervatiag spirit ¢f Russian sbeolution, It is upom this rests the dari: beidmees of every petty tyrant to trample upon pressed ations to erurh down liberty. To joioeh of | emtition bee fallen # victim my poor mative land. It is ‘this With which Mentalembert threatems the French re- pobleane. It i¢ Rusian intervention in Hungary ‘which ecremned French intervention im ficms. and gave ihe temerity to German tyrants to erust down al! the exérovore for freedom and unity in Germany. The des- pete cf the European continent are leagued against the demeftbe world That ie a matter cffaet. Toe erect matter of fect i# that the European continen: i+ OD theeve of eaew revolution. It is net necessary to be initiated im the -eeret preparations of the European. democracy to be aware of that approsching contingency It ie printed out by the French cometitution iteel!. pre sorting & new tial election for the nex: «pring New, suppese that the ambition of Louis Napoleon en- otumerd by Russian recret aid. awaits this time o I scarcely believe.) and suppore that there will be « ‘ofl sclutéen euch as weald make eomtented nde of the Republic in France; of cou of the pew French President must be. at ‘the Prench troops from Kome Nobody t thet © revoiaticn Fill follow if not preosde this recall. im [:aly Or if there is bo peaceful solution im France, but @revo- joticn, then erery mam knows that whenever ¢ Of France boil circumptances before our eyes cam it be conve: fuck s creat power as this glorious Reyubite. t it t break, and Bly to discuss and decide what jog to take in your foreign ae under the leet President. at « la! o argh dynasty failed to schiew While home iehated 2: Feepectiaily entrent the people of time to exp be pursued iy es your lrerident opeuly proiesses tha: ‘there is p 2 a thea fere in that igo right of not to admit any other powers But you will, peri object to m iT no—thet it is ne ad ted to that effect’ It ix wanted, ihe precarious condition ef erope, goers ont ahould, ae soon as ponsivie, nd inetructions toy . Minister at Lomdom, to deviate sb govery.cent that the ae 1gn tight of every nation t own domestic concetms, have reecived not to 0 interfere any foreige pow. chem Keht tn order to repress O Ray country Consequently f Saint Jamer to unite wich hie policy, and to deviate tb ived to net comjoim iy om, in the case of that the Kuropean continent, whist foresee If nrieed their herpitelity. would i Will, by parang conreni« them ‘to their petional by all constitutions press would besten t Fimilar centemif in onsen Reveroment would inetrac cor and by @ convenient Congress give, fo an it is we do. pu etep. i om entirely cure thet you wou ple t Briteim hearty joining word 4 7 ea1 no exicting ation © i ¥ Heegere t y Prevented hecked. and th tecme free, T ax o perhaps, w Goeleret ng ot peur geveroment Will wut be resp | Mey as } fuch practical direction to its generous , &6 LO arrange meetings and pass euch resolu- tions here and there, and in ev this great Union, as I took the above. Why not do so? I age od to & com- should in Cuba z ; z if ! i i what I had the honor to say mittee of Baltimore. Suppose ® revolution oceur, ® revolution from the imhabi- tants ube qhemeetves, and whatever Raropeas ‘0 power would send dewn a fleet to support Spain again this revolution, would y: ‘a admit this foreign interven- tion in e fore) 1 am confident there is not one ip the U country ted Btates suppored case end the case of Hi ference in principle? No. Thi is that Cube is at ix days di the port of Hungary, Fiume, at ‘That ir all ed who would affirm S great, free, and glerious nation as the rd Btate shall be regulated by bours and mot by principles. Al- low me to remark thet there is immense truth in that which the French Legation in the United States ex- rerted to your government, in am able mote of Fits October past which 1” beg leave to quote: — umerica is closely connected with Burope, be- t imp portant of general interes of com- merce. The nations of America and Ei are at this y So dependent upon ome encther, that effects of rd erent. prospercus ¢r otherwise. happe om one je of the Atlantic. ase immediately felt on other side. The result of this community of interests, com- merelal, political, and morsl, between Europe and Ame- rice—of this frequency and rapidity of imtercourse be- tween them, is that it becomes as difficult to point cut the secgrapbical Gegree where American pol- shall termipate, and European policy begin, it is to trace out the line where American commerce begins and Eurcpeam commerce termi- mates. Where may be said to begin or terminate the ideas which are in the ascendant in Burope and in America’ The second measure which I beg leave to mention, bas reference to commercial interest. There bas. in letter times, « doctrine stolen into the code of in- terrationsl law which is even as contrary to the commer- ciel interests of macions ae to their independence The pettiest despot of the world has the faculty to exclude our commerce from whatever port it pleawes to do eo. ‘ehas only to arrange @ bioc! and your commerce is shut eut; or, if down-trodden Venice, bleeding Lom- bardy, or my down oppressed but resolute Hungary, rises to shake off the Austrian tyraut’s yoke, as surely they will, that tyrant believes to have the right, from the very moment, tc ye ee! commerce with the risen nation. Now, thie is en urdity—a tyrannical invention of tyrants, violating ycur interest—your own severeign in- dependence. The United States have not always re- garded things from this point of view. I find, in a note of Mr. Everett. Minieter of the United States in Spain, Gated, “ Madrid. Jan. 2, 1826." these words :—“ In the war between Spain and the Spanish American colo- nies the United States have ‘reely granted to both par- ties the heepitality ef their ey and territory, and bave alowed the agents of beth to procure within Jurie(d@ticn. in the way ct lawful trade, any supplies Which suited their convenience Now, gentlemen, this is the principle which buranity expecte. for your own and for mspkind’s benefit, to see maintained by you, £Ld not yonder fatal course, which admits to tyrante to draw frcm your country wkaterer supply of oppression against thelr naticus. © ids to nati: to bay the means of defence. That it the principle of your Wastington; when ke « of barmony of friendy in- kes care to speak of i leas of tyrants, The sacred word should. at 'y declare that the pecple of tes will carry co trade and continue its commercial interccuree with er nation, be thst Ration ip revolution agains oppressors or not; and that the people of the United States express, with conf- cence frcm ite gcvernmert, to provide for the protection { ce. I am confident thst your national govern- § Public opinion £0 pronounced. will ju it eB! eagment your naval forces in the Me- Gitermenean; and te lock for some ruch station for it which would act force the navy of republican Amerisa to fuch abrogation: towards trran®, which campot be con- Et with republican principles cr republican dignity, decause the king #0-#0, be be even the cursed King eples, gracte you the ‘aver of an anchoring place for the nave! forces cf your republic. I belleve your glorious c*upizy should everywhere freely ungarl the ster-span- gled benrer ef liberty, with ali ite congenial principles, sec Det make iterlf dependent om whatever reapect of the Jorieus smiles of the Iinge Bombaste Compague. The Siva chject Cf my bumble wishes. centlemen. is therecog- vition cf the independence of Hu: Your glorious declaraticn of independence proclaims the right of every nation to assume emong the powers of the earth the se- parate ard equa. riation to whick the laws of mature and matupe’e Cod ——- os. me The political assistance of Year glorious Repubi a1 upon this le, upen thie right My uation stands upon te same ground, and there is # striking resemblance between cause and that c: my country, On the ath Jaly 1076. Johm Adams spoke such in your Congress, ‘dink or twim, live or die. survive or perish. I am for this declara- tien. Tt i the beginu og we arrived not at inde Fendence but “ there is « divicity which shapes our erds.” There noble words were present to my mind on the léth Apri, 1640, when Imoved the Deelaration ef lon OLal Assembly o: ry. Our dependence in toe ¢ and if there be any I wor cf cursaiven Tour soudlty was » Gare ray it ix in before this declaration not « eli-consistimg. Ptate. Hungsry was Throwgh the oe ‘a tones yeers, through evry visied:ude of this period, le nations the self comaist € independence «f Hungary was never disputed, but recognised by all powers of the earth. sanctioned bi treaties made with the Hapsbure Dy . when Cynasty by the free wid of wy mation. and by a bilateral ‘Art wae invested with the kingly crown of Hungary Yep more, this independeror of king war acknowledged te art ef the “re onal law of Burope. aad War guaranteed not only by the foreign But mente euch as Great Pritain, but ioe sutereh these whem yet constitutional etates, w \ the Germen. and. after it» direc empire. This independent condition of Huogary is Cirtr.y Getued in one of var fapdemental laws of 179i, in these words. Tlungary it a free and independent king- cs ite cwn self. istept existence and con- < DCt sulject to any ctber mation or country lp (Be ‘This. cLerefore. was eur aocient righi. We were not dependent frow, ner « part of, the Austrian omy Ur country was dependent ‘rom England leary dened tha: ere (© Austria nothing bord telghberheod, and the only tle between us as thet we slected, to be our kings, eh were ‘also tme ove. upled the fame line of Ainge: but by sccept tbe conseet of the King souls te the dynasty to be our hereditary Kings. ai the cuher franchises, righte and iaes cf the pation soau remain ip ‘ol power and intact; and Car ccumtry eba.i not be governed like the other domin- + sccording to car eonstitaticn- ‘ablisbed authorities We would net belong to Tinks *mpize, because that empire did not exist. OBESE Gid wirendy weariy tw a Cie two bupared tof that disper bly evablished io 180, when a Ree. we confeds racy of Sapo & the death bic w to the German empire, of which Pranciell. of Aue row { tected Emperor mnt profespes Confed tin: but you RBow ¢ cr pe France je net baving ef Hon o Gag The German em te inte Bwyperet Prancie, & “ but ‘» in evtabiiebed 42) tere Crpe re: ome ord dotier, and bet thoiiebed the imam ed eyunl rei te renpom why the abe al tendowey im yearly He would t * epld oot bear i HF : ‘@ farm or fold, To this we answered “ Thou there is a very great difference it ie in our favor. declared your Joubtfal if when we, fs leg when we had y +a bas solemnly declared its consent and adherence to it; 60 it became pot the supposed, but by the whole nation spectively. aes sanctioned by the fundamental laws of . Amd so it i There happened since ing contrary tion on the part of the pation. No coutrary lew nor de- claration issued. One thing only happened,—a foreign wer, Russia, came with his armed men, and, aided by treason, overthrew us fora while. Now. I put the ues- tion before God and humanity to you, free sovereign people of America, can this violation of international! aw abolieh the legitimate character of our declaration of indepeu- dence’ If not, then here I take my ground, because Lam in this very declaration of indepen tence entrusted with the cbarge of Governor of my fatheriand. I ave sworn, be- fore Ged and my nation, to endeavor to maintain ard secure this act of in’ And so may God th ty help me asf wil—I will, until my nation is again im the condition to dispose of its government, which lcs a more, I know, will be a republi- cam. And then I tothe humble condition of my former private life, equalling in one thing, at least, your Washirgton, not in merits, but in bonesty—that is the only embition of my life. Amen So my third humble wish is, that the people of the United States would be by all constitutional means of its wonted P life, to declare that, acknowledging the legitimate character of the declaration of independence of Huogary, it is apxjous to greet Hungary amongst the independent sof the earth, and invite the government of the Batted Btates to recognise this independence at the ear- Mest convenient time, Thatisall. Let me see the prin- announced; the rest may well be left to the wisdo: your with some confidence in respectful discretion aleo. And so, gentlem reepectiully stated what are my humble requests to the sovereign ay of this country, in its public and political capacity. It is that the people of the United States may be pleased, by all constitutional means, to declare—First, that. feeling interested in the maintenance of the laws of nations, acknowledging the sovereign right of every poo- | le to dispose of its own domestic concerns to be ove of laws, and the interference with this sovereign | right to be a violation of these laws of nations, the peo- ple of the United Btates—rerolved to respect and to make reepected theee public lawe—de-lares the Russian past in- | tervertion in Hungary to be a violation of these laws, which, if reiterated would be « new violation and would not Le regarded indifferently by the people of the United States —that you, therefore, in' cordingly. and so invite Great Britain to unite with the United States in this policy. Second, that the people of the United States is resolved to maivtain its right of commercial intercourse with the nations of Europe, whether they be ina state of revolution against their erpments or not—and that with the view of approach- ire scenes on the continent of Europe, the people invites t tection of the trade of the 2d. That the people of ‘on the Mediterranean.sad United States pro ite opinion in er to the uestion of independesee of Hurgery,eo as I had the honor to s! I hope no body can reproach me to have done by this anythizg inconsi: it with the high regards which I owe to the United States. or not pe to my capacity. I would regard it as @ ve cious and benefictal thing, if those generous men who sympathize with the cause Hupgary would form committees through the different parte of United States, with the purpose to occcasion appropriate meetings, to pass such resolutions as I bad the honor humbly to suggest. So much for the genarous people cf the United States, in ite public and political cepacity. And if that sympathy which [I have the | bonor to meet with in the United States is really in- tended to become beneficial to the cause of my poor native land, then there i¢ one humble wish more which'I anxiously entertain. But that is « vate business; it ie a rvepectfal appeal to the generous Keelings otindividuals. Gentlemen, {would rather statre than rely, for mytelf and family, on foreign aid; but. for | my country’s freedom, I would not be asbamed to goa beg. Fs from door to deor, (Greet cheering ) Gentlemen, man finencial sid; money to aseist the cause cf freedcm. and independence of Hungary. 1 tock the advice of some kind friends, if it be lawful to express sech an bumble request, because 1 feel the hon- creble duty neither to offend mor to evade your lawe I au told it is lawful. Thereare two means to see this, my humble wish, acccmplirhed. The first is from fpontenecus cubecription, to put the offerings of kind friends at my disposel, for the benefit of my country’s caure. The second is loam. As to this loan, that a of « more ae to be carried on in 4m appropriate way, requ vate con- vulteticn im a more elese circle. Bo bere I culpmention that if there are such men who are willing to enter into the idea, provided it will be arzapged io an acceptable way, I would most humbly entreat them to enter inte # private communication about the subject with me; ak secondly. | express my conviction that ¢ven this matter of loan could be efficiently promoted by the other mesrure of free, gratuitous subscriptions, «bich weuld afford me Se meenenenay ae SS ee — — of ‘_ ey itee! oa as to there ecbecr: i was brought home to my mind ty epeee wee very generous letter, which I had = honor to receive, which Ibegtoread It is as follows— x. Lows th ., Nov. 14, 1851. y= —Sie—T neurance and ‘on me for SMEAD. Crmciws ast, Kossurm, Governor of orizee the office of the Obio Life M4 , im New York, to honor you r di cae theveabd dcllare,, Respectfully yours, T beg leave here publicly to return my most hum- bie thanks to the gen! for his ample aid, and the delicate manner ip wi be offered it; and it me to my mind, that where one single individual is ready to make euch paerifices to my country’s ceure, there may Perhape be many who would give their wmall share to it, if y were only apprised that it will be thankfully accepted, however small it may be. And it came to my mind then that drops of mi moake an ccran, ard the United State millions of inbebitants allettached with warm —— to the prieciples of if! hb sing! dollars, is even s0 one if it were Poke Eged more Ley because it practically show the sympathy « ‘will comeider it highly beneficial, to see that generous men would throughout the United States, to raise out of the free <flerings of the people, some material aid to freedom It is perl , One of the greatest sacrifices 1 country that I do fo (Great love (Renewed readily I will undergo even this torturing humiliation for ber sake. Would I were so happy as But your Warbington wes, when for your glorious country’s | inke, in the hours of your need, be also called for money in France Sir, I bave done. Conscious of ne personal merit, | came to your shores a poor, persesuted exile, tut you poured upom me the triumph of a welccme ruch ae the world bes never yet seen, and why! uteck me representative of that ee, powerful coms a welcome Tee priecipie of free Bs poor, pereecuted. pemmiless exile Diersed for it! Your generous deed will be through all posterity; and, aa even mow, millions ct Burepes we their ot thelt 0, through all posterity, oppressed men look te your memory &* to a token of God that therg is a hope fer freedom on earth, because there iv a people like you to fee] ite worth and te ruppert ite cause. ‘The great Muygar thus concluded, exactly at eleven © clock, bavigg cocupied two boure and a belf; and the moet overwhelming applause and waving of haodker- chiefs ecntioued for several minutes, which wae but the repetition of many similar reeues during the delivery of one Of the moet magnificent addresses ever uttered. Never did any man meet a more emthustastic reeeption im thie or any other country. When order wee reetored, Alderman & himself, as much excited as any of jence, raid—Gentiemen, we have ell heard from lipe of the perrecutel Governor of Hungary, his ° We haveall beard bis three disiact I rise now to put to youthe question— ree proporitione submitted by the Governor tard ee the resolutions ef thie meeting and deafening applause, “They shall Put the question man Brae —Ie th this meeting’ If there are any, let the maye be heard (Otles of “None; “Not one,’ and looks at Col. Webb ) x God thie ie the fret verdiet given by the mbiege in thie country, on the hopes aud pray- ers of down-tro Hungary. (Tremendous applause, and criee ef “Pa quertion--Pat the question.””) Mopor Kiros men, you will please prepare fer the third regu; - ‘The Oneet ef the Wat man of the seo—Raile wind dao viet uee, wisfertene hit prestnese; his glory waite 1poe the oe ¢ of nis comnery Mer Pr Morr das follow ren -It le with andiseembled barge the of the Commen nd tha resp arure y f ont at fi asm th . d at t veroe of which have n 20 wtrOng 1 apon oar or with nV ington pas and nish, I wer arc thie or appr © eplurged wud liberal an iden of fr erdom, ana are so | ite your government to act ac- | « government to take appropriate measures for the pro- | aces | ot | any contrary opinion among | Bond we inherit from Ories of “ Raymond—Raymond—Raymon’’” and “Bit an! iio 9 | dowm-—Bit down!”’—the latter directed to Col. Webb. pA imagine Raymond Webb floor. sctase cies "iio tineey | oe ater agg EEE is faruus which ome | Bit down!” as before. n which weave vo | Great confusion, and Col. Webb laughs and attempte and poor— | to sey scmething to Raymond, but is inaudible. their own “ Bit dewn—Bit down!” “Reymond—Reymond!” and interference with clapping of bands. @ol. Webb still keeps his “ Bit down,” “Sit down.” “ Hurrab,” “ Hugrah.”” Raymon —Mr. Chairman, I only rose to perform the duty assigned to me by the Committee of Arrangements. all respects mature pleases. Col. Ween still stands and laughs. admiration, our A bim ny bes a oe a eee, ee ae ee arm, and attempts to cause which all have so much at itembraces | F7€ en, 2 ; the sufferings and the sacrifices which the illuetrious Cries of ‘Sit down,” Great noise and confusion. “Reymond,” “ Reymond,” “ Silence,” “ Bilence,”” « $i- | was dear to him asa man, and Col. Wenn sets down. slot hor footate, Considerable applause. Half the company rise, cheer, nes have tod and wave thelr Handkereblef. * ‘Hurran,? « Hurrab,” obscure retreat, and have suffered | “ Burreb.” « Bilence,”’ “ Silence, gentlemen.” Mr. Raymonp prot with his yb. Ma. Mayon anv Gentiemen = bee leave to say that his banquet) Ly the Committee, sod if had t . om) 5; aD meet 7 tee Iwas, in any respect, forcing my- the attention of this meeting my voice should bis forth into the highways of » preaching ite eae. » and her eross emblazoned @ crusade aguinst ty- shout the civilized world. is With her emblem beld upon his shoulder, he be ellent upon this occasion. ranny end oppression t! But. when I have « du! stirring eloquence strikes a cord to which every free heart | to perform, I do not rest easy tillitis done. (Applause. readily responds.and isawakening the might thatslumbers | I return you, Mr. Mayor, on of preiieien to | inthe people's arm. Heaven grant that he yet return | which I ‘heve the honor , the most cordial to the Palestine of his affections, sccom, by such | thanks for the compliment by the toast just hordes of followers ss will emable him to remove the | read.and, I peed not derives ten-fold | defilement of infidel despotism from the Holy Sepul- | force frcm the has been | chre ip which his country’s freedom is entombed. I am | connected. We t the | glad to knew that in there sentiments al) will readily | netion’s and the profes- unite, But for my individual self, [ am disposed toco | sions unite in honor sud still further. In doing so, I beg that I may be under- it to the statesman of this stood as intending to utter my own sentiments only. | age; to the foremost and the hij among the many champions of liberty which age boasts—to ted to prowlee him thet epethie, hopes opes and wid i and to promire e ry 8, ani les for the future. nt ane) Mr. Mayor—no time is so fitting to declare the hostility of the Press to tyrante, and the hostility of tyrants to the Press, as the presence of the Hu: leader. We of the Prens are — to remember that he began his career in its pro- ssicn; we rejoice in the yht that it wae with the pen and through the Press that he struck the blow egainst the tyranny of Austria. He has pined in a dun- on because bis Sees wen the voice of freedom, and caure it threatened to crush his t: sto the earth. I am the mouth-piece of the Oommon Council of this city, only so far as to respond in fitting terme to the sentiment which has just been uttered. My position compels me to move in s0 contracted a circle, that I cannot even know whether my feelings will mevt a re- tponee from apy considerable — of my country- | men; but they are buried so deep in my heart that I | eamnot withhold their utterance, leaving to your iutel- ligence and good senee, to give them such reception as | you may deem them to merit See hands, The | principle of non-intervention in the affairs of other peo- | ple, has, from the first organization of our government, een ® cardinal one with us. When first promalgated, i | | | it was in am eminent degree wise and necessary, | It bas been my duty as a member of the Press to foliow for we Were thena feevle people thi Scattered overa the hittory of the great Baers struggle. I have uy | comparatively unsettled country, and entangling a!lian- ces night then have strangled cur national existence in ite infancy, and have blotted out from among men the nucleus of freedom which has since so overshadowed the esrth. Half a century has since then roiléd into the endeavored to do so, and form an impartial Judgment om its character; aud I know I speak the opinions and belief of this meeting, when I say, no country made a greater e! jle for constitutional free- dem then Hungary. That is not yet over; it bosom of eternity, and we have become a might) ple; | bas only been suppressed for a time, by a foreign power. and can rafely “ — the roi. Fe mont The mor: star of Hungary bas ri here to-night. the separate and equal station to which the laws of na- | (Cheers) ‘¢ bave seen the radiance of that rising, ture and of nature's God entitle” us Our territory ex- | and we sre ap to rejoice when is shall shed fort! tends from the frozen regions of the North to the bu the fullnees of its light. I have heard, to-night, such an | ing heats at the equator; our shores ure washed by the exposition of American law and American duty, made by | two it oceans which divide the earth. Twenty-five | wen who bas not been ten days upon our shores, as 1 milliove hearts here beat in unison at freedom’s touch, | bave never heard fall from the of apy man before. and the pumber is constantly augmenting by the tide | The accuracy with which historloal events were traced, acuteness and power with which sophistry was de,and truth ¢licited; the calm firmness with which national law was expounded, and the duty of every member of the great family of nations which is daily bearing to our shores the hard hands and | Murdy bearts of the old world. by thousands upon thou- sands. Have we not, then, arrived at the condition when | it will be safe for us to aseume the position which | belongs te us? Nay.more It is to the | set forth, created im my breast the most pro- | which is now invok found estonishment. The peetenl question remains, | we owe the happiness and prosperity th: will thet exposition of national law and national duty be echoed and acted upon by the of this For the preu—-ibe indepen = which forme ite opinions Cut prejudice, I answer, repuolic’ dent press--for that press nd draws its conclusions with- it will. (Applause) That creat 5 | large an extent. Do we not, for all this, owe rometbiog to the giver of all good, beyond mere barren thanks’ Do not love to mansnd gratitude to God, call upon us for | | romething more than mere lip-service’ lor my own self I feel di and em ready to acknowledge the eblige- power—fcr such it is—that prodigious instrument in tion which reste upon us as @ people, free excugh to be | the Lande of man=will be on the side of Hungarian { happy, amply wire to be dircreet, and full mighty to | freedem; andIeay, for myself, that so tar as my in- ante self, I am pret to see our | fvere id my power one of the sentiments pared country enforce upon the nations of the civilized worid, | the obligation cf non-interference to which we have #0 faithfully adkered from the beginning, and prociaia | abreed to des] j Wherever it mey be found, that, as we will mot interfere in the domeutic affairs of others, even in hebalt of truggling freedom, they sball not in- terfere to erurhit. If this polity has been wise in it willbe equally wise inthem. If it bas besn jus! fiabe for us to resist the cry for aid which bas come | up to us opee and again fom the down-trodden masrer, | itis equally cbiigatory vpon others to disregard the EE fer belp to enslave and oppress. Ihave notem- | d these views without consclousners of the con- fequences which may follow. But, I confess, I do nct Feder a! that spy warlike conflict would ensue from ir ado) €xpreseed by our great guest to night, shall want an ad- Yocate upon there ehores. To my mind it wee clearly proved that it was the duty of this great mation to stand up for the common right of all rations to change itsown ~— —— it, and should we not — this juty fearl-sely? we to perform our duty’ No! (once We . Was that word “fear” ever suf- fered to prevent the Ameriagn people from yeaa tbeir opinion, ond giving their aid in favor of oppress bumanity’ If timidity ie to restrain then is our nature ot charged. Fear of foreign monarchs or despots ' if this ie to restrain us from the performance of our doty. then I ehall be prepared to repudiate all faith in republice for ever. A republicaniem based on cowardice —tpon the fear that we will suffer in the performance of tion. The time, however, has gone by, when | s duty, is beyond my conception. We sprung into being the sword alone settled the destinies of man; nod the | thrcugh cur courage, and God Frgat thet when wo love pare and the pen are now the mighty instruments of | that, we shall have nothing to for. I have no ap- isemancipation. Think you, that if the free nations of | pr ) however, of for it has been proved that the earth should unite in urging upon all governments | peace cen only be d by our exhibiting a determi- the adoption of these views, that there is any despot in | bation to have the right of nations to self-government Burepe hardy encugh to withstand them? How soon | re ted and acknowledged. Wi nu proclaimed the | the purse would te empty, end the resources ex- | right, the pepe, Xd the people of this country to bausted, that had hitherto depended for their strength ablish their own of government, and of every upem eubsidies ard loans trom those free nations! | other ccuntry todothe same. Are tyrants not disposed How scor weuld-the spiri: of resistance that now slam- | tortrike down the liberties ee tae wherever they ear can’ We know that it is only which restreins them; and ie net that the best reason that republics thould takea firm stand upon this great principle? I ‘wieb to say. om behalf of the press, which I represent bers Dut is not dead: among the subjects of deepotiess be awekened to fearful ection! Thins you if Eng- lard and America, France toomif Prance should ever happen to be free of which there is indeed some roepect—if they should unite in adop' this . | tonight, and om bebalf the great principles of thie toatl resi not form the te ef rea me pom (hat there is not os 4 ~. = = oe army, with its left resting on Sweden and ite right on | creat measures proposed wi : ~J would wither and fail ot sustain, urge and enforce upon thore who hate the control of the destinies of the people of this country. I trust that these measures wil prove effectual few ry y aeemhe bape: pep ions 1 bette the peeple of Hungary are to cope with Austria an: li ber power, and to maintain her owm independence, Italy, before which —- down? The greet confiict between freedom and des potism among civilize tions is yet to be fought, and, come when it may, we cannot hope volved in it. And how much wiser 10 eacape to. end beneficial would physical | ster— | and to make such form of; vot as shall seem best foree. Then, aod me fy win gh Eye et our Ameri: the position that dese: hands jumanity. that foreign na- weed of ne pases on. hall not be allowed to at them down; and whose heart and life | Koseuth listened with the greatest attention to this speech of Judge Edmcends, and bowed thanks to those portions of it with which he waspleased. Other parts must » I believe, would lieve that we would be able be cggpinies before many months will N. B. Blunt, Eeq . District Attorney, likewise spoke to the gfeat battle for ‘Seedemn will be | the last toast, a* follows:— renewed in Europe, and that Hungary will. ere long, It would be strange indeed, if, under the circumstances ccunected with this festival, after listening to the burn- ing words and glowing aspirations of him, who has well beem termed the great apostie of human freedom, I rbould shrink from any duty enjoined upon me, and yet I feel myself almost literally impelled to silence. The toenee ofthis evening the pressuce amongst wet tet roenes eve us of the il- lustrious exile, »: one wonderful slocjuence seams to potat | him out as the chosen man ordained by Heaven to work out ip this our day and eo the emancipation of the enrlaved martes cf Eurepe, the rememranee of the | dread sufleringe through which he amd his people | bave passed, their heroic coursge and devotion, | the ruthires and unsparing barberitics practined by | thelr oppressors. alike upom the weak end the | the emg ons the sged—the sturdy man and the female, the horrors of the pastand the hopes of the me, simort to impede my atterance, rete er Sete ra sere When Mr. Raymond finished his remarks, Col. Webb eernyed to speak. His taking the floor was the signal fer an interruption similar to that which previously ecourred, “Mr. Chairman '’-=(Hisses and groams, and “ He can’t proceed ;” ‘Bit down, sit down,” “Hear nim, hear bim.”’) Three cheere for the liberty of the press! Panne Govwin--We have been praising the liberty of the press, and we violate it ourselves. (Hisses and grcens ) Three cheers for the liberty of the press! | future srowd | | a «eld indeed mart be the heart sha eouid not borrow Col Webb egain attempts to speak. ipepirat! cm our honored lame and pasion * Louder, louder,” and much hissing and confusion. | less the man who does not, in feeling st least. respond to : J | that unsheken true dence with which, ueder | Col. Wane preceeds:—Mr. Mayor, I— Alderman S4w—Gentlomen, will you hear, for one mc+ ment! “Sit down—Bit down” “ Publish ft to-morrow in the Courier” (Laughter ) — maintain « few Sd ee aaa Ravxorp—Mr. Mayor—— the land;” when Alderman 8h. w--Gentlemen, silence, for a moment. ‘The Governor would be much pleased to hear the General. ery of liberty equaltty, amd fair Italy, from Raywoxy—Mr, Chairman, I think the press, at any the gloricas round answered ber am py 2 like the “Certainly—certainly"—from some member of the preee. © Order, order.” Tor twenty-four years, Mr. President, nearly a quarter of a century, I have been the sole responsible editor of art, ard | the Courier and Enquirer, And this long period embraces when at Inet. treachery and began to perform ite | © much of the time usually allotted te man here on d teuth cuctraneea fee etree ‘te | earth, thet 1 feet i work, and yal truth succombed for « time to | earth, my right to speak of the press as one tressom and faleshood, when the right of liberty | pag te back upon the past.and who may there. in Italy began to pale, ungrateful France lending her J ae 2s oes being liable to the charge aid te catlogeteh ite free, we still looked forward pL Ay yp seaanel the) tee Larry Py with hope ai en om, ae © ery mene of the deep, day by day, brought toes the glad ‘at liberty to ray, that no people om the face of the earth Lad jaded our country’ And a the throne of spot after despot tottered 4 col jon after concession was made to the up-risen pronle, as constitutional and rep ative liberty | began to take the place so long ururped by absclutiom and bot ry etiee eens iter of our sion.) AD inteitigent av independent proph be content with other than an inte deat press, And ff the press would command ree pect of the people, it must prove iteelf independent of the mere temporary ebulition of popular sentiment in ite tmamediate viel id planting itself fi of Hungary, who ean forget our emotions of sympathy | and sorrow. the devp and rolemm fooling of distros and slocmm which spread o# a pall over the entire lend! But | ageim we felt there yet was hope -Koreuth was stiilalive — | he had escaped the fangs of the blood honnds of tyranny. | Thenks to the gallant, generous, and youthful Sultan ef | Morlem, be is here among ut rting with free | men, ard @eloomed se treemen well know bow to welcome & champion of liberty, We are teaght io Holy Writ, thet our Saviour commanded bis apor. | @e8t principles upom whioh is based that ties to go forth and preach the glad tidings of | COnetitucicn, to which we are indebted for our civil end | solvation to all mankind. The history of the | Teligious liberticn, (Hien from different parte of the | middle ages tells us cf the religious zeal which, aroused | POCM.) The popular voice i¢ not always in ecsordance | by the fervent eicquence of Peter ihe Hermit led on the | With the seber second thoughts of an | aud all past history teaches us that claim for themeclves an mnyrinde of Christian Europe, in the crusade to the Holy | L being cocarlomely errat! asd, to rereue the boly city and sepulch giaep of the infidel, end what eon of libert fe, and giving vent to feeti crmpiain if, in (bis nineteenth eentury of 1 An hot warranted by their more echer judem tn they era, Lovis Kossuth, gifted with aw ek quence equal allow bo such liberty to their press ; but demand of ito | ftrlet adherence to the principles of ou #hd to that ccnstruction of its tghta’sod priv leces which it has pledged iteeif to sustal eoividual in our country claims 1 changing bis not tarparsing as prototype. etrive to aroure & erusade in bebalf of bumen fred that he may rucesed And whil 4h ” henever iS satts ix convenience; t.which we feel im the spread of libe: | ciples, sud the ertebiishment of free gorernm " the press And the tjmpathy with which we witness every strange eit 0 , ofthe ele: | nesinet Cppression. forbid that we should be mente of th see of OB COU pa cace in which (he strong arm of is | & rit dowa ) necked to stifle public pirit © character | pf freedem in eny country.” its bolwark in the judi ler toart— fennited Voice teofom, 18 yran Col. Webb ef the Cmorier ond & er and Mr ihe a natant it ® the heaver al a a both eee eee leaves Iw deeper glcom, (he regior . mond, ef the TYmer, tore at the mene momen, bich it how pesed. 1 rei at. st, thot the Intettigete respond pesple of thie Gog tev ored of Uberty--of their own | of ® cate ons Tine [00 Ged sommons was rate, would be very happy, indeed, to hear the gentleman " rough the ¢ Adriatic and permeated | againet whom the dirapprobation of the m Sanaay cok the Furbotont, eee sens Dot remember fenetbly expressed. aa ery Te | the feelings of and rejoicinge whieh u tidings of Ruogary and the Magyars. And when at bave ever before been bieesed with » public prees 20 | the corthern despot threw his swerd inte the scale, and | POre. 60 ti it, and £0 devoted to Lise onuse of re. | | Gorgey accomplished that which the combimed forces | publican institutfons, ax is the pres of the United ef the banded derpots bad failed to do, and the peridi. | States. And permit me here to add, that the character cus houre of Hepeburg set ite polluted foot oo the neck | Cf Cur press, be it whet it may, is the redestion of, and ; nok whee wl" frou Senne to Rio and from the Atlantic to ‘and you will find everywhere a free ut Smahtin aidan cogens am ‘a faithful discharge of all their at a Here the confusion and noise beeame so great thar General Webb was forced to sit dowa without being abie- te finish remarks. = Mayor, he sald, Loertainly have not sought thie post. Indeed, it has fallen on me only within » short time. ‘Those clerical gentlemen Who were invited to take it hav- d when the rights of man are in ; for to the as the exponents of the charter of human rights, ‘Bot from the press alone, must the voice to animate and the § y to the jemen of uestion, and the proper be Pg coer ae and thropy; and if we ought to be an inter- ) It is situated betweer: with nothing to prevent ur of our const, to inter- all the other power we when political or reli- (Applause.) God has not us down on a little region hemmed in by moun- He bas placed our lot on # hemisp! broad ‘count, as much as to say, “There shall be no mountains or rivers to shut you out from the world. or to shut out She world from yeu, and your patriotism is to consist in being the beme and e of Oppressed nations, and alco the vight arm of liberty wherever liberty is in dan- ger.” (Much applause) “How is it that we happened to put the stars of heaven im our flag if it was not tc say that the principles under which we gather. are ar broad as the earth over which the starssbime? (Cheers and clapping of bands.) This is the meaning of theee stars; and asa servart of religion, I say that on beholding that providemtial man (Kossuth) among us, epplense,) the man whom God has raised up—who brought from Asis, where our race started, and whence our religion came—trom Asia through England, whence liberty war brought to this country— bringing him from Asia through England, and gathering up all our history, and ing them in his own person. and finally stand! Americs 3 with a voles of all history , with religion . on mgue, jo ik charged with our wealth moral power through ing us and Englana to the borders of , thus throwing the electric cord which enail bind the whole world about im one grand sympathetic unity ip religious and political freedom— (The remainder of the sertence was lort tothe reporter.) (Tremendous applause.) In another respect be je a providential man that with an almost Oriental passion—with the pecuiiar energy belouging to his race—he epenks the only tongue that plairly articulates constitutional liberty—the En glib (cheers) —possessing a power of kindli & religious loa: that shall pat the world oF fire. And not only that because he epeaks the English tongue, but because he unites the enthusia«ic. : and fire peculiar to the East, with the coolness of jadg- ment and Em go od an Englishman—aye, and better than tbat, let ua hope, of an American. (Applause. ) Combining in himeel? all that is best in the character of either nation, he stands forth to us the man of the d the men of the cosmmpolite is the it idea which inepires our times with al’ the best hopes of the world, net for this country oF for that, but for the world. ch was the hope which ia- spired him who came to save, not Judea, nor Palestine not Greece or Rome, but who came te seve the world. ine ) This is tigen” Lat we man whom we hail Tein the name of religion. Let us not flatter ourselver that we Dave got out of the oli world altogether, iate what we call the new world. There is but one world— thank God—the old, the new world. We bave not stolen out ef with our ship, to leave her to founder and foto the bettem. No! the world is finally to come un- ler the only principles which have their ie the laws of mature, and on christianity reduced to civi law. That is the religion and ities of the world ; anc. Fi in the neme of one of her bomblest servants. bere adopts this as hertene, and givos her weleome tc ‘Kossuth hereupon roe and shook hands with the Rev Mr. Bellows, and three cheers were given by the assem- Diage. The Rev. Mr. Cuarin made a brief but eloquentepeech. He only rose to say that he did not shirk from the duty when he was first called upon. He did not feal worth y to attempt to prolong these words which swelled from a master mind, and found an echo in our very soule. It ir not for me, be sald, to speak, bat simply to respond tc Mnked with religion cause mocratic (Great ‘ypiatee) "And SS jnciples of the age. and w: explained bere to-night that we cam give but « brief "se remarks. GOV. KOSSUTH'S REPLY. Gewtirmen :—I beg leave to tender my thanks for the fentiments and feelings of sympathy which the gentle - man has expressed; but he was pleased to remark that in my bumble epeech I did not say @ word about Irishmen. T feel it my duty to explain why {did not. On the first. step which it was my good fortune to put on the gloriour shores cf the United States, I declared thet, claiming for my own ecuntry the soversign right of every natior of the world, to dispose of its own domertic concerns, I. during my rtey here in the United States, would feel it. my duty to reepect the same principle; consequently, not to address myself to whatever single—to whatever ringle distinction of birth=to whatever ringle but to address the united people of the U: Btates (oud cheers); and [ wae and am convinced that when I addressed the people of the United Btater 1 addres every wan who, proud cf his own free- dem, feel for the The last tomst war— Maran Kossutn—The heroie wi Refetee of her rigi heme. A forms her duties wife aad as 2 mother. Yona: hat one of the greatest blessings that Governor Koe- uth enjoys ir, that be has such «wife. (Loud cheer | «nd laughter ) | Gronce Corway, the Todian Chief, then sidressed, | the company at rome length, in a strain cf fervent elc | quer and concluded by giving his hwnd t» Hor | Wath, who regarded him with evident edmirstine, And hie eye was dimumed with a tear. The speaker way | warmly applauded. Koseurn then rose to leave tke room, which was the elgnal for breaking up, a mumber cf persons made a Tush to shake hands with bim Thus ended, at belf past one o'clock one of the great | est demonstrations ever | INCIDENTS OF Tue EVENING During the evening a mumber of very interesting iu- cidests took place, which are worthy cf being recorded At dinner, Kessuth exprenred hie with to drink s gins with General Sandford. Boi stood up and pledged each other in full view of the aseombiage The applause with which the letter of General 0 Was received, was most loud nnd enthusiastic. When Judge Edmonds bad concluded reading it, Gov. Kossuth was affected by the Whenimity with which Gee. Case j Sentiments were rrcvived, and atose and bowed in acknowiledgenent This wae a very intererting incident | _ While Korruth was delfvering hie great epocch, and while he was bringing forward argument afier argament and proof after proof, to rhow that noninterrention wae bever ireuleated by Washington as a Promeiple, and While he was upecttivg all the arguments that were com Cocted With 1 much Inbor, and published dey after day in the columms of the ¢ and the Govermor lecked cceseion alt Col Webb, whe vat p 6 far from him, Thi ata . inblage, and enol bis wae mate, ail ayes ob hearty #1 took the iim ihe laughs Luring the ey fy Bemeon Draper announced hot a pomtiemas . me he « fe othaed at Piereut to theke pubic bad coowibuted @ (bow and dol jars for the Hungaras cause.