STANDING COMMITTEES. The SPEAKER announced the standing committees which he had appointed under the rules and ader of the House, víz:

Committee of Elections.-Messrs. David T. Disy of Ohio, William S. Ashe of N. C., ChristoH. Willians of Tennessee, Wm. T. Hamof Md., Abraham M. Schermerhorn of N. Y John S. Caskie of Va., Presley Ewing of A., George T. Davis of Massachusetts, and James Gamble of Pa.

Committee of Ways and Means.-Messrs. George
S.Houston of Alabama, George W. Jones of
Tennessee, Edward Stanly of N. C., Harry Hib-
hard of N. H., James Brooks of N. Y., J. Glancy
Jones of Pa., William Appleton of Mass., Cyrus
L. Dunham of Ind., and John S. Phelps of
Ma.

Committee of Claims-Messrs. John R. J. Daniel of N. C., Alfred P. Edgerton of Ohio, Richard I. Bowie of Md., Origen S. Seymour of Conn., Robert Rantoul, jr., of Mass., William A. Sackett ef N. Y., Carlton B. Curtis of Pa., William R. Smith of Ala., and Gilchrist Porter of Mo.

Commillee on Commerce.-Messrs. David L. Seymour of N. Y., Andrew Johnson of Tenn., Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, Thomas J. D. Fuller of Me., James H. Duncan of Mass., John Bobbins, jr., of Pa., Louis St. Martin of La., Viliam Aiken of S. C., and Thomas Y. Walsh of MI.

Committee on Public Lands.-Messrs. Willard P.

of Mo., W. R. W. Cobb of Ala., Henry
Bennett of N, Y., James L. Orr of S. C., Albert
G.Watkins of Tenn., John D. Freeman of Miss.,
Henry D. Moore of Pa., Bernhart Henn of Iowa,

Joseph W. McCorkle of California.
Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.-
Messrs. Edson B. Olds of Ohio, Alexander G.
Pea of La., Orin Fowler of Mass., Paulus
Powell of Va., John L. Schoolcraft of N. Y.,
chardson Scurry of Texas, Ben. Edwards Gray
Ky., Edward C. Marshall of Cal., and Lincoln
ark of lowa.

Committee for the District of Columbia.-Messrs. rando B. Ficklin of Ill., Thomas H. Averett of Va., David Outlaw of N. C., Edward Hammond of Md., Charles Allen of Mass., Junius Hillyer of Ga., Hiram Bell of Ohio, Alexander H. Buell of N. Y., and Daniel Mace of Ind.

Come on the Judiciary.-Messrs. James X.
McLanahan of Penn., Richard K. Meade of Va.,
Humphrey Marshall of Ky., Abraham W. Ven-

ble of N. C., Ishara G. Harris of Tenn., James
leacham of V., John Bragg of Ala., Samuel W.
Parker of Ind., and Preston King of N. Y.

Committee on Revolutionary Claims.-Messrs. Moses McDonald of Me., Richard H. Stanton of Ky., James F. Strother of Va., James M. Gaylord of Ohio, Henry M. Fuller of Penn., Robert Rantoul, jr., of Mass., Charles Murphy of Ga., Richard Yates of Ill., and Gilbert Dean of N. Y. Committee on Public Expenditures.-Messrs. Anrew Johnson of Tenn., Charles Sweetser of o, Marius Schoonmaker of N. Y., Nathan T. ratton of N. J., John Letcher of Va., Thomas 1. Howe of Penn., James T. Morehead of N.

Leander Babcock of N. Y., and Thompson Campbell of Ill.

Committee on Private Land Claims.-Messrs. Tmothy Jenkins of N. Y., George W. ThompBof Va., James Abercrombie of Ala., John L. Darson of Penn., Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio, Benjamin D. Nabers of Miss., J. Aristide Landry of La., William W. Snow of N. Y., and John G. Miller of Mo.

Committee on Manufactures.-Messrs. James M. H. Beale of Va., Thomas B. Florence of Penn., Benjamin Thompson of Mass., Chauncey F. Cleveland of Conn., Addison White of Ky., Wilhana Murray of N. Y., Jared Perkins of N. H., Frederick W. Green of Ohio, and Emanuel B.

Hart of N. Y.

Committee on Agriculture.-Messrs. John G.

fed Dockery of N. C., Joseph Cable of Ohio,

ward C. Marshall of Cal., and Charles Durkee of
Wisconsin.

Committee on Military Affairs.-Messrs. Armis-
tead Burt of S. C., William H. Bissell of Ill.,
Meredith P. Gentry of Tenn., Willis A. Gorman
of Ia., Alexander Evans of Md., Ephraim K.
Smart of Me., Thaddeus Stevens of Penn., John
A. Wilcox of Miss., and Solomon G. Haven of
N. Y.

Committee on the Militia.-Messrs. Charles H.
Peaslee of N. H., John H. Savage of Tenn.,
George G. King of R. I., John G. Davis of Ia.,
William F. Hunter of Ohio, Charles Andrews of
Me., William Hebard of Vt., Elijah W. Chastain
of Ga., and William T. Ward of Ky.

On Naval Affairs.-Messrs. Frederick P. Stan-
ton of Tenn., Thomas S. Bocock of Va., Lorenzo
Burrows of N. Y., Sampson W. Harris of Ala.,
E. Carrington Cabell of Fla., Thomas Ross of
Penn., Ebenezer J. Penniman of Mich., Isaac
Wildrick of N. J., and Robert Goodenow of

Me.

Committee on Foreign Affairs.-Messrs. Thomas
H. Bayly of Va., Joseph A. Woodward of S. C.,
Robert Toombs of Ga., William H. Polk of Tenn.,
John L. Taylor of Ohio, John Appleton of Me.,
Colin M. Ingersoll of Conn., Joseph R. Chandler
of Penn., and John C. Breckenridge of Ky.

Committee on the Territories.-Messrs. William
A. Richardson of Ill., Alexander R. Holladay of
Va., Thomas L. Clingman of N. C., James W.
Stone of Ky., Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio, David
J. Bailey of Ga., Zeno Scudder of Mass., Charles
E. Stuart of Mich., and James Lockhart of la.

Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.-Messrs.
John S. Millson of Va., Joseph Russell of N. Y.,
Amos Tuck of N. H., Norton S. Townshend of
Ohio, George H. Brown of N. J., William M.
Churchwell of Tenn., Joseph S. Cottman of Md.,
John Z. Goodrich of Mass., and Willis Allen of
Ill.

Committee on Invalid Pensions.-Isham G. Harris
of Tenn., Rodman M. Price of N. J., Frederick
S. Martin of N. Y., Richard S. Molony of Ill.,
Ben C. Eastman of Wis., John Johnson of Ohio,
Joseph H. Kuhns of Penn., Daniel J. Jones of
N. Y., and Charles Chapman of Conn.

Committee on Roads and Canals.-John L. Rob-
inson of Ind., William F. Colcock of S. C., John
W. Howe of Penn., John C. Mason of Ky.,
Benjamin Stanton of Ohio, Emanuel B. Hart of
N. Y., Charles J. Faulkner of Va., Josiah Suth-
erland, jr., of N. Y., and James Johnson of Ga.

Committee on Patents.-David K. Cartter of O.,
Milo M. Dimmick of Penn., William T. Ward of
Ky., Benjamin B. Thurston of R. I., and Alex.
White of Ala.

Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.—
Richard H. Stanton of Ky., Henry A. Edmund-
son of Va., Richard I. Bowie of Md., James
Duane Doty of Wis., and John H. Boyd of N.
York.

Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business.-
W. R. W. Cobb of Ala., Thomas Y. How, jr.,
of N. Y., Thomas M. Bibighaus of Penn., Geo.
H. Busby of Ohio, and Israel Washburn, jr. of
Maine.

Committee on Accounts.-John C. Mason of Ky.,
John A. Morrison of Penn., John Welch of O.,
Reuben Robie of N. Y., and James H. Duncan of
Mass.

Committee on Mileage.-Thomas A. Hendricks
of Ind., John D. Freeman of Miss., J. H. Hobart
Haws of N. Y., John Letcher of Va., and John
Allison of Penn.

Committee on Engraving.-Edward Hammond
of Md., George Reed Riddle of Del., and Ahiman
L. Miner of Vt.

Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.--
Messrs. Joseph R. Chandler of Pa., Joseph A.
Woodward of S. C., and Horace Mann of Mass
On Enrolled Bills.-Messrs. Isaac Wildrick of
N. J., and Nelson Barrere of Ohio.

On Expenditures in the State Department.-
Messrs. Charles E. Stuart of Mich., William S.
Ashe of N. C., John Wells of N. Y., Thompson

Charles Skelton of N. J., Samuel Brenton of Ia., Campbell of Ill., and Alexander Harper of Ohio.

W, and John McNair of Penn.
Newton of Ohio, James Duane Doty of

Committee on Indian Affairs.-Messrs. Robert

On Expenses in the Treasury Department.-
Messrs. Benjamin B. Thurston of R. I., Thomas
A. Hendricks of Ind., Henry S. Walbridge of

W. Johnson of Ark., Volney E. Howard of N. Y., Galusha A. Grow of Pa., and John Allison

Texas George Briggs of N.Y.,Joseph W. Jack

Ga.,

NFch of la., Joseph P. Caldwell of N. C., Ed

James Y. Conger of Mich., Graham

of Pa.

Committee on Expenditures in the War Department.-Messrs. Milo M. Dimmick of Pa., Willard

Ives of N. Y., Obadiah Bowne of N. Y., Andrew
Parker of Pa., and Elijah W. Chastain of Ga.

Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department.-Messrs. Fayette McMullin of Va., Sampson W. Harris of Ala., Jedediah Horsford of N. Y., Thomas B. Florence of Pa., E. Carrington Cabell of Fla.

Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department.-Messrs. Alexander G. Penn of La., William H. Kurtz of Pa., George T. Davis of Mass., Augustus P. Hascall of N. Y., and John H. Savage of Tenn.

Committee on Expenditures on the Public Buildings.-Messrs. Thomas Bartlett, jr. of Va., J. H. Hobart Haws of N. Y., David Outlaw of N. C., William M. Churchwell of Tenn., and John L. Taylor of Ohio.

CHAPLAINS.

[A message was received from the Senate, informing the House that that body had passed a resolution to authorize the election of Chaplains, that it had appointed a Committee on Printing, and on Engrossed Bills, &c.]

Mr. CARTTER. I move that the House now proceed to the consideration of the resolution of the Senate in relation to the election of Chaplains. There being no objection,

The resolution of the Senate was then read, as follows:

Resolved, That two Chaplains be appointed during the present session, one by each House, who shall interchange weekly.

Mr. JONES of Tennessee. I do not intend to detain the House by a speech upon this resolution; but being opposed to its adoption, and to the election of the officers it proposes-first, upon the ground that we have no authority to do so; and secondly, that it is a burlesque upon the Christian religion, I move to lay the resolution on the table.

Mr. CARTTER. Upon that motion I ask for the yeas and nays.

Mr. HENN. I wish to offer an amendment to the resolution, providing that the Chaplains shall receive no compensation out of the public Treasury. The SPEAKER. No amendment can now be offered.

Mr. HENN. I give notice of the amendment
I wish to offer, and ask leave that it be read.
Mr. FOWLER. I object to the reading.
The CHAIR. Objection is made, and the
amendment cannot be read.

The question was then taken upon Mr. JONES'S motion, and there were-yeas 22, nays 169; as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Abercrombie, W. Allen, Beale, Bragg, Joseph Cable, Chastain, Cobb, Edgerton, Ficklin, Gaylord, Grow, Isham G. Harris, Henn, Hibbard, James Johnson, George W. Jones, McCorkle, McMullin, Phelps, Robinson, Smith, and Toombs-22.

NAYS-Messrs. Aiken, Charles Allen, Allison, Andrews, John Appleton, William Appleton, Babcock, Bartlett, Barrere, David J. Bailey, Thomas H. Bayly, Bell, Bennett, Bibighaus, Bissell, Bocock, Bowne, John H. Boyd, Breckenridge, Brenton, Briggs, Brooks, George H. Brown, Buell, Burrows, Busby, E. Carrington Cabell, Caldwell, Thompson Campbell, Cartter, Chandler, Chapman, Churchwell, Clark, Cleveland, Clinginan, Conger, George T. Davis, Dawson, Dimmick, Disney, Dockery, Doty, Dunham, Eastman, Edmundson, Evans, Ewing, Faulkner, Fitch, Florençe, Floyd, Fowler, Freeman, Henry M. Fuller, Thomas J. D. Fuller, Gamble, Gentry, Giddings, Goodenow, Gorman, Grey, Hall, Hamilton, Hammond, Harper, Sampson W. Harris, Hart, Haws, Hascall, Haven, Hebard, Hendricks, Hillyer, Holladay, Horsford, Houston, Howard, John W. Howe, Thomas M. Howe, Thomas Y. How, Hunter, Ingersoll, Ives, Jackson, Jenkins, Andrew Johnson, John Johnson, Robert W. Johnson, Daniel T. Jones, J. Glancy Jones, Geo. G. King, Preston King, Kuhns, Kurtz, Letcher, Mace, Humphrey Marshall, Martin, McDonald, McLanahan, McNair, McQueen, Meacham, Miller, Millson, Miner, Molony, Henry D. Moore, John Moore, Morehead, Morrison, Murphy, Murray, Nabers, Newton, Olds, Andrew Parker. Samuel W. Parker, Peaslee, Penn, Pennimau, Perkins, Polk, Rantoul, Richardson, Riddle, Robbins, Robic, Ross, Russell, Sackett, Sarage, Schermerhorn, Schoolcraft, Scudder, Scurry, David L. Seymour, Origen S. Seymour, Skelton, Smart, Snow, Benjamin Stanton, Frederick Stone, Stratton, Stuart, Sutherland, Taylor, Benjamin P. Stanton, Richard H. Stanton, Alexander II. Stephens, Thompson, George W. Thompson, Thurston, Townshend, Tuck, Venable, Walbridge, Wallace, Walsh, Ward, Washburn, Watkins, Welch, Wells, Addison White, Wilcox, Wildrick, Woodward, and Yates-169.

So the resolution was not laid upon the table. The question recurred on the adoption of the resolution.

Mr. HENN. I now offer the following amendment to the resolution:

"Provided, That said Chaplain shall receive no compensation out of the Treasury of the United States.”

Mr. EVANS demanded the previous question;

PUBLISHED AT WASHINGTON, BY JOHN C. RIVES.-TERMS $3 FOR THIS SESSION.

On motion by Mr. UNDERWOOD, it was Ordered, That the petition and papers of the heirs of William Beatty, on the files of the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

On motion by Mr. DAVIS, it was

Ordered, That the memorial of Martha Gray, widow of Captain Robert Gray, on the files of the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

On motion by Mr. CHASE, it was
Ordered, That the petition of J. Williamson, on the files
of the Senate, be referred to the Committee of Claims.
On motion by Mr. NORRIS, it was

Ordered, That the petition and papers on the files of the
Senate, relating to the claim of the widow of the late Gen-
eral John McNiel, be referred to the Committee on Pensions.
On motion by Mr. PEARCE, it was
Ordered, That the petition of the administrator of Gerard
Wood, on the files of the Senate, be referred to the Com-
mittee on Revolutionary Claims.

On motion by Mr. SMITH, it was

Ordered, That the memorial on the files of the Senate relating to the subject of amending patent laws, be referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office.

On motion by Mr. FISH, it was

Ordered, That the petitions presented at the last session of Congress from assistant marshals, praying additional compensation for services in taking the seventh census, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

NOTICES OF BILLS.

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Mr. MASON gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill to authorize the payment of invalid pensions in certain cases.

Mr. DOWNS gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill for the relief of William Daly.

Mr. BORLAND gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill to revive a portion of an act for the relief of the widows of deceased soldiers.

Mr. HALE gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill increasing the salary of the United States district judge of the district of New Hampshire.

Mr. MALLORY gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill for the relief of William Richardson and others.

Mr. WALKER gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill to grant to the State of Wisconsin the Military Reservation at Fort Winnebago, in that State, to aid in improving the navigation of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers.

Mr. DODGE, of Wisconsin, gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill granting

which was read a first and second time by its title,
and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.

Mr. WALKER, agreeably to previous notice,
asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill to
authorize the State of Wisconsin to select the resi-
due of the lands to which that, State is entitled
under the act of August 8, 1846, to aid in the im-
provement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers;
which was read a first and second time by its title,
and referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. UNDERWOOD offered the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent and adopted:

Resolved, That the Committee on Roads and Ganals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of employing one or more competent civil engineers to make the necessary explorations and surveys, and to ascertain the cost of supplying the Ohio river and its navigable tributaries with water, during periods of drought, from artificial reservoirs, according to the plan submitted to Congress by Charles Ellet, jr., civil engineer, so as to make the same permanently navigable for vessels and boats drawing four feet of

water.

The following resolution, submitted by Mr.

DAVIS, on the 8th instant, was taken up for con-
sideration and adopted:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be instructed
to complete the sets of statutes of the United States in use
in the Senate, its offices, and committee rooms, by adding
thereto the ninth volume.

REPORT OF A STANDING COMMITTEE.
Mr. UNDERWOOD, from the Committee on

RECEPTION OF KOSSUTH.

under the auspices of Congress, begun, must, under the auspices of Congress, be continued. The hearts of the people are already open to receive him; Congress cannot turn its back upon him.

He

But I would join in this welcome, not merely because it is essential to complete and crown the work of the last Congress; but because our guest deserves it at our hands. The distinction is great, I know; but it is not so great as his deserts. deserves it as the early, constant, and incorruptible champion of the Liberal Cause in Hungary-who, while yet young, with unconscious power girded himself for the contest-and by a series of masterly labors, with voice and pen, in parliamentary debates and in the discussions of the press, breathed into his country the breath of life. He deserves it, by the great principles of true democracy which he caused to be recognized-representation of the people without distinction of rank or birth, and equality before the law. He deserves it, by the trials He he has undergone, in prison and in exile. deserves it, by the precious truth, which he now 20 eloquently proclaims, of the Fraternity of Nations. As I regard his course, I am filled with reverence and awe. I see in him, more than in any other living man, the power which may be exerted by a single, earnest, honest soul, in a noble cause. In himself he is more than a whole cabinet, more than a whole army. I watch him in Hungary, while, like Carnot in France, he "organizes victory;" I follow him in exile to distant AsiPublic Lands, to which was referred the joint atic Turkey, and there find him, with only a resolution explanatory of the act approved Sep-scanty band of attendants, in weakness and contember 28th, 1850, entitled "An act granting with him in his happy release; and now, as he finement, still the dread of despots; I sympathize bounty lands to certain officers and soldiers who comes more within the sphere of our immediate have been engaged in the military service of the observation, amazement fills us all in the contemUnited States," reported back the same with an amendment; which was ordered to be printed. plation of his career, while he proceeds from land to land, from city to city, and with words of matchless eloquence, seems at times the fiery sword of freedom, and then the trumpet of resurrection to the nations-Tuba mirum spargens sonum. I know not how others have been impressed, but I can call to mind no incident in history-no event of peace or war-certainly none of war -more strongly calculated-better adapted-to touch and exalt the imagination and the heart than his recent visit to England. He landed on the southern coast, not far from where William of Normandy, nearly eight centuries ago, had landed; not far from where, nineteen centuries ago, Julius of Hastings, and Cæsar, in his adventurous expeCæsar had landed also; but William, on the field dition, made no conquest comparable in grandeur to that achieved by the unarmed and unattended Hungarian. A multitudinous people, outnumberdued by his wisdom and eloquence; and this exile, proceeding from place to place, traversing the country, at last in the very heart of the kingdom, threw Without down the gauntlet of the Republic. equivocation, amidst the supporters of monarchy, in the shadow of a lofty throne, he proclaimed himself a republican, and proclaimed the republic as his cherished aspiration for Hungary. And yet, amidst the excitement of this unparalleled scene, with that discretion which I pray may ever attend him, as a good angel-the ancient poët aptly tells us that no Divinity is absent where Prudence is present-he forbore all suggestion of interference with the existing institutions of the country whose guest he was, recognizing that vital principle of self-government, by virtue of which every State chooses for itself the institutions and rulers which it prefers.

On the motion of Mr. SEWARD, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the special order, being his resolution of welcome to Kossuth.

Mr. SUMNER. Mr. President, words are sometimes things; and I cannot disguise from myself that the resolution in honor of Louis Kossuth, now pending before the Senate, when finally passed, will be an act of no small significance in the history of our country. The Senator from Georgia [Mr. BERRIEN] was right when he said that it was no unmeaning compliment. Beyond its immediate welcome to an illustrious stranger, it will help to com

to the State of Wisconsin a donation of publicine and direct the sentiments of our own people
lands, to aid in the construction of a railroad from
the city of Milwaukie to the Mississippi river.

Mr. DODGE, of Iowa, gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce the following bills: A bill to relinquish to the State of Iowa the lands reserved for salt springs therein;

A bill to establish additional land offices in the State of Iowa; and

A bill to grant to the city of Burlington, in Iowa, the land heretofore reserved between that city and the Mississippi river.

Mr. JONES, of Iowa, gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill for the relief of preemption claimants for the land upon which the towns of Fort Madison and Burlington, in Iowa, are situated.

Mr. UNDERWOOD gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce the following bills: A bill granting a pension to Sally T. Floyd, widow of Lieutenant George C. Floyd, late of the United States Army:

A bill for the relief of Theodore Offut; and
A bill to provide for the unpaid claims of the
officers and soldiers in the Virginia State and
Continental line of the Army of the Revolution.

everywhere; it will inspire all in other lands who
are engaged in the contest for freedom; it will
challenge the disturbed attention of despots; and
it will become a precedent, whose importance willing far the armies of those earlier times, was sub-
grow, in the thick-coming events of the future,
with the growing might of the Republic. In this
view, it becomes us to consider well what we do,
and to understand the grounds of our conduct.

For myself, I am prepared to vote for it, without amendment or condition of any kind, and on reasons which seem to me at once obvious and conclusive. In assigning these, I shall be brief; and, let me say, that novice as I am in this Hall, and, indeed, in all legislative halls, nothing but my strong interest in the question, as now presented, and a hope to say something directly upon it, could prompt me thus early to mingle in these debates.

The case seems to require a statement, rather than an argument. As I understand, the last Congress requested the President to authorize the employment of one of our public vessels to receive and convey Louis Kossuth to the United States. This honorable service was performed, under the express direction of the President, and in pursuMr. PEARCE gave notice of his intention to ance of the vote of Congress, by one of the bestask leave to introduce a bill in addition to and appointed ships of our Navy-the steam-frigate amendatory of "An act to provide for the settle- Mississippi. Far away from our country, in forment of the accounts of public officers and others eign waters, in the currents of the Bosphorus, the who may have received moneys arising from mil-Hungarian chief, passing from his Turkish exile, itary contributions or otherwise in Mexico," approved 3d March, 1849.

Mr. BADGER gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill for the relief of M. K. Warrington.

BILLS INTRoduced. Mr. CLEMENS, agreeably to previous notice, asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill granting the right of way and making a donation of land to the State of Alabama, in aid of the construction of the Mobile and Girard Railroad;

first pressed the deck of this gallant vessel; first
came under the protection of our national flag, and,
for the first time in his life, rested beneath the ensign
of an unquestioned Republic. From that moment
he became our guest. The Republic, which thus far
he had seen only in delighted dream or vision, was
now his host. And though this relation was in-
terrupted for a few weeks by his wise and brilliant
visit to England, yet its duties and its pleasures,
as I confidently submit, are not yet ended. The
liberated exile is now at our gates. Sir, we can-
not do things by halves; and the hospitality thus,

Such a character, thus grandly historica living Wallace-a living Tell-I had almost said a living Washington-deserves our homage; nor am I tempted to ask if there be any precedent for the resolution now under consideration. There is a time for all things; and the time has come for us to make a precedent in harmony with this unprecedented career. The occasion is fit; the hero is near; let us speak our welcome. It is true that, unlike Lafayette, he has never directly served our country; but I cannos admit that, on this account, he is less worthy. Like Lafayette, he periled life and all; like Lafayette, he has done penance in an Austrian dungeon; like Lafayette, he has served the cause of freedom; and whosoever serves this cause, wheresoever he may be, in whatever land, is entitled, according to his works, to the gratitude of every true American bosom, of every true lover of mankind.

The resolution before us commends itself by its simplicity and completeness. In this respect, it seems to me preferable to that of the Senator from linois, [Mr. SHIELDS;] nor is it obnoxious to abjections urged against that of the Senator from Mississippi; [Mr. FOOTE,] nor do I see that it can gre any just umbrage, in our diplomatic relations, ven to the sensitive representative of the house of Austria. Though we have the high authority of the President in his message for styling our guest "Governor❞—a title which seems to imply the de farto independence of Hungary at the very time when our Government declined to acknowledge

the resolution avoids this difficulty, and speaks of him without title of any kind-simply as a private citizen. As such, it offers him a welcome to the capital and to the country.

stroy, the value of our act. A generous hospitality
will not make terms or conditions with a guest;
and such hospitality, I trust, Congress will tender
to Louis Kossuth.

Mr. STOCKTON. Mr. President, surrounded
by Senators of so great ability-so experienced by
many years in council-it is with profound defer-
ence to their superior wisdom, that I mingle my
voice in this debate. I would much prefer being
an auditor, but the extraordinary nature of the sub-
ject now under consideration, as well as of some
of the doctrines insisted upon by those who oppose
the resolution, compel me, however reluctant, to
trespass for a few moments on your attention.

What is the subject of your deliberations? simply, whether or not you shall carry out the initiative hospitality of a preceding Congress. The The comity of nations I respect. To the behests adoption of the resolution "has this extent, no of the law of nations I profoundly bow. As in more." It is the natural sequel of the resolution eer domestic affairs, all acts are brought to the of the last Congress, inviting the Hungarian exile Constitution, as to a touchstone; so, in our to these shores. It contemplates nothing further. foreign affairs, all acts are brought to the touch- It involves no question of foreign policy-it looks stone of the law of nations-that supreme law-neither to intervention nor to non-intervention. the world's collected will-which overarches the

and Commonwealth of Christian States. What that forbids I forbear to do. But no text of this voluminous code, no commentary, no gloss, can be found which forbids us to welcome any exile of freedom.

Looking at this resolution in its various lights; as a carrying out of the act of the last Congress; justly due to the exalted character of our guest; and as proper in form, and consistent with the law of nations, it seems impossible to avoid the conclusion in its favor. On its merits it would natually be adopted. And here I might stop. But an appeal has been made against the resolution on grounds which seem to me extraneous and irrelevant. It has been attempted to involve it with the critical question of intervention by our country in European affairs; and recent speeches in England and New York have been adduced to show that such intervention is sought by our guest. It is sufficient to say, in reply to this suggestion, introduced by the Senator from Georgia [Mr. BERBIEN with a skill which all might envy-and also by the Senator from New Jersey, [Mr. MILLER]that no such intervervention is promised or implied by the resolution. It does not appear on the face of the resolution; it cannot, in any way, be inferred from the resolution. It can be found only in the imagination, in the anxieties, or in the fears of Senators. It is a mere ghost, and not a reality. As such we may dismiss it. But I feel strongly on this point, and desire to go further.

While thus warmly joining in this tribute, let me be understood as in to respect encouraging any idea of armed intervention in European affairs. Such a System would open phials of perplexities and ills, which I trust our country will never be called to affront. In the wisdom of Washington we may find perpetual counsel. Like Washington, in bis eloquent words to the Minister of the French Directory, I would offer sympathy and God speed to all, in every land, who struggle for Human Rights; but, sternly as Washington, on another occasion, against every pressure, against all popular appeals, against all solicitations, against all blandishments, I would uphold with steady hand the peaceful neutrality of the country. Could I now approach our mighty guest, I would say to him with the respectful frankness of a friend: "Be content with the outgushing sympathy which you now so marvelously inspire everywhere throughout this wide-spread land, and may it strengthen your soul! Trust in God, in the inspiration of your cause, and in the Great Future, pregnant with freedom for all mankind. But respect our ideas, as we respect yours. Do not seek to reverse our traditional, established policy of Peace. Do not, under the too plausible sophism of upholding non-intervention, provoke American intervention on distant Europeal soil. Leave us to tread where Washington points the way.'

And yet with these convictions, Mr. President, which I now most sincerely express, I trust the Senstor from Georgia [Mr. BERRIEN] will pardon me when I say that I cannot join in his proposed amendment; and for this specific reason. It attaches to an act of courtesy and welcome a condition, which, however just as an independent proposition, is most ungracious in such connection. It is out of place, and everything out of place is, to a certain extent, offensive. If adopted, it would impair, if not de

position, and in reference to what fell from the honorable Senator from Massachusetts, I will hazard the assertion, that the rigid neutrality of the Washington administration, wise and just as it then was, would not now (if a similar belligerent State of the world existed) be possible. Then our weakness admonished us not to risk the trial of our strength, or tempt the hazards of war. We wisely suffered much, submitted to many wrongs, and endured them as less evils than war with a powerful adversary. In truth, we consulted the dictates of a masterly prudence, in preference to indulging the martial spirit of our country. We chose to nurse the infant Hercules, until he should be able to encounter, upon more equal terms, the monsters he was destined to overthrow. I need not say how the proud spirit of America chafed and fretted under the insults and aggressions of Great Britain and France. It is recorded in history that we submitted not without murmurs of dissatisfaction. But the injuries of the boy should not rankle in the memory of the wise man. I have adverted to them only to show the change Sir, I regard the honor of Congress more than which has taken place in these principles, which I do Mr. Kossuth. The truth is, sir-and I might will no doubt hereafter govern our foreign relaas well frankly avow it-some of the sentiments tions. No American statesman can now contemand opinions of this distinguished stranger and plate any condition of the world, or any principle illustrious exile are not my sentiments or opinions of public policy which would for a moment permit in regard to the workings and the results of the the United States to submit to any indignity from British monarchy. But let that pass. I am glad any power on earth. We acknowledge no supe that he has been received with so much cordiality riors. Nay; all christendom combined would not by the people of New York, and that the Tam-appal the stout heart of America. In a good cause, many Hall men and the Whigs have united to and with a united people, we know and feel that we make his reception most honorable and gratifying are invincible. to him. I commend this fact to the remembrance of the Senator from Kentucky, who, if he had known as much of the honor and virtue and patriotism of Old Tammany as he does of those old and time-honored principles of international law which would prevent an American citizen from expressing the honest feelings of a republican freeman without rebuke, he would have saved the fling he made at the old Democratic Wigwam in New York. But let that pass too. Sir, in view of the peaceful struggle now going on in the world between the friends of free government and despotism, it seems to me to be proper and right that his reception here should be hospitable and affectionate. Congress have made him the guest of the nation as such the people in New York have received him. Europe will discern an emphatic moral in the event. The despots who drove him forth from his country, to seek an asylum here among the sons of liberty, will see from the greeting which we extend to him that the people of the United States fear them not; that on all suitable occasions we will speak out our abhorrence of their atrocious systems of government, and our sympathy with those gallant men, whether successful or unsuccessful, who strike a blow in defence of national independence and free government. By the course proposed, we shall testify our fidelity to the principles of our Revolution, and show that our Republic is steadfast in the faith of Washington and his compatriots. We will teach the world, that whatever of worth or wisdom, of exalted devotion to enlightened freedom, despotism in Europe may expel from her shores, will be appreciated here; that here our arms will be stretched forth and our doors open wide to welcome the exiled patriot; that in pro- || portion to the ferocity of his persecution there, will be the cordiality of his reception here. But, sir, we are told that we will get entangled with other nations if we do this honor to Kossuth, and that blows will probably follow words. Well, sir, I am no prophet: I cannot tell what will happen. But suppose it should produce such a state of things, what then? Why, sir, we have got a Secretary of State who, with one oscillation of his great mind would blow all their fine-spun webs into thin air, and we have a gallant Navy who will teach them that blows will be given as well as received. Sir, I am not one of those who think that no change will ever be made in the principles of national policy which govern our foreign relations; on the contrary, I feel assured that the wonderful growth and development of the United States, far exceeding in amount and rapidity the most sanguine expectations of the founders of the Republic, will demand a modification of our national policy, in various respects different from that which prevailed in the infancy of the country. For the sake merely of illustrating this

Mr. President, it has become quite fashionable to approve and applaud constitutional monarchies; and the Government of Great Britain has been more than once referred to. Sir, I have not found, either in her traditions or her histories, one forward step in the cause of free government which she has taken except by compulsion. Look at her, and you will see a country whose government is monarchical and whose institutions are essentially aristocratical, the most prominent feature of which is the degradation of the masses. There sir, the land, the operative capital, the law-making power, are in the hands of comparatively a few; while all the rest are reduced to a state of practical slavery of the worst kind-obliged to work for masters who are under no corresponding obligation to provide for their wants. Sir, this state of things in England is subversive of all the ends of just government. Their work-houses are crowded to overflowing; their home prisons and their convict receptacles abroad are peopled with the miserable results of their domestic serfdom. The end of all government should be the promotion of human happiness, the elevation of human nature; and a republican government is best calculated to realize these results. The issue in the coming struggle, disguise it as you may, is between kings and republicans; and, in my judgment, has conmenced, in the amicable struggle now going on for British or American ascendency on the ocean. The national sensibilities on both sides are keenly awakened and excited with reference to the contest. For my part, I desire the ascendency of republican principles. All kings are alike to me. I desire the ascendency of my country over all others-I desire, from my heart, success in this gigantic struggle for supremacy on the ocean. I desire to see the trident of the seas wrenched from the tenacious grasp of that haughty and kingly empire-not for the purpose of ambitious extension-not to tyrannize or dictate, in the spirit of an intermeddling propagandism; but to hasten the time when the sword shall no longer be the arbiter of national disputes. Peace is the true policy of this Republic. Peace is the animating genius of our institutions.

When the United States shall become the most powerful of all the nations of the globe, then I be lieve the time will have arrived when the principle of right reason, of humanity, and of Christianity, will exert their natural and superior power in making war no longer the last resort for the settlement of national quarrels. If we shall then presume to dictate, we will dictate Peace as the sovereign law of all nations, and War as the violation of that universal law. If ambition for the ascendency of my country for such a purpose be censurable, I invoke the censure it merits; but before the world I declare this to be the spirit of my ambition.