Incidental Remarks of William H. Seward, Relative to Grants of Lands to Hungarian Exiles, &C
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Excerpt from Incidental Remarks of William H. Seward, Relative to Grants of Lands to Hungarian Exiles, &C: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 30, 1850 Mr. Houston begged leave to assure the Senator from Mississippi, that if he supposed he (Mr. Houston) had any idea of interfering with any other gentleman upon the subject of bids, he was entirely mistaken, for he would assure him that he had no aspirations which would conflict with those to which the Senator from Mississippi was so justly entitled. (Laughter.) Mr. Houston then proceeded with some general remarks in support of his proposition. Mr. Seward. Mr. President, the resolution which I had the honor to submit in relation to the subject now under consideration may as well be brought distinctly before the Senate, and I therefore will ask the Clerk to read the resolution. The resolution was accordingly read as follows: Resolved, That the conduct of Austria and of Russia, in the war in which those powers have subverted the nationality and the liberties of Hungary, has been marked by injustice, oppression, and barbarity, which justly deserve the condemnation of mankind, while they commend the Hungarian people to the sympathies of other nations, and especially of republican States; and that the Committee on the Public Lands be directed to inquire and report on the propriety of setting apart a portion of the public domain to be granted, free of all charges, to the exiles of Hungary already arrived, and hereafter to arrive, in the United States, as well as to the exiles fleeing from oppression in other European countries. Mr. Seward proceeded. Mr. President, it will be recollected that, at a very early day in the sess on, the distinguished Senator from Michigan (Mr. Cass) introduced a resolution, in which it was proposed to instruct the Committee on Foreign Relations, to consider and report upon the expediency of suspending diplomatic relations with Austria; on which occasion that honorable Senator enforced the resolution by a speech of surpassing power and interest; and that the grounds upon which he recommended the suspension of diplomatic intercourse with Austria were the oppression and barbarity of Austria in the recent wars with Hungary. I listened with very great interest, and with deep attention, to the speech of the Senator, in which he portrayed his accusations against that power. But I was not prepared, and I am not yet prepared, to think the suspension of foreign relations with Austria is the proper form of giving expression to the sentiment which is expressed by the Senator, and in which I cordially sympathize, and in which, I doubt not, every member of the Senate sympathizes with him. It was under those circumstances that I submitted the resolution to the Senate, in which I have expressed this sentiment of the American people, of condemnation of the atrocious conduct of Austria, and of deep and profound sympathy with the Hungarian people in their struggles for nationality and independence. I have never called up the resolution for these reasons, Mr. President. In the first place, I did not think it became me to press upon the Senate the consideration of the resolutions which I have offered upon that or any other subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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