gans of intelligence to
the Government _Gazette_, or one or two other prints that would write or
omit just what he, the Minister, might please.--Suppose, when it occurred
to the public that these measures were not exactly in conformity with the
law, the Minister were to go or send some soldiers down to Westminster
Hall, shut up the Courts, send the Lord Chancellor about his business, and
tell Lords Campbell, Cranworth, and all the rest of the high judicial
authorities, to make the best of their way home.--Suppose a few Members of
Parliament were to sign a protest against these proceedings; and suppose
the documents were to be torn down by soldiers, and the persons signing
them packed off to Coldbath Fields or Pentonville.--Suppose all these
things were to happen with a Parliament elected by Universal Suffrage, and
under a Republican form of Government[.]--And lastly--Suppose we were to be
told that this sort of thing is liberty, and what we ought to endeavor to
get for our own country;--Should we look upon the person telling us so, as
a madman, or a knave, or both? and should we not be justified in putting
him as speedily, and as unceremoniously as possible--outside our doors?

-------------------------------------

In our last EASY chat with our readers, we sketched in an off-hand way the
current of the KOSSUTH talk; and we hinted that our enthusiasm had its
fevers and chills; so far as the talk goes, a chilliness has come over the
town since the date of our writing--an unworthy and ungracious chill--but
yet the natural result of a little over-idolatry. As for Congressional
action, no apology can be found, either in moderation or good sense, for
the doubtful and halting welcome which has been shown the great Hungarian.

The question of Government interference in his national quarrel was one
thing; but the question of a welcome to a distinguished and suffering
stranger was quite another. The two, however, have been unfortunately
mingled; and a rude and vulgar effort has been made to prejudge his
mission, by affronting him as a guest. We may be strong enough to brave
Russia, and its hordes of Cossacks; but no country is strong enough to
trample on the laws of hospitality We see the hint thrown out in some
paper of the day, that the slackened sympathy for KOSSUTH, in Washington,
is attributable mainly to the influence of the diplomatic circles of that
city. We fear there may be a great deal of truth in t