The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

GERMANY

AND
THE NORTHERN STATES•

CENTRAL GERMANY.
Galignanis Messenger publishes the following
address of the American Minister to his Imperial
Highness the Archduke JOHN, on the occasion of the
presentation of the letters of recal which terminated
the mission of the United States at Frankfort, on the
2d :of this month ; also the reply of his Imperial
Highness :
" Your Imperial Highness,—l comply with the in-
structions of the President of the United States, in
presenting the letters of recal that terminate the mis-
sion with which I have been honoured near your Impe-
rial Highness.
" It is a source of great satisfaction to me on this
occasion to feel justified in saying that, throughout the
eventful scenes to which the Central power has been
exposed, your Imperial Highness has preserved the
friendship and goodwill of both the Government and the
people of the United States. The obstacles to the at-
tainment of the desired union of the German States have
not yet been entirely removed, but they have been di-
minished, and the belief is entertained that they will
ultimately disappear before that. spirit of compromise
which your Imperial Highness so earnestly recommended
at the commencement of the Central Power, and has
since so faithfully observed.
" The United States sympathise deeply with every move-
ment which aims at the establishment of representative
constitutional government. This sentiment is their in-
heritance, and they trust that their national history is a
proof that it is compatible with a just respect for the
rights of all other nations, and for the steady support
everywhere of those principles of moderation and jus-
tice without which no Government can secure the
happiness of the people. This sentiment was awakened
in a most lively manner when your Imperial Highness
became a mediator between the princes and people of
Germany, and as the depositary of their mutual con-
fidence designated a course of action which was cal-
culated to disarm existing agitations of all that was
dangerous in them as rash innovation, at the same
time that it might preserve all that they contained
useful as reform, and natural as the expression of
political progress. In this difficult and arduous posi-
tion it was not expected that the new institutions aimed
at by Germany would be easily or immediately obtained.
All that was hoped was that the building should be
commenced, and that the workmen should be fur-
nished with the means to proceed with it as fast as those
means could be supplied by the voluntary and peaceable
contributions of the various members of the confederacy.
It is this hope which your Imperial Highness has known
how to sustain, and in honour of which the republicans
of America and the friends of constitutional liberty in
Europe may cordially unite.
" The new Central Power just formed will be shortly
installed. In expressing a hope that its labours may be
crowned with success, and that a permanent government
may be framed in which all Germany, as one great
nation, will have a common organ, taking charge of
foreign relations and of general interior concerns, I am
confident that I cannot give a better evidence of my
friendship to the true and lasting interests of Germany,
or make a more acceptable offering to the patriotic
wishes and eminent services of your Imperial Highness.
" In taking leave of your Imperial Highness, allow
me to add an expression of my gratitude for the favour
I have personally received, and the assurance that I shall
carry with me to the United States a sincere desire to
see the interests of the Germans and Americans, who
are in so many respects the owe people, cemented by an

increasing intercourse with each other. - I also beg
leave to offer my prayers that the future days of your
Highness may be blessed with good health and pros-
perity."
The following is the reply of his Imperial High-
ness :

" Mr. Donelson,—ln receiving from your bands,
Monsieur le Ministre, the letters of recal which termi-
nate your mission to the Central Power of Germany, I
am pleased to recognise the good relations which, resting
upon mutual and permanent interests, have specially
characterised the intercourse of the United States and
the government with which I have been provisionally
charged by the people and princes of all Germany. I
accept, with gratitude, the wishes you offer for the
happiness and well-being of my great country. The
most intimate ties of interest and extraction unite it to
yours, which marches to its high destinies accompanied
by our prayers for its constantly increasing prosperity.
I cannot take leave of you, Monsieur le Ministre, without
expressing to you my full and entire satisfaction at the
loyal, felicitous, and obliging manner with which you
have acquitted 'yourself, at all times and all places, of
the mission which has been intrusted to you near my
person and my government."—Galignani.