The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-24

Speech Of Mr. DOHeiSOR and Reply Of the drehdake Joh"'
In the Washington Union we find the speech OF
Mr. DoneIson on presenting his credentials to the
Grand Vicaire of The German Empire, and the reply
of the latter, both of which we extract:
Mr. DonelsoN's spsecA 10 his Imperial Hgbacss the
Gran Tlcaire 81 the German Empire on presenting
has Creda Nils.
No higher honor could be conferred upon me
than that of presenting the letter which now do
accrediting me rs tie minister of the United States
TO your Imperial lIighHess On a former occasion,
anticipating The decision of the President when he
should be informed Of the existence of the central
power established by the German States, Iventured
to express in advance the friendship and sympathy
he would feel for its success. The letter which |
now deliver will show that it was not possible for
me to oversate the warmth and sincerity Of his
sentiments.
Permit me, in addition, to assure your Imperial
Hghness, that no effort shall be spared on my part
to render the performance of my duties acceptable
The United States having no interest which can
be opposed to that of Germany, will look with a
steady friendship to the great work when mas Deen
entrusted to the guardianship OF the Provlsory Gov
eminent and the National Assembly. That this
work NAV be successful, that It may unite the Ger
man States in q Just federal government which will
make them as a Union, stronger and greater, and
as a people, more Free prosperous and happy, will
be The anxious wish Of every true American.
Allow me also to express on this occasion, the
confidence reposed by my countrymen in the per-
sonal character of your Highness. They respect it
as Il guarantee that the objects proposed by this
Union of the Germanic States may be attained
without war or civil commissions. Having been
aided themselves by kind Providence, which
gave them a Washington, to show how much
stronger is a political fabric which rests upon the
spirit of fraternal concord and fOrbearance, than
upon the rivalres of separate interests and conflict
ing natonalities they indulge the hope that a SINH
lar blessing awaits Germany. They rejoice in the
wish that The generations which are to come may
place the name of your Highness by the side of
Washington, not for glory gained III the fields Of
battle, but for services as a statesman, who per-
suades his cOuntrymen to continue together in
brOtherly counsel, to bury their local differences
and sectional pejudices, and TO establish, by pat
riOtic compromises, a government uniting public
order and private right with individual liberty and
national independence.
My Government and countrymen are aware that
it is their example, and not their advice, which
may engage the attention Of foreign States, when
seeking to amend their political systems. Hence
they studiously abstain from becoming partsans to
the internal differences of other nations respecting
their forms of government They know that what
ever is good in itself will be useful only political
example, as it becomes known by its peaceful and
unpretending presence in the exchanges OF COM
merce and in those friendly offices which belong
TO the spirit of an age that makes knowledge and
virtue the condition of national greatness and pTi-
vale happiness Ii is not therefore, in the spirit of
prOpagandism that the sentiments of which am
the organ are offered 1t is in that of sincere re-
spect for the German States and people, whose
origin numbers intelligence, position, and produc-
tions entitle them to be ranked amongst the first
nations of the earth.