Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-05-27
Correspondence of the n Y. Tribune.
ADDRESS OF RUSH AND LAMARTINE.
PARIS. April 81. tSI

| Ii he has clear vision and correct under
standing of the present situation of Europe,
his dispatches cannot fail to convince the
President and Congress of the Union that the
time has now arrived for America-.hrough
an offensive and defensive alliance with
France and the maritime powers of the Sec
ond rank, Sardinia, Naples Tuscany, Rome'
Denmark, Holland, &c.-to crush the might
of England and take her place among the
governing powers of Europe-to become, i'm
fact, the Republic of the two worlds!
MIR. Rush appeared at the Hotel de Villa
yesterday, TO deliver TO the Provisional Gov
ernment the definite recognizance of the
French Republic by the American Govern
meni, and present his new credentials as En-
iraordinary Ambassador
He was received with the highest dcmon-
sirations of honor and respect, The Guards
all presented arms and the grand march was
played by the band. A deputation met the
Minister and accompanied him to the Hall of
the Throne, where he found all the Members
of the Provisional Government assembled.
He then addressed them as follows: II send
you the address entire for The IriJme)
"Mr. President and Members of the Provi-
sional Government of the French Republic :
| have the honor TO deliver you the letter of
the President of the United States, in which
I am appointed Extraordinary Ambassador
and Minister Plenipotentiary of our Republic
Al. II
these credentials in your hands, am COM
missioned at the same time, TO express tn
sincere sympathy of the President in the well
fare and success of France, and to commu-
nicate his earnest wish to carry on with zeal
and sincerity the most friendly relation be-
tween the two Republics, whose dearest in
tcrests mutually bind them together. | am
also empowered 10 declare TO you that the
President has expressed his entire approval
of my act in acknowledging the French Re-
public at the moment when its existence was
first proclaimed TO the world, in February,
through the Provisional Govcrumrn'. This
took place on the third day after its birth /:
it is now already in the third mo.,lh of its
existence. During this period, While the
whole of Europe has been violently agitated
and France exposed to the severesi trials and
h;-i.-".e., Tie Provisional Government has
succeeded in preserving the highest benefits
OF quiet her OH soil, and peace with foreign
nations. History will record in its true glory,
this enormous work.
81 am doubly fortunate in being able to
make use of this opportunity TO offer You a
gain my expressions of sympathy and con-
graduation, since | do it with the concur
renee of my Government and my country.
May | also be permitted TO add my ardent
desire that when the Republic shall pass
from your hands into those of the National
Assembly, that great body may crown lis la
bors by giving institutions TO France which
shall secure 10 her the greatest prosperity
and the noblest renown."
NJ Lamarine answered as follows, in the
name of his associates:
''CITIzEN AMBASSADOR The Provisional
Government has appointed me lis representa-
tive to receive from your hands the first act
of the official acknowledgment of the French
Republic. France was the first to recognize
the Independence of the Republic of the Uui-
ted States of America, when she was still
young, weak and surrounded with hostile
influences but under the fruciilying inilu-
cnce of the democratic principle, she has
grown in half a century TO the proportions Of
mighty continent. As if by the ministry
of Providence, the American Republic was
reserved to be the first, which has acknow-
ledged the new Republic of France, and is
thus the first witness OF the certificate of birth
of the French Democracy of Europe. Her
signature, Citizen Minister will bring luck
to the Republic. Notwithstanding that in
crisis like the present, the overthrow of Il
Government and The creation of totally differ
ent institutions great iumulis and embarass-
ments are unavoidable, everything gives us
the assurance-and you may repeat il to your
fellow -ciiizens-ihat your wishes for the
prosperity of France shall be fulfilled, and
the Republic shall pass great and powerful
from their weak hands, 10 grow more grcal
and more powerful, in the hands of the whole
French nation. We cherish this confidence
from the fact that the French people are
now ripe for their institutions. That which
existed iifty-iive years ago, only in the heads
of great spirits, has now become part of the
thoughts and the actions of the entire people.
The Republic, which our people desire at
the present day, is the same which they have
already established among themselves-a
Progressive Republic, with the maintenance
of Right, of Property, of Industry, of Trade,
of reciitude, of freedom and of the moral and
religious sentiments of its citizens. This is'a
Republic, whose first cali was that of gener-
osity and brotherhood, which at once broke
in twain the weapon of revenge and of poll
tical reaction, and instead of the fatal coun-
tersign of robbery and prescription, wrote u;
pom its banners the abolition Of the Death
Penalty and the fraternization of the people.
These principles will, as we trust, be accep-
ted by the might OF all armed citizens, and
concentrated into a powerful Representative
| Irnitv of the Government Tins will the