The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-11-29


and as felt IL duty to save my compan
ions in exile, if can, from degrading al
tentative, have replied to the Grand vizer
10 conciliatory manner, and took also the
liberty to apply to Sir Strntford Canning
and General Aupich for their generous aid
against this tyrannic act. In full reliance
on the noble sentiments and generous
principles Of your Exccllency, by which, az
well as through your wisdom, you have Sc
cured the esteem of the civilized world, ]
trust to be excused in inclosing copies Of
my two letters to the Grand Vizier and Sir
Stratford Canning.
j am informed that the whole matter is a
cabal against the ministry Of Reschild Pa
sha, whose enemies would wish to force
him to our extraditon in order TO lower il
in public estimation, and render impossible
its continuance in office. 1t is certain that
in the grand council. held on the 9th and
10Th of September, after tumultuous de-
bate, the majority Of the council declared
in favor Of our extradiiion. the majority Of
the ministry against it. No decision was
come to, in consequence OF the attraction
which took place; but, not wi.hstnnding, the
ministry ,honght fit to make US the revolt
ing suggestion have named.
! This mode Of solving the difficulty would
not, am convinced, save the ministry, be-.
cause protection only given, in contra
djction of the Sultan's generous feeling, at
the price Of five thousand Christians abar-
doning their firth, would be revolving to
the whole Christian world, and prove hard
" calculated to win sympathies for Turkey
/ in the event Of a war with Russia, which.
in the opinion Of the most experienced
Turkish statesmen, isapproaching fast.
As to my native country, Turkey does,
believe, already feel the loss Of the neg
Iected opportunity Of having given to Hun
gary at least some moral help to enable II
to check the advance ofthe common enemy.
Bat it appears to me that il would be a very
il!-advsed mode Of gaining Hungarian
sympathy By sending me to an Austrian
scaffold, and forcing my unhappy comPan-
ions to abjure their religion or accept the
same alternative.
No friends to the Turkish government
would spring up from my blood, shed by
her broken faith, but many deadly foes.-
4 Ny lord, your heart will, am sure, excuse
my having called your attention 70 our un-
happy fate, since il has now assumed poiiti-
cal Importance Abandoned in this unso'
cial land ny the whole world, even the first
duties of humanity give us no promise Of
protection, unless, my lord, you and your
i generous nation come forward to protect
us.
i What steps it may be expedient that you
should take. what we have a right to expect
from the well-krown generosity of England
il would be hardly flattering for me to enter
on. place my own and my companions
, fate in Your hands, my lord, and in the
name of humanity throw myself under the
protection Of England.
Time presses-our doom may in few
DAYS be sealed. Allow me TO make an
humble request. am man, my lord
. prepared to face the worst; and can die
with free look at Heaven, as have lived
: But am, also, nv lord, a husband, son, and
father; ms true hearted wife, my children
. and nv noble old mother, are wandering
, about Hungary. They will probably soon
fall into the hands of those Austrians who
delight in torturing even feeble woman,
| and with whom, the innocence Of childhood
is no protection against prosecutions.
coniure your Excellency, in the name OF the
| Most High, TO put stop to these cruelsle'
BY your powerful mediation, and especiall,
to accord to my wife and children an asy
" on the soil Of the generous English PEG
pie.
j As TO my poor, my loved, and noble coun
i try, mus. She, too, perish forever? Shal
she, unaided, abandoned to her fate, ane
IN avenged, be doomed 10 humiliation b.
hertyrants: Will England, once her hope
not become her consolation?
i The political interests ofcivilized Europe
so many weighty considerations respecting
England herself, and chiefly the 'nainten
ance Of the Ottoman empire, are too init
mately bound up with the existence o
Hungary for me to lose allhope. My lord
may God the Almighty for many years
shield YOU, that you may long protect Inc
unfortunate, and live to be the guardian O
tho rights of freedom and humanity.
subscribe myself, with the most perfect re-
.nect and esteem. l.. KOSSUTH.
/ DAVENPORT.
No one town in Iowa is more deserving
Of credit for the energy with which III