The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-15
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French and Turkish Literally.
A few days ago we were informed by an arrival
from Europe, that the French Government had re-
fused passports to tho German Fevolutionists who
were attempting to escape from Baden and Wur-
tsmberg. We now hear that the Austrian authoFi-
ties demanded Of the Porte the delivery of the
Hungarian fngitives who had crossed the frontier,
and also that Turkey should not in future permit
the rebels, they are styled, to enter her terri
tories. The Sultan, we further told, refuses to
comply with either of these demands and as the
Austrans supported by the Russians it is feared
that the Gar will take this occasion for declaring
war against the Porte. The Ottoman Government
is, however, backed by England and, it is said, by
France also. Hnothing else arises out OF tins mat
ter it at least furnishes US with facts for comparing
the liberality of France with that Of Turkey
1t is true that in managing the relations Of gov
ernments, statesmen are almost entirely controlled
by questions of policy consulting little, if at all,
any Of the higher feelings or principles. Hence it
may be suggested that are to look for the true
motives Of the French and Turkish governments
in the interests which might be Implicated in their
different courses of conduct For example, it is
said that the French President is DESTROYS of con-
ciliatfng the arbitrary governments of Europe, and
he might think frown at the German liberals
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Emperor and the Russian Gar. Turkey is, on the
contrary, naturally opposed to both the powers
which have just uiumphed in Hungary. She is
the neighbor Of both and comes in conflict with
them every day. All her interests, therefore.
would lead her to a course of policy tending to
weaken the Austrian and Russian power. And
how could this be done so efectuaTy as by the est
adjustment of third state--and that a state op-
posed in all its principles to autocracy and despot7
ism-placed between Russia and Austria, and
being continual thorn in the side of both Hence
it is that the Turks sympathize with the Hunga
rians; they are the common enemies of common
foes.
Even allowing, however, that it is motive Of
policy, and not feeling of generosity and liberal
ism, which prompts the Porte in its conduct TO-
wards the Hungarians, how humiliating it must be
to the large body of the French people to see Tur
key occupying diplomatic ground 80 much higher
than that held by France The Sultan declares
that the laws of the Ottoman Empire protect every
stranger who flies to them for refuge; while the
French President thrusts the hunted Germans back
from the boundaries of the Republic, and refuses
an asylum to men whose only crime is that they
loved liberty too WELL The French people are ac-
customed to speak of the treatment Bonaparte re.
B.
They denounee in no measured terms the cold
blooded resolution with which an unfortunate mar,
giving himself up, he expressed it, to the most
generous of his enemies was refused an asylum
in Britain, and treated as a prisoner when he e1.
pected to be saluted as a guest. What must the
generous French think of their own government
when it denies asylum to the unfortunate friends
Of freedom in other countriesl How CALLING must
be the comparison of, Turkish policy with that Of
their own country and how bitter the feeling with
which they hear that perfdious Albion protects
the exiled French republicans and deigns not to
close her ports to those who may have been hei
bitterest enemies
It may be that Louis Napoleon now repents him o.
his previous conduct 1t may be that he now sees
his true policy lies not in the ine of absolutsm and
imperial dominion. Already he has given indioa.
tons Of repentant spirit in regard to Italian inter-
Vention; and it is stated that France joins with
England in supporting the Sultan against Austria
and Russia Most ardentlV must all Americana
desire that the French people will force their Ex-
ecutve into course Of foreign policy different from
that he has hifhnrth nnranad Ara-ir .ho -aosrr
conduct of our own Government has any tendency
TO show Louis Napoleon how little indulgence we
disposed to extend to a cabinet that has looked
coldly on every liberal movement in Europe we
would regard the Poussin difficulty as of immense
service to the cause of freedom throughout the
world.