The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-29

fallen chief of generous nation, and could hardly
have been expected in the nineteenth century.
My answer does not admit of hesitation. Between
death and shame the choice can be neither dubious
nor difficult. Governor of Hungary, and elected
10 that high place by the confidence of fifteen mil
lions of my countrymen, know well what owe
to the honor of my country even in exile. Even as
a private individual ] have an honorable path TO
pursue. Once governor of generous country, /
leave no heritage to my children--they shall, at
least, bear an unsullied name. God'swill be done
ann prepared TO die; but, as think this measure
dishonorabe and furious TO Turkey, whose inter
ests sincerely have at heart and as feel 1t duty
TO save my companions in exile, if can, from
degrading alternative, have replied to the Grand
Vizier in conciliatory manner, and took also the
liberty TO apply TO Sir Stratford Canning and Gen
eral Aupich for their generous aid against this
tyrannic act. In full reliance on the noble senti
ments and generous principles OF your excellency
by which, as well as through your wisdom, you
have secured the esteem of the civilized world,
trust to be excused in enclosing copies of my two
letters TO the Grand vizier and Sir Strattord Can
ming.
! am informed that the whole matter is cabal
against the ministry of Reschid Pacha, whose enc
mics would wish TO force him TO extradtion, in
order to lower il in public estimation and render
impossible its continuance In Office II Is certain
that in the grand council held on the 9Th and 10th
of September after a, tumutuous debate the ma
ority of the council declared in favor of extra
dtion-the majority of the ministry against it. No
decision was come to in consequence OF the alterca
ton which took place; but, Notwithstanding, the
ministry thought fit to make us the revolving sug
gestion have named.
This mode of solving the difficulty would not, j
am convinced, save the ministry, because a protec
ton, only given, in contradiction Of the Sultan's
generous feeling, at the price of five thousand
Christians abandoning their faith, would be revolt
ing to the whole Christian world, and prove hardly
calculated to win sympathies for Turkey, in the
event of war with Russia, which, in the opinion OF
the most experienced Turkish statesmen, Is ap-
preaching fast.
AS to my native country, Turkey does, believe,
already feel the loss of the neglected opportunity OF
having given to Hungary at least some moral help
to enable it to check the advance of the common
enemy. But it appears TO me that it would be a
very i'll advised mode of gaining Hungarian SYM
pathy by sending me to an Austrian scaffold, and
forcing my unhappy companions to abjure their re
hgion 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 My lord, your heart will, l
am sure, excuse my having called your attention to
our unhappy fate, since it has now assumed po-
ltical Importance. Abandoned in this unsocial
land by the whole world, even the first duties of
humanity give promise of protection, unless,
my lord, you and your generous nation come for
ward to protect
What steps it may be expedient that you should
take, what we have right to expect from the we'll
known generosity of England, il would hardly be
fitting for me to enter on. place my own and my
companions fate in your hands. my lord, and, in
protection of England.
Time presses-our doom may in few days be
sealed. Allow me to make an humble personal re-
quest am man, my lord, prepared to face the
worst; and can die with free look at Heaven, as
have lived. But am also, my lord, husband,
son, and father; my poor true hearted wife. my
children, and my noble old mother, are wandering
about Hungary. They will probably soon fall into
the hands of those Austrians who delight in tortur
ing feeble women, and with whom the inno-
cence of childhood is protection against persecu-
tons. ] conjure your excellency, in the name of
the Most High, to put stop to these cruelties by
your powerful mediation, and especially to accord
to my wife and children asylum on the soil of
the generous English people.
As to my poor, my loved and noble country,
must she, too, perish forever? Shall she, unaided,
abandoned to her fate, and unavenged, be doomed
to humiliation by her tyrantse Will England,
once her hope, not become her consolation?
The political interests of civilized Europe, 80
many weighty considerations respecting England
herself and chiefly the maintenance Of the Ottoman
Empire, are too intimately bound up with the
istence of Hungary for me to lose all hope. My
lord, may God the Almighty for many years shield
you, that you may long protect the unfortunate,
and hive to be the guardian Of the rights of freedom
and humanity. | subscribe myself, with the most
perfect respect and esteem,