Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-19

per (the New York Herald) under date of the 9th
instant, in the following terms
/" But, whatever its fate in the Senate, the resoIx-
ton Tof General CAss ,oiH pass the House. and.
if finally defeated, there will always remain a
recourse to the civil and diplomatic appropriation
BILL which will certainly contain no item for the
! salary of the Charge to Vienna. In either case.
the mere fact that such an inquiry as that pyo.
posed by General Cass ,cas seriously maintain
: ed and discussed IN the Senate of the United
States, and that the same resolution will be in
roduced in the House, will, in all probability, be
: sufficient to induce the Austrian Camarilla in
: Vienna to acittdraw her diplomatic agent from
Washington. So we shall lose father Hilsemann
after all, and maybe General James Watson
Webb himself will not be received at Vienna,
saving the Senate the necessity of rejecting him
second time"
Here we have the prediction that Mr.. HuLsE-
MANN, for many years the diplomatic agent of Austria
ington in consequence of the proceedings Instituted ;
and by this achievement, it appears, the object of
the out-of-doors applauders will have been satisfac-
torily accomplished.
In regard to the gentleman who has been made
the subject Of rude remark, by name, in the FORE
going extract, we must do him the justice here to
say, that, so far from personally meriting such
treatment, his conduct during his long residence
near this Government has been ever distinguished
by the strlctest propriety-modest gentlemanly,
respectful in speech towards our institutions and
Government, and in all things, as far as we have
ever heard, void of offence so much so that we
could not have supposed he had single personal
enemy in our country. Thus not only as the Re-
preventative of a friendly Power and National
guest was ne entitled to every courtesy, but doubly
entitled by his amiable character and unexception-
able department. Not only, however, has he
single enemy at Washington, but he has an enemy
whosename is Legion. In Letter from Wash
ington published in the Baltimore Sun, under date
of January 7, we find the same ideas reproduced
as in the two already cited:
Gen. CAsss resolution may meet with consi-
derable opposition on the part of Messrs Clay,
Calhoun, Hale, and other Senators, and it may be
defeated in the Senate, but 1t scM certainly pass
: the House by a respectable majority. THIS WILL
BE SUFFICIENT. Itrequres no Joint vote to abolish
: the Chargeship to Austria II either House will
leave the salary of our Charge out of the civil and
diplomatic appropriation bill, the thing is done
and that such course will be pursued have not
the least doubt in the world. Besides, If 4ustria
: be really the proud Power her eulogists would
make her. she will have sense enough to aciAdra,o
'her diplomatic agent from Washington without
waiting fMthe same be ejected."
Can such similarity of language, and such an
identity of purpose, be accidental or are they not
evidence Of concerted effort to break up that good
between this Government and that
of Austria which no circumstance has ever before
In concusion-not because we have said all that
we wish to say, but that we have no time to say
more-we have had, in the preceding exposition
no thought OF imputing TO Senator CAss, or to any
other Senator, the motive, for introducing or sup
porting the resolution respecting Austria, of any
out-of door understanding with any person. resident
or foreigner, on the subject. Far from it. Our
only purpose has been to show how easily the Pub
lie may be duped by the arts of able Editors, with
the assistance of accomplished and " judcious y
correspondents from Washington, reproduced here
by their sponsors and commanders, into total mis-
of public sentiment on so great and
serious question as that now depending in the
Senate of the United States.