The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-07-04
KOSsnlh and his COmpatriOts.

Offer Of President Taylor to bring
them to .4nlerica.-The Washington cor.
respondent Of the Philadelphia Bulletin
gives the following facts relative to the
action of President Taylor for the relief
of the Hungarian patriots:
Mr.. Marsh, Minister to Turkey, under
instruction from this Government, wrote
to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Porte note on the IIth of March last,
which contained this clause:
"Ihe President of the United States ot
America, participating in the philanthropic
sentiments by which his imperial Majesty
the Sultan has been actuated in his noble
and generous treatment of the Hungarian
refugees, has directed the undersigned,
Minister resident of the United States, to
intercede with his Majesty in their behalf,
and to offer them, through his Majesty, a
secure asylum in the United States, to-
gether with free passage to America, by
any American public ship which may oe
about TO return home. The undersigned
is happy to make this office of humanity
the subject of his first official communica-
ton to the Sublime Porte, and seizes the
earliest moment, after his audience of re-
ception, to fulfill his instru ctions by form
ally, requesting in the name of the Amer
lean government and people, that Kossuth,
late chief executive officer of Hungary
and his companions, at present detained
by the Turkish authorities at Broussa,
may be permitted TO take passage for the
United States on board an American ves-
sci of war now in the Mediterranean, and
about to sail for home''
The vessel was the steamer Mississippi,
which Mr.. Marsh, under constructive au-
thority, had detained for that purpose. On
the 18th of March-seven days after the
date of the above Mr.. Marsh received a
brief official reply to his note, of which
the subloined is the essential part:
"The Sublime Porte will certainly offer
no obstacle or difficulty to the departure,
TO whatever place they please, OF such of
the Hungarlans as are not implicated; nor
is there any objection to those Hungarians
and Poles whose names are not registered
IN the list given to the Sublime Porte by
the Austrian Government, or who are not
otherwise implicated, profting by the hos
pitallty thus offered by the UAited States
of America. Yet, in consequence of the
offer spontaneously made by the Sublime
Porte, it bound itself to keep in the Otto
man dominions, under certain conditions
which it is now endeavoring TO arrange,
those of the chiefs of the said people,
whose names are entered on that list; and
IN the view of acting with sincerity and
problty in It's intercourse and relations
with other friendly governments, and
maintaining Its given word, it is obligatory
on the part of his Imperial Majesty, the
Sultan, to execute that offer. Under these
circumstances, the Ottoman Government
feels itself compelled to decline permitting
said chiefs TO proceed to America.
Ell SAID MEHEM ED EMIR ALL"
MIR. Marsh subsequently adds: 81 learn
that the substance of my note was com
munlcated to the Austrian and Russian
Ministers at Constantinople. and that they
were urged by the Porte 10 consent to the
emigration OF the Hungarian refugees to
America, but without effect. | am happy
TO add, that | believe Baron Tecco, the
highly respectable Minister of the King of
SARDINIA at Constantlnople, supported our
application with great zeal, and | suppose
also that the British Ambassador threw
his influence into the same scale.
81 am now by no means without hope
that Kossuth and his friends will be
speedily released, unless Austria uncondi-
tionally accepts the Sultan's offer of a.
detention for single year, which there is
little reason to suppose she will do"
The terms of the Sultan's offer were,
that Kossuth and thirty others should be
sent into Asia Minor, and there detained
for year, while the residue, twelve hum
dred in number, should be kept at Choumla
for the same period, and then released.
This winds up the whole story of Ameri-
can Intervention, and reflects honorably
upon the Administration.