The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1850-07-27
Tho Hung arian Patriots.

IN the official correspondence comnunl.
Gated to Congress, we find the following in
connection with the Interference Of our
Government in favor OF the Hungarian
Patriots.
Our Minister, Mr. MARSH, under date Of
the l,h March, addressed note To the
Turkish Government, Of which the follow.
ing is an extract:
"rhc President of the United States of
America, participating in the philanthropic
sentiments by which his Imperial Majesty
the Sultan has been actuaed in his noble
aud generous treatment of the Hungarian
refugees, has directed the undersigned,
Minister resident of the United States, to
iutcrccde with his majesty in their behalf,
aad To offer them, through his Majesty. II
secure ASYLUM in the United States, togeth.
or with free passage 10 America, by any
american psbLc ship which may be about
TO return home. The undersigned is hap.
~ to make this office of humanity the sub.
,cct of his first official communication to
the Sublime Porte, and SEXES the earliest
moment. after his audience oi reception. to
\ fulfil his instructions lay formally request.
inc. ia the name of the american Govern
smcnt and People. that kossuth. late chief
s,xecutiyc officer Of Hungary, aud his com.
3panions, at present detained by the Turkish
4a,uthoritrs at Broussa, may be permitted to
kakc passage for the United States on board
ban American vessel Of war now in the
Mediterranean, and about to sail for home.
This was the steamer Mississippi, which
Nir Marsh, under constructive authority,
bad detained for that purpose. On the l"ih
81 March seven DAYS after the date oi the
siboyo Mr. VI. received a brlci official re-
*,y To his note, of which the sghoincd is
the essential part
The sublime Porte will certainly offer
ssso obstacle or difficulty To the departure,
sto whatever place they please, of such OF
sthc l!ungarians rs are not implicated, nor
j. their objection to those Hungarians and
Poles whose names are not registered III the
list given to the Sublime Porte by the Aos.
#trjan Government or who are not other.
Fwisc implicated, protting by the hospitality
titus offered by the United States ot Amer
aica. Yet, in consequence OF the oiier spon'
Stancously rnadc.bv the Sublime Porte, it
Bound itself to keep in the Ottoman domn.
4 ions, under certain conditions which 1t
h now cndcavoring to arrange, those
of the clici. of the said people whose
names are entered ON that list and IN the
view Of acting with sincerity and prob,'y
in its intercourse and relations with other
friendly governments. aud maintaining its
given word, it is obligatory on the part OF
his Imperial Majesty, the Su'an, To execute
that offer. Under these circumstances, the
Ottoman goycrnme deems itself compel
led to decline permitting the said chiefs to
proceed To America
FL SAID MrmENEp EMIR ALI
Mr. Marsh subsequently adds:
81 learw that the substance of my note
was communicated to the Austrian and
Russian Ministers NJ Constantinoplc, and
that they were urged by the Porte to con
sent to the emigration of the Hungarian
refugees to America. but without effect. |
am h~ppy 10 add. thnt believe Baron Tee
go, the highly respectable Minister of the
X ing Of Sardinia at ConstansinoIae, sup.
ported our application with great zeal, aud
9 suppose also that the British Ambassador
threw his influence into the same scale,
81 am now by no means without hope
lhA Kossuth and his friends will be speed.
BIZ released, unless Austria Internationally
hcccp,s the Sutan's offer Of a detention for
y single year, which there is little reason to
suppose she will do
The terms Of the Sultans offer were, that
kossuth and thirty others should be sent
Unto Asia Minor and there detained for
year. while the residue, 300 in number,
bhoad be kept II, Choumla for the same
period, and then released.