The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-06

kossUTH AND HIS CoMPATRIors.- Of
President Taylor to bring them to America
The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphis
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 instruc-
hon from this Government, wrote to me MinisterS
OF Foreign Affairs of the Porte note ON The / IN
OF March last which contained this clause
lhe President of the United States of Anne
iica, participating m the philanthropic sentiments
by which his Imperial Majesty the Sultan has been
aetuated IN his noble and generous treatment Of
the Hungarian refugees, has directed the under
signed, Minister resident of the United States 10
iniercede with his Majesty in their behalf and 70
offer them through his Majesty, secure ASYLUM
in the United States together with free nassage
to America, by any American public ship which
may be about to return home. The undersigned is
happy to make this office of humanity the subject
Of his first official communication to the Sublime
Forte, and seizes the earliest moment after his
audience OF reception, to fulfil his instructions by
formally requesting, in the name of the American
Government and People, that Kossuth, late chief
executive officer of Hungary, and his companions,
at present detained by the Turkish authorities al
Broussa, may be permitted to take passage for the
United States on board an American vessel of war
now IN the Mediterranean, and about to sail for
home"
This vessel was the steamer Mississippi. which
| Mr.. Marsh, under constructive authority had de-
| tanned for that purpose. On the 10th Of March
seven days after the date of the above-Mr. M.
received brief official reply to this note of which
| the subjoined is the essential part:
The Sublime Porte will certainly offer no oh.
stacle or difficulty to the departure, to whatever
place they please, of such of the Hunparians ms
are notlmpcated, is there any objection to those
Hungarians and Poles whose names are not regis
tered lnEthe list given to The Sublime Porte by the
| Aarutr sarn (ANHvor L
implicated, profting by the hospitality thus offered
by the United States of America. Yet. in conse-
equence OF the offer spontaneously made byhe Sub
lime Porte it bound itself to keep in the Ottoman
dominions, under certain conditions which il il
now endeavorlng to arrange, those of the chiefs of
.ne salu people whose names are entered on that
| lst; and In the view of acting with sincerity and
problty IN its intercourse and relations with Other
friendly governments, and maintaining its given
word, 1t is obligatory the part of his Imperial
majesty, the Sultan, to execute that offer Under
these circumstances, the Ottoman government
deems itself compelled to decline permitting said
chiefs to proceed to America.
(SignedD Ell SAID MEHEMED EMIR ALI.n
hr. Marsh subsequently, adds learn that the
substance Of my note communicated to the
Austrian and Russian Ministers at ConstantinopIe
and that they Were urged by the Porte to consent
| 10 the emigration Of the Hungarian refugees tn
America but without effect | am happy 10 ada
that believe Baron Teceo, the highly respectable
Minister Of the King of Sardini at Coustantnople,
supported our application with great zeal, and
suppose also that the British ambassador threw
his influence into the same scae.n
am by no means without hone that Kossutb
and his friends will be speedily released unless
Austria additionally accepts the Sultans offer
Of detention for a single year, which there is
little reason to suppose she will do"
The terms Of the Sultan's offer were, that Kos.
suth and thirty others should be sent into Asia
nd tbar daNo e.
residue, 1900 in number, should be kept at Cho-
umla for the same period, and then released This
winds up the whole story of America intervention,
and reflects honorably upon the administration.