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not presume, as it is willing to presume,
that the word used in the origidal German
was not OF equivalent meaning with '.spy"
I'D 'he English language, or that In some
o'her way the employment of such an op-
proorious term may be explained. Had
the Imperial Government Of Austria sub
Jected Mr. Mann to the treatment of a spy,
1t would have placed itself without the
pale Of civilized nations and the Cabinet
of Vienna may be assured that if ii had car
ried, or attempted TO carry, any such law
less purpose into effect, in the case Of an
authorized agent of this Government, the
spirit of the people Of this country wou :
have demanded immediate hostilities TO be
waged by the utmost exer.ion Of the pow
er Of the Republic, military and naval.
Mr Hulseman proceeds TO remark that
'this extremely painful incident, there
lore, might have been passed over, with
out any written evidence heing left on
our part in the archives of the United
States, had not General Taylor thought
proper 10 revive the whole subject, by
communicating to the Senate, in his mes
sage of The 18th [2Sth1 of last March, The
instructions with which Mr. Mann had
been furnished on the occasion of his mis-
sion to Vienna. The publicity which has
been given TO that document has placed
the lmperialGovernment under the neces-
sity of entering formal protest, thro' its
official representative, against the proceed
ings of the American Gov 'men,, lest that
Govt should construe our silence into ap-
probation, or liberation even, Of the prin-
ciples which appear TO have guided lis ac-
tion and the means it has adopted" The
undersigne re-asserts TO Mr. Hu.semann,
and TO the Cabinet of Vienna, and in the
presence of the world, that the steps taken
by President Taylor, now protested
against by the Austrian Government,
were warranted by the law of nations,
and agreeable to the usages of civilized
States. With respect TO the communica-
tion of Mr. Mann's instructions 10 the
Senate, and the language in which they
are couched, il has already been said, and
Mr. Hulsemann must feel the justice Of The
remark, that these are domestic affairs, in
reference to which the Government of the
United States cannot admit the slightest
responsibility TO the Government of his
Imperial Majesty. No State, deserving the
appellation Of independent, can permit the
language in which it may instruct its own
officers in the discharge of their duties to
itself to be called in question under any
pretext by foreign Power. But, even
If this were not so, Mr. Hulsemann is in
an error in stating that the Austrian Gov
ernment is called an 'Iron Rule in Mr.
Mann's instructions. That phrase is not
found in the paper; and in respect 10 the
honorary epithet bestowed in Mr Mann's
instructions on the late chief of the Revo-
lntionary Government Of Hungary, Mr.
Hulsemann, will bear in mind that the
Government Of the United States cannot
justly be expected, in confidential COM
munIcation 10 IFS own agent, to withhold
from an individual an epithet of dis,inc-
ton Of which great part of the world
thinks him worthy, merely On the ground
that his own government regards him as
rebel.
AT an early stage Of the American Rev
olution, while Washington was consider
ed by the English Government as a rebel
chief, he was regarded on the continent of
Europe as an illustrious hero. But the
undersigned will take the liberty of bring
ing the Cabinet Of Eienra into the pre-
sence of its own predecessors, and of ci-
ting for its consideration the conduct Of
the Imperial Government itself. In the
year l117, the war of the American Rev
olution was raging all over these United
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