Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-01-11


of the friendly relations Of The two Govern
menis thus mnnally recognized and Of the
peculiar nature of the incidents by which
Iheir good understanding is supposed by MIR.
Hnlsemann to have been, for a moment, dis
turbed or endangered, the President regrets
that Mr.. Hulsemann did not feel himself at
liberty wholly TO forbear from the execution
OF instructions which were of course trans
mitled from Vienna without any foresight of
the state OF things under which they would
reach Washington. If Mr.. Hnlseman saw
in The address of the President to the diplo-
matte corps, satisfactory pledges of the senti-
Inents and the policy of this 9o7efntieit, i'll
regard TO neutral rights and neutral duties, it
might perhaps, have been better not to uring
on discussion of past Transactions But the
undersigned readily admits that this was a
question fit only for he consideration and de-
clsion Of Mr.. lulsemann HIMSELF aud al
thongh the President does not see that any
good purpose can be answered by reopening
the inquiry into the propriety of the step la-
ken by President Taylor to ascertain the
probable issue of the late civil war in Hun
gary, Justice TO his memory requires the un-
dersigned briefly to resate the history of
those steps, and TO show their consistency
with the neutral policy which has invariably
guided the government of The United States
! in lis foreign relations as well as with the
established and well-seiiled principles OF lra-
tOnal intercourse, and the doctrines of public
| law.
The undersigned will first observe that the
President is persuaded His Majesty the En-
peror 5t Austria does not think that the CO.
vernment Of the United States ought to view,
with unconcern, the extraordinary events
which have occurred, not only in his domin-
ions, but in many other parts of Europe, since
| February, lS4S. The Government and peo-
pie of the United States, like other intelligent
governments and communities, take a lively
! interest in the movements and the events of
this remarkable age, in whatever part of the
world they may be exhibited. Bnt the inter-
est taken by the United States in those events,
has not proceeded from any disposition to de-
part from that neutrality toward foreign pow
ers, which is among the deepest principles
and the most cherished traditions of the po-
Iitcal history of the Union. It has been the
necessary effect OF the uuexampled character
of the events themselves, which cond not
fail 10 arrest the attention of the contempo-
rary world as they will doubtless fill me-
moriable page in history. But the under
signed goes further, and freely admits that in
proportion as these extraordinary events APP
peared to have their origin in those great
IDEAS of responsible and popular governments,
on which the American constitutions them
selves are wholly founded, they could not but
command the warm sympathy of the people
| of ihs counlrA.
Well known circumstance. in their history
indeed their whole history, have made them
the representatives of pnrely popular pruci-
| pies of Government. In this light they now
stand before the world They could moi, ,iG they
would, conceal their character, their condi-
! ton, or their destiny. They could not, it
they 50 desired, shut out from the view OF
maukind the causes which have placed them
in so short national career, in the station
which they now hold among the civilized
States of the world, They could not, if they
desired it, suppress either the thoughts or the
| hopes which arise in mems mind, in other
counties, from contemplating their success
full example of free government. That very
intelligent and distinguished parsonage, the
Emperor Joseph the Second, was among the
first TO discern this necessary consequence Of
the American Revelation on the sentiments
and opinions of the people of Europe, In Il
letter to his Minister in the Netherlands in
| 1897, he observes that "it is remarkable that
| France, by the assistance which she afforded
10 the Americans gave birth TO reflections
on freedom" This fact, which the sagacity
of that monarch perceived at so early a-day,
is now known and admitted by intelligent
Powers all over the world True, indeed, it
is that the prevalence on the other continent
Of sentiments favorable to republican liberty.
is the result of the reaction Of America upon
Europe, and the scOuIce and centre of this
reaction has doubtless been, and now is, in
these United States, The position thus be-
longing to the United States is a fact as in
scperabie from their history, their constilu-
ional organization, and their character, as
the opposite position of the Powers compos-
ing the European alliance is from the history
aud constitutional organization of the Govern
ments of these Powers.
The sovereGns who form that alliance
have not unfrequently felt it their right to in.
terriers with the political movements of for
eign States and have, in their manifestoes
and declarations, denounced the popular ideas
of the age, in terms so comprehensive as OF
necessity to include the United States, and
their forms of Government 1t is well known
that one of the leading principles announced
BY the allied Sovereigns after the restoration
, of the Bourbons, is, that all popular or con
stituiional rights are holden no otherwise
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