The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-15
A GERMAN AMERICAN CITIZEN
From HE Rochester Daily Advertiser.
Is.rIan AI1nthav insult 70 the Unitnd

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Austrian ggression-Auosher insult to the United
| The arrogance of the dapoism o. the Old
| Void is becoming intolerablc. Having 50 long
| sWayed :he iron sceptre of tyranny ever the
| heads Of their down trodlcn subjects, they can
not resrasn, i'll their Intercourse with other ma
| tons, from exhibiting the same insolence aud in
| tolerant aggression Another gross insult has
recently been given to the government Of the
4 United Statesb by the despotc mnions of Aus
| trIa. The !acls appear to be these A few
| months SINCE our government had occasion to
| transmit packet to the American consul at
Venice lis contents we are told. consisted OF
a printed pamphlet ON The Austro- Hungarien
question, with -prciql reference to the case of
! AZ, Dudley Mann, (probably The Webster
and Hulseinann correspondence J This pack
| ct was opened and inspected, at the office Of the
Central Revision, notwithstanding the fact that
it bore not only the seal of the Department of
State, but that also OF the United States consu-
late at Hamburg, impressed III wax. The rep
rcsentatve of the United States government at
Venice Mr. Flagg at once addressed a pro-
test to the imperial government this viola
ton of the United States seal in reply; TO
which, a communication was received from the
office Of Central Revision, distinctly claiming
For the Austrlal government the right 10 exam
me all publications. introduced into the Venetian
States from any country, Under any form, from
any source, and to any address whatever with
out the least distinction, and with excs p'iori
of the representatives Of other governments.
If the government of the United States are
SO pusillanimous as to allow such a degrading
surveillance to be exercised over their public
acts, orto submit to such an insoIent espionage
upon their official correspondence with their
own representatives abroad-if the sanctity of
oar national signet is to be thus sllanefully vi.
olatcd, and our national honor to be thus pub
liciy insultcd and nouted in the face of all the
word-it is high time that the people of this
country place at the head of our affairs those
who will do something more than merely to be
valiant on paper-who will not only write patr-
otto letters, but will follow them up with patri-
otto action.
Mr.. Webster received universal commenda.
tion for his able and patriotic manifesto address
ed to the Austrian ambassador some months
since. Butmere mounting patriotism will not
answer the demands of the American people
They have been grossly insulted III the person
Of their representative by this new violation OF
his personal and his official prrrogatives If
our national seal is no guarantee of security in
carrying on confidential correspondence be-
tween our government and IFS agents in foreign
lands, we had better either discontinue all inter
course with an aggressive power, or compel
them TO make amends for their arbitrary inso-
lcnce. In this country, or upon the high seas,
those who should presume TO intercept and
break open dispatches or communications under
the seal of our government, of individual
citizens even, would be treated as highway rob
bers pirates. But when an outrage is perpe-
trated under the sanction ola governments clam
ing to be on terms of alnity with our own, the
insult and and outrage are doubly aggravating.
But will our administration at Washington de-
mand and insist upon full redress for t-is out
rage We shall sec - >.