North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-10-08
From the Rochester Daily Advertiser
Austrian AggreSsiOM--.AmOth AMsuA'
to the United States.

The arrogance of the despotisnls OF the Olo
World is becoming intolerabe. Having 50 lonS
swayed the iron sceptre of tyranny over the hefuS
of their down-trodden subjects, they cannot
in their intercourse with other nations, from exhlb-
tino the same insolence and intolerant aggression
Another GROSS insult has recently been given to the
Government of the United States by the despotc
minions of Austria. The facts appear to be these
few months since our government had occasion
70 transmit packet to the American Consul at
Venice, Its contents, we are told consisted of a
printed pamphlet on the Austro-Hungarian ques-
ton with special reference to the of Mr. Dud-
lev Mann, (probably the Webster and Hulsemann
correspondence This packet was opened and in
spected at the office of the Central REVISION not
withstanding the fact that bore not only the seal
of the Department of State, but that also OF the
United States Consulate at Hamburg, impressed in
wax. The representative of the United States gov
eminent at Venice (NIr Flagg) at once addressed a
protest to the Imperial government on this violation
of the United States SEAL in reply to which, com
munication was received from the Office of Central
Revision, distinctly claiming for the Austrian gov
eminent the right to examine all publications in
troduced into the Venetian States from any coun-
try, under any form, from any source, and to any
address whatever without the least distinction and
with no exception of the representatives OF other
governments.
If the government of the United States are so
pusillanimous rs to allow such degrading surveil-
lance to be exercised over their public acts, or to
submit to such an insolent espionage upon their
official correspondence with their own representa-
tives abroad-if the sanctity of national slgnet
is to be thus shamefully violated, and our national
honor to be thus publicly insulted and fouted in
the face of all the world-it is high time that the
people of this country place at the head of our at
fairs those who will do something than merely
to he valiant on paper-who will not only write
patriotic letters but will follow them up with pat
riotic action
= Mr.. Webster received universal commentator
for his able and patriotic manifesto addressed tc
the Austrian ambassador some time since. But
mere mouthing patriotism will not answer the de
mands Of the American people. They have bee1
grossly inSulted IN the person Of their representa-
i've by this new violation Of his personal and hi:
official Trerorauves- If our national seal Is ID
guarantee OF security IN carving on a confidential
correspondence heiween our government and 1t
agents IN foreign lands, had better either DIS
continue al intercourse with snch aggressive
powtr. or compel them make amends for thel
arbitrary insolence- In this country. or upon the
high seas, those who should presume TO intercep
and break open dispatches or communications un
der the seal Of government, or Of individual
citizens even would be treated as highway robber
or pirates. But when an outrage Is perpetrateC
under the sanction of government claiming to b
on terms of amity with own, the insult anC
outrage are doubly aggravating. But will al
mnistration at Washington demand and insist upor
full redress for this outrage? We shall see.