The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-02

But a. the Austrian consul PERSISTED 10 ne
persecution, and ~ the dragoman OF the facnank
of Bel rade (who il rather an officer OF hnstF'a
than Of the Sublime Porte,) made common cause
with tho consul, the Servian government was A.
length obliged to remove hin from Belgrade; but
his cause was 20 just that our government even
then gave him permission to reside al hraeo!a-
yaer, and continued its protection to enable MIN
to follow up his judicial dispute with Austria.
1t was under such circumstances that MAJOR
Domotor, seeing the commercial enterprise
which he had undertaken in order TO support
himself and his wife, ruined by this removal
and finding It impossible to provide for the exist
ence OF his wife in the city in which residence
was offered to him. was obliged to leave her
without money, exposed to die OF hunger, 10
come pgsin to ask my assistance ana Hdvice-
He came furnished with regular passports.
He was upon the point of departure, when, on
the anniversary itself of our detention at kutah.
ia, an order suddenly arrived from the Grand
Vizier that he also should be detained.
His passports were regular; he was neither
subject nor guest Of Turkey; his wife was
friendIess. and dying of hunger at Kragujevaer.
but what of that 1t seems that the agents OF
Austria have the power to treat with ridicule the
rights Of nations and the personal safety OF in
divduas in Turkey. One OF them caused an
Hungarian to be publicly arrested at Smyrna
because he was one of my servants and trans
ported HIM to an Austrian dungeon, where ne
still angushes another caused Turkish houses
to be searched even in the capital OF the Padlshah,
in order to possess himself of papers belonging
to Hungarian cmigrants. lie inveigied others
into his official residence, al in trap, ard there
he caused them to be bound and carried on
board Austrian vessels, because they refused 70
accept an insulting amnesty from the hands OF
the executioners of their country others enticed
there, and detained by force, have been 80 mem
aced and threatened that they have sought n vol
untary death to escape from Austrian grace.
At length the Austrian agents drew up Il
csAamnious denunciation against Major Domo-
tor, which the Servian government found upon
inquiry to be so totally without foundation, that
ii not only treated it as such, but even gave
permission to Domotor to reside at Kragujovaer
the Servian capital. And the Sublime Porte,
upon the faith of this calumnious denunciation,
without inquiry, without investigation, arrested
my countryman, and ordered his confinement at
Kutabja, although he was only traveller, pro-
vided with regular passports. recognised ne
innocent by the Servian government, and taken
under its protection it was enough that he was
an Hungarian.
this browning act of injustice upon Major Do
motor, the phrase which follows is literally to
be found As the departure of the individuals
detained at Krtahjah is already decreed, it is
ordered that the said Domotor, who is by chance
amongst them, be arrested and tanned also"
Is it, them to inspire US with confidence in
our approaching liberation. that these fresh de-
tentions have just been effected?
Behold the consOaton which the anniversary
of our detention has brought 10 us
most solemnly protest against this act
appeal from it to the eternal justice Of God,
and to TIE Judgment Of al humanity.
appeal from it with the more confidence, as
this act gives proof to all foreigners, travellers
or residents in Turkey, that their personal safety
cannot be guar .nteed, and that no one can be
sure that, in consequence of some denunciation,
he may not be similarly treated.
appeal from it yet more, because this act
cannot fail to be followed by DISASTROUS consc.
quences, in destroying all confidence in the be-
lief that the rights of nations are respected in
Turkey.
| appeal from it besides, because it cannot
fail to compromise the dignity Of the Serviar
government before it's subjects, and to diminish
the attachment of Serva to the Sublime Porte
| and that in moment when the MilOsh party
supported by Austria and Russia. is upon the
eve of disturbing the tranquility Of Servia, and
Of proving to Europe that amongst all the Sca-
woman provinces Of the Ottoman empire, there
is not a single one which is not subject to dis.
content and to emeutes, to the advantage OF
Russia.
As for mvself and my companions in misfor.
tune, | feel bound to declare before God and hui
manitv, that we are reduced to that pitch Of
depair at which men take counsel of their honor
regardless Of the consequences or Of the scandal
of collisions which may be provoked, determined
to die rather than to submit to n prolongation oil
their sufferings. LOUIS KOSSUTH.