Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-11-22


the agent sent to Hungary. II appears TO
have heen sent us long ago as the last 9TH of
July, hut Webster has not been in any hurry
10 publish it. We give below translation
OF this remarkable document:
Commonwealth.
From the Austrian Gazette Of Sept. 10, 1851
Reply of the Chevnlier Ilulsemann, Austrian
Charge des Affnires at the Court of Wash
iugton, to his Excelency Daniel Webster,
Secretary of State of the United States of
America:
AUSTRIAN LEGATION, July 4, 1851.
The undersigned Charge des Affairs of his
majesty. the Emperor of Austria, having sub
miitcd TO the Emperor your Excelency's
despatch, bearing date Dec. 81, 1850, has
been instructed TO make the following reply.
! The conduct of the United States, of which
the undersigned had heretofore complained,
in sending nm agent TO Hungary TO open
communication with the rebels there in arms
then against his majesty the Emperor, np-
pears to be justified in the said dispatch on
the ground, that the United Siates nrc the
"representaiion OF purely popular principles
of government" principles on which the
governments of those States nre themselves
wholly founded !" whence n Just and rightlul
sympathy on the part of the people aud gov
crnment Of the United States, on behalf of
all movements, wherever and by whomsoev-
er made in behalf of liberty and equality.
! Whether, ifsnch truly were the foundation
Of the American government, it would JUS
tify the course of conduct of which the En-
peror complnins,it is not necessary now to in
qnire, since the assumption on the pnrt ofthe
American government, 'to lie wholly found
cd upon" and ITO be the representatives of
purely popular principles Of government"
does not seem TO the Emperor TO rest on any
sufficient foundation.
Your Excellency can hardly fail TO he n
ware, that in two of the United States, TO
wit, South Carolina and Mississippi the ma
jority of the inhabitants are kept in n state
Of degrading personal serviiude, with n total
prohibition Of political and social rights, ut
terly unknown in any portion of the Aus
triun don!inions; that in fourteen out of the
thrty-ure States, the same is the case with
n very large portion of the nntive-born in
habitunts; that even those States in which
this system does not exist, are pledged TO
support il in the others for which purpose
the general government is the instrument
and ngent; n function without the perpe-
tual discharge Of which, as no one knows
better than your Excellency, especially in
the scrupulous return of all refugees from
serviiude, the Union could not continue TO
exist.
Your Excellency has been pleased TO
quote the Lnyback Circular Of May 1871, MS
it to illustrate some marked distinction be-
tween the principles of the Austrian and the
American governments. The following il
the passage qupted:
"UsefiII and necessary changes in legisla-
lion and administration ought only to ema-
nate from the free will and intelligent con-
viction of those whom God has rendered re-
sponsihlc for power. All that deviates from
this level leads to disorder, commotions and
evils far more insutferable, than those which
they pretend TO remedy" And can your
Excellrucy say that there is any doctrine
here laid down, not perfectly consistent
with the principles and practice of the
American governments? Does your Ex-
cellency admit any right on the part Of the
slaves, Tint is 10 say, the large majority of
the native population of South Carolina, 10
rise against and to overturn the rule of their
white masters? Is not the government of
the United States pledged 10 interfere to put
down amy such insurection? Do not the
Slave holders offs. Carolina aud of the 9th
! " OhiAF' Nldllll ~ iibltl lHtlT IOWtT unttlIy
from Col, and to he responsible TO him alone
for IFS exercise And do they not rely on
the Bible TO prove il? The undersigned
begs lenvc 10 entertain the opinion, and he
boldly appeals TO the civilized world for the
justice OF it, that the right of the Emperor
of Auslrn to decide alone and exclusively
upon the political changes necessary and
proper in be mnde in Hungary, is at least as
good as the title of hundred thousand
American shareholders TO keep in sole de-
! pcndence upon their will and pleasure up
wards of three millions of their fellow coun-
trymen, while they reduce the remaining
twenty millions of nominal frcemen to the
hardly more enyiable condition of slave. dri-
vers and slave-hunfsrs.
As 10 the exercise Of this power, claimed
in both cases to lie Of divine origin, the En-
peror Of Austria has not yet found il neces-
/ snry 10 prohibit, under severe penalties, the
teaching any portion of his subjects to read
mud write. On the other hand, all Austrian
parents nre required by law TO send their
children 10 school to he instructed in these
necessary accomplishments.
The Emperor of Austria is no enemy to
! popular right. He reigns over the people
Of Austria for their good, not for his own
He is willing to receive light in the discharge
of his august duties from every quarter
But lac does not look for information "on the
great idras Of responsibility and purely pop
ulnr principles of government" to the rep
resenatives of an nristocracy of slave hold
crs, very similar in one respect to thnt insur-
gen, nrrtocracy lately suppressed in Hunga-
ry, that of preaching democracy with their
tongues, while their whole lives consist in
the dnily exercise over their fellow men of
arbitrary power, in the most repugnnnt of
| forms.
But although the Emperor cannot in any
wise admit the preiensions of the United
Stnies TO he the representatives of purely
popular principles Of government he hns
no objection that the relations of the two