Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-01-10

Inc American agent-@as was stated In his instruc-
TONS to be not unlikely found the condition of Hun
Sifian affairs less prosperous than it had been, or
'ido pecfbeheIed to be lie did not enter Hungary,
nohold any direct Communication With her revolu-
Ht!enafy leaders. He reported against the recogni
ton OF her independence because he found that she
mad been unable to set up firm and stable govern
ment lie carefully forbore, as his Instructions re-
CURED to give publicity to his mission. and the
dersigned suppeses that the Austrian government
first learned its xistence from the Communications
of the President to the Senate.
Mr.. Hulsemann will observe from this statement
that Mr.. Manns mission was wholly unObiectionable
and strictly within the rule ofthe law of nations and
the duty of the United States as neutral power
He will accordingly feel how little foundation there
is for his remark that those who did not hesitate
to assume the responsibility of sending Mr. Dudley
Mann on such errand should independent of con-
sderations of proprety have borne in mind that they
were exposing their emissary to be trea ted spy.
Aspy person sent by belligerent gain secret
information of the forces and dences Of the other to
be used for hostile purposes. According to practice,
he may use deception, under the penalty of being
lawfully hanged if detected To give this odious
name and character to confidential agent of neu-
trail power bearing the commission of his country,
and sent for purpose fully warranted by the law of
nations is not only to abuse language, but also to
confound all just ideas and to announce the widest
and most extravagant notions. such certainly were
not to have been expected in grave diplomatic pa
say to Mr.. Hulscmann that the American govern
ment would regard such an imputation upon it by
the cabinet of Austria, that it employs SPIES and
that In quarrel none OF its distinctly often
sve, if it did not presume. it is willing presume
that the word used in the original German was not
OF equivalent meaning with spy in the English Ian
guagc, or that in some other the employment of such
an opproblous term may be explained. Had the
imperial government of Austria subjected Mr.. Mann
to the treatment of spy it would have placed itself
without the pale of civilized nations and the cabin
ct of Vienna may be assured that it had carried
Or attempted to carry any such lawlcss purpose in
to effect in the of an authorized agent of this
government, the spirit Of the people of this country
would have demanded immediate hostties to be
waged by the utmost exertion of the power of the
republic, military and naval
MIR. Husemann proceeds to remark that & this ex-
tremely painful incident, therefore, might have been
passed over without any written evidence being left
part in the archives of the United States, had
not General Taylor thought proper to revive the
whole subject, by communicating to the Senate, in
his message of the 18th [28thl Of last March, the
instructions with which MIR. Mann had been furnish
ed on the occasion of his mission to Vienna The
publicity which has been given to that document
has placed the imperial government under the
slty OF entering formal protest. through it's official
preventative, against the proceedings of the Amer
can government, lest that government should con-
strue silence into approbation liberation
of the principles which appear to have guided its
action and the means it has adopted.' The under
signd reassers to Mr.. Hulsemann, and to the cab
! met Of Vienna and in the presence of the world,
that the steps taken by President Taylor pro-
tested against by the Austrian government, were
warranted by the law Of nations and agreeable to
the usages Of civilized States. With respect to the
communication of Mr.. Mann's instructions to the
Senate, and the language in which they couched,
it has already beer. said and MIR. Hulsemann must
feel the juice of the remark that these domes-
tic affairs in reference to which the government of
the United States cannot admit the slightest respon-
siblity to the government of hisimperial majesty
No State deserving the appelation of independent.
can permit the language in which it may instruct its
officers in the discharge of their duties to itself
to be. called in question under any pretext by a
foreign power. But, even if this not Mr..
fulsemann ism error IN stating that the Austrian
government is called Iron Rule in Mr.. Mann's
instructions. That phrase is not found in the pa
per- and in respect to the honorary epithet bestow-
ed in Mr. anns instructions on the late chelf OF the
revolutionary government of Hungary, Mr.. Huse-
mann will bear in mind that the government of the
United States cannot justly be expected, in conf
Dental communication to its agent, to withhold
from individual an epithet of distinction ofwhicl
great part of the world thinks him worthy merely
on the ground that his government regards him
as rebel. At early stage of the American
revolution. while Washington considered by
the English government rebel Chief he
was regarded on the continent of Europe ar
illustrious hero. But the undersigned will take
the liberty of bring ng the cabinet of Vienna int
the presence of its predecessors and Of citing
for its consideration the conduct of the imperial
: eminent itself. In the year l777 the war OF thu
American revolution aging all over these Unit
ed States Eng land was prosecuting that war with
: a most resolute determinations and by the exerto1
of all her military to the fullest extent Ger
many was at that time at peace with England ant
yet agent of that Congress, which looked up
on by England in no other light than that of bod
in open rebellion, not on y received with grea
respect by the ambassador of the Empress Queen, a
], Paris, and by the Minister of the Grand Duke o
Tuscany, who afterwards mounted the imperia
: throne but resided in Vienna for considerabl
time: not indeed officially acknowledged, but treate
c with courtesy and respect anu the emperor suner
ed himself to be persuaded by that agent to e1ei
f himself to prevent the German powers from fur
nshing troops to England to enable her to suppress
the rebellion in America. Neither Mr.. iiulscmann
nor the cabinet of Vienna it is presumed, will un
c dertake to say that anything said done by thi
e government in regard to the recent between
Y Austria and Hungary is not borne out, and mucl
than borne out, by this example OF the lmper
Y ial court 1t is believed that the Emperor JOSEPH
the Second habitualy spoke in terms Of respect an
G admiration Of the character of Washington, as he
known to have done of that of Franklin; and b
deemed it infracton of neutrality to inform him
self of the progress Of the revolutionary struggle
America not to express his deep of the merit
) and the talents of those illustrious who wer
then leading their country to independence and re
h nown. The undersigned may add that In 18l til
= courts of Russia and Austria proposed diplomat
Il Congress of the belligerent powers, to which tn
commissioners of the United States should be admit
= ted.
Mr.. Hulsemann thinks that in Mr.. Mann's in
sructi0ns improper expressions introduced in re
gard to Russia: but the undersigned has no reaso