Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-07-14
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| Demoler resisted tho lnsoieRt demands o!
the Austrian consul. u,I,il the debt due 10
/ his wife, should be paid H9< 3'a.e.e9xas
| This is his crime. lie dared TO demand
the return OF tho poor orphans heritage.
The Serviun government continued gen
erously to support and protect him for
eight months. saa 7'tz @@ is.ti o.
But as tho Austrian consul persisted in
his persecution, and as the dragoman OF Tho
| pachalik oil tho Belgrade (who is rather m
| officer of Austria than Of the sublime porte)
1 made common cause with tho cansul, The
Servian government was obliged 10 remoys
him from tho Belgfaio, but his cause was
so Jus, that our government even then gave
| him permission 10 reside at KrnguJsvaer,
and continued its protection TO enable him
4 to follow up his Judicial dispute with
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| |. was. under such circumstances that
Major Demoter, seeing the commercial on
ierpiise which he hud undertaken in order
1 to support himself and wife, ruined by his
removal, and finding it impossible to pro-
vide for the existence Of his vito in The
city in which his residence was offered 10
him, was obliged to leave her Without mon
ey, exposed to die of hunger, TO como
again 10 ask my assistance and advice
He camo furnished with regular passports
lie was on the point ofdcparture, when,
on the anniversary itself Of our detention
at Katahja, an order suddenly arrived
from the GRIND vizier that lie also should
| be detained. Ss4
His passports were regular; he was nei-
thor subject nor guest oi Turkey, his
wife was friendless, and dying of hunger
ut Kragujavaer. But what Of that? II
seems tha, the agents Of Austria have the
power TO treat with ridicule the rights oil
| nations, and the personal safety OF individ
uals in Turkey. One of them caused IN
| Hungarian to be publicly arrested at smyr.
m, bocnuse he was one of nv servants,
| and transported him TO an Austrian dun
geon, where he still lnnguishes; another
| caused Turkish houses to be searched even
in the ca apitul OF the Padishah, in order to
possess himself Of papers belonging 10 Hun
garian emigrants. lie iuycigled into his
official residence rs in n trap, and there
| caused them IL be bound and carried on
board an Austrian vessel, because they re
fused 10 accept an insulting amnesty from
| tho hands of tho executioners of their corn-
| try; others en,iced there, and detained BY
force, have been so menaced and threat
ened ,ha, they huvo sought voluntary
death to escape from Austrian disgrace.
AT length the Austrian agents drew up
cnlumnious dcnunciation ngainst Major
Domoter. which the Seryian government
found upon inquiry to be totally without
! foundation, ihni itLnni only y1reated it as
such, but even gave permission to Demoter
to reside at t-krngujayaer, the Seryinn capi.
tai. And the sublime porte upon the faith
OF this calumnious denunciation, without
inquiry, withou, investigation, arrested my
country man, and ordered his confinement
q, ka,abja, although he was only a travel>
ler, provided with regular passports, rocog-
nizcd as innocent by the Servian govern
,nent, aud taken under its protection, il
was enough lha, he was Hungarian.
There is yet more: In the order which
inflicted this GROWING &c, of injustice upon
Major Demoter. the phrase which follows
is literally to be iound:-"As the depart
ure Of the individual detained al Katahja
is already decreed, it is ordered that lAe
said Demoter, who is by chance amongst
,hem, be arrested and detained nlso."
Ii is, then, TO inspire US with confidence
in our approaching liberation, thnt these
fresh deten,ions have Just been Q ffeeled
Behold tho consolation which the ami
yersary Of our detention has broughtto US!
most solemnly protest against this act.
appeal from it 10 the eternal justice Of
God, and 10 the judg,nen. of all humanity
: appeal from it with the more conf
dence, as this act gives proof TO all for
eigners, travellers OF residents in Turkey,
that their personal safety cpnnot be guar
| aniied, and thnt no one con be sure, that
in consequence Of soino denuncation, he
may not be similarly treated. .ti : =
1 appeal from it yet more, because this
act cannot fail to be followed by disastrous
consequences, in destroying oil confidence
in the belief that tho rights OF nations are
respected in Turkey. =,
| appeal from il besides, because it can
not fail to compromise the dignity sof the
Seryian government before its subjects, and
to diminish the attachment Of Soryia 10 the
suGiitbo poItGs u1u thut iu ibothSAt WuSh
the Molish party, supported BY Austria and
Russia, is upon the eve Of disturbing the
| tranquility Of Servio, and of proving to
Europe that amongst oil tho Sclayonian
provinces Of the Ottoman empire. there is
| mol a single one which is moi subject 10 dis,
content and to eaaemtes. to the advantage
Of Russia.
AS for myself and my companions in
misfortune, | feel bound 10 declare before
God and humanity, that we nre reduced
to tha, pitch OF despair at which men take
counsel Of their honor, regardless Of con.
sequences orof the scandal oil collisions
which may be provoked, determined to die
rather than submit to the prolongalion OF
| their suflerings. ~ y: @,S'afE 'z@''
ss 10 g.ssl. LOUIS qkOSSUTH.
/ Kotuhjn, April ID, 1851. aas I'd
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