Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-12-27

that however fervent my gratitude be to yea |
would not have felt authorized to cross the Allan
tic at this very time only for the purpose to exhb-
it to you my warm thanks.
.You have raised the conviction throughout
the world, that by my liberation you were willing
to say 'Ie oppressed nations of old Europes con-
thent, be of good cheer; the young giant of
America stretches his powerful arm over the
waves ready to give a brothers hand to your fu-
ture.' So is your act interpreted throughout the
world. You, in your proud security, can scarce
ly imagine how beneficial this conviction has al
ready proved to the suffering nations of the Euro
pean continent. You can scarcely imagine what
sef-cOntidence you have added to the resolution
of the oppressed. You have knit the tie of So
lidarity in the destinieS of nations.
''Now, gentlemen, | have stated my position.
am a straight forward man. ] am a republican.
have avowed it openly in the monarchIal but free
England and am happy to state that have moth
ing lost by this avowal there. | hope | will not
here, in republican America, by that frankness,
which must be one ofthe chief qualities of every
republican. So | beg leave, frankly and openly,
to state the following points
First that take it to be the duty of honor and
principle not to meddle with whatever party ques-
ton of your own domestic affairs. | claim for my
country the right to dispose of itself so | am re
solved and must be resolved, to respect the same
principle here and everywhere. Others may de-
light in the part of knights errant for theories 1t
is not my case. / am the man of the great prnci-
pie of the sovereignty of every people to dispose of
Its domestic concerns: and l most solemnly
deny to every foreigner as to every foreign Power,
the right to oppose the sovereign faculty.
Secondly, | profess, highly and openly, my
admiration for the glorious principle of union, on
which stands the mighty pyramid of your great
ness, and upon the basis of which you have grown
in the short period of seventy-ive years, to pro-
diglous giant, the living wonder of the world. |
have the most warm wish that the ar-spangled
banner of the United States may forever be float
ing, united and one the proud ensign of mankind S
divine origin, And taking my ground ON this
principle which l find lawfully existing an estab-
shed constitutional fact it is not to a party, but
to the united People of the United States, that
confidently will address my humble requests for
aid and protection to oppressed humanity. | will
IcOnscientously respect your laws but within the
limits of your laws | will use every honest eXer-
ton to gain your operative sympathy, and your fl
nancal, material and political aid for my country S
freedom and independence and enueat the reali-
cation of these hopes which your generosity has
raised in me and my peoples breasts, and also in
the breasts of Europe's oppressed nations. And,
therefore,
''Thirdly, l beg leave frankly to state that my
aim is to restore my father-land to the full enjoy
ment of that act of declaration of independence,
which being the only rightul existing public law of
my nation, have lost nothing of its rghtful-
ness by the violent invasion of foreign Russian
arms and which, therefore, is fully entitled to
be recognised by the People of the United Staets,
whose very existence is founded upon a similar dec
aratlon OF independence.
''What can be opposed to it The frown of
Mr.. Hulseman-the anger of that satellite of the
Gar called Francis Joseph of Austria-and the
immense danger with which some European and
American papers threaten you, and by which, OF
course, you must feel extremely terrified, that
your Minister Vienna will have offered his pass
ports, and that Mr. Huseman leaves Washington,
should | be received and treated In my official Ca
pacty. Now as to your Minister at Vienna, how
you can combine the letting him stay there with
your opinion, of the cause of Hungary, | really
don't know but so much | know, that the pre-
sent absoutistical atmosphere of Europe is not We
~ propitious to American principles | know
man who could tell some curious facts about this
matter But as to Mr. Hulseman, really | dom
believe that he would be so ready to leave Wash
ington. He has extremely well digested the caus
tic pills which Mr.. Webster has administered t.
him so gloriously.
Even this morning | was honored by the ex
press order of the Government, by an official sa
lutte from the batteries of the United States in sucl
manner in which, according to the military rules
only public, high official capacity can be greet
ed. Having thus expounded my aim, beg leav
to state that | came not to your glorious shores t.
enjoy happy rest not with the intention
to gather triumphs Of personal distinction, but be
cause a humble petitioner, in my country's name
as its freey-chosen constitutional chief, humbly t.
entreat your generous aid; and then 1t is to tn
aim that L will devote every moment of my tim
with the more assiduity, the more restlessness, a
= every moment may bring report of events whlcl
may call me to hasten to my place the battle
field, where the great, and l hope the last battl
will be fought between Liberty and Despotism-
moment marked by the finger of God to be so nea
that every hour of delay of your generous aid ma.
prove fatally disastrous to oppressed humanity
and thus having stated my position to be that of
humble petitioner in the name of my oppresse
country, let me respectfully ask, do you not regre
to have bestowed upon me the high honor of thi
glorious eception, unparalleled in history %
Citizens of New York, it is under your protec
f ton that place the sacred cause of freedom an
f independence of Hungary"
Fran the Charleston Mercury.
} WASHINGTON, Dec, 8, 1851.
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