The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-04

srAton Of our government To take sidea with
France and Switzerland Tor freedom and Tree
institutions. l speak vi France "a she VIII DO
after the ELECTIONS ia Aiuy, Sbz.
therefore, ex puined Lhe advantages OF Colts
invention to the iresident IN keeping OF the
enemy for considerable time, and offered to
send The revolver, which | had left at Paris, to
the confederation, on my return, aud said that
had no doubt Mr. Colt would be glad 10 see
them manufactured from that model, for the
service, by the Swiss government My offer
was accepted as made.
When returned to Paris, sent the pistol 10
the Presiden., at Berne, with all its accoutre-
ments There was no letter and only in
schption on the band, with the words, "a Ia
Suisse, w. NJ. Cory, Paris, Oct, 1885,"
mention this as explaining, probably, the course
of the government in sending no Instructions
with the carabine. They have done, with re-
spect to their present what did with mine and
they have avoided the improperly of returning
gift in kind, by sending their carabine to the
United States, by my hands, instead of giving
it to me. | am very glad Switzerland has thus
acted towards us; she would have done it TO no
other country, and she has meaning which we
should understand and recprocate. France,
Switzerland, and the United States, are des-
tined to cooperate on principle, system and
compact, for republicanism, against the mon
strous alliance Of European despots, who are
banded for the slaughter, without discrimina
ton of sex or age. of all freemen found in arms.
Switzerland will not succumb, but the land
az Washington and Jefferson, Of Franklin and
Madison, cannot allow feeble people--a hand
full of men, women, and children--to be hacked
to pieces for protesting that political faith which
has made us 80 soon the first maritime and agri-
cultural, the most generally intelligent and happy
nation on the globe She was not attacked by
her enemies last spring, as her friends expected
but it was their intestine troubles which saved
her for season. TIE long and painful confer
ences Of Warsaw, Olmutz, and Vienna, were in
dispensable to the settlement of the designs
against Switzerland, and we are advised that it
has been further decided b, tho despots there
assembled, to attack even France, if the democ-
racy shall be, as it certainly will be, triumphant
at the next elections. Time was necessarily
consumed in maturing this nefarous conspiracy
but on the opening of another year, If God per-
mits, the south and east of Europe is to echo to
the Cossack's hoof 1t is probable that before
the rising of the next Congress to sit in De.
cember, the execution Of republicnnism--its ex-
tnction throughout the Old World-will be
attempted. 1t is not possible that an American
Congress will be deceived by traitors and bad ad-
visers, at home or abroad, nor that they will be
derect in their duty, being at the head of ma
tons, of at once taking part in the government
of the family; and by the Inauguration with
force, if necessarily of the great code Of justice
among states, establish the rights of man.
w. M. CORY.
~Col A. Dudley Mann was the ablest officer, OF
any rank whatever, in the fogeign service of the
United States. He the most obnoxious man in
Europe to despotism, because he represented nation
Of ireemen, in whose name he constantly, but firmly
and calmly, wrote and spoke. His correspondence
with the Secretary of State since lS47 very volum
NOUS and if publicly compared withshe Of folly
from other official sources, lying in that department,
contributed during the greatest period since the Chris
tan era would place him at the head OF diplomatic
list. Congress should Immediately order the pubca-
ton OF all those documents