Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-01-11
Correspondence.
Secretary Of State to Mr.. H"iscmanm.
DEPATMENT OF STATE,
WAslIINGToN, Dec. 81, 1850.

. u. States had the nonOr 10 receive, SOME
time ago, The note of Mr.. Hulsemonn, Charge
. d'Aflairs of his Majesty the Emperor of Aus
tria, of the 3Oih September Causes, moi
, arising from any want Of personal regard toI
, Mr.. Ilusemann, or of proper respect for his
Government, have delayed an answer until
the present moment.
Having submitted Mr.. Husemann's letter
TO the President, the undersigned is now dl-
rected by him 10 return the following reply
The objects of Mr.. HuIsemann's note are,
lst, 10 protest, by order of his Government,
against the steps taken by the late President
of the United States, 10 ascertain the progress
and probable result of the revolutionary
movements in Hungary; and secondly, to
complain of some expressions in the instrrc-
tions of the late Secretary Of State to Mr.. A.
Dudley Mann, confidential agent Of the L.
States. as communicated by President Taylor
TO the Senate on the 2Slh of March last
The principal ground Of protest is founded
on the idea, or in the allegation, that the GO
vernment Of the United States. by the mission
of Mr.. Mann, and his Instructions has inter-
fcred in the domestic affairs of Austria, in Il
manner unjust or disrespec,tul toward that
power The Presidents message was Il COM
muncation made by him 10 the Senate, trans
hitting Il correspondence between the Exec
/ utive Government aud confidential agent Of
/ its own. This would seem TO be itself do
mesic transaction, a mere instance of inter
course between the President and Senate, in
the manner which is usual and Indispensable
in communications between the different
branches of the government. I was not ad-
dressed either to Austria or Hungary; nor
was it any public manifesto, to which any
foreign state was called on 10 reply. 1t was
an account of lis transactions communicated
bv the Executive Government to the Senate,
nj the request of that body made public, in
deed, but made public only because such is
the common and usual course Of proceeding; =;
and it NAV be regarded as somewhat strange,
therefore, that the Austrian cabinet did not
perceive that, by the instructions given TO
Mr. Hulsemamn, it was Itself interfering with
/ the domestic concerns of foreign state, the
very thing which is the ground OF It's COM
plant against the United States
This Deparlmen, has, on former octE5:omS,
informed the Ministers of Foreign Powers
that communication from the President 10
either House Of Congress is regarded as do
mestic communication, of which, ordinarily,
no foreign State has cognzance ; and, in
more recent instances, the great inconveni-
ence of making such communications subjects
Of diplomatic correspondence and discussion
has been fully shown. If it had been the
pleasure of his Ma jesty the Emperor of Aus
! ,ra. during the struggles in Hungary, to have
admanished the Provisional Government OF
/ the people of that country against involving
| themselves in disaster, by following the evil
| and dangerous example Of the United States
! of America. in making efforts for The esiab-
/ lishmeat OF independent Governments, such
| an admonilon from that Sovereign TO his
/ Hungarian subjects would not have origi
. mated here a diplomatic correspondence
4 The President might perhaps, on this ground
/ have declined TO direct any particular reply
| to Mr.. Hulsemann's note; hui out of proper
respect for the Austrian Government, 1t has
! been thought better TO answer that note at
length and the more especially as the occa-
/ sion is not uniavorable tor the expression of
| the general sentiments of the Government of
! the United States upon the topics which that
note discusses.
/ A leading subject in Mr.. Hulsemann's note
is that of the correspondence between Mr..
Hulsemann and the predecessor of the under
signed, in which Mr.. Clayton, by direction OF
the President, informed Mr., Hulsemann 'lhat
Mr. Mann's mission had no other object in
view than 10 obtain reliable information as 10
the true state of affairs IN Hungary, by per-
sonal observation" Mr.. liulseuann remarks
that "this explanation can hardly be admit
ted. for il saws very little as 10 the cause OF
the anxiety which was felt to ascertain The
chances of the revOlutionisls." As this, how
ever, is the only purpose when can with any
appearance of truth be attributed TO the agen
cy; as nothing whatever is alleged by Mr.
Hulsemann to have been either done or saiC
by the agent inconsistent with such an OBJ
jecr, the undersigned conceives that Mr.
Clayton's explanation ought 10 be deemed
not only admissible, but quite satisfactory
Mr.. Hulsemann states, in the course o! hi
| note, that his instructions TO address his pre-
, sent communication to Mr.. Clayton reached
Washington about the time of the lamenteC
death of the late President, and that he de
J. layed from a sense of propriely the execution
: of his task until the new Administrator
; should be fully organized: IA delay whcl
he now rejoices at, as it has given him tn
opportunity of ascertaihing from the neS
President himself, on the occasion of the re
. ceplion of the diplomatic corps, that tn
fundamental policy or the United States
so frequently proclaimed, would guide tn
relations of the American Government wit
/, other Powers Mr., Hulsemann also oil
serves that it is in his power TO assure III