The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-19

aud, nth the assurance from the mnisaary tina
! was now entirely free, started with my own
passport for Vienna
The offensive books were forwarded by post,
aud would be returned me in the city, tho com
missary said, rs they were probably not forbiddeg
there.
My first steps, naturally, after getting my let
ter, were 10 Mr.. McCurdy, aud, of course, there
was much to talk of, and u read over, after this
long atflr. When this correspondence Is finally
published, | am very much mistaken II Mr. Nc
Curdys notes, SO spirited and vigdous do not
contrast very fayoraby with the long-wnded {,
indefinite epistles of the Austrans. They are
words strong and direct, and are worthy OF a
represen alive OF America.
That | owe everything to him, 10 this affair,
need not say fine had not been genuine man.
= "a had not dared to address the Austrian cabi-
net as the representative of twenty Ave millions
of men should address it, would have been still
in Austrian dungeons, or have been shot before
now, by a court martial, as spy"
At Pesth he was summoned before the direc-
tor, and ordered to leave the Austrian dominions
within three days, but by the introduction of Mr..
McCurdy, the matter was dropped, and he re-
manned eight days. Mr.. Brace was accompanied
to the frontier by an official, when his passport
having been pised, he was passed into Bavaria
The letter concludes as follows:
"The explanation of the whole conceive to
be this: When applied at first for admission
into Hungary, the chief police objected, on the
grounds that the Americans had made such
shamef I'll descriptions Of Austria, and had inter-
fered SO much in her internal poiticsr | pres
sed the matter, showed recommendation from
our ambassador, told him that he knew my ac-
| quaintances, and asked him how he could OBJ
ject. He then yielded, and gave me the re.
quiste rise Of course from this be knew my
general route. Waiting till was well within
the country, (300 miles from Vienna,) when
my arrest would never probably be heard of
without he, or more probably the ministry, sent
10 an order to Field Marshall Lederer, at Pesth
and he forwarded il to Gen. Braunhof, in Gross
warden, to arrest me- These facts have
almost directly from the brother-in-law of Gen
Lederer one of the gentlemen to whom was
especially introduced in Hungary The pretext
for my arrest was found in my words in the
hotel.
They had probably never expected any noise
would be made about the arrest of solitary
American traveller, so far from all aid, and they
had perhaps hoped to make an examnle of me,
before the facts could be known. But, God be
thanked, my friends were true and my own
carefulness previously prevented any case being
made out against me before the whole affair
was abroad. All this petty persecution, after |
was acquitted, is in perfect consistency with the
whole Austrian system. No man is so danger
Gus in the Austrian empire as the man they have
nujusty treated. He is living accusation, all
the while, against their policy. He has known
too much
| II need not be said that step at last into an
other land, with sensation of infinite relief. /
am on firm ground again, after long wandering
in treacherous morass. 1t is like leaving the
dungeon for a mountain side. | wonder, |
think of it, that government so false, so sup
ported on espionage and deception, SO crushing
to manhood and Independence in its whole sys-
tenn, could ever have existed so long among men.
But, God be thanked, its days are numbered
And, if all this suffering and annoyance of mine
can in any way tend to show its hollowness and
injustice to the world, | shall not regret it,"