Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-11-20
From the Austrian Gazette, Sen

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From the Austrian Gazette, Sept. Is. 1851
Reply Of tile Chevalier Husemaun, Austrian
Charge des Aftires at the Cou.t of Washing
ton, to His Excelency Daniel Webster, Sec
rotary Of State Of the United States of
America.
AUSTRIAN LEGATION, July 4, 1851.
The undersigned, Charge des Affaires of his
Majesty the Emperor Of Austria, having submit
ted to the Emperor your Excellency's despatef-rr|
bearing date Dec. 81, 1850, has been instructed
to make the following reply:
The conduct of the United States, of which the
| undersigned had heretofore complained IA send
ing an agent to Hungary TO open communlca-
ton with the rebels there in arms then against his
Majesty, the Emperor, appears to be justified IN
| the said dispatch, on the ground that the U.ited
States ale tie Representatives OF purely popular
principles of Government" principles on which
the Governments of those States are themselves
wholly Funded" whence Just and rlghtfui
sympathy on the part of the people and Govern
ment of the United States, on behalf of all move
menls, wherever, and by whonsoever made III
behalfof liberty and equality.
Whether if such truly were the foundation of
the American Government, it would Justify the
plains, it is not necessary now to inquire, since
this assun ption on the part of the American Gov
ernmens ''to be wholly founded upon " and ''to
be the representatives Of purely popular princi-
cIpes of government, does not seem TO the En-
ror to rest ON any sufficient foundation
Your Excellency can hardly fail to be aware,
that in two of the United States, to wit, South
Carolina and Mississippi, the majority of the
inhabitants are kept in state of degrading per-
sonai servtude, with total prohibition Of political
and social rights, utterly unknown In any portion
OF the Austrian doniniOns; that in fourteen out
oc the thrty-one States, the same is the with
very large portion Of the natlve-born inhab-
tanis that even those States in which this system
does not exist, pledged to support it in The
others; for which purpose, the General Govern
| ment is the instrument and agent; a function,
without the perpetual discharge of which, as DO
one knows better than your Exccllency especially
in the scrupulous return Of all refugees from SER
! vitude, the Union could not continue to exist.
/ Your Excelency has been pleased to quote the
Laybach Circular Of May, 1871, as tito illustrate
some marked distinction between the principles of
the Austrian and the American Governments
The following is the passage quoted:
''Useful and necessary changes in legislation
and administration, ought only to emanate from
the free will and intelligent conviction of those
whom God has rendered responsible for power.
All that devlates from this level, leads todlsorder,
commotlons and evils far more insuferable than
those which they pretend to remedy"
I Can your Excellency say that there is any
doctrine here laid down, not perfectly consistent
with the principles and practice of the American
Government? Does your Excellency admit any
right the part of the slaves, that is to say, the
large majority Of the native population of South
Carolina, to rise against rs h hot the government
of the United States pledged to interfere TO put
down any such insurrection' Do not the slave
holders OF South Carolina, and of the other States
claim TO hold their power directly from God, aud
to be responsible 10 him alone for its exercise?
And do they not rely on the Bible 10 prove it,
The undersigned begs leave TO entertain the opin-
ion, and he boldly appeals to The civilized world
for the justice of it, that the right of the Emperor
of Austria 10 decide alone and exclusively upon
the political changes necessary and proper to be
made in Hungary, is ut least as good as the title
OF hundred thousand American slave holders 10
keep in sole dependence on their will and pleas
ure, upwards Of three millions of their fellow
countrymen, while they reduce the remaining
twenty millions of nominal freemen to the hardly
more envable condition of slaye-dlivers and
slave-hunters.
As to the exercise of this power, claimed in
both cases to be of divine origin, the Emperor of
Austria has not yet found it necessary to prohibit
under severe penalties, the teaching any portion
OF his subjects to read and write. On the other
hand, all Austrian parents required by law to
send their children to school TO be il structed in
these necessary accomplishments.
The Emperor Of Austria is no enemy TO popu-
lar right, lie relgns over the people of Austria
for their good, not for his own. He is willing to
receive light in the discharge of his august duties
flom every quarter. But he does not look for in
formation 6 on the great ideas of responsibility
and purely popular principles of government, TO
the representatives of aristocracy of slavehoI-
ders, very similar in one respect to that insurgent
arIstocrdcy lately suppressed in Hungary, that
OF preaching democracy with their tongues, while
their whole lives consist in the daily exercise
over their fellow men of arbitrary power, in the
most repugnant forms
But, although the Emperor cannot in anywise
admit the pretensions Of the United States to be
the representatives. Of purely popular principles
OF government" he has no objections that the
relations of the two Governments should stand
upon the basis of mutual interference with the
internal concerns oil each othei, on which the
American Government seems disposed to place it,
In common with the rest of Christendom, he has
long regarded with hearty COMMUNICATION the de-
graded servitude, as seems to him. disgraceful
TO Christianity, in which so large portion OF the
common people are kept; and he cannot doubt
that theoprisng before long of some black Kos
suth will furnish him with an opportunity of car
ryIng those new principles laid down by the
American Government into practice, and thereby
serving the cause Of human happiness, ever dear
to the Emperor's heart
Having thus communicated the sentiments Of
his Majesty on your late dispatch, embrace this
opportunity TO renew to your Excellency assuran-
ces OF my high consideration HULsEMANN.
TO his Exceency, Daniel Webster, Secretary
Of State of the United States.
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