The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-10-11

to respect the rights of all uatons. The ap.
peal of Austria to other governments implies
that our government is acting upon some new
principle but Mr. Marcy is confident that, after
due consideration of the views here taken of
the affair at smyrna those powers which have
been so prompt to censure will be equally
prompt to correct any precipitate judgment
they may have formed in regard to it. They
will be abundantly satisfied that the agents of
this government in that transaction have res
pected international law, and in no particular
transgressed the restrictions it imposes. In
some instances they have carried this right of
protection to limits which this government
would not venture, because it would not feel
justified, to approach; nor have any of these
nations been disposed to abandon the exercise
of this right from timid apprehension that it
might possibly bring them into an occasional
collision with other powers The United States
ask no more than has been conceded to Others
aud will not be contented with less.
Mr.. Marcy's conclusion is as follows:
Before closing this communication, the un.
dcrsigned will briefly notice the complaint OF
Austria against Captain Ingraham for violating
the neutral soil of the Ottoman empire. The
right of Austria to call the United States to
an account for the acts Of their agents affecting
the sovereign territorial rights of Turkey is not
perceived, and they do not acknowledge her
right to require any explanation.
If any thing was done at Smyrna in deroga-
ton of the sovereignty Of Turkey, this govern
ment will give satisfactory explanation to the
Sultan when he shall demand it, and it has in.
structed its minister resident to make this
known to him. lie is the judge and the only
rightful Judge in this affair, and the injured
party, too. He HIS investigated its merits,
pronounced judgment against Austria, and ac.
quilted the United States; yet, strange as it
is, Austria has called the United States to an
account for violating the sovereign territorial
rights of the Emperor of Turkey.
The conclusions at which the President has
arrived, after full examination of the transac.
ton at Smyrna, and respectful consideration
of the views Of the Austrian government there
on, rs presented in Mr.. HulSemann's note, are
that Koszta, when siezed and imprisoned, was
invested with the nationality of the United
States, and they had, therefore, the right. il
they chose to exercise it, to extend their pro.
lection to him; that from international law
the only law which can be rightlully appealed
to for rules of action in this case. Austria
could derive no authority to obstruct or inter.
ftre with the United States in the exercise Of
this right, in effecting the liberation of Koszta;
and that Captain Ingrahanl's nterposition for
for bis release, was, under the peculiar cir
cumstanccs Of the case, right and proper.
These conclusions indicate 10 Mr.. HulSemann
the answer which the undersigned is instruc.
ted by the President to make to the Emperor
of Ausiaia to the demands presented in Mr..
Hulseman note.
| The President does not see sufficient cause
for disavowing the acts of the American agents
which are complained of by Austria. Her
claim for satisfaction on that account has been
carefully considered. and is respectfully de-.
clined.
Being convinced that the seizure and impri-
sonment Of Koszta were illegal and unjustifa.
BILE, The President also declines to give his
consent.to his delivery to the Consul General
of Austria at Smyrna; but after full exami
nation Of the case, as herein presented, he has
instructed the undersigned to communicate to
Mr.. Hulsemann his confident expectation that
the Emperor of Austria will take the proper
measures to cause Martin Koszta to be restor-
ed to the same condition no was in before he
was siezed in the streets olSmyna, tie 2lst
Of June last.