Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-12-22

board an American ship. This, you might think,
was dscourtesys God bless youlit was true po-
liteneSS-politeness not indeed, to the homeless
exie--not tothe nation whose nag waved over
him-but politeness to the Kaiset Of Austria: II
was delicate attention b the Gear OF all tie Rus
sias The Gear himself also, is the very pink and |
flower of this sort of courtesy and comityilt is true
he could fog the ladies of t6e Polish convent on
the bare back, but if you only saw him at review
in Vienna, with his friend the other emperor, or in
London with his friend Her Gracious Majesty, it
would do you good to witness the peace aud love
that reign among these crowned brethten and SIS
teTS. Great Britain however, is certainly the most
accomplished master OF this species OF Politentss.
You remember that after the late Italian strug |
gle, certain weather. worn refugees, with price
upon their heads, msde their way to Malta, and
asked permission to land; but the British GoYet-
nor sternly waved them oH-the guns of The fort
reSS showed their grinning maZzles. The poor
souls wanted only shelter ana PERMISSION 10 take
lodgings and buy yctuals-itiS all very well, said
the Governor, but you cannot stop here and so
they passed on TO Barbara, or Morocco, or-heaven
knows where. Strange to say, the repulsed refu-
gees saw no politeneSs in this reception, yet It was
true International comfy; 1t was an act, L do as
you, Of thesweetest and most chivalrouS cour-
tesy-toward the royal iailer of Naples, and the
imperial executionet OF Vienna. That was the
most exquisite pollteneSs, too, which imPelled the
British Ministers to place the foreign residents IN
London under police surveillance, upon repre- 4
sentation from the Austrian Court. 1t was true
courtesy that made them send constables lew
months ago to break open hoSSnths house and
search for arms and correspondence. Above all, 1t
was an effort of the most refined urbanity, that
stealing of The Italian letters in the English post
Office, copying them for the use of the King of.
Naples, and IeSeaIlng and forwarding them as
If nothing had happened, whereby some OF the
noblest hearts in Italy were betrayed to their de!
StTuction. -
l haveobseryed that.an English newspaper, pub
Iished in New York, takes me to task for citing
this eXecrable case Of the BandieTas against the
Erylish Mailing il0lnfP1 and
unique case, aud transaction condemned by Par
Lament, press and public. If the writer had ia
ken TIE trouble to look over the Parliamentary re.
ports, he would have seen that it was not an iso-
lated case, but merely detected and clearly eX-
posed example of the settled system of the British
Post office eSpOinage-he would have seen that
there was hardly distinguished Statesman of Bn-
tain, these thirty years back, who did not steal let
tiers, and that among them was the truly liberal
| Lord Morpeth-his present title l forget. He
would have seen that Parliament did net diSap-
prove the practice, but distinctly approved and
sanctioned it by throwing out with large malt rites
a resolution condemnatoryof 1.-THE would have
that detective caves dropping is still the law
and the Practice; and finally he would have known
that the liberal Lord John Russell, in voting
against all inquiry into the practice, and all inter
ference with 1t, could only regret Il cite his own
words) ''thatthe practice could not be so etiectual
now as before tie exposure had been made of its
existence, would act as kind of warming"
| Mr.. Secretary Marcy says that the United States
VIII w 10 liuGh aS ouS "a IhS 4SoAo-
pean nations, 10 maintain tranquility. And he
shows his good feeling and courtesy toward the
crowned heads by terming their fugitive enemies
adventures and sedltious propogandlSts. 1would
that could know whether this Secretary does tru-
y herein represent the sentiment of the nation
! Has America, indeed, as deep an interest in the
| tranquility OF Ireland and Hungary and Germany,
| under their several EmpeTors, Kings and Grand
Dukes, as those Emperors, Kings and Grand
I Dukes themseveS3 And if America has mind
10 engage this contest Of politeneSS, where will
she stop? Will you place detectives to watch our
houses, and TO dog our notions2 ''Amerca will do
as much7 Will your Postmaster General Qorgive
me for agining the bare possibility of ) soften
the seals of letters, and initiate the impressions
and copy the contentSl Shall we never take
letter from the pos.man, without carefully exami-
ning to see whether any comfy has been pTactSed
upon our sealing wax2
! But what am speaking Of? Am | not in Amer
| ica7 1t was not fer this the farmers and traders
j of these colonies fought and conquered. The
courtesies of this country Ibeeye, are due to the
people of Europe, not to the peoples masters and
i enemies And how deeply those poor people need.
| how richly deserve-yOur sympathy! Do you know
who and what men are theJ-the refugees of '4S-
whom that Secretary calls adventures and seditious
IpIopogandiStS? They are the very flower of Eu-
| rope, and the very salt of the earth-the proud,
thoughtful students, the inspired poets the knight
! ly soldiers of freedom and right. A French au.
thor has well said that the genuine representative
of ancient European chivalry is now the chiYalIy
Of young Democracy-the chivalry that gnes as
gayly 10 the barricade, when duty call, fete
ehampetre-with the courage of lion TO face ty
rants and the gentle courtesy of woman 10 the
weak and the poor
And where are they now? in the swamps of
Cayenne they tend the sugar cane, or they are hoe
ing corn on the penal farms Of Algeria. SOME
/ where in Ohio wanderS, and feeds his hogs, the
| German INLAND. Oh, heaven! Apollo is once
more among the herdsmen of AdmetuS, and the
i IerdSmen know not that it is the sun god. On
some tropical palrn-tree hangs now the silent harp
| of Ferdinand Frtlgrath; in silence he devours his
i heart, and song comes to him never never more.
| These two men were members of the Frankfort
i Convention-their til color is trampled down, and
by the rivers of babylon they sit and weep Carl
/ baldi mouds candles, or curreS hides, or COM
| mandS t aiding brig. Pacing the forest paths of
| Vandieman'S Land, listening TO the murmurng
| Durwent, or studying with the zeal OF an under
graduates, see the stately 0Brien. So calm is
his mien, so laughty is his eye, no man can see
that his heart is breaking. Americans! will you
call these men adventures and SeditiouS propa-
gandiSts? Will you warn them against fraudulent
Vaccinations tending to disturb your genteel
| friends, the Soyeregns of Europe? Once more
pardon me the question. &
| The Mayfower Pilgrims were adventures. Ben
Iiamin Franklin was seditious propaganCst; and :
| If Washington had been taken he would have +
been sent TO Botany Bay. America, know, will
not be false to her own high traditions and 10 the
| immortal men who made her history. And / do
indeed believe that the time iscomlng when Amer
| lea will have to decide, once for all, whether she
will bean ally Of ty1ants or Of the people-who
can doubt which? No thinking man now ina
gin.s that the present order of things in Europe
can be sustained by multiplying bayonets and
heaping on taxes forever. The Creator of the
world did not, assuredy, kndle the nobest spirits
and crown with intellect the most god-like brows
on earth-ony thai those spirits should consume
themselves forever in vain, that those lofty intel
lects should be dragged down into idiocy or wrung
with insanity forever, in an eternaland hopeless
conflict with cuTeleSs wong and slavery aud false
hood.
No, / believe in moral and intellectual cleo
1ricity. l believe that nothing of all the thought
and passion expended for this has been lost,
but that it is heating, kindlng. even now the at
tary captive has sighed forth his soul alone in the
dungeon Of Naples; nor gallant soldier has fall
l;nE fell rnEH Hun