The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-10-11
Utneral llfws.
From tie Baltimore Clipper.
United States and Austria.

the EtHpcTof OF Austria, ana w. Il. Marcy, DC
3 / eretary of State of the United States, has al
ready been published in all amplitude in many
! Of the. newspapers of the day. We propose to
irnpart to the thousands of readers who may
s never persue this correspondence in eztense
eurrect understanding OF its spirit and import.
The Union, to which it was communicated
from the Department of State, justies its pub
lication upon tire ground that Austria, prior to
addressing the United State government, had
made an er par'e representation of the subject
of complaint to the powers of Europe before
whom it ARA i5ned this government, invoking
premature Judgment against us, and that the
circular letter in which this was done was ap-
parently Intentionally published in the leading
jaurrals of Europe. Respecting the verdict of
the governments addressed, the Union says
that .Rnssa and Prussia becomes voluntary par
ties in the controversy by insfucting their rep
resentatives in Washington to intimate to the
President their general concurrence in the view
taken by Austria Of the proceedings in the case
of Koszta. But it is understood that the cabi-
3 net uf Paris has made known to thatof Vienna
its disapprobation of the proceedings of the
Austrian functonaries in.regard TO koszta at
Smyrna, even upon the Austrian statement of
those proceedings; while the government of
Great Britain has g ven no intination that it re.
s CARDS the course of American functioraries as
open to censure.
s Mr.. Hulsemanu's note commences by reci-
ting the incidents of the Smyrna conflict as
srIning that the Austrian Consul General,
Exercising the rig ght of Jurisdiction which is
J guaranteed by treaties" subjecting Austrian
snbjectsm Turkey to consulor, jurisdiction, had
Al al u n I
with Kossoth, pledging himself in writing not
to.return that Mr.. Brown, our charge ad inter-
ie at Constaptinople, claiming that Koszta had
taken some step toward being maturalized in
the. .United States, submitted certificate there
ofwithout signature or seal that if this ccrtfi
cate were admitted, it would prove nothing
more thau he had expressed his intention to be.
come a citizen. Ii is then affirmed that koszta
has never ceased to be an Austrian subject; that
the laws of. Austria do not admit his right to
expatriate HIMSELF that Koszta declared him
self to be still a iIn gar,an; and that the Uni.
ted States themselves refuse passports tc per-
sons standing in hisrelation. But the mode
adopted by our agents to settle the matter is
the most legitimate ground ofcomplant. The
act Of fviolence committed BY Captain Ingraham
is.declared to be ga real act of war, commit.
ted in foil peace, in a neutral port" This is
proved from Vattels' Law Of Nations. 1t is
then argued with reference to our own acknow-
edged authorities, that Captain lngraham as.
samed to do what only Congress has right to
do This act was, committed in port friendly
TO both nations, acknowledged to be abso-
iutely inyiolable. This assumption is ably ar
gued by illusions toaAmercan aud other au-
thors. Aud thus terminates the eommunica-
,ion Of Mr. Huslemann.
Mr. Marcy replies by "more fully and clear
ly"stasing ths facts, the points added and points
of difference being that Koszta did net leave
Turkey with kossuth; that it is doubted that he
pledged himself not to return; that he was BAN
shed from Turkey, in form by Turkey, but in
fact by Austria that he on LIST of July, 1852,
DECLARED his intention Of becoming citizen of
this republic; that private and temporary busi-
ness led him back to Sy1irna, where he held
tezkereh-"a kind of passports or letter of safe
; conduct usually gvelr BY foreign consult in
Turkey to persons to whom they extend pro-
teetian, as by Turkish laws they have right
to do;" that no exception to his conduct was
taken, and Austria did not charge him with
POLITICAL offence during his stay there; that he
was awaiting an opportunity to return to the
United States when seized by body Of lawless
NEIL who did not even pretend to have any col.
or If authority, and received from them by the
Austrian naval officers; that is now avowed the
. Austrian Consul-General insgUated them; that
j. is also admitted that the Turkish authority
for this act had been refused; that an imperfect
CODY ouly of koszta's certificate was produced;
that opportunely, the American sloop of war
arrived that its commander, to prevent ko>z.
tas clandestine removal into Austrian terrific.
ry pending the inquiry he was making into the
case procured an arrangement for his deten.
ton by intimating that he would compel it by
force.
Mr.. Marcy then replies to his Imperial Ma
iesty's demands that the government of the
United States shall direct Koszta to be deliver
ed to him, disavow the conduct of the Ameri-
can agents in this affair, call them to a severe
account, and tender satisfaction proportionate
to the outrage, by proceeding to define Kosz.
ta's political relation to Austria and to the u
nited States. He states the existing notions
ofallegience to be, first, that it is all indesruc-
truc,bie tie, second, that il is 4 civil contract,
ds,uluble by mutual consent ana, third, the
"sounder and more prevalent doctrine, which
Mr. Marcy assumes, that the citizen or subject
may at any time release himself from the OBJ
liration and go where he listeth-These laws
are municipal and limited in their action to the
territory for which they were enacted The
laws of Turkey alone must therefore deter.
mine the case in view. And what are they
That was determined when Turkey gave ref
uGe to the Hungarian refugees is Is 9, in def.
ance of both Russia and Austria, and was sus
tanned by her own laws and the concurrent
opinions of the civilized wor!d.-Ihe Sultan,