New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-26

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The following letter derives uunuasua interest
'at she present time from the fact of an American
gentleman, Mr.. Phillips, having been arrested
and maltreated BY the Swiss authorities
1RTTER FRnM NAzzIM 70 rHE MEMBRRs OF THE
HELvETIc FEDEsALncouNen II flsy sg.t
Gentlsmens You are seeking me everywhere.
You are working your telegraph clerks to death.
You are alarming peaceful travellers, who are
running from Switzerland, thinking that she has
become an Austrian province 70 You are running
your honest, harmless gensd drnsess by teaching
them the tricks Of deceptives At tLugano you
send eighteen police agents to find me in house
where have never set foot. rat Zurich y0n
honor me by buying my portraits You are
uctSfiAlHtuF 70 nave me- ~ Eu0S6 IIHely you Will
NOT succeed but suppose, after all that 4 SIN
ia Switzerland, and that you succeed in taking
me. q What would you do with me. gentlemen
Will you gire me up, and to- whomEsg 10 the
sPope2 10 Piedmont Ito Franee2 or to Austria I
That Is to say, to IAlexandria, to Cayen ne, to
Spielbergy or to death II You would not dare to
do it, I know too we'll that from time to time.
in the Tessin, poor Hungariahs are delivered
up, who have deserted the banner Of the execu.
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selves safe in touching Swiss ground. This is
horrible enough But it is done in the night,
'noiselessfy like a crimes on the frontier against
unknown individuals. But i am known---the
crime could not be committed with closed doors!
Throughout Switzerland from all parties, aes.y
Of indignation would arise, and the brand OF
shame would pmark your browsa forever with
the two letters v. B.-calets de 5ouyreau.H h
You wifinot, then, do that, gentlemen But
supposing that the surrounding powers refuse
me safe passage through their territories or
suppose that refuse under your feeble guar
lantee, to cross q hostile country-will you keep
me in perpetual imprisonment? Why? In
virtue of what law! What have done to
Switzerland or against Switzerland 5sstDo the
Swiss punish with perpetual imprisonment
strangers who love, their, country, and endeayor
from time to time to approach it, sHs.'s y,
There are among you or near you, gentle
..AoAA5- AASh VIM SVsApptiCu Will 1000, OIL
ers who came to press my hand in 1886, at the
time Of the organization Of young Switzerland,
OF which they approved, and when was under
the ban OF an edict Of your Diet; others again,
who were good enough in 1916 to congratulate
me on my conduct atat Rome, and to solicit me.
the prescribed of your Vororts of other days, to
reside in their canton. Could those same men
sign, or even allow, without a protest, an order
for imprisonment against me Frue they were
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that any reason for condemning me toperpetual
imprisonment? {;s sgt ~ Eg-,f at-ist5 ss-.es4s ]
In 1S46 Travelled openly through the whole
length of Switzerland, with passport in my
own name, meeting only smiling faces and
friendly shakes Of the hand : The DEGREES
which had expelled me from Switzerland were
then totally disregarded, OF considered annuled
by succeeding events. Itisitrue that Italy was
then in arms, and ton the road to liberty. But
do you wish it to be said in, Europe that, You
are full of mercy and forge tfulness towards him,
who ltiriunmphs, in and that you prescribe only
those who succumb tI s4 ,s. Ss \
Through the bars Of my prison should i re- 4
mind you every day Of these things / should
remind you of them with q smile but this
smile, gentlemen, would then say more against
you to every candid mind than all Jour anger
can now say of me. @ 81 Nj N 5-'..
& No, gentlemen, it is not the. fugitive Of 1885
fwb ON you perseclte; he no longer exists; the
form even Of your Government has changed
since then. You psrsecute in me, your Repnb-
Gcans, the enemy of Austria; and you perse-
cute me-, not throug h any love to Austria; YOU
hate her as much as do, though with less cour-
age; not because you consider me wicked or
culpable-on the contrary, you respect me,
gentlemen, in spite of yourselves-yon respect
me, who remained unchanged but solely be-
cause Austria is strong, and am weak
f All this my smile would say to you--and it,
would be echoed BY every, good and brave heart
in Switzerland. Gentlemen, you could neither
give me up nor condemn me to perpetual i'm
prisonmeat. What, then, will you do with me,
if some day you succeed in arresting me + s.sss
= 1t matters little, do what you will g HER
3stehe ich ich kann NIGHT anders Is Gott heite
mir 2 long ago took these words Of old Luther
f fOr my motto. They have protected me till
now, and they will do 50, perhaps, yet longer,
But what does it signify And what T. feel 4
must speak few words on, since in Switzer-
land every one is silent, it is the prosecuting
zeal which, with the courage inspired by fear,
you display towards all bearing the name of
exile; when that name ought only to make
them doubly sacred to you; the tyrannieal in
Justice with which you, often without any mo-
tive, and in obedience to every note and tele-
graph dispatch that reaches You from Milan or
Paris, imprison men who in their own country
have fought by word and by action for the cause
that you possess, viz: liberty !; the unthinking
cruelty with which you invariably drive to
England and America, all those who leave your
prisons innocent, as if there were no mothers or
sisters two steps from the frontier to bewail
their departure; and, finally, a series of base,
ignoble, nameless arrests accomplished (perhaps
unknown to you,) by one Of your prot Consuls
within the last six months in acanton on the
frontier. 57Aess. anna ,a3ss8sq s las.5 s3rs
Switzerland ought to know it. It is not the
discovery of some cases of arms which makes
You to-day such restless prosecutors You were
so yesterday-not only before the blockade of
the Tessian frontier or afterwards but you
were prosecutors during that time, when Aus
tria repaid each concession with an insult, when
your business was to protect your country
| against her, and not against us. You were
prosecutors systematically. and in q way that
degraded your nation in the eyes Of friends and
enemies alike. ~ 's
| know your rights, gentlemen, and respect
| them. But you exceed them. belong not to
the creed. s. Chacun cheS sol, chacuss pour
soi,'' which you seek to represent, but / accept
| it. / submit to test your acts by this atheistie
| formula and say that you violate it every
| instant against us.
You do not protect Switzerland against every
menace Of the infraction of her neutrality you
| intervene u ceaselessly against the National
Italian . party, You play the police, gentlemen,
| for Austria. ssgs1,s5s s5,..sT,ls f1,r4 IA Fl 81
| Bysyour political creed you have the right Of
preventing every contraband importation Of
arms to Italy-eyery armed invasion Of neigh