The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1854-11-18

perhaps that night ! heard no more from
them that night, but the next morning. 1t
eleven o'clock, we were released. We en-.
tered on the 3Oth Of August. and were 70.
leased on tho 9th Of September. extract
from a letter dated Paris, September 23d,
which has been shown to me, and in which
Mr.. Phillips gives "a plain, unvsrnishsd
tale" OF his weeks imprisonment at Bale.
In concluding his aceoun. of III" i'll treat
ment which he experienced from the S~iss
police, he Gays
"Now the principal charges have to
make against them are these; tina: in my
first examination ] was outrageously in
suited and abused that the examination Of
brutal; that the cell in which ] WAS con-
fined WAS such as seriously endangered my
health that the term of my imprisonment
WAS prolonged beyond all reasonable limits;
that my food WAS bad. my bed worse, that
they did not tell me for what offence was
arrested; that they gave me no chance to
defend myself, or to prove that ] was an
American, by writing or teleeraph'ng to
Paris, or to any other places in Europe,
where had acquaintance, AS requested !;
| that they allowed me nothing to read but a
German Bible, and no writing materials !;
bu, worst of all they denied me my ndub.
table righ; Of communicating with the re,
preventative of my country, though he lived
within ten minutes walk Of my prison.
"No apology whatever was made to me-.
They told my friend that he was arrested
/ L. l. ,,.tt
and tina. there was an Italian travelling in
Switzerland with an American passport
under the name of Phillips This Italian. |
afterwards learned, was Joseph Nazziui |
am glad now that they missed their man,
hut what right they had to treat Mazsini as
they treated me, is more than can imagne.
"When we came to Heidelberg we found
tina, all the charges for translating our let
tiers. searching our baggage. telegraphing.
etc, amounting to 10 francs, had been left
to be paid by u.s.
| "Whea we came to Paris we made
known the matter at the Legation, where
no little as,onishment was occaslonod by
such proceedings on the part Of Switzer-
land, and we were advised to return imme-
1 dialely aud demand satisfaction and iudem
ni,y--whch accordingly did | found
that our Minister. MIR. Fay. had already
/ addressed q note to the Swiss Council.
asking for an explanation and guarantee
/ that the like should not occur again. lie
said that they seemed to think this was
asking groa, deal. They were M. ds>
posed to listen to any claim for indemnity
At all-said that it was An accident THAI
they had not heard the other side that they
must hear from Bale and suggested that
the proper place to apply would be before
The Federal Courts. This WAS shifting The
responsibility with vengeance.
! Mr.. philips expresses his determination
! to ascertain Immediately upon ms return
! to the United States. whether this is all the
redress he can expect to obtain.
| The policeman who arrested Mr., Phillips
was m Italian This has suggested, what
/ | think, however, isa gratuitous supposltlon,
that Austria has furnished the cantons oil
/ Switzerland with supernumersty policemen
of Italian birth, expressly to detect Mszz'"'
beneath the Protean disgnises which he has
thus lar worn successfully on his audacious
visits to the continent But the man may
have only been one OF the large number OF
Swiss, and .ecendants of Swiss. who were
expelled from Lomhsrd,, aud are now scat.
tered throughout Switzerland, even in its
| northern can,ons. need not say word
rs TO the calpable carelessness with which
| American passports have been sometimes
/ delivered and visod, both a, London and
Paris, This new example OF the detrimen'