Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
Utterances That Have Application to
the Present Situation.
AMERICAS NATURAL.S SYMPA4HIES
The Great statesman's Answer to
Austria in |Po'
SOME PATRIOTIC WORDS

of the government of the United States, In
regard to the Cuban revolution, to excuse
the reproduction of its principal features.
The letter is under the State Department
letter head of date December 81, 1850. In
the opening of the letter Mr.. Webster says:
THE objects of Mr.. Hulsemanns note are,
first. to protest by order of his government,
against the steps taken by the late President
of the United States to ascertain the prog
ress and probable result of the revolution
airy movements In Hungary; and, secondly,
to complain of some expressions in the In
structions of the late Secretary of State to
Mr.. A Dudley Mann, confidential agent of
the United States. as communicated by Pres
ident Taylor to the Senate on the 18th of
March last.
THE principal ground of protest Is found
ed on the idea, or in the allegation, that the
government of the United States, by the
mission of MIR. Mann and his instructions,
has interfered in the domestic affairs of
Austria In manner unjust or disrespectful
toward that power. The Presidents mes
sage was communication made by him to
the Senate transmitting a correspondence
between the executive government and
confidential agent of its own. This would
seem to be Itself domestic transaction,
mere incidence of intercourse between the
President and the Senate, in the manner
which is usual and indispensable in COM
munications between the different branches
OF the government. 1t was not addressed
either to Austria or Hungary; nor was 1t
public manifesto, to which any foreign state
vas called on to reply. 1t was an account of
It's transactions communicated by the execu-
tive government to the Senate, at the re-
quest OF that body; made public. indeed, but
made public only because such is the COM
mon and usual course of procedure. 1t may
be regarded as somewhat strange, there
fcre, that the Austrian cabinet did not per-
oeive that. by the instructions given to Mr..
Hulsemann. 1t was itself interfering with the
domestic concerns of a foreign state. the
very thing which is the ground of Its COM
plant against the United States"
He then proceeds to enlarge upon this
proposition and adds, after recapitulating
Mr.. Hulsemanns note:
II MI. Hulsemann saw. in the address
OF the President to the diplomatic corps,
satisfactory pledges of the sentiments and
the policy of this government in regard to
mutual rights and mutual duties 1t might,
perhaps have been better not to bring on
a discussion of past transa ctions. But the
undersigned readily admits that this was a
question fit only for the consideration and
decision Of Mr.. Hulsemann himself; and
although the President does not see that
any good purpose can he answered by re-
opening the inquiry into the proprety of
the steps taken by President Taylor to as
certain the probable issue of the late civil
war in Hungary, justiceato his memory
quires the undersigned briefly to restate the
history of those steps. and to show their
consistency with the neutral policy which
has invariably guided the government of
the United States in its foreign relations.
settled principles of national intercourse
and the doctrines Of public law.
The undersigned will first observe that
the President is persuaded his majesty, the
Emperor of Austria, does not think that
the government of the United States ought
to view with unconcern the extraordinary
events which have occurred not only In his
dominions, but in many other parts of Eu-
rope since February, 1913"
Americas Natural Sympnthfes.
After declaring the natural interest of a
neutral power that the United States felt
in the matter, he proceeds:
But the undersigned goes further, and
freely admits that. in proportion as these
extraordinary events appear to have their
origin in those great ideas Of responsible
and popular governments. on which the
American constitutions themselves are
wholly founded. they could not but COM
mand the warm sympathy of the people
of this country.
"Well-known circumstances and their his
tory. indeed their whole history. have made
them the representatives Of purely popular
principles of government. In this light
they now stand before the world. They
could not. If they would, conceal their char
acter. their conditions or their destinies.
They could not if they so desired, shut out
from the view of mankind the causes which
career in the station which they now hold
among the civilized states Of the world.
They could not. If they desired it. suppress
either the thoughts or the hopes which
arise in mems minds, in other countries,
from contemplating their successful exam
pie of free government. That very intel
ltgent and distinguished parsonage, the En-
peror Joseph ii, was among the first to
American revolution on the sentiments and
opinions Of the people of Europe. In a
letter to his minister in the Netherlands in
1877 he observes that it is remarkable that
France. by the assistance which she af-
forded to the Americans, gave birth to
reflections on freedom This fact. which
the sagacity of that monarch perceived at
SO early date, is now known and adj
mitted by intelligent powers all over the
world True, indeed II Is that the preva-
lence on the other continent of sentiments
favorable to republican liberty is the re-
suit of the reaction of America upon Eu-
rope. and the source and center of this re-
action has doubtless been, and now is in
these United States.
'"The position thus belonging to the
United States is fact as inseparable from
their history, their cons titutional organiZa-
ton and their character as the opposite po-
Sition of the powers composing the Euro
pean alliance is from the history and con-
stitutional organization of the government
of those powers. The sovereigns who form
that alliance have not unfrequently felt it
their right to interfere with the political
movements or foreign states, ana nave, IN
their manfestos and declarations, denounc-
ed the popular ideas of the age in terms so
comprehensive as of necessity to include
the United States, and their forms of gov
eminent. 1t is well known that one of the
leading principles announced by the allied
sovereigns, after the restoration of the
Bourbons, is, that all popular or consti-
tutional rights are holden no otherwise
than as grants and indulgences from
crowned heads. Useful aud necessary
changes in legislation and administration
says the Laybach circular of May, 1921,
ought only TO emanate from the free will
and intelligent conviction Of those whom
God has rendered responsible for power;
all that deviates from this line neces-
sarily leads to disorder, commotion and
evils far more insufferablA than those
which they pretend to remedy And his
late Austrian majesty. Francis I, is re-
ported to have declared, in an address to
the Hungarian diet, in 1920, that the whole
world had become foolish, and, leaving
their ancient laws were In search of i'm
aginary constitutions q
Sympathy for Reyolntionists.
Mr.. Webster then speaks in terms of elo-
Quent enthusiasm:
1.-The power Of this republic at the pres
ent moment is spread over region, one
of the richest and most fertile on the
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