The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1854, Page 7

THE ERIE RAILROAD WAR. Special Corre: 2demeo, Onn Cea Jam. 24, 1854, Blapecteds Arrival of the U. 8. Marshat—Another Bikh Relative lo the Franklin Camal Oo.—~The Weather, dic., fo. ‘The U. S. Marshal is expected kere to-Jay, bul no ono believes that he will be accompanied by a» armed force. Tt ig thought, however, he bas received instractlons from the President, and om his arrival he will present ‘them im the form of & proclamation to the people. Now that the Erisne are certain that the bill repealing the Gharter of the Franklin anal Company will be pagsod, 15 is not likely that any farther demonstrations will be made agaimet the Northeast railroad. If the Marshal shoul’, therefore, baye come here fer the purpose of relaying ths \ Srack, the workmen will not be interfered with while na- der his protection. It is true that he might agaim be ar Tested at the rult of the city fur trespass; bat it fs aot Ubkely thatthe six foot men will resort to sach an expedi ont—there is nothing to be gained by it, for they have ao far succeeded even beyond their most sangnine hopes. Bo attempts have been made to relay the track at Harbor Oreek, and the road remains still fo the same ruinous @ondition, while bundreds of travellers are daily com- pelled to crosa the isthmus, ia ths depth of one of ths most severe winters I have ever experienced, You may have rome idea of its esverity from the fact that the thermometer this morning stood st seventesn degrees bo low zero, acd, the wind which swept over the land from the frozen surface of the lake was ag keen asa Damas Gus blade. Water will freeze ina room heated bya fire, ard it is almost impossible to stay ont in the op: ir without being frost bitten, Yesterday I had occasion to walk about a quarter of a mile, and when I reterned my hands were ro swollen with the cold that it was nearly fm hour before could use a pen. Tne harbor ts com. pletely frozen over, and ths lake presents one solid deld Of ioe as far ax the eye can reach. Another meeting was called yesterday at Girard by hose opposed to the constraction of the Sunbury aod Erie Railroad, There were about two hundred persons pre- sent, the msjority of whom retide in the village, Juige Hatebiason presided over the meeting, Jonathan Davis Offvisting as vice presideot, and J. B. Clarke as secretary. A. Greenwood, K: the first npoak er. He was in favor of the . and he thought it would be unfair and unjust towards the rest of Pennsylvania for Krie county to hold back and repu- diate after she had pledged herseif to subscribe work, Other ceuntics had, he said, already made larg subscriptions, and althengh he was opposed to ths pria- eip'e of counties or corporate bodies subscribing to any Pallroed, - county would be guilty of agreat breach of faith if she refased to subscribe. He did not believe @ majority of the people of the county would listen to uch ® thing as repudiation, and he knew that the objsct of this meeting would be condemned by them as opposed to the interests, not only of Erie county, but of the whole State. Mr. Teli replied in a speech somewhat similar to that which he maie at thelast meeting He advised the re not to invest their money in any such speculation, F they would be awindled ont of it by ctockjobbers, A motion was mad, to appoint a committee, but before it could be put the meeting broke up ina dispute as to whether the committee should be appointed by the Presi- dent or by the audience. The majority, who were in fs- vor of the Sunbury and Erle road, adjourned to » sshoo!- house, where they passed a series cf resolutions similar to those adopted at the former meoting, with th tion of the following, which may be regarded as ®ompromise:— Resolved, That we in future oppose sll subscriptions to tailroacs, except the Erie and Sunbury, unless agresd to by a majority of the votes of the county. ‘This is the third or fourth attempt that has been made recently to defeat the copstraotion of the Suabury road, ry Project which has been befora the people here for the lsat twenty years. About three million of diJlars have been sul toit; but men of capital appear to have mo faith in itas a witty eon nave and it may be twenty years yet before it will be constructed. The destrastion ot propsrty by the people of this city must have the effect of Sicourntns <9) italiats from investing their money init; they would be afra{d of losing their money by investing it in any road running into Erie, This is the way in which the ns will fee! the effects of the pressnt ‘uniortunate difficulty, no matter whether their canse ia just or upjust—it bas created a fecling of distrust towards em sllover the country, which it will require leng vara to remove. Scme Pennsylvanians may subscribe to road, but New Yorkers Obioans never will. After the passage of the bill repealing the obarter ef ‘the Franklin Canal Company, another bill will be intro- Gueed into the Le ope for the corporation of a compa- By, to be called the Erie and Ohio Railroad Company. It is the object of the framers of this bill to give the Frank- Ho Canal Company an opportunity of purchasing their road, atter it has passed into the hands of the State, at a mominal valuation, snd of LE oie themselves under the title of the Franklin Canal Company. The following 4s ® dratt of the preposed bill, which may be considerably @men ied before 11s passage by the Legislatare, but which, however, will no! be materially different from that which, fit is believed, will be adoptec:— AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ERIE AND OHIO RAILROAD ti hio road C-moany, with all ‘ gnd subject to sll the restrictions preseribed by an ae! Aating railroad com panies, ap; b regu the 19th day of Februa- rf lied. ital stock #0 mud So complete and ex by authorise to cerry ous the true ing of this act of corporstion. aie es - rt rie 4 i rae! or éouble trac so iey way tthe harbor ot Br she deem ¢x within th nity of i iy thence westward)y and across the wi tern bi line o bala city, through the county of Brie to the Ohio State ling, and there to connect with a lke road incurporated under the love oe State of 01 Thattl ‘Coustrao: 256, ‘water stations and necessary ixtures, as fully and completely asif the samo had beom constcuctod im pursuance of the ohsrter peer gr Beo. 5. That th; neery, authori: bey and oo! or milo end tonrage that thorized by law to ected Se 7 tonnage by she burg, ‘ortsmouth, Mcuntjoy and Laxcaster Kailroad Company ; revises that, on ail tonnage 0 road, herety authorized, ball at al! tim to: $b ind pastemgers passing over Gisorimination of 2) por coat vor of tr: and travel psesing ie Railroad ; and in o} tailroad compsny ia t! tiv and Ohio Railroad Company ir any obber dorice is omploy for the it o' fect of this proviso, th the eaid Brie and Ohio Railto ‘are hereby authorized to do, to pay 0 pame Se required by the Board of Directors of said Pitts. ond Erie kaliron Gompany seocrding to thelr charter ; Brie 0 Railrosé Compauy shall ore in Girard or arses township im Brie count allow she said Fitteburg and Zrie Company t» cir road onfair and reasonable tozme, to be 4 upon een them. ite. 7. The ssid Erie and Ohio Railroad Company shill aod @ohnect their road with, nor f ‘coanection with, ony, other road | oil Bri Of a rimilar width o: i Legisl the Fraphlin Canal Company the road; but they intend, nevértheless, to contest right cf ownership in the Supreme Court at Patls- The whole proceeding against them cannot but ded as unjust. They were silowed to construct it is true, under ras maton still they were construct it, and no bill was passed Aad ; but now @ most unfair advantage is on them and their charter, which is to be re; |. That @haster was doubtless granted for the construction of a end was afterwards used for « railroad; but it is mot simply on account of tie illegalact of the company it for » different purpose than that for which it ‘was origipally intended that it is annulled: {t is simply Decause it is considered the easiest and apeeciest way of @ettling the d#iculty. When the State gets control of the road it will be brought dewn to the harbor, aud thas the Gevired ond will be attrined—e break will be produced, ‘Fhe Harbor Creek people, who have been the alliss of the Brians im this war, w ll, it is be! to terms with he Hilo and Northeast road after ‘the Pamoge of thie . Me of the Bt. Louts Ghamber of Com- m erce. The Chamber of Commerse of St. Lonis held a meeting the 18:m instant, to takefinto consideration the exist railroad Pe., and adopted the fol- preamb’e and resolutions :-— Whereas, the Mayor, corporation, and inhabitants of ‘the town of Eris, in tho State of Pennsylvania, have, ‘without the form of — authority, torn up and de- — tbe track " the yt scent seg Lag and burned and destroyed the bridges belong! oO the if g 4 ope and Northeast Raiiroad Oompsny, which tof the above mamodratiroad, and by means of an ewe prevented od a railroad compasy # sald royd; therefore, Resolved, That, as law-abiding citizens and members of society, deeming « strict observance of the laws as our only safeguard decidedly condemn gong of the inhabitants wee the State of Peusylvania, Against violence of every sort, we do most the resent unlawfal and outrageous Erie; and we hepe soon an , we do solemnly violent ma ia a f our United Sates portion «: tates post road bat with fores and arma, destroyed, without the form ‘abe oy) ey os in the transmission of mails ‘the ‘end the West; and we do call upon the | gUaited States government to protect us from such law- barwean the Feat and tre Wart to beef vital wanes to the interests and bastnens of the Western country, we heve looked with indignation upon the fater ruptions to this communication, caused by the inhabt- tants cf Mrie, upon ome of our great railway ti ud 6 against al) such imterreptions, whereby the transportation of the mils avd of ritrehasiise f@ mugh impeded, anil the com rt, eafety, and certalaty of « spsedy transit from the East to thy West greatly endangered. TELWGRAPHIO GOVERNMENT COMING TO THE BRSCUR. Exra, Jam, 26, 1854, Tb te understood thats deepatch has beem received by the United States Marshal, from Attorney General Cash- ing, instracting him to proosed, without any delay, with the railroad repairs, aad to forward word instaatly to Washington if he is interfered with. In case of opstruc- tien, {t is understood troops will at once be seat om. Jadge Thompson 1s endeavering to allay the excltemeat among the peogl Pathetic Aj al—The - Baa Trinity Churchyard Naw Yors, Jan. 25, 1864, Joos G, Benner, Feq — Dear Sir--Ax you aud I, like Mr, Alibi inthe play, are “here, there and everywhere, and when oscasion quires nowhere,” it is mo wonder I have not besm able to obtain a» interview with you of late, though I have “sought it carefully)” bat not ‘with tears”? Danpatriog to make my letenre moments and yours coinolde yo aa to get yourear for half am hour, I am constrained to tres pass on your eye for atew moments, until [can stats my wih to you, more feebly it ta true than I could have in the unconstrained freedom of conversa ion, al- thovgh ‘ my tongue 1s” not “the pea of a ready writer.”? I wish to engege your attection so far na to prevail oa you to read the enolosed paper. You have published it, it is true; but tha? fe no}reason to suppore you have rea it; om the contrary, tt may be taken av evidence joa have pot, Ido not ssk you to ‘mark, learn and taward ly digest” its contents, Dat simply to read there “abort and rimplo apnale of the poor;’’ for, in this matter, I sincerely be lieve I am advooatiog the cause of God « poor. My interest in {t is, a8 youra, or ary good citiaen’s, nothing individually—everything for dsoency, for hu: manity. My position ass yeetryman of Trinity Church has made meacquainted with the frets of the case; and knowlag those tacts, {I feel sensibly the outrage attempted to be perpetrated “on the ramains of the ded of past ages “Personally, or in behaifof the church, it temo bu xeas of mive to deat the trouble of opposing the de: Uon of the oldest cemetery in America; on the con! as far ag th mighty dolar’ is concerned, our inte: ail Les the other way, inasmuch, if Mr, Boorman, (whois he “head and front ‘of this offanding,”’) osu carry his street thgovugh oor disused baryiog ground, we shell be the gainers of some $60,000—that sum having reea ewarced to us im 1884. If, im your judg: mens sfter due refiection, you believe the “dire necousity ? existe for opening a thoroughfare through = cemetery the pride and ornament of eur city, forty feet distant from another street; if you think a hill thirtees feet deep and two hundred and sixty feat long, composed of haman ashes, ean be dug down ard ieav. treet of easier ascent than Thames or Cedar street, for carting Tatlroediron to choke up Broadway (so mucin waat of relief); or if you believe it porstdls to open any strest against the consent of four fitths of the persons most in- terested, and think it prudent to let the city bear the posse of the final decision of the courts, to the benefit of osrporation harpies alone, in God’s name support Mr. Boorman’s application, and let Trinity Church fight the battle of St. es’ Place single handed. But, on the contrary, if your convictions are on our side, pray open your columns and say 80. Thave known you, Mr. Benostt, for thirty years, and bave read your paper ever rice you have been an editor; and, thorgh I have mes with many thiogs that pain and grieved me at the time, I have always been among your frien {s, and not your maligners. I have never taxed your columns to gratify my sel( interest, ity, or cu- Pidity, and [have never insulted you with appeals to your prejudice or your pocket; nor col intend to begin ‘at this late day. I only claim to have the credit of sin- eerity and u;rightoess in my appeal to younow. Icon sider you, though not a Keickerbocker, yet alnost an “old Yorker,” from leng revidence and familiar inter course. You have s pride in our city as wellas those who wore born init, and feel as keenly as any one th eep degradation misrule has broaght upon us. Do out your sentiments on this as you do on other subj I know they must be ia favor of keeping, our “time honored” cemetery of old Trinity intast. Yours truly, 4 VESTRYMAN WITH ONE FOOT IN THE GRAV! We give as above the appeal, of the venerable Ves- tryman, in his own simple and affecting language. If this appeal dees not reach the heart of Mr. Boor- man, and make him repent in eight or ten per cent less in his dividends, we doubt whether the spirit of Jobn Kuox himself would reach the flint. Let it be tried. Our Louisville Correspondence. Lovisvitiz, Jam. 20, 1854. The Ward and Butler Case—Unfounded Prejudice Against Ward. You have doubtless heard of the lamentable oscur- rence which tock place here some weeks back, and ter- minated in the death of the schoolmaster Butler. Some of the papers here, especially thé Democrat and the Courier, have given insertion to very unfair and prejadiced accounts of the affair, apparently with a view to injure Mr. Ward, who now lies in prison here awaiting his trial. ‘The real facta differ materially from those which have gone the round of the Northern journals. It would ap peer that Mr..Ward's brother had been maltreated both by Mr. Butler and his assistant at the school, and that ‘the latter had not disguised feelings of intense hostility to Mr. Ward. When the latter heard of the chastisement which led to the rencontre he went to Mr. Butler to de- mand an explanation from him, and, fearing violence from this assistant, he tock the pre rming himself. This will appear the more excusable, from the fact that Mr. Batler was s large, athletic man, while M: Ward is a slight young man, whose frame has been ems- Giated by long diseace, and who onl was going about on crutches from th tim, Mr. Butler, an I understand, refused to give any éxplanation to Mr. Ward; and when the latter denounced this course, he struck him in the face, and seisin, by the collar, begam to drag him to the door. In the seofile the pistol was discharged, and Batler was killed. This view of the afl.i> was fuestantiated by the evidence of the witnesses heard before the examining court, though the journals which reported the cass did aot think At to make itso appesr. Four out of the :ix witnessea swore that a fight was going on when Mr. Butler was shot, and the surgeon showed from the position of the wound that the arms of the deceased must have bsen extended, as those of a man engaged in « confict, when the b: truck him, Much sympsthy is felt here for Ward, who was an ami- able, gentlemanly young man, most gentlein ae tan a vt jad an (ORS OF THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL, Lhave been much consured by nowspa- t the country for alleged favuritism to- rd, wh» is eonfined in the jail kept by me It igetated that hej has two apartments, handsomoly far- ished, and is surrounded with every luxury. Justice to my f rcqaires that 1 give shis statement a direct contradiction, 1 d nothing ‘ines he gnter ves of bare id upon which All who bave visited Mr. Ward's coll can bear witness to thetrath ofwhatl ssy. I ha over shown partialisy to auy prisoner in my custody. ROBERT BUCKNER, Keoper of Jefferson County Jail. As the prisoner’s {amily is reputed to be rich, I can hardly see what dleme could be attached to him had he aleviated the hardships of his imprisonment with those comforts which mozey can pure! It woald seem, however, that he has not even done this, and chat the hia cell and that of his fellow P wd. Poor fellow! Col, Gates and the San Francisco. New York, Jan, 26, 1854 TO THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD. Eim—Having seen several statements ia the publie jour: nals of this city, whioh reflect » discredit upom my mili tary reputation as the commanding cflicer of the troops while on board the ill fated San Francisoo and tha bark Kilby, during their late perilous situation in the Atlantis Ocean, I pronounce them to be erroneous representations of my conduct, doieg me, as I conceive, very great itjus- tice. I write this to inform my friends and the pubdlis that I have demanded that ® Court of Inquiry be ordered by the War Department, for the purpose of having am p'e justice awarded to me. I therefore hops my friends andthe public will suspend their juégmeet until the whole matter shall be made known to them officially. Very respectfally, yeur ob’t. servant, : WM GATES, €ol. Third Artillary, The Fire Department, TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD, iy Mercury por honor and integrity of ire Department, ws feel called upon ract that, at » special meoting of the nd Foremen, held at Firemon's Hall ing, 24th inst., the undersigned were mittee to fully’ investigate the charges nd we shall cadeavor to bring before the public the result of our investigations; as soon as possible JOHN LYNE3, Hise Co, No. 9 NOAH L. FARNHAM, H. and I, No. 1, JOHN VD. DIXON, Hose Oo. No. 64. JULIAN BOTTS, Engine Co. No, 38. WILLIAM TAPPER, Eng. Co No. 7. Tax Lats Jonx Tnomrson—John Thompson, Eeq.. whose melancholy death by the burning of his house at Centre Harber, N. H., wasa graduate of Harv: College in the clasa of 1822 and a clasamate of the Hon, Charles G. Atherton. He was in his habits an entire recluse, snd could not be persuaded to make the effort to joins rocial gathering of his class im 1862. He was, how. mae of kind feelings, and indeed seems to have life in the effort to save ap article which was dear ‘to him as having belonged to his mother, Divoncss 1x New Hamrsurex.—Fighty-three divorce were before the Superkr Court of New Bampebire at ite late sitting in Concord. Thirty-three Paparations were decreed, TE Fwy ‘wore denied, ‘ (risement, eases are under RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FOR AMERICANS ABROAD, MEETING AT THE TABERNACLE LAST NIGHT, STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCES. A Call Upon Congress, peeches of Dudley Field, Rev. B.N. Kirk, Rev. Rtewart Robinson, and Others, AN ABOLITIONIST RESOLUTION INTRODUCED. EXCITEMENT AND CONFUSION, é&o., ko, &o. Last evening, at the Broadway Tabernacle, a public meeting was held, in accordance with the following call, printed in the city pspers:— ‘The unders izens ts publi Th uredsy evening, the fully invite their fallow cit held in the 91 708 a8 may then be deomed proper to secure tho of our vational government in th f religions freedom, and espeo! joan citizens in the onjoymes d of religious worship, aad nd with such rites as to the: freoly qrante jed to all people of all ations, who, on aceon siness or ploasuro, visit our country, and the reoiprozation ct them on the part of otucrs towards cur citizens ougb¥ no a ‘Wiliam Colgate, C.K. Robert, James Harper, Peter Cooper, Thomas 1 hy Stephen Whitney, We Jolla «3, Groen, Jaws Lenox, on Betor Loritisrd, Willism Douglass, William 3: Crosby, Mortimer DeModte, enaldson, Walter Lowrle, muad Poatold, Rerj. B. Sherman, James Brown, Henry G. Bowon,’ G. Wood, Anson G. Phelps, Gerard Halleck, Alexsndor Swuark, Stowart Browa, A. Norris, Hiram Ketohum, G.¥. 8 Roosovelt, D. Loavits, J Boorma: Robert C. Goodhue, BR. M. Olyphant, W. B. Astor, Goo. Griswold, Jr. At the’ appointed time there was a large audience in attendance. Amopg the gentlemen on the platform was the Hon, George Wood, and a large number of clergymen. Morton DaMorra, Esq, called the meeting to order, and, after reading the call, which is given above, nomi- ted the Hom. George Wood for Chairman, and the fol- lowing named gentlemen for Vice Presidents and Sscro- taries, all of which nominations were ratified by the meeting :— PRESIDENT. HON GEORGE WOOD. VICE PRESIDENTS. AP. Haleey, WB. Axtor, james Brown, Geerge Doug! Rovert L. Stuart, Hon, James tier) William Colgate, William E Dodge, Peter Cooper, Jaizes Donaldson, James Boorman, William Douglass, Ssepherd Knapp, A. R Wetmore, William B. Croaby, ©. V. 8. Roosevelt, Thomas Tileston, William W. 4tone, Stephen Whitney, James Lennox, Hon. Chief Jus, Hornblower, Peter Loxillard, Hon. Tkeo. Frelicghuysen, Gegard Asliock, Horace Holden, G C. Verpianck, Myndert Van Schaick, David Ulyphant, Pelitiah Perit, Thoma: B. Stillman, © R Robert, Horatio Allen, Joseph Sampson, SECRBTARIBS. Mortimer De Mot'e, Joh W, Corson, M. D. Prof, Howard Crosby, Elward Vernon Rev. Dr. Stevens, F, Frelioghayeen, The Parsipust said:—Fellow oltizans, The object of this meeting has already been satisfactorily stated to you in the call which has just now been read. If there be any people in the world who have » right to call for the : ercise ond indulgence of religions liberty in foreign lands {t is the people of the United States You eannot walk in any of the public streets of this city withont seeing evidences of the liberality which we extend to the of foreign nations. Their people come kere for the pur- poses of busitess, or for the purpose of recreation—in fine, for all those objects which taduce iniividuals of other patiors to visit hal beat You hear uh most all the languages ef Europe 6 im our streets; and those people have fall Iiverty to engage ia all the vee rious branches of commerce and of the arts, and have «qually the privilege of worshipping thelr God according to the dictates of their own conscience, without any re- striction whatever. And we think that the bytes of this country ought to receive similar privileges 1a those na- tions that derive thore important nefits in oar own country. (ppl use Y Wo wish to place thie sub- ject before the ye] ge, that they may memorialize subject may receive from our g>v- ernment that attention which its importance dererves. And we trast that we bave arrived at this time at that station of respectability and of importance among the Cifferent nations of the earth to entitle eur gov t, when they rake a call of this kind on the various nations in the world, te have that call respected and carrie’ into effect. (Applause.) I have now stated the goaersl par- powes of our aseemb.ing here to night. The mesting will be opened by prayer by the Rev. Dr. Beecher, of the Bap- tist Church, formerly of Albany, but now of this city. The Rev. Mr. Buxcixr then opened the meeting with an impressive address to the Throne of Grace, He prayed that God would bless the objects of this meeting, and that he would not only gramt protection to us, but to ail people en the face of the earth. The Presipgst then introduced Rey. Dr. Barrp, who read the fellowing statement:— THS STATEMENT. It will be expected that the reasons for calling this meeting ehonld be aet forth at the outset. This expssta- tion is beth legiti and pr We shall endeavor to satisfy it by presenting a very simple and bi tate. men The vast expansion of the commerce of our convtry, and the great augmentation of the facilities of travel, combined within the last few years to induce many of our fellow citizens to go abroad for business or for plearure; and every eucsesaive year in ioereasiog a bers. [twill not be going too far to affirm that man: thousands of Amerisans are to be found every year resi ing or travelling in foreign lands. In some of these countries there are very at obsta- cles in the way of their enjoying the rigats of conscisace acd religious worship. In some they cannot enjoy those rights at all. In some countries they are exposed to in- sult and injury if they do not comply with observances ia the streets that are repugnant to their conscientious com victions. And in some they find it almout, if not quite, impessible to bave their deat buried with such rites ag they deem most Christian and most consonant with their feelinga, The Hits of this document will not allow much detail; uevertbeless, we must submit « few facts. 1, In our immediate viciaity lies the Island of Cuba, in whose ports hundreds and thousands of Amerisan mari ners are annually to be aten, and to whose cities and plantaticos hundreés of our mershantse and iovalid clti- zens annually retort, in the prorecution of bus! quest of health. Many go thither to die! Aad yot, to ‘Ubis day, there is neither ap American Protesta: , or for their guid ce conrolation in the most jearful of all hours—the hour of death |—far from their home and their friends, When the attempt was made a few years ago by the American Seamen’s Friend Sosiety to bi ligious services conéucted on board American ships at Ha- yaoa, the chaplain was eompelled to desist, because it was not only required that he sbould ‘domiciliate” and tak ‘th of allegiance to the Queen of Spain. bat id swear that he was i * Catholic.’’ ify » “Roman Catholic” in that lavd, po conrcientious Protestant could or wou! take the oath. The ssme statement holds good of Porto Riso, the cther principal Spanish island in the West Indies. There is no American Protestant chapel or service in Mexico, to far as we can Isaro, and it is oelisved that it would be difticul:, if not im possi le, to establish one, In some countries in South Americas, as well a» in Central Ameri, there would be difficulties to enoounter; yet they ea an Jere formid sbie, it is believed, than in Mexico and Cubs. To ltaly itaelf, the central country of Christendom, with the exception of the kiogiom cf Sardinia, no religious per. vice could be held by an American Protestant minister for the benefit cf his countryme: lesa in ths house of @ diplomatic or cor salar agent, beveath the American fleg, and agit were on American ground. This is 90 @ io Kome, the capital of the Christian world as some icgly claim. Although Romaa Cstholis Chars! permitted to enjoy in these United States, ( q at least of whose abitanta are Protestants,) all the rights ard privileges that hay Ah ane a church does, yet American Prot te are denied the right to have a church in Rome, or even « chapel, unless uader the pre- carious condition of enjoying the patronage of, and in connection with the American embassy. Portugal, according to the 10th of December, 1852, t lic acta of worship not that the Catholic religion’’ is povishable with imprisonment of from one to three ye srs, and to® Gne properticned to ths income of the traas- giessor of the law. It is obvious that a Protestant churoh or chepel, even for foreigners, ooald not be opened in the Portuguese dominions sinoe this law weat into eflect, without incurring the most serious risk, And all this done in the micdle of the X:Xth contury, and by & pation which owes its very existence at this day to Prote tant England! 3. American Protestants are exposed to insult and se rcuA maltreatment in Mexico, Central Americe, oll South America, Cuba, Porto Rico, Spaia and Portugal, nea) ly allot Italy and Austria, if when they meat a pro: cosrion, with a prient at ita head, carrying the ‘' Host,”” they do not render what are there considered to be acts of adoration, bat which they conscismtiously deem to be id Istrous #né contrary to the word of God Every year ‘the troth of thie arrertion is confirmed by dirgraceful owt 4, in word or deed, perpetrated in those coan- tales, 3. As to the burial of their dead, American find very rerioun difficulties im neve: t jast nex Until very recently~nor are w itis not so stilli—they would have been comp:lied to carry the bodies of their deosased friends f-om Madrid, the oepital of Spain, to Malaga, Gibraltar, or Lisbon, to fed @ bural for them, aglish Protestants were subject to the same phamefol ities == Even within Ube last few montha, Lord Howden, the Britisn Ambassa- dor at the Court of Spain, bas been Im earnest correspon (eiee wiih the Gpinieh government ia relacioa to the taf Kiglish Protestants, mot merely to have at Mad rida eometery, (which ‘at length they are permitted to but ay to hava the ddlesof their decaase’ Rieeds aarriea to the grave ine bearse and proper rr ii gious ceremonies performed |» the comelery a! tue faler- ment. There is report that he has succeeies, but we are not sure. | I places im Italy, Amertorn Protestants are sub jeet to mush facomvenicnce, in being reqairelto bary thelr dead at very cassasonadle hears. In some cous tries, ey fo fear of violence, they are aompelled to bury their d iw a stealthy manner, and un ceremeniously as they would a b-utr beast. A few 0 @ highly reepectable American mer- chant, Dpelled to grave apot, near o of the cities of Cubs, at the hour of midnight, for t burial of his beloved wife, whom he had taken ‘to that island for the restoration of her hoalih, By the (aflaeace of much persuasion, he encceeded in zett! ance in bis mowrn/ul enterprise from one ov 28, who were in great fear, all the while, for th , taut it should become keown that they had avsisted at the bev dal of @ bere ac. On all these subjects wa hold it to be the duty of the Avverioan government to negotiate for, aud secure by treaty, the rights of all its citizens, whether of native or foreign origin, in sll countries where these rights are not daly recognized. This duty has been acknowledge, and to some degree fulfilled, by our government from its commencement, As early ax 1783 the religious rights of American citizona were guaranteed by S reden, in a treaty made that year with the goverament of the United States. From time te tims—uader the administrations of Waeh ington Jefferson, and their successora—something wae done in regard to other countries, We are happy to say that at present we are not aware that t! ® Protes tant country where an Awerican citizen, whether Pro testant or Roman Catholic, is not permit:ed to, enjoy his rights in relation to the subjects which have becn apsct fed. Daring the last administration more was done than in any precediog one, with, perhaps, the exception of thoge of the second Adams and Genersl Jackson, in this respect; for negotiations were instituted by it with nome of the governments of South Awerica (particularly the Oriental repudlic of Urogua: the Argentioe conte eration) which terminated favorably. Toencourage and susiain the goverament in farther proseeution cf this great work, is ons of the objects of this ipeeting. Why should net the gorerament protect onr eltizans ween abroad, in the enjoy ment of their religious as wall 6 their civil end political riguis? Are che latter more important theu the former? Or is not the converse of this moporition trae? We thank God that the day has come y hen we may say, almost in the nobls langasga of the Prerident in his inaugural, thas mo Amertoaa citizen can wander to ary point on the globe where the strong atm of tae government shall not be stretched out to pro tect him. {tis time that this shall be as true of his reli- Gre contained in wore recent treaties, particularly those with the Cetlolis States of Soath America, Ie 1826 Wr. Adame mentioned “ jast apé liberal principles of ro igieus Liberty” an ome of the objecty to be promoted by the Voa greeo at Params Tam bappy to learn from you that the Pr Sroretary ot geversl objeat f prudently exerted, tired end ident ani believed to be favorable to the inflacmoe stendily ull coutribate materially to the de It must pot be forgo¥en, however, thet there & subject om whied foreign States are more jaalone t their religions belief and (he riied ant nseges connected with it; and leo that the discretionary power ef all bravebea of cur government fa extremely Hraiied in all that pertains to this wubject Iremain, geatlemen, with grert respect. yon vor PB BOWARD EVEREER, LETIBR FROM LON, ALBOTE LAWKENCE. Boston, Monday. Jan, ¥, 1844 Draw S188—I bave the honor to acknowledge the raceipt of pour pote of invitstion, to be pre a) A mestiog of y * Amorioan snd Fer on the 26th insiant, pore of om.ling the attentian of the paopla, an tne government of the Unitad “ bilities under which Americana count rigs, to eonsejnonco of not belng allowed to wor: God ea Protestanta, in accordance with the dictates of their consciences and their own views of duty Basi there are countries ia Kurope where it ta found difficalt, and in some cases almost impossible, for Protestants to bury their dead with those rites which are mostia Lar mony with thelr convictions of Christian duty. It bas appeared to me, for several yenra past, that these two polnta were proper subjects for Executive considera tion snd diplomatis action. The time bas now arrived, in the milidls of this Niae- teenth century, when such stains, which have been so Jong lamented as discreditable to the character of thoss countries should be removed. I capnot doubt that cur government will, without hoal- talon, give this subject the consideration which its im- portance demands; and that instructions will be trans- mitted to our representatives abroad, of « character that will accom plith the object our citizens have so long deaired. It may not be ebtaiced at once, but the spirit of ths age in which we live, it seems to me, must have ths effect of prodveteg changes in ihe civil religlows condition of teveral countries in Racor, which are now auilsring unter & spiritual and political despotlem, ao that “Due would suppose, (Aven in the absence of the Bible,) it can not long survive the fat odustion of tho @ lower but pow erful agencies o! the printing presa, # ny and telegraph, coupled with tie great aad tently aug wenticg intercourre of the astious of the earth. I fally a) mpathise in the objrots o: yous proposed mast- ing, and regret that it will no: be iv my power to units gious ar ot bin political interests We hol, too, that the man who gree to distant lands to apread abroxc the knowledge f the Gospel—whetaer by the distribution of the Sacred Scriptures and other reli- gious books, or Py peoplatasing. the way of ralvation vir pece—mnust pot cop"idered as haviog expetristed himself, or prt beyond the pale of tne protesting care of the government, any more than the mer chant who goes abroad for his business, but is to be protested in hia werk by the powerfal arm of the State to lovg a# he dova nothing ocntrary to the laws of the countries to whick ha goss, Thus far wa may go with conddence. Nothixy short of this—no opposition or vio Ienoe, created by uncclenting bigotry or blind prejadi:e— shonid be allowed to trive an American Christiaa wission- ary from bin field. This wan thé ground taken by Mr. Webster ia 1841 (when Secretary of Siew nnder Mr. Tylor’s admtaistra- tion) in his letier to Commodore Porter, (then the Ameri. can Charge d’ Affaires at ConstanYuopls,) respec ing the American m boring in Tukey. This ground, if we mistal ; whelming majority ef this ne- tlon are prepared to tal i defeni. The spirit of na- tionality which would not allow » hair of ths head of Martin Kosata to be touched, simply because he had taken measuresto beeu a American citizen, sad had put him self under the care of the government, and was doing nothing contraty to the laws of Turkey, will not lorg al: low an American Christian to suffer ina foreign lang, or be ignobly thruvt out of it no long as he does noshing contrary to the Jaws of that country. Nor can we forbea: to ey thet we think that tho time has come when the goveroments of these United Statea anc Great Britata, and ad other Christian nations which enjoy the blessings cf religious liberty, and know its in estimsble advanteges, should combine their efforta for the purpose of hastening its mnlversal praralazce ia the wold, Itis certtioly not leva a legit mate subjest for solemn negotiation aod the formal stipulations cf intar- rational treaty than‘many subjects that con manity, for which such interference haa heen a Tt can be shown that iotolerance on the has been the caust of the meat bitter mort usnatural s+parations ‘anc Inpgest-cont: been the theat’ rad ject of religion imonities, the nd many of the blootiet ich the world has mn arrayed against other, in the mos{ cruel strifs, those who pro’ess the fame religious beef, but differ in regard to unia portant rhad’s of opinion ta dostrine or modes of wor ships What deplomble conflicts ave ta tween Protestant sad Re tween Roman Christisns! Even yith'n the very wails of the chu ch at Jerusalem, which e)clores the reputed sepulchre of our Lord, they have fouyht in the most barvarous manner, and that in the pi their common enemy, the It in {me that this disgrace should be ra moved forever fromthe egcatcheon of Ubristendom. The Christian rations ow it to Him whose sacred name they bear, (and whose relgior, 94 preached by himself, is 80 weil calculated, as it ve uaquartionsbly denigned. co promote * peace onparth and good will among men,” to cane it to be removed pba: In vain do men search for one sentence in a)l his dis courses ot p:eoapta to justify eltter eranve in matters of religicn. And it can be demonstrat. that the » anifestation of the spirit of forbearance and tolerause whore diverrity of religious belief exists, (a mx condudye to the welfare of ocmmusitis and ev tions, itis of icdivicuals. And it is the duty of govern mente—wepecially Christian governments—!o cause such for! and toleran: e—in o ‘her and better wor Igious liberty—to be maintained’and resp: cted. I arifthe da; when r) man s) \y way Oppres ligions convie- his d the proper manifestation o° them. the views which we have happy to believe expreskd have often bee: ers Tae distingaished man who then occupied the Presidential chair (the late John Quiney Adi Seapted the invitation, and nomtaated tor that miesion twe distisguished citizens, one of whom . ohn Sergeant, of Philedelphia. It is gxat object which the President hed greatly at heart, ir relation to thet Congress, was to en deavor to indace tle South American republics to come to right ground {o regard to the principien of religions liberty— believing it to de essential to their tras pros perity and happicsss, It is believed that Mr. Adams lost no suitable oppatanity, during his admini lon, of kinély calling thy attention of there goveram@its to this greatsutject. Eis sentiments on the importance of re Tigious liberty vere fally shated by two iliustrions cit! zexs, now bo mae—DeWitt Clinton and Henry Clay—both ardent friends of the South American republics Our governmnt seconded the efforta of England to persvade the Porte to grant religious liberty, or a large measure o! {ts Chriatian subjects. Why should not the rame thi: done in the case of noms governments Christian—some ef them Roman Catho- of them of the Greek at whore intolerance is @ dishonor to the aame of Christ? At all eveate, let our government ever be ready, by kind negot/ation—by unoffinial exertion, if nothing more can be cone—to lend the weight of its mo- ralinfluenoe, whenever it is meeded, to the promotion of this great interest. Our government grants religions liberty to sll who come to this happy lend. It has a right to expeet to be heard when it approaches other nations on tila sudject, snd respectfully urges them to have fourd to be so great « blessing. ‘6 pct vanting to prove that such an {oterven- tion Ir not likely to be made in vain. A short letter from Mr. Webster (when Sesretery of State under Mr. Tyler's admivistration) to @ consnlaragent in the East exarted ® bappy influemce on the Pacha of Damascus, who had allowed the Jews of that clty to suffer an aliaost exter- minating perweution. A brief inquiry, certainly 20} con- taining five smtences, addressed by Mr. Forsyth (secre tary of State during Mr. Van Buren’s administration) to the Americas Consul at Hambarg, produced an excellent vflect upon the Senate of that city in relationto the per- secution whish the Baptists were there endurtog, A letter from Mr. Barnard to t! of Praseie, some eighteen months ago. appy effect in the case of the Rey. Mr Oncken the Baptist brethen in that kingdom. Nor can we donbt that tne letter of Mr Everett, a year ago, favor of peraecuted or oppressed both Protestant anc Roman Cstnolic @ is need, in behalf of ths injured and tee Israelite. Sceh ai me of the considerations which have 194 to ‘the bn ee this meeting. Tne Board of Directors of the and Foreign Christian Union—s society which embraces good men of almost branch of the Protestant Church in oar couniry—have felt it to be their duty, imeemuch a8 the promotion of religious libacty ir one of the great objects for which it wa# organized—to invite their fellow citizers to unite with them ia temp to. call the attention of the public and of the gov erxment to this great aubject. Nor can they believe that (with the blessiog of Heaven,) it will be ‘The various pointe in the statement were received with 8 pplanse, Rey. Dr. Farmer then read letters from several tlemen who were invited to attend but were unable to do 0. IBTTER FFOM HON. EDWARD EVERETT. Wastixctom, Friday, Jan. 6 1854 Gentlexen—Your favor of the 20th of December moana - ha He I regret that my ments here will p cut of power to attend the meeting in Me- ——— ce Ld aie . concur you ia the opinicn that {t is the duty of the Executive gover ent, im it megotiations with foreign powers, to procere, aa far ee possible, for the cltasens of the United Stater, tr elling or residing abroad, liperty of conscience and mi of religious worship. The customary law of nations seourer these rights, to certats extent, tos Minister Resident and his suite; ant re hes made by treaty ta many otsen to ex- ed the rame rights to his countrymen. There {¢ room for great improvements in this respect, and the increas. ey ment the age demande it. . ed States, of all the powers of Christendom, pH ffl nah Rg liberal treatment in bia t] ‘arm for the religious uli ran rey “1 igions equality gust 7 The right of Ohristion burial ought in all cases to be cone: ded. Common hamenity requires this, ful jeot has long since od the atten lon cf the covernimebt. A liberal provision for freedom of cow eelence and lal was secaed by our treaiy | (tt Sereden ‘dmiler stipulations Cytininn ee carly as 1783, and personally in esrryicg forward the truly Ouristian pur poves indicated in your Bote, honor to be, dear sirs, very nincerely, your van, ARBOIT LAWRENCE, FROM HOY. HEXHY A. WISE. Oxi¥, NEAR Usancogs, Va., ) 3 iaturday, Jan. 14, Grxrinwkx :—Yours of the 27th ult, reacbed me here yesterday, via Richmond. It was forwarded thenoe by a friend, and this must account for the dalay in ity recap tion, ‘I regret very much that I cannot ac sept your very inviting call to atiend the meeiteg which you propose to hola the 25th inst, at the Metropolitan Hall in New York, to bring properly before our government the #ub ieot of securing “ by treaty, (or oor prople when travel Ning or residivg abroad, the uumolested enjoyment of thelr rights of conscignce:—the right to have their owa public worship where they detice it; and to bury their dead with such religious ervices and riter ag they may dasire,”” &o, And in aduition to this you say:— It is osliaved that it would be well te use the oscasion to auguest the inquiry, whether the time has not o for ths Govern ment of the United States to lend at least the weight of ita woral inflveace io behalf of religious liberty, in all countries where it does mot eaist, and with which the United States have diplomatic relations ’’ &c, On these grent subj cts you invite me to go and speak at the proposed meetiog, and, if I cannot comply with thia request, you ark that “I will give yoa, by letter, ry views op the bubjects for the promotion o” which the meeting {4 to be called, that you may avail yourselves of ‘them at the meeting, ard sfter@mrda through ‘he prass.’”” Aad you make this appralts me because you suppose “tbe rut ject isnot pew to ma’’—that in the diplomatic post which T bare o-oupied at the Court of sm must hav- had my attention often called to it” This audjest is not new to me, and none of the pudlic questions, of present moment, are of more importesce and of more interest then this, inmy buble opinion. The individual instarces which could be cited in connes- ticn with it, would appear, perbaps, to be personal and mixor matters as compared with others of great publis ut @ full consideration of this subject opens a field of world reform, aa large, I venture to aay. as any other whicy could be named. Indeed, practical tuccers, in this woraland political enterprise, will at once reach many of the beat results aimed at by the mix onary of the Cross of Christ, by the men of waleoce and Cisocverers ct the earth, and by the arta Ata time like thin, too dhip’a Di: nacles are iMaminating ting the ways of knowledge lightaing and are propelliug progres: éverywhere, aud where there is gold, guld, gold ensugh aad to his hire in every goot work of * good will and when ‘peace on earth” has beoome the ry civilized nation, 1t is not to be tolerated and bigotry, and superstition, and bar- barity ava brate force, here, there, and almost every- where, in rome of the very fairat feldy of human exer ‘ion, where much of man’s highest ex:ellen-e could be im et easily actained, shoald be slowed, like ser cents in Paradise, to corrapt our nature, shut ons the light, bin- cer the pregress of civilization, and arrest every atap of bemapity towards either mental, moral, or physic sl im- prvement. We may surely arm ourrelves in the armor Of righteousness against much evil ones ow earth as these, Your own allusions, geatiemen, must be blamed if { in Culge tu apy egotiem by naying that when I entered upon the Cuties of the mission to the Court of Brasil, I found the labore of ove of my predecersora enpecially illastrated by the archives of the Legation. He was cead, bat [pe which he did was not all “ {nterres with his bo was wade by bis works io that mission w inquire ingly ter the the Isbortous, tie learnad, the puccersful negoti Mr. Tudor. He died im Rio de Janeiro whilst Charge of the United S ates of North America, Ge pratt: republic ia the world, of Don Pedro [., and after he bad negotiated on amity and commerce with t! tuary his eo: pre bad found horpitable g buryirg ground which Great Britein had seon fe for heretics, her subjects, in a Iand broad enough surely fer men of all persuasions there to dle ia! - The Sabbath came, and I heard the bells chiming for church. Where were I and my family and American friends to attend Divine worsbipt copreersted there for us, We were remiaded on the Lord’s Cay of our homes in our awa blessec, happy land of aniverial tolerance in religion; but there in a leniof coromercial friends by treaty, we had no religious allies and were, indeed, “ strapgers in a» strange jand’’— their God wan our God, but their couvtry was not our country to wortbip ir, We were cowpeiled to go to our clossis to pray, if we did not accept the hospitality sgein of Evgiieh su! jects, to kneel with them in their temple which their maternal goveroment had ceused to de erect. e4 for their Fpscial privilege. Thas for the grave and the allar we were intebted to our mother couniry and not to our own; snd here I cannat forbear to pay a jast tri- bute to Great ari fer ber care of her subjects abroad. However high her hand agains: other nations, howerer strong and unyielding ber gra«p (f dominion over other people, ahe careth for her homs at home, and to ‘ the ut. Vermoat parte of the earth.’ Her * drum-brat’! is beard every where, and where it is heard it sound of pro‘estion 1 Intle ones— however ferbi+ and however Gistant they may be from her central powrr. It ts better for the barbarians of any tribe tha: a millstons were hung about their nesks than for t) to burt one of Great Britain's proteges They ars heretics as well have their sarctoary an: tempire. The ere Was no ground y that, in Brazil, they were hospitabl gave us the une ofboth their holy places: temple and the burying ground. But ought we to have t but our own for com thee? I mean not to Department of S:ate can abow how, when the Americsn ships engaged in the ehartors of the iate mous slave trade diecharged their American crews, or drove them frem shipboard by the worst of ma! ueage, in order to avoid their being the witnesses of the trafic and left them hiendless and penniless all along the ovas! of South Amerion, to encounter every brotality to whico & forlorn tailor is subjectio foreig? ports; bow when » Frothiogham, of Boston, was kno:xed down in the atreets of Rio Janeiro, or @ Southworth, of jw York, was imprisoned; or Clark, a railor of New York waa teaten; I never failed to interpose in any and every way to make our citizens abroad sssared that they bad a protecting power over tx too, ¥ supple menof-war with the means of and the power of protection, but I may say hare 1. a minister of the United States, was more than allowed the use of the British oreuler seal, in af. fordieg Fersonal protection to ovr citizens, And, faally, when, for attempting to protect a rocr seaman of our naval Mr. Davis, cf Del ware, « Lieutenant of the bly seized And imprisoned in the City Pa- snetro, I demanded nik inetant release; and here I may tay, too, taat ia that demand I was rup: parted firmly by 9# brave a squadron of our navy, thou:h sical, ## ever Hull or Decatur or Perry com'nan.e). In one ciffisulty, the lamented Captain Tarnsr, and in the last Captain Rousseau, were randy to stead by their flag and their minister an loog as there was ‘a shot in the locker.” This te worthy to be mentioned to their honor, at » time when our popular sympathies are hear lily offering medals to the gallant Ingraham for his timely interposition of late in roof American protection in the World. At the time alluded to, we had in the har bor of Rio the frigate Columbia, and the I'ttie brig Bain br and previcurly the frigate Raritam aod the same brig. Or one oecasion, wh Senr. Galvon, had tent a ramber of armed o; without notice to me or hi the Minister of Justice, boat, rof Foreign replied that could do nothi —I wonld be silent aa long as the arm of for: twill you do, Sir?” your mcvem , Si 1? was my reply. “Would you resist im cur own harbor?’ * You mustrick the Paixhan phot of that, Sir!’ said | Hs emtreated then that I would go vith him toree Senr. Galvon, the Minister of Treplie’, ‘Tam accredited to your Empsror, But be prevailed om me te accompany him ass to the house of bia colleague in tue Ministry coeasion to to the Minister of Jus be qhestion with bis two irigates loswad of your Commotore then presume t> disragard the Imperial deerme?’ = Sir,’ waid I, “you bave one frigate, two rloops of war, and abrig in your barby 4 ou bave the feria Senta Croz, 1 ) Villagenon, and ‘ela Cobras, and 100 iter line guos,—it oot tiat force encogh agslostene f igate and one small brig?’ © Sir,’ taid be, ‘will your Commodore obey a writ of habeas corpurt © Are yo volt T, © the Minister of public jostioe, and ask that question—don’t you know that the deck of # manof war of the United States ts on the terra Grins of my couvtry, and twat of Jaw cau not g» tuto that jarisdiotions 7” h af would be au Lomble petitioner wo be hie sheriff, marsh: oF measenger ‘abo ‘hla writ there; Oad 1 caused” hick That im case I did eo, it would be with me as it would be his messenger sent to our Commodore—I would r come back & him!” With that reply be was put the best ef huwors—his sides shook with laughier, bow! full of jelly’ he rang his bell, ordered some pweetmeats) and wine, aod weund up by saying-— Li, sir, we will ‘pence le this flair, on T see » an’t aegotinte with me, sir, until you withdraw your armed fore: I replied; 4 immediately, ssid to him wes well affaires were gbout to takes a perceable uelly suffered the most Id be tubm'tted to ne into cAious oppression lowger; that my own son (now Seore Legation at Berlin) bad just been wactonly seraalte! on the atrente avé wounded on the bead sn‘ the arms, simply for being a foreigner, ard the eb!ld was praesent to exhibit the wounds; that had fores bean resvrted to by nim the re prisals woul! beve been severs He tmmadiately ealled in an officer of the Permanentes—their armed police tn eaked me to let him have the person o’ my aon at his mand for & few hours, I consented at ooce, though ‘he yeu'b wes them only about Gfteen years of age He war consed alone to walk, pase and repaes slone for some Hoors about (be place where he had been sgsanited, while the P ¢rmapenies kept guard im the background, ready to arie>t the person who assai! hia again, The rove failed, linister what would “He would tir, have be ven upto death bi Iwas Lappy, then, the Bot from thas moment ar Jareize, of safsty to Ame ray, and appeel to al! wi that American pro’estio: three millions of aqua s) bad escaped detestion. era commenced in Rio 4@ \ citizens, I may prom re informed oa the aadja has been worth more in the rniles of that part of the globe then it over form. | threw the American fiag over every perzon and every right tua! I coud ponsibly oF seasonably make tt cover. It grew broader and broeder in ite fols, to my mind, every day that I studied more aud more the lews of nations and rignts of humanity, I made it the bacge of my equipage, of my (amily, and my cwn only cont of arms; and our own rights, and our Own persons were mace sacred under its protection, When Stephenson’s regiment arrived from the United States for Califortia, Ser,ent Harris and his wife, as rise woman, came in one of the transports, and bad « famale child born om the bigh seas. The officers of the Preble prerented the bade with a silver cup, and christened the obild Alta Crliforais Harris, Toey epplied to me, the Mni-ter ef the United States to stend godfather for that child at ite christeming. It waa at a time when the Empreas was just Gelivered of myoung Princess, and \he city had ‘een fluminated, and ‘every foreign mrn of wary except he Columbia and oye Ea had saluted the event. They declined to salute and I to illuminate, because Mr, Oavis bad been imprisoned. Bat when it was pro- posed to christen ere of ovr childrep, to sa'nte her woth @ national greeting, and | was asked to stamd father to this American sholdier’s child, in the sex. vice of bis country, I leaped to the osremony as no play- thing, as notbing idle, and nuomeaning, and childiah; but »s to the prompting of & passion—as patriotic di full of example—that wo would take care ol the least our little ones too, all over the th om the reas? 14d tke the yows before our chaplain ote deck of the Columbia, and suce guos and «uch cheers were bardly ever heard to ‘rattle among the orage’? of the Corcovado, and the Tejnca, and the Pan de Assucar before! The meaning of it waw;— The United 3tates will protect her citizens in their lawful rights the world over, they shall bave all the rights of the most favor #6 of men.’’ 1 will, indeed, say here what I have never sald publ before: that if Lieutenant Davis had not been released, would have demanded that Commodore Roussean shenki Fave released him by force. His officers and crow were #8 patriotic and devoted as Decatur’s at Tripoll. Hada thot been fred I would have gone on board the Oolumbia sud shared her fate, We would have stormed Isla de Cobras, the nearest battery to the town, and turned ite gone upon the palace of the Emperor. We would, God willing, beve razed that palace and taken the Em Dimeelf, and brought him home to the United stat b+ no otherwise than to bring him here ard show the real form and comliness of civil Hberty and universal tuerance, and then to send him back in safoty to bis owm dominion, there 10 be the best missionary of Americam protection—who could be sent to all South America, where protection, personal protection to American citi- z#nx 1s 60 much needed. This way seem like badinage now to you; but I tell that it wonld bave been au earnest ‘enterprise, and as 5 it 8 for one North American of the United States of men, of the blood of the English and Scotch and teh ard Germans, to subtne ten of the Spsuirh or Por- toguese race ahy where upon earth, even at the doore of bemertead roved by all the battles of the late Mexican campaigos, Aad, so far as South Ame- rics 1 coneerned, oll that our government has t@ do is ta assert Ormly the rigbt of protection, and to convines vem that we are in earnest in onr demands, and there will never be any necessity to resort to forces. Indeed, everywhere that this protection is wanting, there is am inberent weakness in the ration which withholds or de- nies it, They are weak from ignorance, and wanting im all ths elements of nations! strength Such powers as England and the United States, by @ wise co-operation in internations] policy, on subjecta Like this, could in another quarter cf a esntury subdue ali opposition to this po’ent meavr of makiog a commom brotherhood amorg mankind. Therefore it ix, that I for one have heartily rejoiced at every expedition ‘fitted out by any of the larger and enlightens Powers to such countries as that of Japan. A shortsighted view of the- war of Great Britain upon China would cordema it a jmomcral apd unjust, and ber East India com quests would seem to be mere and sheer des ‘lations; but I sm consoled, for simost al British eggressions everywhere, except on the conti- vents of the two Americas, sod ber oppression of Ire~ land, by tho ctvii‘zing re-ulta which follow the marek of bertriumphe, Everywhere, under British laws, onal protection to our citizens {s safe and sore, and I am willing for those laws to reign everywhere thas where the comipion j delongs to ourselrer, and the spirit of those law« we ourselves adopt. And whenee came that spirit? How in it imbued? By nothing leas ty: be faith and practice of Christianity itself, can mate a brotherhood xpect these smeliorath oiber people than ® people who have hom siters of baptiom, who have consciences enlightened by the Lords Pr ard the decalogue, and by the Sermom «p the Mount, who are strong enough in moral power, theres derived, to give laws to the world by « word, with out a blew W ben you come in contact with the cesptisms of the 01d World, on this subject, you meet with somethirg much more obdurate even than the igvorance and weak neva of the Sonth American and Mexicanfitates In Ture key, ‘protection for the fanen” may be claimed and em- forced, for Turkey 1s @ weak barbarinm, s dyiog dynasty. But the ¢ynartios of Ruvsia, and Austria, am Frence, and Prussia, are comparatively strong enough yet awhile to ‘kick against the pricks.”* Tr cite to them the examples of English and Americam Mrerty, ia at once to excite thyir alarm. The eraples sreangels of Jight which must not enter the deminons. Rusia is wagicg war upon Tarkey for for the rights of @ the privileges of conscience, Greek Cbureb; and yet, go to Rusria to estab gna Charta, ani you vould be ie danger of the kpout. Ask her to give the personal protection fo her country to one of our eliizens residing of travelling there, which we give to one of her ci ncing or travelliag bere, and your request Judged @ sediticus appesi to revolution of her goverm- mevt— pt at cethrorement of her despotion. Therefore tt wae that I instinctively rejoieed at the de- isive step tazen by ‘aio Tograbam in the cave of Koxta As Mr Polk’s administration had rusteined, nobly snetained mymtelon in every elaim of Amerieam protection which I bad set up in Grezil for our citizens and al) American rights as well asthe rights of elti- wns bip to protection, I locked with anxiety to see what would be the action of our State department upos the affair of Smyrna Mr. Marcy’s State paper noon relieved tub. It waeable and fally up to the occasion And here let me say that itbas not been fully or fatzly understood, either in the country, or, it seeme from late dabates, in Corgrese, He pleaded not the defence of Osptain In- «rabam upon Kossta’s rights a4 gitisen, nor can it be paced upon the Iss perfeot rights of bim asa maa. Marcy \Sok the giound which can be and has been sug> tained, that though be did not have the rights sf Ameri- can citizenship, yet be had other American rights, Thad protection was dus, and right well be given tosomething short of cilizensbip. That ieterposition was not ' in aveh a care, a good office, to be rendered or not cretion; but it waa a perfect obligation of duty w! to be cineharged in an imperative repes. driven the victim away from his own cou outlaw, pur Yo death; he fled, escaped their jurisdiction, and came to our asy- Jum, #cd be took the oath that he would become one of oar 'e—tbat be would owe us allegianes, do us duty a@ ‘obey our laws, and fight for o Tight to become a it It ware itive right under our matu- the meantime, he west right to do, and from everywhere tle, except Aurtrie, be bad « right to return to the Ucited States, hers to be natarsiised, and here to em- joy civil liverty, He did not go to Austria, bet yas feiaed in another jurisdiction, where Aus tis hed wo legal swsy, but where the sovereignty wae too weak to protect him. To whom was he ta »ppesl, ond how? Asa msnoplyl Then it was an affeig of aby power who would, cr of no power who would net interpote in bis behalf ‘Le bad vague and undefined aad imperfect rights only, and there was to oonuslusive vd cf protection anywhere, But he had a perfeet right, ready partly legalized and inchoate, to become an Ameri- can citizen; he bad a perfect right to retarn to Amerion as bis arylom bere, ands perfeot right already com~ menced, bi ay civil liberty; and ail thore by Austria out of ber jurisdiction, ° no eye to pity and no hsod to rave,” unless cen power was there to protect these Amerioam The American power was there, and it did inter- L this deetrive io not-oew under the sun, It ie bat tle than in dustrian domictens pore is not Di . Fre wesceer alage ss old ae 1776 and 1812, Daring vhe Revolution, George [iJ. bad much better reason for hargivg whigs ‘an traitors ia thes Kemp al ontria ine Zonsta in Turkish dominions. At thet period pd ‘Brita beld to the maxim of tyranny—"'Onee a elti- citizen "” . She, denied the right faring allegiance or right of expatriation. that mao born a must grow up acd re- main a serf for ail his lifetime; that he nt cross the seen, and etill be in she thraldom of his ivity; that he might crosa mountains, and lskes, rivers, aed coptinents, and still “but or * chain,’ thet he might “take the wings of mirping and = to the uttermoet pars of eorth”” and yet there, upon soa or | would have the right to seize him for allegiance due to her; and if he had forsworn that allegiance, amd beond himeell to revolutions of resistance to her sover- slarty, the migbt Jawfully hang him for treason. aie td? Z z i i z E ‘oetrine, held hosteges of retaliation sgeinat ite enforcement, Nothin, ‘aere strongly sroured the apirit of restetemee than tbe practice of this mazim—‘‘Once s eitizem, a citizen.”’ Again, the policy of our ey iri ponte oh from te. 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