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may remain to them, across the ocean, to the uncultivated regions of 

 America, and leave, for ever, a continent which to them has become more 

 gloomy than the wilderness, more lone and dreary than the desert. 



The i)eople of the United States expect from the generosity of the Turk- 

 ish Monarch that this permission will be given; they wait to receive these 

 exiles on their shores, where, without giving just cause of uneasiness to 

 any Government, they may enjoy whatever of consolation can be afforded 

 by sympathy for their sufferings, and that assistance in their necessities, 

 which tliis people have never been late in offering to any, and which they 

 are not now for the first time called upon to render. 



Accustomed themselves to high ideas of National Independence, the 

 people of the United States would regret to see the government of the 

 vast Empire of Turkey, constrained by the force of circumstances, to 

 exercise the duty of keeping prisoners for other powers. 



You will farther say to the Sublime Porte, that if, as this government 

 hopes and believes, Mr. Kossuth and his companions are allowed to depart 

 from the dominions of His Imperial Majesty at the expiration of the year 

 commencing in May 18-30, they will tind conveyance to the United States 

 in some of its National ships, now in the Mediterranean sea, which can be 

 .spared for that purpose, and you will, on receiving assurances that these 

 persons v,'ill be permitted to embark, ascertain precisely their number, ancl 

 immediately give notice to the Commander of the United States squadron 

 on that station, who will receive orders from the proper authorities, 

 to be present with such ships, as may be necessary, or can leave the 

 station, to furnish conveyance for Kossuth and his companions -to the 

 United States, 



HAMILTON PUBLIC PRINTEll. 



