18/39 Our friend who sits by you has found occasion to write again in unmeasured terms to the representatives of Austria. We are advised of your affiliations with the Hungarian movement--in short, we are perhaps better advised of your movements than you yourself are aware. We know of these blacks which have been purchased and deported by your agents, but we also know that large numbers of slaves have been enticed away from their owners, that whole plantations have been robbed of their labor, and this under the protection--indeed, under the very _name_--of this attempt which you have set on foot. Has this been done by your knowledge, Madam? "Assuredly, no! That is a matter entirely without my knowledge. |