New York Daily-Times (Newspaper) - December 3, 1851, New York, New York mk THK to in the to lU ema m wwi jh i w i B PUBLISHED EVENING will toned M U mad be Met THB NEW-YORK A LAEGE THg to r Ten fat or l MA to th KOSSUTH HUNGARY KOSSUTH'S PUBLIC LIFE Character of the Hungarian Revolution REPLY TO THE COURIER AND Nov 21 The Countr tmd Enquirer of Friday ber declared it to be the duty of the American people to receive and his companions the most affectionate cordiality and in order to pave the way for such a tion it devoted Jive columns to the task of ving that the whole aim of and his friends during the Hungarian Revolution was to perpetuate the absolute and despotic nation of the Magyar nobility over nine millions of the Hungarian people If this attempt had been successful KOSSUTH would deserve to be received with execration And if affectionate cordiality shall still be extended to him it will be because the The Conner and Enquirer has not succeeded in the task it The question is one of direct and immediate tance to the American people we shall make no apology for endeavoring even at some length to point out the fallacies and statements of the elaborate article referred to Unless we aro greatly mistaken it will clearly appear that The and has History in the grossest manner m the vain Lope of exposing to public odium Suppose a French or a Russian historian were to write the history of the American Revolution after the style i Tho English conquered America hundred iars ago and from lhat lime until 1776 retained over ita by armed hand In 1776 he Americans demanded and obtained from English Government Independence and freedom taxation which they had all along desired In I be lime he people or Pennsylvania demanded their independence of American government and re- to pay the laxes which that government had levied upon them This was refused by WASHINGTON and his friends the very men who had wrung from the King cf England the acknowledgment of their own ence war of American Revo lution And if history be not a Ue then beyond all w ar in America was a war on part of and his aristocratic supporters to with hold equal social and political from numbers of their fellow men with as fair and forms aa manly and aa bright as those of their noble matters And if this be ao with whom should the pathies of freemen rest With WASHINGTON and ro- laborers or with men in Western Pennsylvania who sought lo become freed and disenthralled by own hat would be said to such a history Zither that the writer was disgracefully or wilfully mendacious In the following ex- tracts The Courier and Enquirer sets forth its history of the Hungarian Revolution and we shall show that it incurs the same imputation Our readers need not now be told lhat the war in Hungary uas a war Knees a on the part of lour millions and a half of Magyars to govern and con- trol as they had done by right of conquest for a sand years nine millions of the Sclavonic their equals in every attribute man lor sell government The conquered nearly a thousand ago and from that time until the fall retained their supremacy Sclavonic race as boasted by the Armed llund In like three centuries ago by thf Armed Emperors of Austria won for and their lor ever the and privileges of OF But neither tho nor Magyars submitted tamel to the r respective masters For a years nearly the oppressed the serfs and bondmen of have sought to throw oil the joke of their masters the Magyars and in like manner the proud and haughty Magyars the moat overbearing and of all the Nobility of western Europe have for three hundred yearn fretted under the yoke ol Austria and sought to cast It aside At length the great up heaving throughout Europe in 1848 gave the long for opportunity and Magyars demanded anil obtained from the fr when Socialism had driven him from his ancient Capital the ence they desired Tins grant however his counsellors refused to rani and in meantime t he who for a thousand jeara had been to the con- Magyars whit negroes are to tlie slave ers of the their of their ant equality of social and political 1 his wan refused the very men who had Emperor aud Austria the acknowledgement of their independence And thereupon both parties ed lo the Emperor who was still King ol Hungary although he had granted lo Magyars tlie entire ern men I ofthe Kingdom It is sufficiently apparent thai the Magyar Diet took tage of the troubles m Austria for which we do not to blame them to demand certain privileges from Emperor were at tirst granted through lear then withdrawn The then demanded ilar and which their the them Both factions ht uled by and the Magyars tj anil BIT appealed lo for aid And because Austria would nut aid the Mag the truth m stir not give aid to party and would di the 6 Imen aud lecause her would not go and reside at f esth 411 order to inspire tlie conviction that tie had sided ith the that and nn And they for am cut as they were If history be i ot a it all written and verbal teamed lo by all parties m Austria and Lc not then be- yond all in Hungary was a war im the part of tke faur an't a of aristocratic frond and to withhold equal and political from nine millions of their mm ti if li ftir and farms its and as those their noble wasters And if thiB be so whom should the of free and republican rest Kossuth and his laborera m their efforts lo hold nine millions of their low men in bondage or those nine millions freed and disenthralled their own valor Give to Kossuth and his associates all proper respect admiration for hat ing bravely periled all in of the ancient ol Hungary and us ent of Austria Condemn and and whatever else maj bul in the name ol Liberty and we tUc of Republic n America for the millions tf by the fall of their masters are on a of liberty anJ equality tiery inhabitant of and in to the v dressing you as and VOL 66 Tho fourth resolution appended 10 Declaration of Independence expressly provides Hint the form of lo be adopted lor the tuture shall be fixed by iho Diet ofthe nation And that Diet as la well known consisted mostly ol Magyars and mi- titled and lo which the peasantry consisting of more than of the nation did not semi a solitary Lei n be home In mind that of fiur and a half millions of Magyars six hundred sand or nearly are nobles and that m all power and then the reader can judgs what would have been the result of their success These extracts state fully the History of the Hungarian Revolution as given by The Conner Enquirer The rest of the article consists of documentary evidence with comments upon it cited to sustain the positions we have quoted To that evidence we shall presently refer We wish first to point out the radical falsification of contained in the extracts quoted above Jt embodies precisely the same misrepresenta- tion of the Hungarian Revolution which the writer of history in the case we have above would make of the American Revolution It ignores the history of that Revolution It does not even intimate that had anything to do with Hungarian until the war with the Sclaw broke out It deliberately conceals from public view the history of his struggles in the Hungarian Daet for rights and equal privileges It makes the Hungarian revolution commence with the as the American revolution be made commence with the lion in Pennsylvania It ignores entirely long struggle in Hungary of which and KOSGUTH were champions for the abolition of feudal prerogatives the of toe people and the security of tl Constitutional rights of Hungary against tl privileges of the nobility and the Ambitious ab- of Austria as one might ignore the remonstrances the menaces the contest fc r deliverance from oppression and the struggle fcr independence of the American revolution and ol WASHINGTON as its leader It Hots all rAia it as if U had and then appeals to the American people to judge of the from its history bat from the history of tho rebellion by which it was followed That rebellion was en- tirely distinct from the revolution it be- came connected with it only as it was stirred up and used by as a means of reaction And yet The Courier and Enquirer presents it as having been the identifying and confounding the two This is the radical falsehood of The Courier and argument The whole article s made to rest upon this gigantic misrepresenta- tion And one might just as well expect to form a correct judgment of the American lution from the incidents and character of tl e Rebellion as of the Hungarian tion from the incidents and character of tlie Rebellion I With a fundamental falsehood thus laid I as the of the whole article it would not be easy to correct views of minor matters The Conner and Enquirer moreover I has not labored very hard to overcome the culty Its statements are all colored by this mental untruth and they are all share its falsity j This will be seen as we examine in their order f i The Courier and represents i Magyar nobility as holding tho same position 1 enjoying the same rights exemptions and crs and the same relation to the great masses of the Hungarian people at the time when the Rebellion broke out as it had done for a thousand years It asserts that at the time of the Rebellion the great mass of the Hungarian people were serfs and the Magyar Nobility were th most overbearing and of all th Nobility ol Western Europe of th four and a half millions ol Magyars nearly one-seventh are nobles and that in hands was POWER to the Diet of tho Nation which passed the Declaration of Inde j by which the new Constitution waf to be formed the peasantry consisting of rathe than of the nation did not send 1 a solitary member that the whole j was waged with Austria for these ancient 1 al exclusive privileges and f immunities of the I Every reader of history knows all these Dients to be untrue Every careful reader of Hungarian history knows First That the Nobility of Hungary was never what it is here represented to have always been And upon this point we quote the lowing explicit statements from the well-known and standard work of Mr JOHN more than ten years ago and written therefore without the slightest reference to ex- isting disputes From Hungary ama chapter xir on The Hungarian Edition iol I p 237 et The word noble has a meaning altogether Cm from Us signification wuli ua England J li more to our and 01 grosses a to certain political and civil privileges not enjoyed by the rest of the population The of the Hungarian ua they at the p Tenant day are divided into two the Cardinal and tho non Cardinal The Cardinal prerogatives arc three I 1 The of is Inviolable until tried and j condemned 2 The noble Is to none but tug 1 legally crowned king 3 A noble alone In capable of holding landed properly lor which lio is liable neither lo lithe nor loll The moat important among the non prerogatives ol are Ilia ox I emption from having soldiers quartered upon him and Ins to sell cerium articles within tho boundaries of hlu own estates At present tho I nobles are divided into three classes the an swering lo our Peers fce nobles u middle class answering lo our gentry and the one no- bles men tho hereditary or nobility but in every oilier In properly education and little above the peasant Ot these three grades of nobility making n half a million in formed the real Constituency of Hungary It is difficult to calculate how many voters there arc in this number but us the sons have the lo vole during the life of the father soon us they arrive at and ns widows muy send their deputies 1 think we may stale or as about the probable number The whole population Hungary proper may be reckoned at so i ed is one In U tho ol adult males only bo red or one in seventy fin u the lation bo taken Now the ition ot France is the number of or was In being a proportion ol only ono in a In England smco tho Act with a tion of the number of voters has been stated at or one in twenty Jii e but before the Reform I doubt iT the proportion ol tho represented lo the unrepresented was greater th In Hungary Now though I do not mean to compiro the qualification of birth mill that of property though I that the solo advantage in thai the one la and tho other been to show the English render that it M not so small a i of the tn Hungary as ue are led 10 believe when uf it culled nn aristocracy not so small as governs m Democratic France at tho present moment and as for I lie argument that the nobles a clan have the power lo the peasantry and the interests of arc sure to be sacrificed it d tobr m nearly the innu rose as that of the rick and poor ua that it is worth speaking of So much for the power of the Hungarian Nobles in the Hungarian Diet But the Diet IB not the only governing power m Hungary Headers of KOSSUTH'S speeches in England will recollect the stress which he laid upon the county or municipal Governments of as the bulwarks of liberty Those counties wero 52 in number each of which says Vol I p has a separate local administration and constitutes a kind of State within itself nor can the General Government interfere in its affans or execute the laurs within aries except through the officers all of horn except one arc chosen three These County Assemblies have full power instruct the deputies in the Diet how they to prevent public com- plaints and demand redress to correspond with other counties and to inako roads cut canals open rivers assess taxes order levies of soldiers voted by the Diet and provide for they have also the power of VETOING all the acts of the Diel and all ordinances of the monarch which they may find upon examination to be contrary to er in their tendency dangerous to liberty See Vol I 315 Such was the Government of Hungary the reforms which we shall no- tice next It will be seen to bo essentially ferent from the arbitrary tyranny of an cracy which it is represented to have been by The Conner and Enquirer It a limited popular rights to a certain extent secured by ita Constitution NEW-YORK WEDNESDAY DECEMBER PRICE ONE CENT i that political power rested defined above And this chief defect in it w with the nobility leads ue to say Secondly That tikis defect had been remedied exclusive privileges had been before the at which as the Courier and Enquirer asserts they were in full force The Courier and bases its whole ment upon the assertion that the Magyar ty holding in their handball political power and enjoying important i possessed by the pe to perpetuate this dorni races Now we assert stone of its argument is completely knocked away by the fact that these exclusive leges did not then they had been the Hungarian that true popular equality lad been established And this was the work of KOSSUTH and his party This was the real revolution of which he was the champion and the leader He carried it first against the nobles and next against Austria and it had been completed before rebellion broke out ies which were not were endeavoring ion over the Sclavonic that this foundation In proof of this garian Conner and assertion we refer to that part of it which Tlie has seen fit to nay the very existence of which it has thought it safe to deny It declares in express terms that up to the 4th of March 1849 the Magyars with at their head for some arrangement by which they might retain their exclusive rights and their absolute aristocratic domination over the Sclavonic races Il is not necessary to rehearse tho whole tory of Hungarian from 1832 when the nobles relinquished their right of exemption from the time designated by The to show that all in tho hands of the bix taxation down to and cal power was hundred thousand Magyar nobles Tho whole question can be settled by reference to of the Hungarian Diet of full year be- fore the on of was gated by the We quote the fo lowing statement of the de- mands of that Diet an article entitled La Hongne in 1848 by M de opposed to the Revolution in the dts Unix Stondes Oft 15 1848 The chief of the misl advanced ditts the advocate KOSSUTH found himself suddenly carried lo the head ofthe he caused an lo be voted by second Chamber without the intervention of the Magnates address the programme of the Revolution Il demanded tho of a Minis ry purely Hungarian lo for all lhc ol power a new the whole WITHOUT DISTINCTION of RANK or BIRTH the organisation ol a National Guard the transfere ico of the diet from to and finally a I Constitution for a II the other States ofthe For tho rust llim address ed tho lirm wish and need of Hungary to remain solubly attached lo the Empire This then was the ti uc programme ofthe Revolution according to the statement of one of its enemies And it demanded among other things a representation of the WHOLE without of RANK or BIRTH KOSSUTH was at the head of it and yet he is of having sought to perpetuate tho sive privilege of and birth up to March 4lh 1840 us look a little further Let us quote from tire official document from this the demands of tlie nation We hold it our duly openly and clearly to point out lhc principal prompt solution wo be- lieve necessary lor Rood of the country 1 The distribution of the public burdens 2 PARTICIPATION Ot THE NOT NOBLES of the of the royal cities and of the districts in legis- and municipal rights 3 before tlie law 4 The abolition ol null indemnity to the landed 5 Security en lo credit and property by tion ol imperial dues We strenuously labor to call into life nil lhat can tend lo and Intellectual development of the country We shall endeavor lo to popular cation lhat powerful engine of national development a an form able anil patriotic citizens thai tlic people may this means likewise to personal were the demands ofthe Diet of but what did the Diet Gen in his memoirs shall answer first roin War of Independence tn Hungary KLAPKA Vol I p 45 All the energies ol a measure which they the had been Vienna Cabinet from TO THE i KOAL IT v 01 AIL the right of every 10 the true wero directed to Imd advocated in y foiled by the intrigues of the a thf liberation of the peasantry ITY AIL and lo hold properly In lhc Parliament of tht outbreak nf the great the Hungarian litre EMANCIPATED AND FROM ALL Tins just and voluntary measure Ilir nation to an that although m the IBM war they fell with greatness and Tlic future will lie justness of the example which lod in tho history of class tion And still more the same French writer quoted above M de says An electoral lam lias the nf suffrage u as conferred possessed a capital Here then is distinct and positive proof that the Diet of the exclusive leges and immunities of the nobility and that the untitled and peasants enjoyed the right of suffrage without any distinction of tank or bulk and with the single limitation of a small property passed by the Diet in immediately waited sanction obtained it on lion These laics March 1818 A d upon the King for the of April and the reformed laws went into immediate effect All let it be bered w as in the spring of 1848 The Diet of this law and yet Thf 1649 was elected u anil in one of the extracts quoted above says Diol as IE well known mostly of Magyars and nobility and lo which ry consisting ol rather more of ilia nation did not send a member Let u bo borno in mind lhat of the four and a half millions of Magyars or nearly one seventh aro nobles and that in their hands PC WER Every reader can see how utterly untrue in this statement tho facts already gh en And the following the Diet of 1849 b by The Courier am shows whether ttlie peasantry did or did not send a solitary member The Diet was opened by Palatine with the usual solemnities The who e Representative Assembly bore a much more European Hungarian national so called or dress with thi few The reater par sat in th We submit statements of The gard to the the nobility to be account of the opening of a writer quoted Enquirer as good authority aspect than formerly old spur and sword was worn by wore modern coat Some ir beautiful peasant on I and the the at the rtg leader ofthe radicals la a paletot on the wo have thus proved the and Enquirer in and exclusive domination of utterly untrue Wo come now to another important point of The Courier and The Courier ant Magyars constitute 1 the sand years to the the negroes are South and the bands of Magyar nobles Now we assert in reply to this that Magyars argument Enquirer asserts that tho the exclusive nobility that had been for a conquering Magyars what to the of the all political power was in were not the exclusive nobles that nobility was not monopolized by tho Magyars but that it was shared by all the other there were Croatian Wallachian nobles as well as Magyar nobles The first authority we shall cite in proof of this is DE in his work De Public en thus speaks of this very point Without entering into long details we will gay thai in our lime tne nation which counts the greatest ber of or Is precisely the Magyar nallon which is explained by the fact that it Is most For tho same reason the races taken furnish a much greater number for united Ibey are numerically superior to the Hungarians The nobles of tke counties lu the North and South are generally of and there are counties where there are a hundred Wallachian nobles for tne Magyar This certainly looks as if there were other than Magyar noble's In the statistical tables of FENYES moreover a Hungarian writer the number of nobles in many of the counties ex- the whole number of Magyar inhabitants Mrs Putnam quotes from this work the lowing In Slovac County of there are but 200 Magyar are In the no- bles If therefore we lake II for granted thai these SOO Magyars are all nobles there remain Slovac m this one In the Slovac Counly of Turocz m which more than a tenth part of the population is noble there arc but 200 Magyar inhabitants tne ber of nobles in the County is In the Sclavonic County of which baa no Magyar population are nobles In the Slovac Count of in which there nre hut Magyar inhabitants the nobility number We come now to the main point of Thf nci and Enquiry's which re- lates to the origin and cause of the war We have shown that through tho efforts of and his friends the nobility of Hungary had been stripped of their exclusive privileges and the peasantry bad been admitted to a full share of political power were great popular re- lorms all the more remarkable for ing been effected with the a great pirt of the nobles including Croatia and other had been united to Austria for a thousand years She enjoyed however certain constitutional rights which gave her control of her own local tion These rights had been threatened years by the ambition of Austria and had been repeatedly violated Hungary ed to quer them and demanded their restoration Thp laws of the Diet of were passed in con- sequence of this and after long years of gle And the assent of the King was given to these laws on the of April The Courier and asserts that this was the work of four and a half million Magyars alone that the nine and were kept in the most bondage that these down who for a years h ul been lo lhc conquering Magyars what the are to of the South demanded dence of oppressors and equality of sortal and rights Again The and Enquirer says The then demanded similar privileges and local and political freedom which the Magyars refused lo them Sclavea beaded by and Iho Magyars headed by and lo Austria fir aid And because Austria would not aid the truth Is the could nnt give aid to either because she would noi denounce es her Emperor would not go and reside at In order to Inspire the with conviction that he had sided with the Magyars that haughty and imperious race made war upon Austria Here we have the of the war distinctly stated The war was made by the Magyars says The Courier and because Austria would not help enslave the and And the same thing IH still inure strongly stated in the following passage Bat there wag no declaration ol Independence put forth by Ihc Magyars until promulgation by tho Emperor of Austria of tho Constitution of the 4l i March was UH liberal as our own bul utterly un- lo of the people By thut Jew and and men of all religions nations and races comprising the Empire ol as and the nine millions of Eclairs in Hungary v err from bondage to their four and a half millions of Magyar masters jefts of the to a intc upon paying the inning annual lax uf five or two dollars and cents fit oner til rred the remaining bond Ant tria anil Magyar Hungary o Ma willi ment with might thf tn treating rebels with a of pen wiped out all tlie ancient constitution il of Hungary and consolidating her uith the iria raised tlic to a political with their 1 hat Iho Magyars should tn thr was most natural and on the Mill of April one and Iho their of Independence ol The Magyars it is here asserted themselves independent of Austria tna had raised the to apolitical equality with themselves and up to that to the 4th ol March had bored to retain the in bondage A single historical fact demonstrates this assertion to be utterly untrue Tin had on a political trith the yar and in Maicli 1848 tlie antt were raised to thf same equality The laws of tlie Hungarian Diet of 181748 a new basis of representation and admitting all to vote without distinction of or were extended over Croatia and as well as over the Magyars If this be so tho whole foundation of Tht and argument is taken away Wo shall therefore even at the of making this article much too long copious authorities to prove it And first we quote the following description of tho real character of the laws of the Diet of 1847 8 and their relation to oilier from the Tory historian Alison in an article From Blackwood's May 1849 Hy unanimous votes of belli houses ilio Dici noi only rights and pub lie amongst alt classes denominations and Hungary and its PROVINCES ation for every form of religious worship a fin perhaps unparalleled in the of nations and winch must c A tho admiration even of those who may question wisdom of measure the no- of Hungary abolished their own right to exact cither labor or produce in return lor the lands huM by tenure und to the the absolute frte of nearly half the land m thf kingdom lo I lie original of the soil such an the ment might award from public of Hungary More than five hundred thousand peasant familias wero lhc ownership of from thirty lo sixty of land each or about millions of acres them The elective franchise was ed to every man possessed of capital Or property to thf valve of or an every man who has received a diploma from a uni- versity mid 10 every who employs an apprentice the concurrence ol bolh countries Hungary and Tn were united and their Diets hitherto scp The number of to tend lo the Dut was increased f rum lo eighteen while the internal institutions of that remained unchanged and Hungary undertook lo compensate be proprietors for the lands surrendered to ihc peasants to nn exceeding Iho ponion of that burden which would fall on funds of the province Tho complaints of the that the Magyars desired lo impose their own language upon Iho Sclavonic were every reasonable ground of complaint advantages were extended to the Sclavonic tribes and the laws of the kingdom except in so far as wero modified by acts remained unchanged The whole of acts passed m Maroh received tha royal assent which on the Ilth ol April Emperor personally confirmed at In the m 21 Theae of Kingdom in accordance with the new sible Hungarian ministry was formed and commenced the with the full of the and aid of the Archduke Palatino Tha changes that had been effected were received with gratitude oy the and with not only by the population of Hungary Proper but also by that of all thi Sclavonic From Croatia more especially the expression of was loud and apparently sincere This testimony certainly seems pertinent and conclusive We next cita upon the same point the following From Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary Historical Introduction London tion Vol I p Our parliamentary by was at all limes a a advocate of the Servian nationality and religion and m March 1848 when the Opposition carried Ha most liberal and when that Constitution was sanctioned by the King it afforded the guarantee against the persecution and opposition of the Servien people By virtue of the new Constitution THS PEASANT OP like the peasant of Hungary WAS RAISED TO THE SANK OF A AUD CITIZEN OF THE STATE A voluntary surrender of property was made to him His tional was guaranteed by a free end ent Municipal Constitution The Servian soldiers on the frontier were according lo despotic regulations of the frontier service Incapable of holding landed nr any other Immovable properly they noro ill-treated and whipped by the Austrian officers The new Constitution raised them from the depths of misery received them friends and brethren for the character of Hungarians was at all times a stranger to national animosity and religious intolerance The were by no means blind lo of heir new institutions They received them v ith tion The colors of Hungary and Muttered from their steeples The Sefi inn xmt deputations to the Parliament to offer their thanks and congratulations This too seems to leave little to be desired in order to prove that the Servian revolt could not have been for any such reason as that The Conner and We quote tho following additional evidence of the fact that Croatia had shared in all the rights privileges enjoyments of Hungary a Speech by Louis in thf Hungarian Dut July Entertaining as I do such sentiments I am obliged tu a glance on relations between gary nnd Croatia Gentlemen yuu urc aware thai ihr Arts AI I 1 r-i n il H i AF D nti v 11 EISES tn and al a only confer red He own rights on the favored nationalities Arpad nu right in tin nf hir ti f mth nut Hut wuli us I i a in and al our ex too J lind in Hill largi puns of for them Ireland lor bul that the part of a should dirty in furor nf a is a fncl but nul less tlie in the relations of Hungary with C vc Me hair ar fur tht tlint n tn the n Croats ed allowed b ua to our nubility si our n lo I romm that country is loo small and lo With regard to Croatia entertained appre product d by various conceptions and u to ba given up voice of still are hu faithful Croats T one publish and i spread this Manifesto to his loyalty to our sovereign authority Given in tho of the 10th day of June 1848 We have now proved beyond all question That the a perfect equality of social and political the Magyars they were neither nor oppressed thp popular reforms of the Diet of had been extended equally to them tnat they selves as well ae the Austrian Emperor so re- it hen Croatian rebellion broke out a Hungarian deputation did wait upon the Emperor and solicit his aid in suppressing it but when The Courier and Enquire i asserts that this was Only ihc haughty Magyar masters petitioning tria to lend its aid ih tht with which for a thousand years had held in aboriginal Hungarian and his descendants it makes an assertion which history t be false Croatia and the other vinces were parts of Hungary and had been for eight hundred They held no tional Austria except through their connection Hungary When they re- belled H not to regain any such rights nor to achieve any political or social dom It was simply at the best to break off their connection break down Hungary by rending it into as many pieces as there were races within its borders How could KOSSUTH or my other Hungarian do otherwise than seek to suppress this rebellion Would The Conner ami sustain any one of the American States in breaking loose from the Confederacy Would il denounce the General for pecking to repress such a ment it to denounce for tho Whisky rebellion in Pennsylvania hating only sought to rivet firmer the rs by w Inch the people had been held But tins point ran made Hlill clearer after examining ol tlir objections made lo t- by Thf and ic denounced by that paper ab U ansi rls be wat not a Republican II ul lligcnt and well informed writers who pretend to look as a ment m I ol institutions It from the bs of the Hungarian tation to soliciting aid to the and exclaims we cone in nothing of of And so throughout it de- the whole movement of and by erroneous ideas for the Parliament nan expressly f lhc Hungarian affairs of Austria professedly be- i reed that in public the Croats should havr lhc right to make use of their own language in tuice willi own and thus their nationality haw been lij public municipal rights the lian not only not im tut extended and augmented IB there a greater tlinn that of Dg the election ol representatives which are convoked to frame to grant and to protect 1 And the Parliament linn You our ren shall decide how to elect your li tins measure the lam Parliament consolidated the of Croatia If therefore in the past no reason can he found to ex- cuse rebellion the last Parliament none In ono word ur have tint anything uhat which within the limits of integrity of and of the rights of the people could do to parify If a people thinks the liberty It possesses too limited and takea up arms to conquer more it ccr tainly a doubtful a sword baa two edges bull lean understand it if a people says 1 our libi IK too much for me ir ill net havr it if you e it but I v ill gfi and under the old of IB a Hung which 1 endeavor in vainio still one other witness by whom we bhall prose beyond all possible the utter of The and s allegations bondage which the Hungarians sought to fasten upon the e call the himself upon the stand and make the following extract prom his Imperial I t thr t run and from oil hli and Junr 10 I I of i King of i i lie jou lull ol mir C nnd uf our c uid Uic following anil bt Our pitcrn.il found s msf u lion in trust trial whilst in compliant i tlu our nations extended of on our all our li bound the liy to our care lo be grateful to firmly to our throne We it same tune the nt ol nju d would encourage our to in tho florl ol general lor opf in d lhc fu Id With full n h mi our we c stunk liy luc with in 11 our were W ith you Cro ill ins and LUODMIIS who il to rrown of for ci v shared alts ol jou I roati ins and hi t n if the In alt jni you f to for re d to be mist iki n v hn not only hate in all oj Ikr Hungarian Lo b s of until n W ssl wilh jn i uid s by tin of our mil greater any of Is of out i o un We w i n III you to v m the last Dul thr nj Hun gary and our on u gra full part in all oj thr mul n T of tlie row i ol 11 u h is ishid f us in 11 in and who li d to tlie without any s iri c on ir part free proprietors 1 In landed tors recene for tin ir loss by lilion of an jon w ith jour ow n means be- un lo ide The Indi on this n to your w ill bt nil tiled on our Hungarian crown estates our son reign ratification and without any to Tht right ttf constitutional lo the no than in Hun gary m ni e of n i longer the no alone but inhabitants md tlic Military Frontier parl by in the common to all as much as in the municipal congregations you rnn improve your welfare by your immediate cooperation now the nobility but to the expenses lhc proportional of the taxes amongst all inhabitants is lawfully whereby you been delivered from an oppressive charge i our and municipal rights relative to winch ill and in ill Clous reports been spread with the aim of ex citing your distrust are by no means threatened On the very both yourn ind your municipal rights are and any encroachment as not only the use of your na live language is lawfully guaranteed lo jou forever in your schools and churches but it is likewise in- in lhc public assemblies where the Litin has been habitual until now Calumniators sought lo make you believe thai the Hungarian nation desired to or at least to prevent its further development We ourselves assure you that these reports arc totally faliC and that it is recognised with approbation that jou to develop and establish your own renouncing the dead Latin language Tho legislature is willing to support you in this effort by providing adequately for your to whom is entrusted the spiritual care of the soul and the education of your children centuries you have bten united to Hungary During whole time the legislature has dealt uiM due regard to your nationality How could you therefore behove that the legislature which his guarded your for eight centuries should now bear a hostile aversion to it 1 and I We guarantee your nationality and your liberties nnd the your just requests with our royal do not believe any with which one aims you Hh 11111 was rot to establish a Republic but to I o ancient Hungarian tion and ihr under it in the place tlie professed tion of the nn ft ami I because ger j did not a at once is all If had sought any such thing at first be would been denounced by the Conn r nn I 1 at lie is by the endorser our correspondent as a lit d ultra er had sought by his rash and headlong to the reforms already ami thanks thai Constitution and all tin Hungarian laws are swept lhat Austrian rales in their stead a paper to denounce Kou for not seeking to establish a al fords the it instance of hypocrisy wo mrt for of the 11 o lhat Thf i inn ind r is sincere in thin Let Uh how and Ins friends lo for noi proclaiming a I il ui see be held from llu in and policy un thai a c imo it nut nri here lo re- in tin nature ol ihr nd Hungary Hungarian li n kn g not nc an hereditary arch leu in iord uico witb made on holli s ind liv treaty For il M TI s lit nj lind thus possessed n li its falling un- der ihi ili mil ilion of Austria Their ul ill M h to through a Dut ol Us ov n the ol local a to that in IK Hi lor the advancement ol itb own i 1 or tlie party of which j it li liaj this right and the priv ilexes ol 1 the to a lull sh ue i I i ni il for n il r t- J education and the Mm infill of the Hun in h I s hud 1 11 ii n u n bams of w distinction of 1 id In i n ti and the 1 s ol HUM i ill 1 hi il biin tin M d dis- tlie grasping u ir n or tic n i had n Now tin re nothing in all thib with which if ir Liberty champions ol ail over tli world 1 In ami i TII uu 1 i jo mi d for not going lo ihr a d n i ni r He is condemned lor not declaring iud j of Hungary and establishing a Kej at the very Any one will tl e of Hungary at that between on tho one and Austria on the other rt mote Iruin civilised Europe and on ev erj side powers will award in and his glorious thi for going as far as they dul tlie righth of the people and the of political equality tin BC who are inclined to Maine them for IKJ a Aif at once and taking a bland which would have the and hostility of all the allied despotisms ol Europe and have ihus every of freedom 111 Hungary are invited to consider the case wWli American Air Every reader of knowb ihai neither AQUINO ION nor any of tlic great lead crs of the at the outset contemplated from d and tho of a Republic tr and U had been granted by England lo America as were secured from Austria by Hungary Any one who doubts hue only to look at facts to prove it Let him read the following extracts from Letter by to Capl Robert late ca Oft of Vol U p 401 Although yon are by with men lo believe thai Ike people of are re- setting up for independency not me leaie my good to tell you that you art AB greatly ABUSED me to add i
