The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

the German tongue introduced in its place. And he
would have the whole world beware of the dangers
to be apprehended from unions of kingcraft and
priestcraft, such as that into which the despotic
FRANCIS JOSEPH and Pius IX have just entered.
Now, if all this was addressed to the British public
by a man who had disgraced his name and his
country by a useless effusion of blood,• who
had abused the sovereign power vested in
who was a political shuffier, renegade, or a bigot
in religion, we might be disposed to treat him with
contempt, and heap upon him the ignominy such
mortals deserve. But who can gainsay his histori-
cal reminiseenes, the conclusions which the past
enables him to arrive at, as regards the future, the
political degradation and revolting torture his
country is enduring at this moment ? It therefore,
behoves the friends of civil and religious liberty
throughout Europe, to hear what this experienced
politician and defender of their sacred rights has to
say.

If money could buy him, KOSSUTH had long since
been silent or raised to the highest pinnacle of
distinction, but he prefers having all the punish-
ments of exile, and the poisoned shafts directed
against the truth,than the richest reward that traitors
can bestow on falsehood. We need no other proof
on this head than the simple fact that he is amongst
us to-day, and not in Vienna. He tells us as a
Protestant what his co-religionists have to expect,
and what his Roman Catholic countrymen have to
prepare for, from the Concordat. Yet Kossum
leaves out of sight the great impracticabilities of his
Despotism is the first of these, religious
persecution the next, and cruelty the thing most
abjured by the DEITY. Society has grown, and is
growing, rapidly in the fullness of this abjuration
and the world's enlightenment has created a
universe of necessities and endless regions of
resources. Men are no longer content with
being good, unless they are great
Here, spiritual as well as temporal des-
potism have to combat with those whom
cotton exalteth, and the want of breadstuffs,
which humble nations to the dust. Mankind
would never bear beyond a certain pressure of
misery, or a given weight of tyranny, and whatso-
ever may be found, in these days, to interfere with
society in those pursuits in which goodness and
greatness may be, and are allied, it must disappear
like chaff before the wind.

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We can have no spiritual dogmas, which assume,
that every man is a barbarian and pagan, until
he surrenders his freedom of action and
thought to the keeping of others. We shall never
again see spiritual tariffs regulating the commerce
of millions of our species, or States denied all
social intercourse with each other, because one
happens to be heretically inclined and the other
purely orthodox. Such things are impracticable—
the merciless shedding of blood is impracticable
—keeping up of overwhelming armies for the
coercion of society is impracticable—the main-
tenance of innumerable dungeons and the
machinery of religious tyranny is impracticable,
as the first neglect or oversight in the
direction of the economic and material affairs and
interests of any civilised country would speedily
demonstrate. Such things may, however, be
attempted. FRANCIS JOSEPH, for example, may be
induced, if he has not already created a necessity
for keeping a large force under arms, to continue
the Austrian army on its present footing, in order
to give full effect to the Concordat. But
what Oorter cut could he take to beggar his
subjects, and throw open the gates of Vienna
to KOSSUTH, or any other honest and enlight-
ened Reformer ? England may be nulled into
keeping up her present military force for a year or
two, but the Ministry who would ask this country
to continue her war establishments in a season of
peace will require more than an ordinary amount
of political effrontery and moral courage. The
people of this wealthy country cannot bear it, cost
—nor can any other State except they adopt the
policy of Austria, and waste all their strength on san-
guinary spoliation and nnbridled tyranny, and leave
themselves at the eleventh hour without a bayonet
or a friend to defend them against their enemies.

Finally, we were glad to see that Liverpool gave

the noble Hungarian Chief a hearty reception, and

we trust that his present agitation will open the
eyes of England to the position of Austria, with
her newly imported danger, as it threatens the
peace of Europe.