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ithrant dart en traed
it gas eu gwaed.
Eu gweddwon a'u hamddifaid sydd
Heb gartref lion, a'u bronaten brudd;
A'u dewrion rai, o wrol fryd,
Yn 'naofyn nawdd yn mhellder byd.
Ilungaria, hon sy wlad ddi hedd,
lleb ryddid gwiw, yn dlawd ei gwedd
Dynoliaeth yno sy dan glwyf,
A gormes, trail mews rhwysg a rhwy
Y traws, lle caffo'i ffordd ei hun,
Ond Ilwn sydd uwch na phawb gw
ems clseeybr ay
yn ahny sf,e
fna
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7wdjyyy. leddd)d•
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dfyi
rdyynys
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sopariradf:', ni pharcha ddyn;'
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Pan ddryllir iau eaethiwed prudd;
Cyfiawnder mwy deyrnaso'n
Bros yr boll fyd yn hyfryd lawn.
Dr. Q. 0. ROBERTS, in moving the next resolution,
spoke in Welsh, and observed that he had never a•ttided
any public meeting at which he was more gratified in
having the privilege of moving a resolution thsn the
present. He was truly gratified to find the religious
common people of Wales beginning to act as if they
found that they had civil as well as religious uutiee to
perform. He would assure the meeting that in expressing
symf athy with the cruelly oppressed people of Hungary,
they were only advocating the natural rights of the uni-
versal family of man. The spirit of despotism was
abroad, land what was now being enacted in Hungary
might ere long be enacted in Great Britain. Their
turn might come next The spirit of Jesuitism
was abroad; and the enemies of civil and
religious liberty were actively alive in all
parts of the globe. It was entirely acscribable to the
overpowering influence of public opinion, that such
scenes as disgraced England in the reigns of Henry
the Eighth, of Edward the Sixth, of Queen Mary, of
Elizabeth, cf Charles the First, and of Charles the
Second, were not exhibited in the present day. It
was to the services of the public press that they were
entirely indebted that such oppressive cruelties were
nut allowed to degrade our own times. There were
ample proofs that it was not the will, but the dread of
those execrations, which an exposure through the public
press would inevitably entail on the perpetrators.
that kept down and rendered innocuous the demon of
persecution. If it dared, the spirit of intolerance,
which two centuries ago had caused Prynne to be
branded and mutilated, and imprisoned in Carnarvon
Castle as a Nonconformist, was as ready and as willing
as ever to enthral the mind of man. Look at the case
of poor William Parry, who had allowed the Calvinis-
tic Methodists to hold their last associstion at Bangor
in a field that he rented! Where was he now? Why,
he had been forced to leave the land of his birth, and be
is now enjoying the privileges of a freeman in America.
He knew that there was a spirit abroad which, unless
checkei, would prove utterly destructive to popular in-
dustry as well as to public liberty. He felt assured that
there were many of the individuals he was addressing
who had seen the back of a poor child of tender years
that had been cruelly flogged last week et the Union
Workhouse because it showed the feelings of nature by
daring to cry at being forcibly, and he would unhesi-
tatingly state, illegally, separated from its mother. Did
they suppose that such enormities could be perpetrated,
sanctioned, or approved by parties who, if unrestricted
by public opinion, would not hesitate at enacting such
scenes of cruelty as the poor Hungarians had expe-
rienced? Unquestionably not. The wily machinations
of the enemies of human freedom in all countries was to set
sect against sect, and the professors of one religious creed
against those who professed a different creed. And they
did this, not from any veneration for one creed more than
another, but as was for centuries the case in Ireland, for
the purpose of causing distrust and exciting sectarian
bigotry among those who, was religion allowed to re
main what it ought to be, purely a matter between man
and his Creator, would be f iund zealously uniting in
upholding all measures that would t:nd to enlighten the
public mind and to ameliorate the physical condition of
the human race throughout the world. Religious free-
dom was fully guaranteed to persons of all creeds in
Hungary, where the Protestant religion generally pre-
vailed, whilst in Crotia the most bigotted intolerance
ruled supreme, and for the sake of exciting the
Croatians against the Hungarian people, one of the
Austrian journals published that which he knew ea
be a vile falsehood. and used the following expres-
sions in reference to the struggle of the Hungarian
people :—" This is a Protestant rebellion ; it will
never be put down till the Protestants are put down.
Till the end cf the war it will be necessary to
keep under the strict surveillance of the police every
Protestant clergyman and every Protestant professor."
England had never been so disgraced, nor had the
English character been ever so tarnished, as it had been
by the conduct of Lord J. Russell in :dolling and ap-
proving of the acts of More O'Ferrell, in re fusing to
allow the rights of hospitality to the Italian refugees
who had been nobly stsugeting le- the rights of the
human lee° in the city of Rom-. The blush of shame
came to his face when he thought that a Minister of
England's Queen had sanctioned the act of the Governor
of Malta in refusing. the rights of hospitality, and as far
as he was concerned, dooming to starvation, a watery
grave, or to the tender mercies of the butcher of Naples
or his allies, some scores of generous, high-minded men
who had been nobly struegling fir the liberty' of man.
The Governor ought to be immortalised and re-named as
More Infernal. During the performance of the eery-
money his Satannic Majesty end Lord John Russ.]: could
with great propriety discharge the duties of joint
sponsors. No honest Englishman, no, not even
Lord Castlereagh, would have sanctioned an act
so degrading to the English character as Lord John
Russell, the present Prime Minister of England had
done ; and he much questioned whether Sir Hudson
Lowe would have acted as the Governor of Malta had
done. He considered the present Administration, since
in offise, to have belied all the professions which they
made whilst in Opposition, and to have falsified all the
pretences under which they sneaked into office. He
considered that such meetings as the one they were row
holding had become indispensably nueess:.ry for the
tetieutenance of the national character. It was
only to Lord Pahnerstun's true British feelings the
country was indebted for not having been reduced to
such an abject state of political vassalage as would
t are mused every freeman to point the finger of scorn
at them. Whatever good there existed in the present
Administration was difficult of discovery. It required
very bard pressing to get any good out of them. Every
individual in the meeting should recollect that he
had political duties to discharge, and which neither al I
nor any one were justified in selling for a mess of
pottage from the hands of any great men. In the
United Kingdom, the acts of the administration were
those of the people. If the people, who had the elective
franchise, did fearlessly and honestly discharge their
duties at election time, the management of public affairs
would be very different from what they were, or what
they had been. He told them distinctly that if they
compromised the trust reposed in them on behalf of
those who had not the elective franchise, that they would
be as morally guilty of every unjust, or bloody deed
committed by those in ministerial authority, as if they
had individually or collectively been the party or parties
directly guilty of the deed. He most sincerely congra-
tulated the meeting upon seeing such individuals as those
who then surrounded him taking an active part in ad-
vocating the civil rights of the whole family of man.
Af.er reminding the meeting that union was strength,
and that knowledge was power, he concluded by moving
the resolution following:—
"3. That this meeting dt eply regrets to find that a sec-
tion of the public press in the United Kingdom should
have prostituted itself, by taking service Co defend the
cruel, inhuman oppressors of the Hungarian nation ;
and tenders its warmest and most cordial thanks to tee
conductors of those journals, metropolem and provin-
ciae eh() have exercised their privileges as freemen, and
manfully advocated the inherent rights of all the human
race, by generously supporting the sacred cause of the
oppressed people of Hungary."
Mr. LUKE, on being requested by the Chairman, came
forward and said—l beg to second the resolution ; and,
doubtless, when I do so, I shall at the tame time be ut-
tering the sentiments of all that are present. We
have already heard so much of tierelatiovbelipgoastiitoinosnstool. Austria and Hungary—their politicali
wards each other, and that Austria on her part first
violated those obligations, and was, therefore, the ori-
ginator and the cause of the awful war and bloodshed
of which Hungary has lately been the scene, the; ad.
ducing any more proof or argument on these points
would be altogether unnecessary. The universal opinion
of this meeting doubtless is, that the very first move-
ment in this barbarous direction was altogether unjus-
tifiable on the part cf Austria, and that she ought not
in any way to have interfered with the rights and lit tales
of the Hungarians; especially considering that those
rights and liberties were not only hereditary and ori-
ginal, but also legally acknowledged to be so by the
Austrians themselves. Even, however, admitting that
difference of
there might some
opureetetnheteug
mostfor a
be perfectly
opinion on this point,
clear and beyond
the doubt—that the
Hungarians,
after the desperate and awfulst7fioende.sanda atioyvt, can-
notjournal,
possibility be
rjeud to mislead the public,
conduct of the Autshteriappsosstiobwiliatrydtsoft w s
by any
which may hare endeaTou
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by atternigli.g to justify the conduct of Austria
under such circumstances, cannot otherwise than ex-
pect the contempt and condemnation of every man
who loves liberty and peace. The heartrending and
lamentable scenes lately enacted in Hungary—the brutal
and barbarous treatment evinced towards the people--
and the cool and savage acts of revenge committed from
time to time upon those noble and patriotic Hungarians
—men of whom the world may justly boast—must ever
remain a blot, yea! the foulest blot ever recorded
on history's page, upon the character of those Austrian
monsters, from generation to generation. Their
hitherto unparalleled conduct in perpetrating such gross
atrocities and cruelties upon a beaten 1 , an enemy
already driven to ie,pair, and crushed as it were in the
general struggle, must continue, to the end of time,
lasting monument of n masterpiece of human revenge
and cruelty. In this they must stand alone, un-
equalled even by the most barbarous and uncivilized
nations. Living as we do in a Christian country, and
professing to hare hearts to feel and sympathise in the
misfortune and miseries of our fellow-men, we cannot
do leas thati acknowledge with grateful feeling the
efforts of all those jeurnalists who have boldly entered
the held to advocate the claims of the Hungarians, by
introducing to our notice, from time to time, accounts
of those detestable deeds of cruelty and revenge,
whereby our feelings at last were touched, and our
sympathies aroused from their dormant state, to con-
demn the savage conduct of the enemy—to pour out the
genuine feelings of our hearts in a sympathising stream
before the world, on behalf of the oppressed, helpless,
and unfortunate people of Um:4)3l7i and thus do all in

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