New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-08-15
Hungary.


=, ~ Edbor Of tA< TrtbsHs
The love Of my native land, as well as duty
award my adopted country. induce me 10 conif'-
hate my mite concerning nation that IS s"'t
cling at present iJr It's independence beng al
uired BY toe world FOR contest unpsrai eco J."
bstsry-s contest against the united forces o. ~
~5ogers, even the name OF which should be oe'es'-
cd BY every friend Of Humanity and Liberty Dur
ing the last century, Hungary, confined win rs
,steroaepeous elements between Turkey and Aus
NJ. was quite terra iacognito. baviDT scarcely
been noticed by the press Of other cvi'zsa ma
,o,s With the memory Of vanished poi'cai
,estness the hope for future resurrection never "<
sx,insui.hed in the hearts Of the Hungarians- TIE
.rt Of Progress lived in them and, in spite Of the o44
,one. policy Of Austria, it arose again with all iis
,,,ss, Born there. having lived there in the prime q
b and having Travelled through the greatest part Of
the country Will look back 70 the past will descerd
into the sources Of Memory, Experience aud Hstory,
and lay before the American public sketches Of nation
,.b,ro they now love and admire Nations consist o.
individuals individuals have their faults and prejl
dcs.. Thus also the Bungsrisns But tLsy have r.r.
,,. worthy Of love and their heroisn mus: ~ s tnes
b. admired.
HUNGARIAN SKETCHES.
~ .ANvEL LvDvicH
There vas time when the Hungarisns = pow
erfu and endent nation eiecung thor Kings, ard
conducting the.s public Affairs Ia large assemohes, cal
ed Ors1ag Gyu6s On the camp VI Ra<Ds. Infoe3n
centuries they were Constitutional people, their ION
dsmental law BsuG Atred. beng cOevs with tue Mag
"a Cbarta Of England. They were Tree bat 10 u ts
that this freedom was only the exclusive Dessihg y"
the nobility, neither the citizens nor the peasants Des
represented But this partial liberty was the necessa
~ fruit OF those tmes-msn being progfefs'e O'lps
all the knowledge all the moral power iay ~ me
nobility and IN the clergy. Juul Lfopod' hHprioi 81
Austria and King Of Hungary the veto power lay 10 the
nation which extended far that they hah Tght -
resist their Kings with srms. which they csAeo j.
Latin 90 Jus resis'cndi Csm 0rnts. Through eenturft,
gntl our trnes the proceedings Of the Assemblies, q
iustice a. well education IN schools, were conductor
m Latin Hence. even now have many me ioea tLhl e'
,y Hungarian speaks the Latin language which ~ only
,be Gaze with those NhO have irequented the chOO BE-
coming LAWYERS physicians or priests. There mas se
dom been nobeInan who did not study law, even he
never prscticed lawyer. Ia old times there oil ne
laws we're passed rira roct and the hDerty 81 spcecn
zss natural and fundamental right Of the Hungarian
nation Later under the despOtc and arb rary sceptef
Of Hspsburg when they did not assemble any longer
On the camp OF RakOs, but IA ball. IN tbs City OF Piet
burg where the Kings crowned, the invention a
Cens0rship afO forced the Hungarlans against
the sacred spirit Of thsr natural and reserved ghts
which arbitrary power wac carried 90 lar that the
proceedings VI the Assemblies would appear 20 Anew
newspapers only, muuaied by the iron rod OF the
Austrian Censor; - that all the manuscripts that
breathed liberal spirit were suppressed. having been
signed by the bloody pen Of the Cerberus with the
word d0nHafU The same spirit OF desPOusin hiss
brought, IN our times Kossu'h and others into dun
geOns and has also cast me into exile The came spiEt
Of despotsm has laid In chains teachers Is well ~
studentshss tyrsnized printers and bOokseers-
robbed the people OF the sacred light Of Truth and
Justice-hss murdered the talent Of writers IN the
prime Of It's germ. Thus Austria stignatized
with crime and guilt Tie slumbering lion arose 81
last aud may hs triumph by his generosity and magma
nlmity, or be devoursd by the Russian wolf Austria
mus, fall-must fall, 10 rise never again
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