Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-08-27
WHOLE. NUMBER 22l.
The llungarians.-Their Declaration
of IndanendeNfe.

The constituted representatives ct the
Hungarian nation assembled in Diet at De-
breezin, on the 18th of April, and issued a
Declaration of Independence. 1t is an elo-
quent and spirited paper, and concludes
with the following language:
"Founding line of conduct upon all these
occurrences, and confding in the justice of
an Eternal God, we, in the face 1.-The ciy-
|iiized world ;in, relisnse
Of Be an nation, and upon
the power it has developed to maintain them,
further impelled by that sense of duty
which urges every nation to defend its ex-
istence, do hereby declare and proclaim in
the name Of the nation legally represented
by US, the following
lst. Hungary, with Transylyania, a, as le-
gally united with it, and the possessions
and dependence, are hereby declared to
constitute free, independent and sove-
reign State. The territorial unity of this
State is declared to be inyiolable, and its
territory to be indivisibie.
I'd. The House of Hapsburgh lorraine
having by treacLery, perjury, and levying
of war against the Hungarian nation, as
well as by its outrageous violation Of all
compacts, by the breaking up,of the intgral
territory of the kingdom, in the separation
of Pennsylvania, Croati, Sclavonia Fiume,
and its districts from Hungary-further;
by comprising the destruction of the coun-
try by arms, and calling in the disciplined
army of a foreign power, for the purpose of
annihilating its nationality, by violation
both of the Pragmatic Sanction and of trea-
ties concluded between Austria and Hunga-
ry, on which the alliance, between the two
countries depended-is, as treacherous and
perjured, forever excluded from the United
States Of Hungary and Transy ylvanis, and
all their possessons and dependencies, and
are hereby deprived of the style. and title,
as well as of the armorial bearings, belong
ing to the Crown of Hungary, and declar-
| ed to be banished forever from the uniteS
countries and their dependencies and pos
sessions. They are therefore declared TO be
deposed, degraded, and banished forever
from the Hungarian territory.
Sd. The Hungarian nation, in che exer-
else of its rights and sovereign will, being
determined to assume the position Of fee
and independent State among the nations Of
Europe, declares it TO be its intention to es-
tablish and maintain friendly End negE-
borly relations with those States with
i which it was formerly United .under. The.
same sovereign, 8 as U zeos5faet ali,
ances with other nations. e
4th The form OF Government to be a.
dopted for the future will be fixed by the
Diet of the nation.
| But until this point shall be decided, on
| the basis of the ancient and received princi-;
Piles which have been recognised for ages,
the government of the united countries,
their possessions and dependencies, shall be
conducted on personal responsibility, and
Under the obligation to render an account
of all acts; by Louis Kossoth, who, las by
| acclamation, and with the unanimous ap-
probation of the Diet of the nation, Teen
named Governing President, (Gubernator)
and the minister whom he shall appoint.
And this resolution of ours we proclaim
to make known to all the nations of the CIV
ilized world, with the conviction that tie
Hungarian nation will be received by them
among the free and Independent nations of
the world, with the same friendship and
free acknowledgement of its rights which
the Hungarians profer to other countries.
We also hereby proclaim and make known
to all the inhabitants of the United States of
Hungary and Pennsylvania, their possess
sions and dependencies, that all authorities,
communes, towns and civil officers, both in
the counties and cities, are completely set
free and released from all the obligations
under which they stood, by oath or other
wise, to the said House Of Hapsburg, and
that any individual daring to contravene
this decree, and by word or deed in any way
to aid or abet any one violatin & it, shall be
treated and punished as guilty of high trea-
son. And by the publication of this decree,
we hereby bind and oblige all the inhabit-
ants of these countries to obedience TO the
Government now instituted formally, and
endowed with all necessary legal power.