Litchfield enquirer., 1849-11-08
KnSSITTH.

No truer or nobler patriot lives, than
the ex-president of unfortunate Hunga-
ry. Having fought the battles Of his
country against fearful odds. and until
resistance was hopeless, he is now plead
ing with Eng land for aid in protecting
his exiled fellow-countrymen. His let
ter to Lord Palmerston presents noble
specimen of patriotic devotion and love
of human rights. "Your Excellency,"
says he, els no doubt already informed
Of the fall of my country, unhappy Hun
gary-assuredly worthy Of better fate.
1t was not prompted by the spirit Of
disorder, or the ambitious views of fac
ton +; it was not a revolutionary leaning,
which induced my native country to ac-
cept the mortal struggle maintained so
gloriously, and brought, by nefarious
means, to so unfortunate an end. Moth
ing but the most revolving treach.ry, the
most tyrannical oppression. and cruelties
unheard of in words Of history-nothing
but the internal doom of humiliation to
her national existence, preserved through
thousand years, through universities so
numerous, were able to arouse her to op-
pose the fatal stroke aimed at her very
life, to enable her to repulse the tyranni-
cal assault of the ungrateful Hapsburghs,
or to accept the struggle for life, honor,
and liberty, forced upon her. And she
has nobly fought that holy battle, in
which, with the aid of Almighty God,
she prevailed against Austria, whom she
crushed to the earth, standing firm even
when attacked by the Russian giant, in
the consciousness of justice, in our hope
in God, and in the hope, my lord, in the
generous feeling Of your great and glo-
rious nation, the natural supporter of
justice and humanity throughout the
world. But this is over; what tyranny
began, has been by treachery concluded.
On all sides abandoned, my poor coun-
try has fallen, not through the overwhel-
ming power Of two great empires, but by
the faults, and I may say the treason. of
her own sons"
In detailing the past wrongs and pres
ent condition of himself and countrymen,
he feelingly alludes to the fact that the
Russian Gar has ordered that he and
bis companions in exile (new in Turkey,)
must be surrendered or abjure the faith
of their forefathers and become Mussul-
men; "and thus" he says, five thou
sand Christians are placed in the terrible
alternative either of facing the scafold
or of purchasing their lives by abandon
ing their faith" His concluding appeal
to Lord Palmerston is peculiarly affect
ing:
"Time presses--our doom may in a
few days be sealed. Allow me to make
an humble personal request. am a
man, my lord, prepared to face the worst;
and can die with free look at heaven,
as I have lived. But am also, my lord,
a husband, son, and father; my poor,
true hearted wife, my children, and my
noble old mother, are wandering about
Hungary. They will probably soon fall
into the hands of those Austrians who
delight in torturing even feeble women,
aed with whom the innocence of child
hood is no protection against persecution.
conjure your Excellency, in the name
of the Most High, to put a stop to these
cruelties by your powerful medition. and
especially to accord to my wife and chill
dren an asylum on the soil of the gener-
Gus English people.
As to my people--my beloved and
noble country-musts she, too, perish for,
ever? Shall she, unailed, abandoned
to her fate, and unavenged, be doomed to
humiliation by her tyrants ? Will Eng
land. once her hope, not become her con-
ISOLATION ?" .