The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-09
Austrian Barbarities.

The foreign papers by the Hibemia con-
tain lists of some of the victims of Austrian
rigor and barbarity. At Arad and at Pesth,
numbers Of Hungarians had been hung and
shot Authentic accounts have also reached
us of the scourging of females on account
of trihing manifestations of sympathy with
the cause of their struggling countrymen.
The execution Of Count Bathyani adds an
other to the sanguinary atrocities that have
recently been perpetrated by Haynau. A
correspondent of the Boston Traveller gives
some account of visit paid in lS47 to the
estate of Count Bathyani, on the borders
of the Bakonyer Forest, in Hungary. AT
ter describing the agricultural improve
ments, the vineyards, the astronomical
observatory, the beautiful mansion and
grounds, which he examined, the writer
says:
In all the estates Of Count Bathyani, the pea
SAINTS were not merely physically comfortable, but
happy in the enjoyment Of a higher culture than
that of the peasants in almost any other OF
the land The courts Of Justice which, in the semi
feudal state of Hungarian society, arc held in the
name Of the lord of the manor, had been remodeled
religious instruction had been provided for the pea
SAINTS; and neat and commodious houses built in the
place Of shabby and confined cabins But neither
Bathyani Karoy Macy were satisfied with a
"truly patriarcha state Of society,"" their aims were
at something higher and noblcr still. They worked
on, diffusing their benign influence like the sun
shine, which not only besses the land ON which il
streams, but enlghtens all the earth by its reflected
radiance
al have said that they aimed at the intellectual
independence of their country. This fruitful
topic Of conversation, and in this connexion they
always spoke of the labors of an ally in good works
the editor Of daily Journal published at Pesth, in
the Hungarian language-the Pest Hirldp. Al
though man hardly in middle life, he had been
long striving for the same great end, awakening
the common people from the lethargy Of their igno-
rance and arousing the educated classes 10 a sense
Of the beauty and capacities Of their harmonious
but powerful language-in abandoning which they
were abandoning their nationality. The name OF
this editor has since been written in indclible cha
racters on the hearts Of those who love freedoms
champions II is Ludwig Kossuth."
The princely mansion of Bathyani, his
observatory, and his school-houses, are
now heaps Of ashes. His fields are laid
waste and he himself has been butchered
with remorseless cruelty by his Austrian
oppressors.
These sanguinary excuses of Austria
against the Hungarians call for the exc
Grafton and protest Of every civilized peo-
pie and power. In July last, Bathyani
himself, in a circular proclaiming TO the
world the atrocious cruelties practised by
the Austrians in Hungary, made this
pointed and significant appeal eff for
eign powers will not assist us, LET them at
least assert the justice of Heaven and the
sacred rights of nations, in making Aus
tria feel the shame of such proceedings,
which are only worthy Of savages, and
thus save the lives of hundreds of men Of
every party, or at least alleviate their suf-
fenngs." Did the author of this appeal
IN behalf of outraged humanity have a
ioreboding of his own fate, while penning
these lines '--they come TO us now with
added force. The writer himself has
sealed the truth Of his charges in his own
| blood.
The case of the Hungarians was a pc.
cullar one. II was not in the light OF
revolted subjects or of rebels against law
full authority, that they were regarded by
any save Austrian eyes. They were mere.
ly struggling for the recovery of their own
vested rights for the recognition of sol
emn pledges which the Austrian dynasty
was in honor bound to admit. Such al
any rate is what the Hungarians claimed
and the claim has been pronounced valic
! by impartial judges Of their history, and the