The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-08
News from Hungary.

Truly sings The poet that man is but pendulum
betwixt a smile and tear No sooner had curl hopes
been excited by the trinmphs Of the Hungarian
armies-no sooner had we been inspired with the
anticipation that the newborn nation would hurl
hack the invaders from her soil-than we receive
accounts of "a disastrous defeat Of Benz, and of
Georgsy's surrender to the Russian Paskiewiich
The accounts by the Niagara are not only OBJ
scure but are even contradictory. They state that
Kossuth had, in a conference with Benz and
Georgev. concluded to deliver the armies into the
hands of the Russians and yet they affirm that
Kossuth is determined to fight to the last-that
even after Georgey's surrender and Bem's defeat
his lion heart yielded not. While Kossuth lives
there is hopes for there is in him the spirit Of the
prophet and the hero. In him burns the fire that
kindles nations and raises flame among whole
people. There is that in him which all the armies
of Austria cannot queneh-which all the hosts OF
Russia cannot extnguish. Let Kossuth live and
speak TO his counuymen, and Hungary will never
sink into province Of Austria, or own herself the
slave Of triumphant eonqueror.
1t is not the destruction of one or even of several
armies that can destroy the nationality of Hungary
When was France, to all appearances, as PROSTATE
or as ruin Just before the battles Of ValnY
and Jemmapes The Convention and Paris were
alike trembling and disheartened; but ragged
soldiers and halEarmed youths drove back the
veteran legions Of Brunswick, and finally carried
the eagles of France into every capital of Europe
Well it said by the great modern master of the
art ofwar, that it is impossible TO conquer people
determined on resistance. You may vanquish
them in thousand battles you may sack their
towns, ravish their womenand murder their chill
dren. You may destroy such people, but you
cannot force them to live and be your slaves.
Every time they are defeated their resolution to
resist is strengthened they touch the earth only to
gain new strength and vigor.
And Hungary has shown that she possesses the
undying spirit Of the heroic races The men Of the
country have not had their souls efeminated by
the vices Of a false and miscalled civilization.
They retain the fiery passions of the East, and
prove their origin by the force and ferceness Of
their sentiments. Even were they race that had
been enervated by the habits of luxury-were they
only people whose sensations were worn out and
exhausted by Yer-excement-still the stirring APP
peals Of Kossuth would raise them to resistance
against the Austrians and the Russians-still such
words as are contained in the litany recently pub
lshed would elevate common men to heroes, and
make gods of them all
w ~ 'i'' ''i0ii' u0h-i' uuSouae tllo AluBdIldilh
have lost two or three battles, or because one or
two armies have fallen into the power of the Rms
SLAMS. Let Haynau continue his proclamations ;
let bis thick-lpped Austrian keep up their muir
ders and their burnings-and Hungary viii yet tri-
umph. The cruelties of the conquerors, like dra-
CONS teeth, will strike into the ground and spring
up armed men. Flushed with their unexpected
success, the allied armies will probably not prac-
lice more moderation than when they were merely
anticipating the capture Of Comorn and of Pesth
The telegraph tells us nothing of Dembinsd
His was the largest and best appointed army in
Hungary, and he the waFiest and most experienced
of his countrys captains; besides, he was in re-
glon favorable to resistance Let him but hold out
few weeks longer, and he may be the nucleus
OF gathering Of the people that all the armies Of
Europe cannot resist