Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1849-09-10
THE FAIL or uJlNCARy



mourns the fate Of the gallant Hdngarians
"The accounts from the of war are so specific and
such aspect OF authenticity, that, however unW-
ling may be to credit their fatal import it seems mn
possible to doubt the general accuracy OF the intelligence
Desperate and brie the struggle has been brilliant IN lis
early successes glorious in the noble herosm displayed
by the Hungarian patriots. All Europe emblazoned
by the fires which they lighted as the beacons OF liberty
and the respendent luse reflected the Allan
tic TO mnge with the halo OF the stars srpes Those
fires would have been smotheredthat light has
been extnguished For the time at least darkness broods
over the lately lumined plains of Hungary.
"The painful details OF imperial atrocy, consequent
upon the downfall OF the patriots have yet be received
One NAV imagine Haynau reveling in blood Executions
have probably given way to the more summary process
OF massacres Many noble head has doubtless fallen
already Kossuhs wife and family said to have fallen
into the hands of the conqueres and the kindred OF that
heroic chiean first in the array Of freemen and patriots
amongst his countymen have probably gone amongst the
first to Join the army of martyrs But every drop OF such
blood shed in such cause, will be like dragons teeth to
spring I'D hereafter in the form of armed men
There charges of treason against Georgey-
charges which reluctant to believe 1t would be
unfortunate indeed the splendid episode of Hungarian
independence should be suied by the faint of treachery
Let desposm boast only of its power crush With It's
armed egons and its destructive ornaments it may do
that but let have triumph freedom through the
taithlessness OF her voaries-'
The New York Tribune, in abiding to the fate of Hun
gary, thinks the last hope of Liberty Europe has been
extingushed in the downfall Of this gallant people.
says Europe is Cossack % The memorable prediction
ascbed to Napoleon, has been fulfilled to the letter The
Cossack has crushed and destroyed the last effort in Eu-
rope in behalf of the natural Rights of Man
The New York Express thus nervously aludes 10 the
melancholy result Of the struggle in Hungary
HUNGARY HAS FALLEN
The cloud OF Despotism dakens fearfuy over EUROPE
The last hope OF Hungary extngulshed Russia and
Austria ride trumphantly her embatted and blood
drenched plains Her patriots are fleeing for refuge to the
donons OF the Sultan while such OF her armies have
not yet laid down their to the unoy alliance in
full retreat and combating, alas no longer for the
shadowy phantom of National Independence, but for
their very lives The vanqushed given up to the Cos
sack who if our teegraphc dispatches speak truly is
ecutng, eartuy but faithfully the ferocious hreaenngs
of Haynau the Hyena
Disastrous indeed beyond all parallel, is the news we
publish this morning from the OF warfare and it will
send thrill to the heart Of this nation which
will reverberate and respond to the quverngs OF the cleo
trio telegraph from the Bay of Fundy the Gulf of Mexi
The last resting place of Continental Liberty is in
vaded and the last faint CLEAN of republcansm
Swallowed and put out with suddenness which almost
amazes and confounds!
The drama is done The last Of the European ira
gedy before us, and the curtain drops upon terri
bic enough aarmhe friends OF liberal principles in what
ever part OF the world they to be toundin Grea
Britain in the United States The sword is sheathed
and Monarchy is the victor
Thus ends the grand series OF that following in
the train of the Partisan Revolution of l84S gave birth
hope that mighty and combined effort was to be made
tor the dsenthramen OF Europe. The effort has been
made, and has cost rivers OF blood but in France, where
it began, it has eventuaed only in contemplate farce
in Italy comedy,-n Hungary tragedy
The Magyars, however, transmit heroic memory TO
after generations, who, at some future tme may I'M
sheath again the sword accomplish what the present
generation has failed to achieve-not from any want OF
determination their part,or how fixed and consist
en that, from beginning end the world has wit
messed with admiraton,-but because Of the tremendous
power the oppressor has vengeiuy hurled them He
roic Hungary! AS the poet said oil Poland her dis
tress SO may we say truly OF her,
Though Hungary, like Lazarus has burst the gloom,
She rises not beggar from the tomb,
In Fortunes trown, on Dangers dzziest brink,
Despair and Hungary name must never Turk
Allills have bounds, plague, whrwind fire and flood;
Even Power spill but bounded sums of blood,
States caring not what Freedoms price may be-
May late or soon but must at last be Free
For bodybuilding tyrants cannot kill
Thepublic soui--the hereditary will
That downward, as from sire 10 son it goes
By shifting bosons more intensely CLOVIS;
Its heirloom is the heart, and slaughtered men
Fight fercer in their orphan, o er again