The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-07-27

III the movements OI
the Hungarians, in the meantime, we are
unadvised, except that, since their "dec-
laration ofindependence" of the House of
Hapsburg, the Diet has proclaimed
Republic. The following. according to
the prints, is description of the scene
which occurred on that occasion in the
Diet of Debreczin. The President of
the Council of Ministers, Mr.. Gzemere,
spoke as follows:
"Our programme consists Of three
parts: First, Ministry declares itself a
ReUolHtionary Government. tThis drew
forth loud applause. twill consequent
ly shrink from no measure, from none
which may be necessary to save the conn-
try. But, as soon as peace shall be es-
tablished, the Ministry will cease to be
revolutionary; for to have recourse to ex-
treme measures, without necessity, would
be crime towards the nation. APP
plause. The second point is that the
Ministry sOiH f6llo,0 tie republican line.
TGreat applause and bravos. 1t will OPP
pose, by all means in its power, any at
tempt to restore the monarchy; butit will
also combat any idea ofa republic attack
ing family ties and property. Applause.
The Ministry, as God is its witness wish
for republic which shall promote the
happiness ofthe people, and not be vain
name. The third point of the programme
is, that the Ministry aoW adapt democrat
ictendepcies. Shouts of Applause. All
the bills which it shall present shall be
conceived in that sense. 1t adopts the
principle of the sovereignty of the people,
in all its consequences. Prolonged ap-
plause 1t will retire sooner than aban'
don those principles" .taa
This movement on the part ofthe Hun
garians strengthens the hold they have
had upon the sympathy of all the friends
of liberal institutions, since the COM
mencement Of the contest with Austria.
At the outset, as our readers know, the
Hungerans had no desire or design to
establish Republic. They sought sim
ply their rightsas an independent part of
the Austrian Empire. Those rights had
been wrested from them by the Austrian
Government They were deprived sud
denly, and by the mere will of the Aus
tran Empire. of privileges they had en-
joyed for centuries. twas to vindlcate
these rights that they first took up arms;
and it was only when they found that the
House of Hapsburg was resoutely de-
termined upon their entire subjeclion'
that they rejected its authority and pro
claimed themselves Independent of its
control. Still they eyinced no tendencies
towards Repubicanism. They were sat
isfed with the form of government they
then possessed, provided they could en-
10y the rights which it conferred.
The intervention of Russia however
put new aspect upon The face of affairs
The Gear marched his myrmidons into
their territory, not simply to comPe' theil
submission to Austria. but to crush the
principle of revolution. Europe was to
be taught. by the lesson which Nicholas
was to administer upon the Hungarians
that the doctrine of dioine right was still
to he maintained aud enforced, aud thai
Russia stood ready to chastise all at
tempts to assert the principles Of popular
liberty against it. BY his recent decara'
tions, and the movements he has made in
their support. the Russian Emperor evl'
dently makes himself the champion d
this old dogma in all its rigor-that Kings
and Princes reign by special commission
from the Almighty, and that any resis
tance to their authority is not only trea
son towards them, but rebellion against
God. The time has gone by for the as
sertion of this doctrine in any civilized
nation on the face of the earth. 1t fel
forever with the head of Charles l. upor
the scaffold which the free spirit Of Eng
land, in a delirious moment of escape
from its thraldom, had erected. Tillnov
it has never since been reasserted. Rus
sia is the fitting apostle Of its recurrec
tion.
This declaration ofthe Gar brings th'
great struggle of the age rapidly toward
crisis. 1t narrows the ground in con
troversy. Brushing aside with singl,
imperial sweep, all the minor points o
dispute, all controversies about violated
faith, illegitimate succession, broken trea
ties, unprovoked oppression, &c. th
Emperor proclaims that his quarrel i
with Revolution every where and in eve
ry shape. "Two powers alone exist il
Europe-RUssIA and REvoLUTToN." Sucl
is the brief, philosophical, magnificentt
comprehensive sentence in which Memo
LAS sets forth the status of European at
fairs. The sentiment is as true as It /
grand. Russia is the only State in Eu
rope where Absolutism has escaped un
challenged.-w popular rights ar
unrecognized, where tho sovereign ut
ters his edicts as from dvinely erecte'
throne, asserting supreme, ,unche cked, in
disputable authority, and proclaiming hi
own will to be the only law for the mill
ions who rest contented beneath his sway
Everywhere else in Europe, Revolutio
has shattered all such thrones and force
their occupants, in language more or les
explicit, to acknowledge that they exel
else power solely for the good ofthe pee
pie they govern--and that when they fol
get or contemn this principle, they fol
felt the right which gives theni power.
The time has come, predicted by M