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wholly owned and navgnted by Bti.I snb;ec,s no, ex
ceeding Tue burden Of thirty TONS and having whole
banks and shores of Nsiouadmd of the parts ada
the banks and shores of the Canada
Mona Scotia Ns~ Brunsoie adjacent to the Gulf OF
the north of Cape Carso or of the
said limits shall be admitted be Brsh boats or vessels
although egsered, long as such boats vessels
XXI Had be it enacted, That this shall come into
operation the first day of January, thousand eight
hundred and fifty
Translated from The Esyha1up for the Hartford Times by d.
Louis Kossuth
Was born in the comtat County, of Zemplin on the
9th April, 1906 His father, though noble of old
family poor to be obliged secretary
to wealthy nobleman OF the neighboIhood. OF Iouiss
infancy nothing is known But at the age Of sixteen
ty and his industry procured hma number Of friends. and
among the rest several members OF the Hungarian Diet
These furnished him with clothes, board and money for
his lectures They even at times paid his debts Having
finished his of studies he entered into practice
and if it not lucrative he yet gained sufficient sup
port The succeeding three or four years he lived in
in the most active public life. To appreciate his labors
will be necessary 10 recolect that the Hungarian
stitution, since its institution. Q2220 knew no law
provision against the liberty of the press. nat
uray therefore, argued that what is not positively for
hidden permitted The Austrian government had not
whsandS. Tor the past forty years pracsed censor
conhscang the publications by processes OF law, but
by sudden and secret Imprisonment of the author. This
ganan authors and statesmen, and was repeated in
1886, with Kossuh. Government would not permit the
presence of reporters at the sessions of the Diet Kos
suth who in the year 1885 lived in Presburg, con-
ceved the idea OF learning the art OF stenography and
Of himself reporting the doings of the Legislature.
He did so, and published his report in Autographed
every possible They bought up copies, they
burnt them in every post office through which they pass
ed and ordered kossu,h to discontinue in future his
ports. The people, however, now took the matter into
their hands, and the papers were carried to the
houses of subscribers by the privileged messengers Of the
g Comitaies." THIS went until the sudden proroga-
ton of the bold Diet, May ., 1896. 1t then that
the Baron Wesseenyi, the most powerful member OF the
opposition Louis Kossuh and Lovassy; Astalss, Ko--
yacs, and Pussky-he four latter students of law and
leaders of disappeared SUDDENLY The excitement,
of course, immense Government declared they
knew nothing Of the six lost pn In sso hsy as sud
blind Lovassy mad and the rest in broken health.
Kossuh constitution alone had not been crushed by the
chains They had been blndolded when arrested, and
thrown into DARK, wet, and horrible dungeon where
the light of day entered They had been liberated
with their eyes bnolded and of course never knew in
what prison they had suffered.
This maryrdom, however, made Kossuth the man of
the people. He became the editor of the "Pes Hirlap,'
Pesth Gazette The first number of which appeared July
H. 1910, without the name OF the editor In July, 1910,
the paper had 563 subscribers; in le4l had 900!
Never before had the power OF the press been made
manifest as through k S , what laws nad been u
ran the predominating language The slaves and Ger
forgot their wars against the Magyars and learnt
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matter of fact that in many villages every peasant
learnt how to read for this reason alone The price of
the paper the lowest possble-twO horins-a little
more than one dollar per annum.
-s.Eho attacks upon government unceasing, yet
were the whole army OF officials not forgotten BY its
vigilance its boldness in laying bare every derelicton Of
duty every arbitrary exerton Of power, every dealca
an alI-powefu influence The fruits Of this paper
uated and dishonest Office holders had given way to
younger and better men. The abuses in the admins
eomai and municipal administrations were abolished.
Government, in order to put stop to this, after
ety of unsuccessful nrgues bought the proprietor of
the paper, Heckenast, who, in consequence, dismissed
Kossuth. Kossuh now began on his own account the
ever, to compete with the "Pesti Hrlap," and
PEELED to abandon his project.
For the last twenty years. had been one OF the chief
principles of the opposition to create Hungarian manu-
acures and to carry them to such point of perfection
as to fit them for expectation Kossuth suggested the
idea OF protective union. Its basis was as io9ws;
the Austrian government to extract much substance
and wealth from Hungary as possible. This was done
drawing and keeping all the wealthy and noble in Wen
ma; partly by subjectng everything imported into Hun
gary to an enormous and almost preventive tariff, and
allowing everything exported from Hungary into the He
redary States to 60 duty free. Hungary being en-
rely agricultural country, this tariff yielded enough to
make resort to direct taxation unnecessary. Direct tax
alton, every knows, is the most hateful to every
nation. This hatred was encouraged by the Austrian
government, to the degree of dscouragng the
at County, autnOrues from Dul0lnR ROADS, Orl08es,
etc.-the indispensable means to commerce and manu-
factories. The opposition having adopted this line of
policy government appealed to this horror of
ton bring the former into discredit with the people
In consideration of all this, Kossuth made the follow
ing proposition:
Hungary is divided into 50 conats, (countiesy If we
should succeed in inducing manufacturers to settle in
each county, if could give them the necessary lands,
it would be to the interest OF these manufacturers to
build the roads necessary to communication with the
surrounding markets If successful we should thus
have least four principal highways in each county
To empower these TO carry on their manufactures,
and to bring them perfection, must guaranty them
moi only Market but for the first years pecunary
assistance The whole nation therefore, has to bind
itself by its word of honor not to purchase the
products of any foreign manufacturer, until its own
uacurers should be able to produce articles equal to the
foreign.
A society based upon this principle formed, with
Kossuth at its head Three months after the society
counted than half the nation among its members,
and new in daily A multitude of manufac-
turing establishments started up. The noblest ladies', in
stead of foreign silks Hungarian cotton.
This state Of things, of COURSE anything but de-
srable foreign manufacturers and importers; and they
their despair appealed to the Austrian government for
aid 1t might have been expected that the latter, dis
pleased with anything approaching independence OF Hun
gary would second their wishes They accordingly i'm
prsoned, bbed, forbid any assembages of the people
and laughed at for their pains. They finally
cluded that what power could not accomplish rdicule
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