New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-24
The Defender. Of Liberty In Europe.


But lew weeks ago the American people
were reused 10 the utmost 10 behalf of the gallant
nation Of the Magysv, and had the war continued
a little longer our sympathy would no doubt have
been tangiby and adequately manifested. We
IN aiding the Hungarians we should have done no
were under special obligations to do something, aud
more than our duty. Would, indeed, that we had
d)ne 1t Ia time to be Of use They deserved AID,
II any body Of men ever did, for they were peril.
lag their lives, fortunes. honor everything. for
r'ghts sacred not only by the laws of Nature but
by long enjoyment and solemn recognition They
were contending. too, not only for their own lb.
esty but for that Of Europe and Of all the world.
They fought like men and like heroes. and all gen
eroas spirits watched their efforts W it'll absorbing
interest. But Fate was against them. They fell,
and the man 10 not to be envied whose heart YVES
not wsung by that disaster.
Are they 10 be forgotten now that the struggle
10 over Have we no deeper, no more permanent
interest In such people than the curiosity with
which men might watch combatsnt in some
arena is the duty which, AZ American Republi.
cans, We owe the Mssy@s, discharged by their
great calamity We cannot believe that such
can be the public feeling in this country.
One result OF the downfall Of Hungary must be
an emigration OF the best among her people; some
OF them. driven to the last extremity, have pre-
ierrcd death to submission and have passed BY
their own hands from the chains and dungeons o.
Austria; some have already paid the penalty Of
bstlled patriotism the sallows or by the bullets
Of Hsynau's sodiery; but many have escaped,
and many more not so prominently implicated will
embrace the frat opportunity to leave a country
where freedom has ceased to exist and where the
Consultation which had lived almost thousand
years has been bot.ed out 10 the sore Of its De i.
lenders.
The same may be said of the fugitives OF LIB
er'y In Germany and Italy. The men who con-
tended for mans rights bshind the ais of Rome,
OF Genoa, OF Messiaa, of Palermo who have done
their beet aud iost their all the plains OF Bsder
have had our sympathy, and should have our he ar
siest assis'anee In their hour OF need. There must
be great deal Of suffering among them, in the ia
sare Of the case. There are now in this city some
score OF exiles from Italy, who have honesty
fought in the good cause, aud find themselves des
ti,ute in strange land. l, 10 our duty to see ths,
nc be 10 them no land OF stfsngcss. They want
aid till they can fad employment. They should
have it, not a. charity, but as consideration Cor
services rendered. And the Hungarian emigran
who may arrive here should BE- made as much
as possible to forget their great losses. They
should be welcomed and honored and aided. And
even those who remain ia England or in France
should be made to feel that this country bears AZ
earnest love for all tee sons Of Freedom Sup
pose Kossath were n come here. Or suppose
we We were to hear that be was In poverty a:
London: could We be indifferent to such afsci ?.
We suggest that . public meeting should be
called to &C. in this matter and to establish regu'
lar organisation for the purposes We have ind
Gated. We ought to have hero in Ncwiofk a
Society to aid these fugitives. There
have long been such associations IN London, and
the need here is equally great The Germans are
ia part, II not wholly providedfor by or
carnations among their countrymcn. The itaiisns
have . society OF whose liberal benevolence ard
activity we have seen the best evidences. but they
IRE not strong enough for the present emergency
The Hunearians here are very few, and have DOT
bs rsoaisite means at theircommand. Whist we
ysut IS an American Association for European
: xiles with Committee at its head composed Q,
,s, OF weigh, and character, whose names VIII
,s,sntee their seton, ard with funds In its trsa-
ury. There can be no difficulty 10 sstseiishins
uch body, and there ought 70 DO 10 oe'sy'