The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-08-28

OF the great characteristics Of the age that the people
are everywhere In advance OF the governments under
their own happiness and welfare Nor is this coudned
only to those governments that still retain their mo-
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Of the State where the governing power emanates d.
recty from the people themselves the latter often
called to anticipate In advance aud to counsel and
advise the government, which they have created
| lAPplause) confding and heroic people, inspired
by the success Of that momentous struggle In which
the fathers Of the American revolution so trium phant
ly indicated the capacity Of for self government
so far the legislation Of the new hemisphere is con-
cerned have calamity began the contest fer freedom
amid the tottsripg thrones Of the old world The be-
has everywhere awakened res onsve tone for free
dom and for free government The great struggle for
Of opinion has become an open collision of arms The
people hitherto denied all participation In the affairs
g0ssrn%snnt have long Looked up to tho heavens
their oppressor look down kindly inspiringy on
them that the natural elements Of life, and the i'm
pslses Of humanity belong not less to
to those that have hitherto erded 1T them that
the and the governed all members Of that
to one common God aud Father. (Cireat applause1
Stimulated by these convictions and the keen remem
brance Of ancient wrongs they have demanded the pow
OF controlling their legislation peacefully as
sembling and examining the true principles of enlight
ened and Of inherent right
that really belongs free peope-a right estimable
to them and formidable to tyrants only But at last,
when their repeated petitions have been answered only
by repeated injuries, when the Of the oppressor
has been alike deaf to the voice Of justice the ties
OF confaDgufnity, they have appealed TO the God
battles for the business OF their cause The blood Of
their slaughtered citizens Of their violated wives their
murdered babes now cries to heaven tor vengeance.
Oh God II the brave and Of the just, strech forth
thine avenging and them in this the hour
of their necessity for the determination Of this conflict
shall mark tor good or for evil the destiny Of the Eu
ropesn race.' But not more to manifest sincere
admiration Of the moral grandeur ard the lofty devo
tion to principle displayed by the noble Magyars,
than to Indicate our wishes and instructions to the
administration of our own general government is
the Immediate object for which we have convened.
The antagouiscal principles Of free and heightened
government led on by their immortal heroes, aud of
arbitrary and despotc power sustained by absolute
tyranny have encountered each other upon the plains
OF Hungary and are now warning for the empire of tho
Eastern world There the banks of the dark rolling
Danube, among the mountain gorgcs with tbs fearful
glaciers bending them, If upon the illimtable
steppes Of Trannsylvania beneath burning sky shall
and Of European freedom. At this crisis of the strus
gle there goes out the holy invocation Of sainted
suth to surrounding nations Awake oh people Of
Europe awake. On Hungarian ground the battle for
the freedom Of Europe Is Sighting with this country
this country N ' and Seroo cha%nSp win
perish. for shall fight until we spill the last
drop Of our bood that our esnntry may become either
ing monument to all eternity, in token Of the
in which tyrants league to destroy free people and
free nations and Of the shameful manner in which free
countries abandon one another oh, men Of Ame-
RIGA, with what accumulated power does this appeal
come home to us in the ripe enjoyment Of every
social religious and political privilege which tho brave
liungarians are struggling to secure the question
of sympathy, aud invade the proprc,iss ma.
tienal intercourse, with existing treaties for nations
like individuals, have high and solemn duties to
Great applause) Gentlemen, Whenever the great
and fundamental principles OF social aud political
organization assaled; whenever outrage
Is committed against the common laws Of humanity
and religion whenever despot, In the exercise Of
u bridled power dooms to violence and death all eyes,
aud onsitions whenever he departs from the
cogpised rules prescribed by civilized for
the control Of human conflicts then all mankind Of
every nation, and Of creed, land Of all religions
alike interested in resisting the then should the
moral sympathies Of mankind be justly aroused 1t
among the last requests OF the father Of his
try that government should steer clear Of foreign
alliances; and be regarded our isolated pc lion emi
nenty favorable to that result. Believing ourselves
that only prosper that recognize the
cate any breaches Of national infdelty desire not
to involve country In entangng alliances; but here
beneath the outsreched sky, ia the great metropolis
Of the Western hemisphere with the symbols OF jutice
directly over us, In this primary assenblags Of the
people, reyresentng halt million Of men, and the
commercial energy Of tho world place ourselves
this day upon the record In favor Of the mm cdiac aud
unconditional recognition Of Hungarian freedom and
Independence by the administration Of the general
government. IL in the vieissitudes Of the unequal
contest they shoud be temporarily overborne, Ia the
dark midnight Of their disaster 10 win tell them that
far the water there dsels free people II sleep
less energy in the fun enjoyment Of sosa and po
ltcs blessing waiting 10 welcome them into the rat
brotherhood OF free states II win add to the moral Dig
nifty and elevation of their struggle aud make Hungary
indeed the battle eld Of freedom for the world TO is
immortal plains the chivac 81 all nations shall tend;
for it's the prayers Of every free people arise.
In that terrible struggle that marked the establishment
mens Of Washington crimsoaed by the blood that
triekled rsm his unshoi, sodiery the active benevo
snce Of France revived the depending hopes Of
countrymen, and dfused life and Joy aud gladness
throughout the bounds Of the republic Such the
ordeal to which fathers before they
achieved the blessing we enjoy; for Ii Is among the
dspensstons Of frovsencs that the people shall be
first qualified by adversely for he heritage they to
receive. The Hungarian people, like thu -
America, were never In state OF absolute bond
sge. They had always more fscedsm than
rounding nationsj and no sooner had the Enslisb
farons secured the great privileges OF magma char,
than the magnaies Of Hungary acquired kindrsd
eorcessons from their reigning monarch During
all their ,raditionsry history, the Magyar warriors
have cherished brave notions Of popular libsrty, and
" they always enslavei the vanquisned they were
resolved elves be free Esriy taught 20 be-
he,e that the only foundations Of the state lay in the
authority Of the people they have gradually progressed
in a knowledge Of the true principles 81 govern
ment and, stimulated 70 increased exertion In the
ss Or ppaI nior pS the pps ..
gi.lstors determined TO enlarge the boundaries Of
popular freedom, and recognize all classes as
Exterdinx from the Carpathisn mountains on the
north 20 the Gulf 81 Quareno on the Adriatic, aud
ward 10 the Alpine chain which bounds rrsnsylvsnia,
its geographical extent aud its physical advantages
eminsnty qualify IL for the babi'a.ion of great and
mighty nation. There, upon their native plains and
In their mountain fastnssses. have gallant people,
led ~ their heroic chiefs long enjoyed ths rud
msnts Of regularly defined and representative govern
ment. With soil Of extreme fertility aud climate
the mort saubtious With AL the natural eiems ns that
go to constitute q great aud H0urshng empire, sur
rounded by natural barriers excluding them from the
conceptions q contiguous monsrches had sprung up,
from the tabled d. CONS teeth heroic aud chivs
rio whose feet has pressed the heather of
their native hills, a. free as that Of the bounding
deer, and who, In the great progress q Christian
civilization. are to determine another OF those
that ark for whole ages the destiny Of mankind
At every period In the history OF from the
Arst efforts Of barbarian latest advance Of civil
ired communities, different nations BY their laws, Gus
toms and religion, by q combination Of them alt have
been able TO give tone and direction TO the institutions
and tentmsnts OF contiguous states Bat In these va
rous transactions the public mind has been frequenty
reused to action Austria aud Russia representing
the elements Of absolute despotise. Justly alarmed
OF the progress Of free institutions among the neigh
boring states, have sent forth thar myrmidons Of
slaves TO arrest their continued advance; but
they might we'll attempt 10 chain the whirwnd,
The brave Hungarian people led By their beloved
kossuth, Gecrgy, BEN, and Demoinskt- have
gone out 10 their invaders determined that upon
their native plains dcspctisn has reared Its last
trepchmcnt and willing form, with thor bodies,
rampant which tyrants slave shall ever pass,
until his feet first rest upon MsgJsrs grave Hun