Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-08-25
KOSSUTH'S APPEAL TO THE
HUNGARIANS.

Inc IoilC wing Is inc substance OF NOS
suth's last appeal to the Hungarians, fur
nished by the Frankfort correspondent of
the Newark Daily Advertiser 1t will
give some idea of the character the war
is likely to assume:
Our Fathcrland is in danger! Citlzcnsl
to arms! TO armsl
live thought ourselves able, by or
dinary means, to save the country, we
would not cry out it is in danger. five
were at the head of cowardIy, childish
nation, ready rather to fall than defend
itself, we would not order the alarm bells
to ring through the whole land. But as
we know that the people of our country
are manly race, resolved to. defend
themselves to the last against goddess OPP
preston, we lay all unworthy conceal
mcnt of our position aside, and call out
openly that the country is in danger!-
Because we know that the people are
Die to defend themselves and the coun-
try, we lay open the danger in all its
magnitude, calling upon every citizen in
the name of Gods country, to look it in
the face, and seize arms to meet it.
We will neither fatter nor discourage,
bu; we declare openly, that unless the
whole nation rise up to defend itself to
the last drop of its blood, all the noble
blood shed already is in vain, and our
country will fall the Russian knout then
ruling over an enslaved people, on the
ground where the ashes of our ancestors
repose,
We therefore here, in fuifilment of our
duty, communicate to all the inhabitants
of Hungary, that the Austrian Emperor
has let loose upon US the barbarous
hordes of Russia, that Russian army of
$4,000 men has broken into our country
from Gallicia, and marched continually
forward, that Russian forces have also
entered Pennsylvania, against whom our
troops are struggling, and that finally,
although eur fih would be followed by
the enslavement of the people of all
Europe, we can expect no foreign assis-
tanoc, as the people that sympathizc with
us are kept down by their rulers, and
gaze only in dumb silence on our strug-
gle
We have nothing to rest our hopes up
on but a righteous God and our own
force. If we do not use our own force,
God will also forsake us.
Hungary's struggle is no longer our
struggle alone. 1t is the struggle of
popular freedom against tyranny. Our
victory is the victory of freedom--our
fall is the fall of freedom. God has
chosen us to free the nations f,om bodily
seryitude. In the wake of toul victory
will follow liberty to the Itslians, Ger
mans, Gzeches, Poles, Wallachians, Scla-
vonians, and Creations. With our fall
goes down the star of freedom over all
People Of Hungary; will you die un-
der the extcrminating sword of the saw
age Russians? if not, defend yourselves!
Will you look on while the Cossacks of
the far north tread under foot the bodies
of your fathers, mothers, wives and chill
dren? if not, defend yourselves.
VIII you see a part Of your fellow cit
izens sent to the wilds of Siberia, made
to serve in the wars of tyrents or bleed
under the murderous hneut? if not, de-
fend yourselves!
Will you behold your villages in flames
aud your harvests destroyed? Will you
die of hunger ON the land which your
sweat has made fertile? if not, then de-
fend yourselvesl
We, the free elected government of
Hungary, call upon the people in the
name of God and the Country, to rise
up in arms, ordering, in virtue of her
powers and duty, a general crusade of
the people against the enemy, to be de-
sclared from every pulpit, and from every
town-hoase of the country, and made
known by the continual ringing of bells;
every healthy man under 49 years of age
to take, arms, whatever he can get hold
Of, an axe, scythe, or hook, IL no better
to be had; d;---notice to be given OF inc ap-
proach of the enemy by the ringing Of
bells, and that preparation be made to
resist or harass him, but particularly to
destroy all forage and food, quitting and
setting fite even to the villages; ;--the
priest to seize the cross, and lead the
people in the name of religion and liberty
One great effort is only necessary, and