The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-20
From La Repue des Deir Mondes.
HUNGARIAN Nation.

AT the present time, and after the delays nsepa-
rable from the movements of large armies distrib-
uted at great distances the junction Of the troops
Of the Emperor Nicholas with the Austrian army
has been effected at every point The two allied
armies have formed AN immense circle, which
closes all the extent of the insurgent provinces IL
seems that the plan was to move the two armies at
the same moment and to narrow the circle in order
to give battle Ii this plan could be accomplished,
if the courage Of the Magyars did not make any
gap in this formidable line, the first great victory
of the allies would prove mortal to the cause of the
insurgents. The war Of the free corps and the
guerllas could always be carried on in country
like Hungary, but the great revolutionary struggle
would be terminated If they fought scale
less vast and isolated, the war would be waged
with the ordinary chances; and notwithstanding
the brilliant courage, the unequaed lntrepidity
which the Magyars have exhibited in this strug-
gle, the chances would always be in favor OF the
greater hosts of the Austro-Russan forces The
campaign was already begun by an important sue
cess of the imperial lroops-the capture of Raab.
The young Emperor of Austria has exhibited
proofs of bravery which the Russian army has
received with applause. At the other extremity OF
the theatre of war, the Russians have entered
Transylvania; they have taken possession of Cron-
sladt, and surrounded Clausenbourg. The defeat
of the Hungarlans cannot be long deferred.
1t is lamenable destiny--that of heroic people
devoted to inevitable ruin, without its true friends
and the admirers of its great qualities having 1t in
their power to offer up prayers for the cause that
they represent and defend. When Hungary COM
planned, even in tone slightly menacing, for her
lost privileges, which were violated by Austria;
when large constitutional party strove to create
liberal and moderate government, upon the RUNS
of the institutions of the middle ages, after the ex-
ample of the representative forms of England ard
France, then the Hungarian nation had the sympa-
thy of all noble minds who could see through the
receptions and mistakes of absolute power and
who sought to establish the equilibrium and har-
mony Indispensable between authority and free
dom. But now, Hungary has no longer any con-
stitutonal quarrels with Austria; her army is a
revolutionary army, fighting on the side and in be-
half of every revolutionary party in Europe, All
other causes of nsurrectlon are merged IN this fact
Without doubt, the wrongs committed by Austria
at FIRST and afterwards the division of races and ma
tionalities determined the Hungarans TO take arms
and embttered the strife; in the present state of
things, 1t is the eagerness OF revolutionary propa
gandism which absorbs all other passions. Thus,
we see the Poles of the Sclavonan combat
with their brothers of Bohemia and Croatia. We
must insist on this point with those who have lost
none of their generous illusion about the Hunga-
rlan The has changed its character. If the
conventionalsts of 18th Of June had triumphed in
Paris, they would have FASTENED to write To- BEN
TO announce their victory and promise him and.
From Paris TO the most remote confines of Europe.
the enemies Of society hold together in uninter-
rupted eheini la the face of this deJestaole con-
spracy, which threatens all, shall allow our
selves TO be mserably divided by causes which
have neither depth nor gravity Before the uni
versal enemy there not two modes of action, or
two systems of policy, for the interior, and the
other for the exterior. Where should we all be,
great God! if we had not forgotten violent con-
troverses for the sake Of social order, the different
origin of parties, and even the most serious divi-
sons which formerly separated uS IL is only by
so doing that we can establish great national
party. II old discords reappear, we are lost.