The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-16
Hnnrarr-Anothor Appeal from Kossuth.


The Frankfort correspondent Of the Newark Ad
vsrtiser furnishes the following TRANSLATION Of stir
ring appeal from Kossuth to the Hungarian people
Oar Fatherland is in danger! Citizens to arms!
If we thought ourselves able by ordinary means
TO save the country, we would not cry out it is in
danger. If we were at the head of a cowardiy,
childish naOn ready rather to fall than to defend
herself, we would not order the alarm bells 10 ring
through the whole land But as we know that The
people Ofour country are manly race, resolved to
defend themselves to the last against Goddess OPP
preston, we lay all the unworthy c0ncealment of
our position aside, aud call out openly, that the
country is in dangerl Because we know that the
people are able to defend themselves and the couR-
try, we lay open the danger in all its magnitude,
calling upon every citizen in the name Of Gods
country, 10 look it in the face, and seize arms to
meetiL
We will neither Aatter nor discourage, but we
declare openly that unless the whole nation rise up
to defend itself TO the last drop of BLOOD all the
BILE blood already shed is in vain, and our country
VIII ial, the Russian knOui then ruling over an en-
shaved people, on the ground where tue ashes Of
or ancestors repose.
We therefore, here, in fulflment Of our duty,
communicate 20 all the inhabitants of Hungary,
that The Austrian Emperor has let loose upon us
the barbarous hoTdes Of Russia, that a Russian
army of $4,000 men has broken into our country
from Gallicia, aud marches continually forward,
that Russian forces have also entered Tfansylva-
ma, against whom our troops are struggling, and
that finally, although our fail would be followed by
the enslavement of the people in all Europe, we
can expect foreign assistance, as the people that
sympathiZe with US are kept down by their rulers,
and gaze only in dumb silence on our struggle.
We have nothing to rest our hopes upon but
righteous God and our own force. IL We do not
use our own force, God will also forsake US.
HuHgarg's. struggle Is ne longer struggle
alone. 10 IS The struggle Of popular freedom against
tyranny Our Uict0ry Is the Uictory Of freedom our
tdH Is the fan Of freedom. God has chosen US TO
free the nations from bodily servitude. In the
wake Of victory will follow liberty to the Italians,
Germans, Czeches, Poles, Wallachians, Selavo-
mans, Servians, and Croatians. With our fall
goes down the star of freedom over all.
People Of Hungary will you die under the ex-
Terminating sword of the savage 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 aud chill
| drenl If not, defend yourselves
VIII you see part Of your fellow citizens sent
70 the wds of Siberia, made to serve in the wars
OF tyrants, or bleed under the murderous knOut
| II. not, defend yoGfselvesl
Will you behold your villages in flames, and
| your harvests Destroyed VIII you die Of hunger
on the land which your sweat has made fertile
1 If not, then defend yourselves!
| We, the freely 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
our powers and duty, general crusade Of the peo-
PIE dEdilsl the enemy 10 pc declared from every
pulpit and from every town house of the country,
and made known blythe continual ringing of bells
! every healthy man under As years to take arms
/ whatever he can get hold Of, an axe, scythe, OF
hook, If no better to be had notice to be given OF
the approach Of the enemy by the ringing Of bells
and that preparation be made TO resist or harrass
him, but particularly TO destroy all forage and food
quitting and setting FIRE even TO the villages the
priest To seze the cross and lead the people in the
/ name Of religion and liberty.
One great effort only is necessary, and the coun.
/ try is forever saved.
We have indeed an army, which numbers abou
| 100000 determined men, but the struggle is NJ
/ longer one between two hostile camps; it is the
struggle Of tyranny against freedom, Of barbarisu
against all free nations. Therefore must all the
! people seize arms and support the army, that thu
| united the victory Of freedom for Europe may b,
/ won Fly then, united with the army, TO arms
every citizen of the land, and the victory is sure
| BUDA-PEsTH June q. 1919. Koss UrH Governor
SzemeFe, Essuys, GeOrgey, Bukovich BsllhYFany Hor
| yah, DuCheck, Ministry