The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-09-07

TO the same world that is made up of the nations
of Europe. We cannot send our armies into Rus
STA or Austria as France recently sent her armies
into Italy, or as England has often landed her
troops on the Continent. So far as men and artil-
ullery are concerned, we may be obliged to remain
neutral in the great contest now going on between
Hungary on the one side and Russia and Austria
on the other Distance may prevent us from inter-
tering materially in the battles of the Thesis and
the Danube. But in moral influence and moral
powerther is no such thing asspace. The distance
of the worlds diameter cannot weaken the moral eff
feet of declaration in favor of human freedom and
human progress Shall the United States declare
for Hungary and acknowledge her Independent ex-
istenee, or remain listless and dumb in the strife
that is shaking the Austrian empire TO Its centre
We do not wish to see the country degraded into
neutrality in the moral struggle between despotism
and democracy. Was il for ourselves alone that
we fought the battles of the Revolution, or rather
did our fathers bear in their hands the banner of
progress and carry with them the destinies of Eu-
rope as well as of America In the first act of
our Independence, in the Magma Charta, not of
English rights and English liberties, but of human
rights and human liberties, the grand doctrines of
democracy were declared to be the fundamental
truths of social order and of social progress. On
the 4th Of July, l776, we placed ourselves at the
head of the phalanx that is to carry equal rights
and equal laws to the extremites of the earth. Are
we now to shrink from the cause we have espoused
Are we now to hesitate whether we shall remain
the leaders Of the enterprise or fall behind as lag
CARDS in the swelling armies that are to sweep gov
ernmental tyranny and governmental oppression
from the face of the earth!
A great and noble nation has risen in arms
against powerful empire, chat has called to her
aid the most absolute and oppressive government
of Europe. An infant, Hercules it is true, is
wrestling with the serpents that coil around his
body and strive to crush him in the CRADLE So far
the Hungarians have held out against their enc
mics, and have, by their gigantic efforts, won for
themselves fame that will be eternal. Let Ame-
RIGA acknowledge this great fact; let America de-
clare that Hungary deserves to be natOn-that
no matter what awaits her in the future she has
already earned the privilege of sitting peer among
the sOyereignties of the world What makes a ma
tiOnl What gives a people claim to independ-
ence Is it time alone Must a certain number
of days or weeks or months or years elapse before
we can, with propriety, recognize the independent
existence Of q people who have shaken off an Of
deeds that make the nation as the man Is it hero
lem that places the crown upon the brow of the
struggling people, and enables them to walk forth
as peers among the powers Of the earth
Hungary, then, ia entitled to a recognition of in
dependence by all liberal and high-minded Gov.
ernments. The countrymen Of Benz and Dembin-
ski, and Georgey and Kossuth, have by their acts
proved that they can never live again under Aus
trian msrule and oppression, Now is the time for
America to come in and take Hungary by the
hand. Shall we wait until England shows US the
wayl Are we willing that British lberalily shall
rise superior to American England has given
unmisAkeahle signs that she intends to recognize
the independence Of Hungary, The people, the
Parliament and Ministers, hava all taken up the
cry and units with enfhusaRm in the shout for Hum
gaFian hsefism and Hungarian freedom For once
Toryism and Radi0alism are forgotten, ThfonRs
press around tho speakers that tell them Of the
glorious prospects Of Hungary, and duke and
pauper are equally rejoCed at the trinmphB Of the
Hungarian armies.
And think not that Our recognition Of Hungarian
independence would be an empty formua-all
sound and fury signifying nothing. Not only could
we thereby retain proud position the head of
the liberating nations, but we would strike blow
that would be worth victory of BEN or a triumph
of Dembinsld. Let us say TO Russia, Hungary is
nation you fight not with rebels or revoutionists
but with sovereign and powerful people, The
Gar would pause even the Austrian Emperor
would hesitate Soon Russia might think it better
to have the friendship of nation that was to exist
on its borders than Of distant Emperor from
whose hand the sceptre is fast departing Let US
then say the word. Let US hail Hungary as of right
and in fact, free, sovereign and Independent.