The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-10

the one hand, done everything 10 mitigate the hor-
rors of war; the Austrians. on the other, every
thing TO aggravate them. But 1t is not impossible
that by these repeated acts of barbary on the part
OF The enemy, the Hungarian generals may be forced
INTO taking terrible reprisals There is point at
@nich me indignation OF the exasperated sodiery
point the Austrans have probably succeeded in
bringing the hungarian army. Surely it is time,
heiore this war has assumed character utterly
diseraceiul to the age IN which we live, that the
western governments, if they value their charac-
ter tor humanity, should interfere, by remon-
srances at least, to bring about an accommodation
between the contending parties.
The Movements or the Muscovites-rb.
nungarians.
49, From the London Chronicle, June cal
The gradual advance of the Muscovite legions
towards the scene OF operations in Hungary is
masked from the view of Western Europe by that
veil of Cimmerian obscurty which always attends
the movements OF Russia, and which now en-
wraps, with impenetrable folds the whole frontier
OF the Austrian empire; If the accounts which we
receive Cf The plan OF the campaign are correct il
is clear that much time must be consumed in
bringing TO the field the various corps destined TO
cooperate with each other at such remote points
ana over so extensive an area, as well as in pro-
Viding me provisions and military stores ndisp
sable for carrying the war into the inhospitsble
plains OF Central Hungary. For a campaipn on
the Pusztas the blaze Of the summer sun is almost
as uniavourabe as the weeping skies and icy
m
the reports which reach us of the numbers and
present position OF the beigerent parties In n,I-
merical strength the combined forces will probably
be inferior TO The Magyar leyles, but superior to
them In effective strength. The Austrian army Is
mere wreck, commanded by an officer of no
military reputation and the whole direction of
The war must, OF course, rest with the Russian
eeneral-in chief, Prince Paskewtch The an.
abate the interest which the spectator feels in wit
Messing lar night whilst the vast interests In
voved, and the enormous masses of troops brought
INTO the ted on both sides, invest it with an I'M
poIlance which throws INTO the shade all the mill
lary contests OF which Europe has been the
theatre SINCE the days Of Napoleon.
The brilliant successes Of the Hungarans have
raised them up host OF friends, and inspired the
their hour of adversely. The same pen which for,
mery recommended the subsection of the fiery and
intractabe nation to imperial sway, has since dis
coursed gravely Of sacred rights violated and i'm
prescrlptible liberties wantonly assailed. Thus is
natural enough there are few wars, after all. in
which the victor does not find his best justification
IN success. For ourselves, we pay willing homage
to TIE, gallantry and uncomfortable resolution
which have triumphany withstood the vast mill
tary force concentrated last winter upon the Hum
garian capital; We admire the genius and perse-
verance which organized in those remote and
boundiess plains, the true home of the Magyar
race, the numerous and well-appointed army which
now presents defiant and not unequal front to the
legi ons OF the Gar. We acknowledge the strength
and fervor Of that national spirit evoked, perhaps
by means which will not bear too close an exami-
out the length and breadth of the land We do
not Tor moment doubt that acts of violence and
inhumanity have been perpetrated on one side as
well as on the other, or that the wholesale system
OF impre ssment which has sweed the ranks of the
Magyars, has been parallelcd by the exactions
which have supplied the commissariat of the i'm
perialst army. President kossutb we are well
aware, Is not so black as he has been painted,
hin L
puzzled to recognize the features of the Hungarian
OConnell, as his admirers used to call him. in the
glowing portratuIe OF wise and high souled
patriot, by which he has of late been represented
But our views OF hun and Of his cause have not
been changed by the unforeseen results of the
contest which he had the largest share in orqi-
mating. We never blinked the real question al
Issue between Magyar and Imperiast, and we
need not retraet or qualify one sy liable of what
wrote before an unexpected turn of Fortunes
wheel brought 1t out into broader and clearer
daylight. :,
We are told as if il were a great discovery.
that The Hungarans are only fighting for their
" ancient constitutional rights and liberties" so
they are, IN the literal sense-or so at least they
were, before their leaders threw off their allegiance
to their youthful sovereign. But do our readers
understand what these constitutional rights inn
port, and what is the substance covered by these
speclous words, so congenial to the ear of the
iree-born EDgIshman, who couples them spon-
taneously with the idea of civil and political
liberty, Magma Charta and Bill Of Rights
They import nothing less than the total separation
and absolute independence OF the realm of Hun
gary-a separation rtilnous 10 the empire, which,
for many centuries, has borne so conspicuous and
SO useful a part IN the affairs of European in
dependence such the Hungarian nation has
never practically enjoyed since St. Stephens crown
bret rested on the brow OF a scion of the house of
llapsburg. Ever since the date of the fatal battle
OF Mobacz, the Kingdom OF Hungary has been vir-
tually subject to the crown and government Of the
empire. Pennsylvania, Croatia, Scavonia, Austrian
SeNla, the military colonies Of the Turkish bor-
deT-all these Kingdoms and principaliies. which
halt encircle the broad inheritance OF the Magyar
race, have obeyed not the Palane OF Hungary. but
the Emperor of Austria. All these, together with
their own extensive territories, the lIunrarians
claim by virtue OF their "ancicnt constitution
al rights" 10 detach from the empire, and govern
"A separate State, emancipated altogether from
imperial legislation or control. We are not
writing at random No candid Hungarian will
deny that this is the true of their demands
kossuth Ito his honor be II sald) never disguised
it, Last year, for n short period, the expc-
nment was tried and we all remember that one
OF the trst acts of the new government, OF which
he was leading member, was 10 play into the
hands OF the periidlous invader of Lombardy, by
recalling the Hungarian troops serving in the army
OF Radetsky. Alter this act OF treacherous hos
tity every prospect OF harmonious union was .
an end. IL was determined, at this risk Of a strug-
gle, the intensity OF which IL was then impossible
10 ioresee, not indeed 10 reduce the Kingdom of
out doing violence TO its municipal political con-
stltution, in the body OF united States of which
Count Stadlon proposed TO build his federal empire
When the Croatians and Servians rose in arms
against Magyar dominaiion-when the Saxons and
Wallachians ef Pennsylvania appealed for AID to
Nienna-tbey met with open countenance and sup
port, and then commenced the contest which has
since assumed the aspect of a national war. Boz
that any Austrian statesman was ever mad cnou gh
To dream at treading IN the steps vi Joseph VI :,
and extending to Hungary the administrative sys-
tom of the empire, we believe to be about as true
as the returns IN Prince Windischgratzs bullstins,
or the equally veracious narrative furnished by the
Magyar correspondence of the Breslau ga rsiie
The turn which events have taken sioce the
Megyar army for the first time crossed ise Theiss
has inevitably tended to freeze the syapathles ct
every Engshman towards the imperal.st cause.
and we told that hopes and ie a.. for the re-
suit Of the war ought TO undergo corresponding
change. IL Is impossible for az, Oi course TO sur
vey the drama with the same tesLngs now that
Russia has become the pronisent actor IN H.
Without dsirustlng the upr ah,ness or good faith