Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-16
miscellaneous.
Kossuth's Appeal to the Hunga-
rian People.

The following is the substance of Kos.
suth's last appeal to the Hungarian people
furnished by the Frankfort correspondent oil
the Newark Advertiser. 1t will give some
idea of the character the war is likely to as.
sumo:
Our Fatberland is in danger Citizens
to arms to arms
FIVE thought ourselves able by ordinary
means to save the country, we would moi
cry out it is in danger. If we were at the
head of cowardly, childish nation, ready
rather to fall than defend itself, VIC would
not order the alarm bells to ring through
the whole land. But we know that the
people of our country are manly race,
resolved to defend themselves to the last
agsinst Goddess oppression we lay all un-
worthy concealment of our position aside,
and call out openly, that the country is in
danger! Because we know that the people
are able to defend themselves and the coun.
try, we lay open the danger in all its mag
ntude, calling upon every citizen in the
name of Gods country, to look il in the face,
and sieze arms to meet it.
We will neither hatter nor discourage,
but we declare openly that unless the whole
nation rise up to defend itself to the last
drop of its blood, all the noble blood already
shed is in vain, and our country will fall
the Russian knout then ruling over an en-
shaved people, on the ground where the
ashes of our ancestors repose.
We therefore, here, in fulilment 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 AS, 900 men
has broken into Our country from Gallcia,
and marches continually forward, that Rus
sian forces have also entered Transylvania,
against whom our troops are struggling,
and that finally, although our fall would be
followed by the enslavement of the people
III all Europe, we can expect no foreign as
slstance, as the people that sympathize with
us re 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 -
If we do not use our own force, God will
also forsake us.
Hungary's struggle is no longer our
struggle alone. 1t as the struggle of pop.
utar trccdom against tyranny. Our rictory
as the uictory of freedom, our fall is the fall
OF freedom God has chosen us to free the
nations from bodily servitude. In the wake
of our victory will follow liberty to the Ital-
ian, Germans, Czeches, Poles, Vallachians
Sclavonians, Servians, and Croatians. With
our fall goes down the star Of freedom over
all.
People of Hungary! will you die under
the discriminating sword of the savage Rus.
slams f'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 children? ifnot defend
yourselves
Will you behold your villages in flames
and your harvests destroyed! Will you die
of hunger on the land which your sweat ha
made fertile ifnot, then defend yourselves
We, the freely elected Government o
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 people against tn,
enemy, to be declared from every pulpit
and from every town house of the country
and made known by the continual ringing
of bells; every healthy man under AZ year
of age to take arms, whatever he can ge
hold of, an axe, scythe, or hook, if no bel
ter to be had notice to be given of the ap
proach of the enemy, by the ringing Of bells
and that preparation be made to resist O
harrass him, but particularly to destroy a
forage and food, quitting and setting fir
even to the villages; the priest to sieze tn
cross, and lead the people in the name {
religion and liberty.
One great effort only is necessary, and tn
country is forever safe.
We have indeed an army, which nun
bers about 200, 600 determined men; BIT
the struggle is no longer between two ho'
tile camps---it is a struggle of tyrann
against freedom, of barbarism against a
free nations. Therefore must all peopl
seize arms and support the army, that, thu
united, the victory of freedom for Europ
may be won. Fly, then, united with tn
army TO arms, every citizen of the Ian,
and the victory is sure!
Buda-Pesth, June 81, lS49.
KOSSUTH, Governor.
Szemere, Esauya, Gorgey, Bukovicl
Balthyrany, Horvah, Ducheck-Mnistry