New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-06-18

.ward loyalty with tfeschery, devotion with tyr
fanny, affection with cruelty, and blind attach
snent with systematic craft and conspiracy j.
il not incredible that Human Mature should be
80 base I've answer J, "a not Human Nature
bot regal nature that Is here implicated, and Roy
atty. 10 this day Of Advancing light and knowledge,
Ia an uoseepiog conspiracy against Humanity
Toe king IS man may be aniabe, as Geo-ge
Ill was, bat a. hing ne does not reason Tee j,
nor see as man. Surrounded from birth 70 msn-
hood by caterers. bis every wish gra,asd before
II can be expressed, TINS idea Is constantly press
ed upon him that he was born 10 rule ard his
people 70 obey,sn that any resistance % his " }.
his wish his pleasure, IA audscty felony AID tres-
son. Thus the respect due from every citizen .
law ard constituted authority Il stodioDsiy misap
Piled aud perverted The prince. whether before
or after his accession % the throne sees and
hears mainly through tie eyes and ears o.
his courtiers. who intercept all real access T.
him by the People, whose interests are radically
diverse from theirs The People require Peace
Economy, Freedom, Prosperity bat the Peoples
cOnteutmeBt and prosperity o'e quite generally tne
ooortiefs nonentty aud starvation. These last
covet appointments, Commands promotons end
such opportunities for sudden wealth as the SACK
OF city or the arbitrary misruie Of province, OF
at leas, the provisioning marching army mus
be AWAITED - supply. Thus it Is that kings 90 Of
ten exhibit the spectacle Of seeming insanity
n rash and apparently motiyeless counting oi de
attraction The causes OF tbs peryerseness are
partly 10 be found in a horribly false education,
partly la the continued misleading Of parasites.
whose pretended sohctude for their sovereigns
dignity and glory is really cloak for the nsidious
pursuit. Of their owl base ends. II the secrets OF
palaces could all be repealed. we should hud the
Neros and Csigulas Of History less inexPica
bic aud less culpabc than the world has regarded
them.
Now in this cause Of Austria and Hungary
there has, ever since the first choice OF an Austrian
monarch by Hungary, existed, first, an Imperial
interest apparently hostile to good faith on the
part of the monarch II was often inconveneni
for the Emperor 10 repair IN person 70 Hungary |"
b. crowned King, to take there a solemn oath Of
fidelity 10 constitution which must seem TO him
a shackle and a impedimont. and to solicit OF
Hungarian Diet supplies Of men aud money which
at Vienna he had but 10 ask and take. There was
the constant danger that Diets might not always
prove obsequous, even in times Of public danger,
yet there was the Imperial oath to govern Hun
gary only through Hungarian Ministry, and 10
enforce no drafts on its treasure blood until rat
fed by a Hungarian Diet. Next in order the
Religious question-Austria, aud especially the
Court being devoutly Catholic while Hungary
was in good part Protestant and another part Of
the Creek Church, and these by law entitled t.
equal favor and protection from the sovereign with
the Catholics. Bot, the worst and most implacs
Bile of all was the Court aud Courtier interest,
doomed to look continually upon Hungary as
land of milk aud honey which belonged of right t.
the personal favorites and trusted friends OF the
Emperor, who ought to have inumerabla rich ep-
pointments aud fat living, oat OF that portion oil the
Empire. yet doomed to see nearly the whole be
stow ed on outside barbarsns hardly known at the
Imperial capital and scarcely speaking the Court
language. How natural for such 10 forget that
Hungary has a Nationality. proud antiquity
constitution, and regard her but as larger prov
ince OF Austria, clmging to some old oeremomals
OF government which must be gradually under
mined and finally abolished How natural
that the Imperial ear should be constantly
filed with discourse OF this sort, to the pleasure
Of the auditor and profit of the utterer Here il
the ultimate source OF the Imperial peTidy which
Hungary. after long ages OF patient remonstsuce,
has been driven to resist Even the wise and
humane Joseph H. by far the best monarch Aus
tris has known, excited great discomfort IN Hun
gary by his sweeping reforms which, however
iaudable aud benefcent in themselves, were OBJ
jectionablo as disregsrding the constitutional
Al. - "a thrnuy hpuf
bya disregard OF diverse natioaahties. of moun
taineer conscrva tism, and animated by Fixed re-
solve 10 eiface all distinctions OF country and race
fusing Hungary. Bohemia &c. into the body of the
Germsn Empire, under the rule OF the House OF
Hapsburgh. But Hungary, Ia the first place was
never German nor legally part Of the Empire
aud again, II all the objects of Joseph had been
laudable. he had no right to pursue them by mesns
inconsistent with the Constitution he had sworn u
support aud obey.
The unauthorized but well intended measures
of Joseph drew the attention Of the Diet and
People of Hungary to the necessity Of meorSting
their institutions They saw that their country
had been for centuries standing still or retro
grsdins, while Europe and the world were ad-
vsncing-,hst while they were rePosing on their
laurSis or dreaming ever OF hhfta uScNss ~ta'Ss
almost unknown TO their days Of gloTy-Englsnd
Prussia, Russia, to say nothing of Aassns-hsd
risen 70 the first rank among the nations OF the
earth. They entered upon a course OF me'hodica
inqairy with view to the improvement aud re-
form OF their Institutions and. about sixty years
ago. the Diet created a Commission consisting OF
all tho abest and most enlightened men in Hun
gary, to consider the N&tioaa institutions ami ii
gest plans Of improvement This Commission
was divided into seven great Committees or sub
commissions each having its special subject, a.
Commerce, Education, Civil and Criminal Law.
Taxation. the Army, Sc Each Committee gave
due attention 70 its branch Of the general subject
and made its report, and these reports are the
basis and the textbooks Of all subsequent effort.
Tor Reform. That they evinced signal ability, and
developed Reforms OF great Importance 10 the
National weIl.bsing, no one could seriously
gainsay.
Bat in order that the Diet nigh; legally se'
upon them. giving them, so far IS might be found
desirable, the form and sanction OF law, II was
necessary. according I'd the Hungarian cOpstitU.