The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-10-04
HUNGARY HAS FALLEN.

HUNGARY has fallen! Napoleon's proph-
ccy is fuiiled-Europe is Cossack! Where
is The republican heart that does not beat
with grief and Indignation? Where - the
free heart that does no, curse England and
France, who might have driven back the
Russian hordes-saving the last hope Of
,lber.v-and who in turn may now feel The
iron heel that ,ramples in blood the heroic
Magyar! The tragedy Of Poland-the
partition and plundcr-is TO be enacted on
The plains Of Hungary. DespotIsm laps its
tongue in patriot bIood-republcanlsm,
hs~rarl. driven . the wsil, expires amid
sic paaas Of barbarian victory. Can
rs that glorious, gallant Hungary has
tailen? And fallen, too, on the altar OF APP
ssrent treacherv. Can it be that the Cor
sev, whose name has inspired our eulogy,
iqs Welded to the glitter Of Russian gold?
.a.asl We fear it is so. That be should. 10
the name OF his patton, aud at the head OF
10000 men and so pieces Of cannon, while
C.n,orn was vet defiant to the AustrIans.
surrender without pledge for the liberty
or lives Of his countrvmen, locks tearfully
line dark.and damnable treachery.
Yet. Hungary may not be lost. kossuthI
the great. aud noble kossu.h survives, aud
still breathes the language Of freedom aHd
defiance. He, like rock in the midst OF a
sand waste on which the warning storm
beats. still Bullets the waves of despoilsp,.
bat j. IS alnos. hopeless ihat he can long
withstand the myriad foes of Hungary
And BEN too, is faithful TO the last, and
Dambinski and Klapka. O, better than to
Weld. were it for them in some Thermopy-
n to unite. and like the three hundred
spaftans, give their lives for their country.
]. would be ). seed fruitful as the Dragons
ecsh, ia fiture times. when the Magyar
saall rise from bis seryitude TO overwnclm
f. oppressors. And if Hungary is taken,
al3st wilt be her doom? Her nationality
ell. lie stricken from The map Of toe world.
lsr children made slaves. The bloody
Haynau will gloat over the ashes Of their
villages, and the reeking dogs Of the Gar
sport upon her broken and desecrated al
tiers?
And now, let the nations who have wit
messed and permitted this national murder
this stran Cling liberty, wal. their share
Il he result Let France and England,
.he acied The manhood to say to Russia
,bacl, from tho slaughter of our kinsman
.iunaary, or we will u1ake her cause our
oa4.''-let these nations behold their own
power threatened by Gar who has sworn
o crush revolution in Europe. Let them
bcs,s!d Russia in the ascendant, debating
her policy to the nations. Let the United
States leok upon herself, and see the blood
Of Ibis slaughter on her garments. She is
not guiilless. She could stand and see
. Hungary inundated, nor raise one nation
III word in defence Not one word to en-
courage struggling freedom in Europe
Tor shame on the lands Of Lafayette, Sid
nay and Washington! Burning and eter-
na shame upon the whole brood recreant
nations! Bat Kossuth survives. If be
cannot save his country let him fy hither
Let him bring with him the crown and
whatever is regal of country which has
abandoned him through the treachery Of lis
cbief. Let him come here and preach a
crusade against the butchers and tyrants
Of the human race. We will give him well
come, thousand times welcome.
so, bloodiest picture in the book OF time,
;'arma,ia fell nnweFt without crlme.'
Aud 50, too, has Hungary falen-fallon,
bu: no, forever. The spirit Of liberty is
eterEol and cannot be Guenched.
acC l0rL Sun.