New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-12
The Cause of HEmnsnry and i's Foes
Francis Bowen.

IN Tue year 1870 VIC lo'Nt' VI A1A'it
Liberty throughout the world were electri-
fed. the champions of Despotism coniound-
ed, by intelligence that the People of Hun
gary, a country on the Eastern verge of
Europe, which for century and half had
apparently permitted its Independence and
almost its existence, to be merged in the
vast, ill-compacted Austrian Empire, had
determined to resume their place among
The Free Nations of the Earth. Their rea-
sons for this step were set forth IN various
manHestos and State papers, but more tut
IL and methodcally in a circumStantal
statement of the wrongs, usurpatlons and
expressions which they had suffered at the
hands of the Austrian Court drawn up and
published in his own name by Count Tele-
XII, their envoy to Paris. That statement
has never vet been answered in detail, and
never can be. Even the arch-traitor to
American principles who is still permitted
to disgrace our Country and outrage the
feelings of the Republican party of Europe
in the post of Consul al Paris, has not dared
to attack directly and openly its array of
facts, though he did all he could while
Hungary yet stood erect to defame and
crush her. He had more polite and ef-
fective ally in the London Times, with
few others thinly scattered over the face of
Western Europe, all the most strenuous
advocates of kingly and priestly despo-
tism over the bodies and souls of mankind
the eulogists of King Bomba and of the
cold-blooded assussins of Roman Liberty.
On the other hand, wherever in the wide
world was hearty and outspo<en lover OF
Freedom, Reform and Progress tor any
people, there was a heart that beat high
and warm for the cause of Hungarian in
dependence. Had Hungary been as &C
cessible from America and Western Europe
as Spain or Great Britain, One Hundred
Thousand combatants from the West would
have rushed to her standard, eager to pour
out their blood for the cause of Freedom
and of Man. But she was completely
walled in by the possessions of despotic
Austria, Russia and Turkey, and thus de-
prived of all effective sympathy from any
spot beyond her own borders. She can
hardly have even heard who were her
friends and who her foes in other Countries,
but the lovers of Freedom in happier lands
know at least her foes-for they were east
~ counted-and will mark them 50 long as
they shall live.
The facts essential to an understanding
of and Judgment upon the quarrel be-
tween Hungary and the Austrian Court
are not many, though large volume
might be filled with details illustrating
them. The Kingdom of Hungary was
founded, over eight centuries ago, by the
Mogqors, Tartar tribe from Central
or Upper Asia. They were of course
military and nomadic, but, liking the coun-
try and becoming converted to Christian
ity, they settled here, on footing very
similar to that of William the Conqueror
and his Normans in England one or two
generations later. Their Government
though nominally an elective monarchy,
was in essence military republic with
strong executive. The tribes whom the
Magyars found in the country had little or
no political power until common dangers
and suf1erings had nearly effaced the
original distinction of races. But the
Magyars had not long been settled in Hun
gary before they were called to bear the
brunt of the struggle of Christendom
against Mohammedan fanaticism and lust
of power and plumber. The Turkish En-
pire, then in the gristle of youth, contin-
ually precipitated its immense hordes upon
this bulwark Of the Christian faith, and the
Turkish Sultans were often seen in the
valley of the Danube at the head of armies
100000 to $50, 900 men. Hungary, when
left to herself, found the contest an unequal
one-the populations from which the hostile
armies we're drawn outnunbering hers by
at least ten to one; and, after ages of dubi-
Gus contest, the last Magyar King of Hun
gary fell fighting on the fatal field of Mo-
hacs, and q large proportion of Lower
Hungary fell into the hands of the Turks,
who held it from hundred to a hundred
and fifty years. The survivors to the
great defeat, with what was left of the Ma
ton elected as their King, the head of the
fortunate and rising House of Hapsburgh,
IN which House the now extinct title of