New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-27

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suddenly dead on quitting banquet where
he had Just received letter from the King
The Diet finally succumbed, but on condi-
tions. Each monarch was to take solemn
oath TO maintain the Constitution and to Sc
cure to the people all the rights aud PRIV
leges they had hitherto enjoyed. The only
exception was the article which gave the
mobiles the right of armed resistance IN case
Of an attack on their Liberties by the mon
arch.
But what availed conditions? The mon
arch had obtained what he desired, and did
not care what he promised, since he never
meant to perform, and there was no power
70 compel him. The history Of the next
century is one long detail Of usdrpations,
outrages and frauds by their Austrian mon
archs on the Hungarian people. At length
Joseph ii. carried his usurpatiOns 50 TAR
that the whole nation was in ferment lie
ruled absolutely, never convoked the Diet
and ordered that no man should hold once
in Hungary who did not speak German
He was obliged to retrace his steps and
acrec 10 undo all he had spent his life in
efTecting. He died before the restitution
was perfect, but his son and heir was glad
to secure the crown on condition of fulfilling
the fathers promises. He assembled Diet,
after vacation Of quarter Of a century,
was crowned in Hungary, and took the oath
to support the Constitution. The Diet IN
sisted on a reafirmance of all the funda-
mental provisions of the Hungarian Consti-
tuition. and the monarch assented. The fol-
lowing are among the articles drawn up and
passed by the Diet and ratified by the King
"Articles and g. Within six months after the
death of the King, his successor shall be crowned
NJ presburo and shall take the oath TO observe tho
laws, liberties, and privileges OF the Kingdom
Art 10 Hungary is a free and independent
Kingdom, in no way subordinate To any other
people or kingdom, and IS 10 be governed by Its
lawfully crowned King, not according to the Gus
toms OF the other hereditary dominions but 40
oording TO its own laws, rights, and customs
"Art To- The right of making, repeating, and in
ternretpg thelaws belongs 10 the lawfully crowned
King and to the States ofthe realm in the Diet as
sembed conformity; and this right cannot be ex-
ercised except in the Diet OF the Nation. Inc
King sba not attempt govern by edicts patents
which moreover it shall not be lawful for any
authorities to receive, except where such patents
are merely designed for the more effectual publ
cation of ordinances legally enacted.
cart 10. The impost shall never be levied by
the King but freely voted by the Diet.
II was likewise decreed, that the Diet was for
the future TO be assembled every three years, and
ofener. il the public welfare demanded 1t. The
right Of free discussion was likewise asserted.
The sacred crown of the Kingdom was to be kept
In the Castle OF Buda, and never TO be taken thence
without the consent Of the Diet.
This was in 1890, sixty years ago, or just
after the breaking out of the first French
Revolution. No part Of the above had been
rescinded down to the commencement of the
late struggle. Yet that these revived and
rsafirmed provisions of the Hungarian Con-
stitution have been deliberately violated by
successive Kings ever since rests on the
surest historical evidence.
The origin of the late outbreak is simply
this: In spite of systematic corruption, of
the Establishments of power and the allure
ments of Office, the Patriotic party Of Hun
gary-the Party Of Liberty, Progress and
Reform-had for twenty years past been
growing stronger and stronger in the Hun
garian Diet. What ends it sought, what
measures it adyocated, we have already seen.
How it was resisted, the arbitrary imprison-
ment of Kossuth for two years in a dungeon
for his ardent and powerful advocacy of the
Patriot cause, will indicate. lie was not al
lowed to know where he was confined;
his frientisSfid not know what had become
of him, though they could closely guess.
When he wasfinally liberated, cOmpatriot,
similarly treated, had lost his reason forever.
Atlast the great year 1878 arrived The
Patriot party were no more patriotic than
before, but the power of resistance was bro
ken. Vienna was in Instruction; Meter
Mich fled; Austrian despoGsm tottered and
reeled in its very citadel. The Hungarian
Diet passed number of sweeping Reform
measures, establishing Equa Rights and
EQUAL Laws for all the People of Hungary.
The serfs were not merely emancipated;
they were invested with freehold rights to
the land they had hitherto cultivated as ten
ants at will. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,
were here no unmeaning terms. Freedom
of the Press, Trial by Jury, Hungarian
Ministry, everything was docreed by the
Diet and assented to BY the monarch, too
glad to have his assent asked. All this,
YOU observe, was the work of the mobiles so
called-of those who are now accused in
American Reviews of plunging into a civil
war in order to preserve their feudal privi-
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