Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-05

bic old mother are wandering about Hungary They wpro-
badly fall the hands of those Ausrans who IN
Of childhood is protection against persecution
conure your excelency, in the of the Most High, to
especially TO accord to my wife and children an asylum the
soil Of the generous English people
CAS- to my people my loved and noble country mus, she
perish forever Shall She unaded and unencouraged be
abandoned humiliation by her tyrants
Goods win be done! am prepared to die" $50 Once
children. They shall at least have unsullied name"
We told that many Of the towns which marked
on the map have ceased TO exist /; Of them with
twenty thirty thousand inhabitants afford but
extract for the deeds of the Austrian butcher better known
by that ephet than by the Of Haynau but that dis
ncon would have given him power and place under Nero
"Haynau put thirteen Hungarian peasants the rack
after the other force them tell the truth concerning
| apparently fortified town"
| They all met death true to their country.
had taken memorandum Of the letter of Hungarian
lady, who logged in public square after her husband
had committed suicide and her been compelled TO
as soldier into the Austrian army but forbea having no
pleasure in this retrospecton of human suffering
Even the Cologne Gazette, subject to Prussan ceasors,
when audng the terrible Arad, and while speak
ing with reserve sufficiently indicates its sentiment Itsays
\ We PAYS the ground of these capital They
NE same those assigned by the Austrian eoursmara
aryrs and Viems there noble examples among them
o. nrmness and patriotism which will illustrate the pages Of
Hungarian history in all time to come Prominent among
these was Bahyani reveed through Hungary and who
condemned by q Austrian the punishment of death.
l.
he resigned and he sentenced oosnr the ties be-
tween Hungary and the Imperial Royal States" and for
having entered the army of the enemy" Rome-I
ancient Rome-woud have deceed him an ovation Austria
sent him to the scaod True the instincts Of his nature
his country was at his heart, and her upon his lips
death closed the scene Of Austrian vengeance My country
| forever" were the last words he uttered.
Now, sir say without reserve that Power thus set
ting at defiance the opinion of the world and violating the
feelings OF nature in the very of
full cruelty, has bond of union with the American people,
atic md
solved with marks of indignant eprobaon, the shall
perform act of public duty which and abroad
will meet with feelings Of kindred sympathy from ALL where
they may be- who not Al subjects the tender
mercies of Austrian Power Ihave already said that
representative body in Europe had pursued
not very dssma to this, in order TO mark with their dsap
probation papabe violation of national rights under ccu
stances Of peculiar injustice, originating in the basest cupidy
1t the Chamber of Deputies of France which, their
honor year after year. condemned the last partition by which
the of Poland all that left Of the land of Sobesk
and koscuko broken into Provinces and seized by the
same triple combination, doomed to inamy by the first d.
i vision of that unfortunate kingdom.
i The answer to the Kings speech the occasion
ally taken by the Chamber to express their opinion upon
grave questions of policy foreign and domestic and for
years during the reign Of Louis Philippe reproo thus
annually administered to the royal spoilers reproof which
excited much sensation in Europe, and known to give
much offence to the high personages thus araigned at the
bar of public opinion believe that for time this
preston of condemnation by the Chamber if it did not in
eup rendered precarous diplomatic relations between
France and Russia which latter Power seemed De pecu
ay sensitive these rebukes for the adoption Of truly Mus
cove process of national aggrandzemen One of these para
graphs that in the address Of January l840 will here intro
duce, not only of the proper sentiments contains,
show that the Chamber felt free great of
injustice in terms not less forcible than just
'tn all the questions which divide the world, France in
vokes but justices she demands only the respect due all
rights Can she recall Europe those of the ancient
Polish nation the guarantees that repeated gave
generous people, whose misfortune time only to ag
gravae ~ 5.. .. ~.
gatifed being able to refer to this example of
preventative mnesF, and though do not seek to disguise
that action if act at ALL will extend the principle
further than it carried in France, still the feeling of
onal sympathy for national wrongs al the foundation of
the movement there, it will be here. We have many
good among who alarmed at any proposition for
public action unless the very thing has been done here
elsewhere II the is not in the books remedy
be applied however mpeous the circumstances They have
nutve dread Of progress believing that what has been
has been well done and ought to be done again. and
| that nothing else should be DONE
This spirit of standing Ibelieve, is the
fashionable for it in England and becoming SO here
while both the moral and physical world giving evidence
that change Of the great laws Of naurete becomes
country which advancing in the Of improve
men with an accelerated pace unknown in the history Of the
world Standing still Why, sir you might as well attempt TO
follow the example Of the Jewish leader and say to the
stand thou still upon Gbeon and thou in the valley OF
Ao and expect to be obyed to expect that this coun-
try would yield to this sentiment of mmobty, and stand
still in that mighty work Of improvement, material and intel
ecua which has been doing for generations, and will be
| called upon to do for generations yet to come.
Let the timd be alarmed where there is free inquiry
there is danger There is fund of practical good
sense, well deep moral and religious feeling in the peo
pie of this country, which will hold to institutions
with blind tenaciy, but with firm resolution TO maintain
them and, whilst wisely admitting improvement, rejecting
mpraccabe and dangerous projects often originating In hon
though mistaken views, let not fear the progress OF
opinion. The world is probably yet very far from Its ex-
point of improvement Before that is reached many
project will be proposed and rejected, many an experiment
tried and failed and spirit Of investigation will be abroad
dangerous only when met by force instead Of argument
am not going with this feeling, which would
have enoined upon fathers to stand still and suffer- IN
of rushing the danger of revolution, not only be-
cause u not Senatorial but because It Is
entrenched behind barriers which cannot overcome
To SUCH here but elsewhere the example OF the French
Chamber may dvest this proposition of half its terrors The
other half may be safely left to time They will gradually
learn that great political truth of day contained IN
the sentiment recently announced by the distinguished Sem
aor from Massachusetts, We in Of progress
And the eloquent remarks Of Mr. Canning. when placed
in circumstances bearing resemblance to ours,
lessen apprehension among thoseand there many OF
them in this countrywide believe that good can come
of American Nazareth, but that what comes from
| England is best and wisest ....
"Those persons said that distinguished man, and IN
similar spirit with that displayed by the Senator from Ken
lucky almost the time, and while taking kindred
course "seem to imagine that under possible cir
honest endeavor to keep his country
upon line with the progress of political knowledge, and to
adapt its to the varying circumstances of the world
Such an atemp. branded as an indication of mschevous
intentions He recommends the pressing Of generous and
noble sentiments into the service Of his country"
Too much caution wisdom, though rashness may pc
folly He who does not keep himself upon the hne 81 hnoto
ledge will find the world ahead Of him, and that his as
sotiatiops belong to past generation.