Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-15

can Cl3 Win Tree look al heaven, as L
have lived, But ! am also husband, son
ard father; my poor true-hearted wife,
my children, and my noble old mother are
wandering about Hungary. They will
probably soon fall into the hands of those
Austrians, who delight in torturing even
feeble women, and with whom the inno-
cence of childhood is no protection against
persecution. conjure your excellency,
in the name of the Most High, 10 put
stop to these cruelties by your powerful
mediation and especially to accord TO my
wife and children an asylum on the soil
of the generous English people.
AS to my people, my loved and noble
country, must she perish forever! Shall
she, unaided anu unencouraged, be aban-
doned to annihilaton by her tyrants
Gods will be done! | am prepared to
die" "Once Governor of a gener
Gus people, l leave no heritage to my
children. They shall at least have an un-
sn!lie1 name"
We are told that " "many of the towns
which are marked on the map have ceased
to exist" some Of them with twenty or
thirty thousand inhabitants. | can afford
but one extract from the deeds of the Aus
trian butcher, better known by that epithet
than by the name of Haynau, but that dis
tinction would have given him power and
place under Nero:
Haynau put thirteen Hungarian peas
ants 10 the rack one after the other, to
force them to tell the truth concerning an
apparently fortified town"
They all met death true to their coun'
try.
| had taken memorandum of the letter
of Hungarian lady, who was hogged in
public square after her husband had COM
mitted suicide, and her son been compell-
ed to enter as soldier into the Austrian
army; but | Gorbear, having no pleasure
in this retrospection of human suffering.
Even the Cologne Gazette, subject to
Prussian censors, when alluding TO the
terrible scenes at Arad, and while speak
inc with reserve, sufficiently indicates It's
sentiments. 1t says:
owe pass over the ground of these cap
ital sentences. They are the same as
those assigned by the Austrian courts-mar-
tial."
Martyrs and victims, there were noble
examples among them of frmness and pa
triotism which will illustrate the pages OF
Hungarian history in all time to come.
Prominent among these was Balthyanl,
revered through Hungary, and who was
condemned by an Austrian court to the
punishment of death. Previous to the
revolution he had held high office, which
he resigned, and he was sentenced . Tor
loosing the ties between Hungary and the
Imperial Royal States" and . for having
entered the army of the enemy" Rome
i mean ancient Rome-wOuLd have de-
creed him an ovation; Austria sent HIM
to the scahold. True to the instincts OF
his nature, his country was at his heart
and her name upon his lips, as death clos
ed the scene of Austrian vengeance. "My
country forever"
Now, sir, say it without reserve that
Power thus setting at defiance the opln-
ion of the world, and violating the best
feelings of our nature in the very wanton-
ness of successful cruelty, has no bond OF
union with the American people. The
sooner the diplomatic intercourse is dis
solved, and dissolved with marks OF lndlg-
nant reprobation, the sooner shall we per-
form an act of public duty which at home
and abroad will meet with feelings of kin
dred sympathy from all, wherever they
NAV be, who are not fit subjects for the
tender mercies of an Austrian Power. l
have already said that at least one repre-
sentative body in Europe had pursued a
course not very dissimilar to this, in order
to mark with their disapprobation a paIPa-
bic violation of national rights under cir
cumstances Of peculiar injustice, orlgIna-
ting in the basest cupidity. 1t was the
Chamber of Deputies of France which;
to their honor, year after year, condemned
the last partition by which the remnantot
Poland. all that was left Of the land OF So
bieski and Kosciusko, was broken INTO
provinces, and, seized by the same triple
combination, doomed to infamy by the
fir division of that unfortunate kingdom.