New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-23
Deseret

God is patient because eternal says the
great st. Augustine. 1t is necessary to re-
iterate this truth in order to preserve a firm
and living faith in the wise and just Govern
ment of the Universe. Viewed specifically
and with reference only to the passing hour,
History is often a perplexing enigma to the
upright, devout Theist. But more patient
considering, a broader survey, a more search
ing scrutiny, corrects the error Of the first
false impression. Time at length sets all
things even.' Joseph, sold by enviOus breth-
rem into slavery and cast by slanderous ma
Lightly into prison, might well have stag
gcred the faith Of a devOtee, had not that
faith the power to assure him that these
wrongs were Divinely permitted as the trial
Of Integrity and designed to insure its tri-
umph. So the partition Of Poland, the
bloody sutiugation of Hungary, might well
shake the serenest faith in Divine Proyi-
dcnce if they were TO be accepted as final
results and not as the darker recesses of
labyrinth through which the human race is
winding its way to an exalted and benignant
destiny. In the light of that destiny, op-
preston and wrong shall be seen to have
wrought evil only to their contrivers, leav-
ing their intended and seeming victims only
chastened, purified and elevated by their
harsh but salutary discipline.
Why speak again of Hungary? Is she
not blOtted from the list of Nations?' We
answer, No more in 1919 than she was a
century earlier, and had been even in centu-
ries before. AT the close of her struggle for
her natural and constitutional rights under
Rak6czy, century and half ago, one of
her patriot chroniclers thus mourns her pros
tration and despairs of her recovery:
"The Liberties Of Hungary have played their last
pat. That part has been long and bloody. There
is nothing that has not been done on the side 70
suupress them there is nothing that has not been
done on the other to maintain them. The world
knows the catastrophe of this tragedy, but the
world is divided in the judgments which it has
iosmed with regard to it.
The years 1S4S-'49 saw all this gloomy
portent dissipated, this wall of despair
changed to shouts of EMULATION, as the min
ions Of Per6dy and DespotiSm were chased
from or buried beneath the free soil of Hun
gary, until the Austrian tyrant trembled for
the very existence of his empire. 1t was
saved by the powerful Intervention of Mich
olas, while Hungary was crushed by the
treason Of G6rgey. But neither is this con-
elusive. We have reached period in hui
man history when months do the work for
which years would have been requisite two
centuries ago. The restoration of Hungary to
Liberty and independence is the work of this
generation, and cannot long be postponed.
And at all events, since Americans have been
found or bought to varnish over and obscure
the gigantic crime recently consummated
by the Allied Despots, and their purchased
traitor, it is proper 10 reIterate the material
facts in the case until the public mind shall
have been fully possessed by them, so as TO
render it impervious to misrepresentation
20 gross, so infamous, so cowardly, as those
put forth in the article on Hungary in the
North American Rerte,e for January last.
For that libel on the PROSTATE, the wronged,
he exiled, the dead, we demand of its ut
erers the most ample reparation in the
cages of their work, and, until it is made, /
ve hold 4 the duty of every lover of Liber-
= and Justice to refrain from countenancing
hat Review in any manner whatever. If