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

I People. 10 sehu ioI'n ~ ''o
,,oet cruel calumnies on KOssuth and his
martyred compatriots as North American
: an outrage and libel on our own country
as well as upon Hungary. This great wrong
must be atoned for, or the Review must look
for its support to the tyrants to whose filthy
work it lends itself Meantime, We most
earnestly call public attention to the article
On Hungary in the last Christian Examiner,
which for ability and clearness Of statement
has not been surpassed. 1t is from the pen
Of an American woman who Is thoroughly
familiar with the history and literature Of
tbe nations Of Eastern Europe. And, al
though the material facts, as set forth in
Count Telehs statement, were mainly pub
lished in our columns last year, we propose
here 70 recur to few Of the more essential,
in order to reassure and fortify the minds of
any who may have been disturbed by the
North Americans calumnies or by those of
Consul Walsh or any of his cOlabOrers in
The cause of Absolutism. Few as are the
Rovalists among u.s. there is yet very gen.
eral deficiency of intimate knowledge ofthe
essential depravity of Monarchy and the
moral necessity which constrains it, in an
age of light and inquiry like the present, to
walk in craftiness and subsist by perjury,
conspiracy, and the darkest hypocrisy.
In the first place, be it ever borne in mind
that HUNGARY Is no PART OF AUSTRIA, but
distinct nation, having (priOr to the recent
CATASTROPHE the acknowledged right to be
governed by its own written constitution and
laws. The Hungarians are not even Ger
mans. but an entirely distinct race 1.-THE
Magyar who came into Europe from Asia
during the tenth century, and established
themselves on the great plains of the Danube
and its lower tributaries formerly known as
Dacia and Pannonia. There were other |
races inhabitiDg the country-Slavonian, |
Wallachian, sc. and the conquering Magyars |
have been regarded as the ascendant race,
lust as the NOrmans for eight centuries have
been in England; but they had no special
privileges known to the laws. Those who
have called the recent struggle The War of
Races in Hungary and spoken of the Mag
vars as the mobiles struggling for the perpet-
uation of feudal privileges, have been dis
honest or grossly deceived. The mobiles are
simply the Warrior caste of former era,
and as such enjoyed certain exemptions from |
taxation. &C. as a consideration for their La
bility to be called into the field for the pub
/ lie defense, Just as the firemen of our cities
are usually exempted from Militia and from
Jury duty But while many mobiles are of
the Magyar stock, many more are not, while
thousands Of the Magyars are simple peas
ants. Says De Gererando,
ain the county of Ndramaros there are found
four hundred and eighty three Maya nobes, seven
hundred and seventeen Slovenian MOBILES and three
thousand seven hundred and fifty Waachan
blts These numbers are taken from the public
archives OF the Countrywide FEprlt PpJlic en-
H0ngr1e, p. 49,
The article before us gives abundant in
stances of this kind. In the counties of
Arva, Lipto and Trencsen, the aggregate
number of mobiles is seventeen thousand one
hundred and sixty-nine, while the whole
number of Magyars is but twenty-three hun
dred. And be it understood that all these
mobiles are equally entitled to vote for and
be elected to the National Diet. And, while
Political Franchises were confined to the
mobiles, the number Of voters in many cOun-
ties was from six to twelve thouSand-more
than in almost any English mot to mention
Irish County, or French Department at that
time.
Now as to the assertion that the recent re-
sistance to Austrian arms in Hungary was
a struggle of either the MOBILES or the Magyar
race to perpetuate their privileges It's false
hood is written in blazing letters all over the
recent history of hungarian legislation. 1t
is abundantly on record that the anti-Aus-
trian or popular party, whereof KoSsUrH
was for many years the life and soul, has
contended for an equalization Of public bur
dens at least since 1880, as it did in fact
long before. The Manifesto Of this party.
issued in 1871, includes the following sum-
mary Ct its demands, viz:
al The equal distribution Of the public burdens.
We regard il as our principal duty TO tighten the
burdens OF the people, who have hitherto been
alone subjected 10 taxation W. wish in this re-
spect also, to strengthen our constitutional guaran
tees. We desire that the Diet should decide as to
the disposition of the impost.
80 Participation OF the non mobiles, OF the inhab
tants Of the Toy cities, and OF the free districts
in legislative and municipal rights.
- Equality before the law.
81 The abolition of the urbarisldues, With indem-
nity to the landed proprietors. We think it desir.
shia that sfens shonld be taken 10 renAer the Pa