Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-12
COMMUNICATION:
HAYNAU AND HUNGARY.
TO THE EDITORS.

HAYNAU AND HUNGARY.
TO THE EDITORS
Messrs EDIToHs Your paper Processes 10 be impartial,
so far at least as respects the exhibition of public questions
unconnected with party politics and believe thai in gene-
ra il SO, rather more than many other papers Tbs
chief fault have find in the management Of the American
press as whole, is its Of Independence that is its
fear Of publishing any thing which may conflict with the po-
puar sympathes pudces, however inconsistent with
truth and justice these may be.
These remarks preliminary proposition which am
about make you, involving this very question of Edo
nal Independence. You have published for year or two
past number Of articles condemnaoy Of Austria for her
efforts subdue the revolt of Hungary Of viuperaon Of
Austrian commanders and unmeasured laudaton Of the Hun
garian leaders and, lastly several N not approving least
uncensung statements of the late outrage on the aged Aus
tran General HArsAU. About all this do not psoess to
much. have few foreign sympashes am an Ameri-
by birth and in all feelings and looking foreign
qusrres and wars view them with unbiased judgments
whatever be their peex possed aim and uniformly dis
that there two sides to every question: however
plausible side may be first sight, or before the other side
is heard But to the point
confess that, although have regarded Gen. HArYAu
with deep averson my feelings evoed at the brutal andn
hoptabe treatment he received at the hands Of London
mob and, whatever his official personal SINS could not
reconcile it to my ideas of "law and order see the Lon
don popuace take the law into its hands, and without
heang almost MURDER and indeed try murder an aged
foreigner. Such treatment could hardly have been jusabe
if meted out to such monster the English Henry the
With. Now, although the public feeling in England is
quite strong in favor Of Hungary and against Haynau as it
in this country find that the English press there has the
manness to rebuks the London mob and without further
preface the object Of this note is to whether you gene-
men, will also venture to give your readers the other side Of
this Hungarian business and London mob-w, by inserting
the articles Of the London Times which herewith send you
NATIVE CITIZEN
FROM THE LONDON TIMES SEPTEMBER 10.
document which appears in columns this day has
arrived Just in time to convince, should think, of
Messrs Barclay and Peknss daymen that there really
sides the Hungarian question It is list of 467 capi
tai punishments inflicted by the Hungarian insurgents with
reckoning general such that of the Tansy
Saxons As matter of arithmetic, is plain
that the score of Hungarian homcides up much
higher figure than the Austrian, and that if the Austrian
authorities punished with the lash, that womans
confederaes had previously put several female oyass
DEATH besides heinous atrocities. Considering the
number of difficult questions to be settled at home, and the
utter mpossby of interfering to any profitable purpose in
the internal affairs Of empire in the heart Of the European
continent it s quite unnecessary that should assist to
open this long and lamened quarrel is not place
defend Austria who has conducted her after her
fashion, and appeal to the Austrian argument of
To defend the successful is redundant and by no
agreeable task For this reason, protest
against vindicaon Of the rights of hospitality being mis-
construed into defence of every party State whose
sentatives may visit these shores. foreigner trusting
our generosity and laws while going the round of
establishments is suddenly attacked by gang
Of cowardy ruans and treated with disgusting brutality
For the honor of England protest against the outrage and
forthwith cooy charged by certain candid contemporaries
hal ndinpa
every of his actions during the late 1t would be
just reasonable charge those journals with defending all
the unspeakabe atrocities committed by the Hungaans
their allies.
It is very natural and proper Of course that should
have opinion affairs foreign and remote But
when English mob in violation Of the law but with the
appreciation of the press, undertakes to ict summary
geance the distinguished officer OF foreign State, what
becomes of boasted nonnteiference ,and Of still
prouder and still esher boast that it is the Office of the B-
sh navy vndcate the rights of hospitality all the
world Hospitality is reciprocal idea We cannot expect
of it than give and if undertake to read lessons
of cvy and forbeaance Greece and through
Greece Russia Austria and France, it will do
connive outrages in the British metropolis which should
allow at Athens Patras England claims the glo
rous distinction of insulting every representative OF unpo
puar policy that visits her shores, and yet backing with her
fleets the arrogance Of her subects-perhaps justly
odious in the eyes of foreign populaionsshe will become
the lawgver but the yrant of nations 1t but the
other day that told with much pomp that the British
the police Of the world and that the security Of the
humblest British subject every where protection to the
weak against the strong. Petensons of this sort
the verge Of hypocrisy and liable to be the cloak Of
bon of peulance become instantly ridiculous when the
pretender is the first break bis own law What possible
right have TO chastise the Of Athenan mob
if London mob is to be appauded for precisely the same
conduct Just and reasonable feel very great check
the consideration that they ought not to exact from others
scrupulous behavior than they able to exhibit
themselves There will be end Of this check in the Of
the British people, and consequently Limit to its preten-
son if while preends to be the great teacher and umpire
Of natons it is rejoice the fact that obnoxious
foreigner has been nsued and half murdered in the streets
PAPER OF sEPTEMBER IL
We that the of peace may not be more
ecuay served by the Magyar insurgents than by the Frank
fort speech-maker How the Austrans conducted the war
in Hungary very commonly related, how their antagonists
proceeded appears from the authentic documents which we
have recently published GBBoS laid down as rule that
in estimating the conflicting Of begeren's attention
should be paid rather to what each party Of the other than
what it alleges for ITSELF There undoubtedly grounds
for suspicion against manesoes drawn by apary in pow
with the obvious view Of jusng its acts but there
equally strong for msrusng statements made by
vanqushed insurgents Of the cases. indeed the latter
tie weaker since to the motives Of exaggeAion common
both parties would here be added the engendeed