New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-12

court, anu JelIaCniCn denounced as
traitor, and yet it was true After months
of pcrfdy and treachery, when per6dy
could serve no longer, the Court threw off
the mask and acknowledged Jelachich as
its faithful scrvitor Beaten in his first
attempt to subdue Hungary, he fed to the
Austrian Court, and was there received
with signal honors, and fitted out for re-
newal of The War of Races in Hungary
Now look for one moment at the inherent
probabilities of the case. The Magyars,
who number some Five Millions, were
about to plunge into desperate contest
with the mighty Austrian Empire, with
population of at least Twenty Millions Is
it likely that these Five Millions, destitute
of almost everything but valor, and with
the prospect Of bringing down upon them
the colossal power of Russia, would com
mence the persecution of the Six or Seven
Millions of Slayonians and other Races once
their subjects, who with them compose the
present population of Hungary F.? Is 1t with
in the reach of human credibility that any
Five Millions. not all Of them natural fools,
ever did or could in such a crisis treat their
fellow countrymen as the Magyars are rep
resented by Francis Bowen as treating
theirs On the other hand who except
Bowen does not see that it was every way
the interest of Austria to instigate q war
of Races in Hungary, not only TO weaken
the Patriots but to excite Russian sympa-
thy for the oppressed Slavonians in lower
Hungary?
But again: the Hungarians fairly,
thoroughly hogged the Austrians and drove
them from their Country. They chased
the legons of Windischgratz from the banks
of the Thesis to Presburg, retook the fortress
of Buda by assault and reGstablished at
Pesth their seat of Government. This was
months after the eflervescence at Vienna
had been quelled, and after the abdicatlon
of Ferdinand and the accession of Francis
Joseph had restored efficiency to the head
of the Empire. That the Hungarians had
TO bear up against deadly, murderous civil
war waged against them in the South by
the Croats and other warlike tribes whom
the acts of Jellachich had inhamed with
hatred of the National cause, is certain
But if it had been true that the cause for
which Kossuth struggled and Bathyani
Il. r. for
nation over the majority Of their country
men and for the maintenance Of Anticipated
and unjust privileges, could II hare been
necessary for Austria 10 cali in the aid Of
Russia? If the Twenty Millions of Aus
trian subjects outside of Hungary, and the
Seven Millions of Slavonians, Wallachians,
&c in Hungary were not enough to master
Five Millions of Magyars, must not the
latter be something more than human?
But what Austria, aided by all that
Jellachich could muster of Slovenian hatred
and jealousy of Magyar domination in the
South were unable to accomplish, the
gigantic power of Russia and the treason of
G0rgey at length effected. Hungary fell;
and the bravest and noblest Of her defend
ers, whom Austria had not the power to
vanQlish, she had the baseness to murder
Soldiers and Statesmen, made prisoners
of war by G0rgey's infamous surrender,
were butchered like sheep at the nod of
Haynau-thankful if permitted to escape
the malefactor's rope and die death be-
fitting soldiers. A small band escaped into
Turkey, and were there imprisoned on the
demand of Austria, and their surrender to
her tender mercies demanded: Turkey
was spared the deep disgrace Of betraying
them to the hyenas prowling for them only
by the firm resistance of France and Great
Britain. A still smaller band escaped to
our shores, landing here nearly destitute in
the dead of winter, when it was impossible
that they should for months find the means
of earning a subsistence. A number of our
citizens at once interested themselves in
behalf Of these hapless fugitiyes, and, ap-
pealing to the public, procured the means
of supporting them till Spring and then
dispatching them to their chosen home on
the broad prairies West of the Mississippi
But, while they were intently laboring to
this end. they were met and thwarted' so
far as they could be thwarted, by torml-
dable arraignment of the justice ofthe Hun
oarian cause in the North american Reuieo,
under the defamatory title Of The War Of
Racesin Hungary. That article did all that
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