The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-03


brated manifesto declaring for the people of Po-
land the great principles of liberty to which we
have already alluded. He is now draughtsman
in the employ of our Government
After the Polish revolution which commenced
in Cracow was suppressed, Mile. Jagiello reas-
sumed female dress. and remained undetected for
few weeks in that city. From thence she re-
moved to Warsaw, and remained there and in the
neghboring country, in quiet retirement among
her friends. But the revolution Of 1913 found
her again at Cracow, in the midst Of the combat
ants. Alas! that revolution was but dream-it
accomplished nothing-it persisted like all other
European revolutions of that year, 80 great in
grand promises SO mean in fulflment But
their fire is yet smouldering under the ashes COW
eripg the Old World-ashes white and heavy as
death to the eye of the tyran but scarcely hiding
the red life of terrible retribution from the
prophetic eye of the lover of freedom.
Mile. Jsgielo then left Cracow for Vienna,
where she arrived in time to take heroic part
in the engagement at the faubourg Widen But
her chief object in going to Vienna was to inform
herself of the character of that revolution, and
to carry news to the Hungarians, who were then
in the midst of revolution, which she and her
countrymen regarded as involving the liberation
of her beloved Poland, and presaging the final
regeneration of Europe. With the aid of devoted
friends, she reached Presburg safely, and from
that place, in the disguise of peasant, was con-
veyed by the Hungarian peasantry carrying pro-
visions for the Austrian army, to the village of
ST. Paul q Ns> -'a7yee
After many dangers and hardships in crossing
the country occupied by the Austrians, after
swimming on horseback two rivers she. at last
on the 18th of August, ls4s, reached the HuHga-
rian camp near the village of Eneszey, just before
the battle there fought, in which the Austrians
were defeated, and lost General Wist. This was
the first Hungarian battle in which our heroine
took part as volunteer. She was soon promoted
to the rank of lieutenant, and, at the request of
her Hungarian friends, took charge Of hospital
in Comorn. Whilst there, she joined, as volun-
teer, the expedition of IL 900 troops under the
command of the gallant General Klapka, which
made a sally, and took Raab She returned in
safety to Comorn, where she remained superin-
tending the hospital, until the capitulation of the
fortress.
She came to the United States in December
last, with Governor Ladislas Ujhazy and his fam
lily, where she and her heroic friends received a
most enthusiastic welcome.
| know that some of my gentle and delicate
countrywomen may shrink from contemplation
of the martial career of Mile Jagiello, or regard
But they must remember for what a country she
fought, with what an enemy she contended.
Loving Poland with love which had all the
strength and fervor of a religion, and hating its
naughty and brutal oppressors with all the in
tensity of high and passionate nature, when the
hour Of uprising and fierce struggle came at last
could she do otherwise than ioir 10 ,--.i 49, .
To cheer them with her inspiring voice--to strike
with them for the one glorious cause-a great
purpose making strong her girlish arm and the
dawn of a great hope Frightening in her eyes
All those beautiful eyes. How often must her
brave followers when sad and disheartened, have
turned to them for cheer and guidance, drinking
fresh courage from those fountains of light.
The eagerness with which our heroine took
part in the Hungarian revolution proved that
her patriotism was not confined within the mar
row limits of her native land that she loved
freedom even more than Poland. In the situa-
ton which she so readily filled in the hospital at
Comorn, as the patient nurse of the wounded and
the comforter Of the dying, she revealed beneath
the heroism of the soldier the tenderness Of the
woman-a heart within heart. The hand which
had clenched the sword with q firm grasp, and
been stained with the base blood of the Austrian,
looked very soft and fair as it smoothed the pill
low of the sick, or held the cooling draught to
fever-parched lips; and the eye which had looked
steadily on the mad rush, the fl .me and tumult Of
the fight, and flashed its beautiful defiance in the
face of the advancing foe, grew wondrous ptifal
as it gazed upon the bleeding and PROSTATE pa
triot, and dropped fast tears on the dead brow
of fellow-soder.
The daughters of Poland and Hungary are
grand race of women. They do not assume the
uarb and take the arms of the soldier, nor do bis
terrible work, because they are stern, and hard
and warlike by nature, but because all that is
dear to them on earth-home, honor, liberty, and
,ove--are at stake. They fight with and for the
hest loved of their hearts-their great hearts
which cannot comprehend feeling that would
cause them to shrink from the side OF father,
husband, or q brother, in the hour Of EXTREMIST
peril. Their courage, after all is of that quality
which
ais but the tender ferceness Of the dove,
Picking the hand that hovers Ger it's mate"
MANY were the heroines actively engaged in
serving the cause of Freedom during the Hunga-
rian struggle Not alone in the saddle and under
arms, but in ways and capacities not less honor
able, though perhaps less imposing. General
Pragay, in his work on Hungary, says
"No sooner had Windiscbgratz gratihed him.
self with executions by the dozen, and guarded
the bastions of Vienna with cannon, than he
marched his disposable force amounting to ~, 900
men, upon Hungary. II was quite impossible to
resist such power in extended environments, snd
after several unimportant actions, Gorgey ordered
a general retreat to Raab, in the middle OF De-
cember. Here intrenchments were thrown up, o"
nhich The noblest ladies' worked nth haT delicate
hands"
A sister Of Kossuth served during the war IS
general superintendent Of hospitals; Mile Mary
Lagos served as adjutant in the brigade OF Gene
raj fisherman She was taken prisoner, and her
fate is unknown Mile Cswl served as captain
she was a niece of General Wipdischgratr and
fought twice against the Austrians commanded
by her uncle. She was taken prisoner in battle
fought against the infamous Hsynau, and shot
by his order.
Not yainlv have those glorious women dared