New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-18

hold, and nearly every one had Immediately
conspired to violate it was then they
were enabled to secure the Royal assent to
the Diets beneicent and sweeping mea-
sures of Reform by which the peasantry OF
Hungary were not merely enfTanchised but
made proprietors of the lands they had
hitherto held as tenants and virtual serfs.
So it was only when the victories Of Ra-
detzky in Lombardy had partially restored
the prestige Of Austrian Imperial sway
that the Court deliberately and UNANIMOUSLY
conspired to rob the Hungarians of their so
lately regained rights and renew the usur-
pations by which their independent c0nsti-
tutionel Kingdom had long been held and
governed as a virtual province Of the Aus
TRAN Empire, in defiance Of every Emper-
or's coronation oath. 1t was to this end
and by the most Internal Vaccinations,
such as were by no means new to Austrian
policy, but had been secretly employed
with. murderous success in Gallicia, that
Jellachich was created Ban of Croatia and
the War of Races instigated by setting
Serb and WallaGk and Roumanian and
Slavonian so far as possible at feud with
Magyar-the Imperial cOntrivers Of this
6endish fray all the time pretending that
they were doing their utmost to uphold the
regular and legal government of Hungary,
whereof an Austrian Archduke was the i'm
mediate head, and to put down the Croa-
tian rebellion which that per6dious Aus
TRAN Court was at the same moment osten-
tatiously denouncing and secretly foment-
ing.
For season, these diabolic arts seemed
destined to an easy victory. Hungary,
betrayed by the Austrion Court which pre-
tended to be doing its utmost to put down
the CroatiAn insurrection and bring its con-
triver to justice-betrayed by the Austrian
Archduke who presided over her councils
as PaIatine-was attacked while unarmed
and unprepared for resistance and nearly
crushed. But the exigency aroused all her
spirit; she rallied force which discounted
and scattered the army of Jellachich; de-
cIared her crown forfeited by the Austrian
house of Hapsburgh through its long course
of peIjuries and treasons; organized tenn
porary Government, an Army and a Com
missariat, and drove back the Austrians,
through a series of sanguinary combats,
from the banks of the Thesis to the ram
parts of Presburg. And these Hungarian
victories over the embattled hosts of Aus
tria were the foundation, the moving cause,
of the Wanted concession Of liberal rep
resentative Constitution by the Austrian
Court to Hungary, as also to Austria and
her dependencies. That Constitution has
thus far been a mockery and a gigantic
fraud--no part of the liberties and rights
guaranteed by it have the people been per-
mitted to enjoy; but it nevertheless exists,
at least as one more monument of the es-
sential, inevitable perfdy of Kingcraft;
and if It's benefits shall ever be enjoyed,
even in part, by Hungary or by Austria
the credit will be rightfully due to the he
roic champions of Hungarian independence.
But Russia and treason came to the
aid of Austria, end Hungary fell. A
stripped and bleeding carcase-not yet
corpse, God be praised for the heart still
beats family, however tyrants and their
tools may seem not to heed it's all that
remains of the noblest and most gallant
Nation that ever struggled against the
overwhelming might of two great Empires
against the blind fury and insane jealousy
Of domestic factions-ag against Infamous trea-
son in high places-against want of means,
of arms, and of everything save patriotism
and valor. And the fall of Hungary was
the ruin of the Popular Cause throughout
Europe-was the enslavement of Italy, in
GLIDING heroic Venice-the death blow to
Freedom in Germany. Had Hungary
maintained her independence, is there one
man whe believes that Universal Suffrage
would have been destroyed in France Tor
that the King of Prussia would have dared
to repudiate all he promises and oaths by
which he kept his throne in '48, rendering
the Constitution a sham and utterly crush
ing the Liberty Of the Press ! Had Hun
gary stood erect, who believes that the
People of Hessc would have been subju-
gated by foreign soldiery for merely ask
ing their monarch to abide by the Consti-
tuition he had sworn to uphold Tor that
Schleswig- Holstein and Hamburger would