New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-05

| -. .elI "a civilization and the laws, what
90, might remind the Magyar of his former
| freedom and independence, whatever chersheu
within him the seeds OF nationality ana tue
hone Of its resurrection, whatever endeared nm
| to his brother and stood in the way OF his total
amalrama,ion with the race Of his conqueror-
all were washed away, as with sponge, but
seonge wet and reeking with his own hearts
| blood
DO you ask if inlquity so horrible was tamely
| submitted to no, you do not ask 1t, because
your hearts have already given the reply. The
Magyars were not race to sink down sullenly
under such oppression If they had been, they
might have deserved their fate. But they bat
tied long and well against all the insidous and
all the omen inroads of the invader They made
gigantic efforts to heave off the incubus, they
struggled like Sinbad with the old man on his
back, they performed heroic efforts, and iluml
mated their annals with instances OF devotion, OF
energy. of high-minded courage, but they la
bored in vain. The heel OF the oppressOr was
on their neck, and for more than a century their
faces were in the dust Whatever Of their old
immunities remained was the grant OF their sove-
reign. not their own right.
They submitted, but they did not yield. It.
was not in the power OF man to utterly crush
| the hopes or break the will of such people.
| They bore their wrongs for that dreary century
they saw their names botted out OF the book
of nations they saw their institutions, their
laws, their popular privileges, their literature
their commerce overturned and PROSTATE but
they were still Magyars and men, and still be-
leved in the eternal God. But, alas the old
men laid themselves down in their graves, be-
fore the redeeming hour of Gods justice had
arrived
Such, then, Were the old relations between
Hungary and Austria, and such the inheritance
which either party had left to its successors. 1t
was contest of nation against natiOn,-of an
encroaching, insatiate, and ambitious empire
with an independent, proud and resisting king
dom. The internal relations of the two, there
fore, were those of incessant hostility
With the dawn of the present century, new
generation upon the throne Of Hapsburg
Younger set of men III the homes of the Magyar
new circumstances arose, and new relations,
both internal and external, were generated The
Magyar, forgiving but not forgetting, the wrongs
ofhis fathers acquiesclng for the time In tyranny
which he could not overthrow corrupted, too,
It may be, to some extent, by the Establishments
which absolutism knew SO well how to use,-n
the long wars that grew out Of the French Re-
volution, became the best reliance Of Austria in
her hour of need. He Joined in her battles with
the mighty spirit who then distracted and terri
fled the allied scoptros Of Europe The disci-
pline and impetuous energy OF the Hungarian
soldery saved many a field IN which the feebler
force OF Austria would have been borne TO the
ground.
These services ought to have been requited
on the part OF Austria in a liberal spirit Of ad-
ministrauon toward her assistant, but, with the
exception OF few trivial concessions, Of an SC
casional allowance Of municipal rights, and an
occasional relaxation of oppressive edicts. the
old system was enforced with much OF IT'S old
stringency and malevolence At the same time,
however, these services OF the Hmgarians had
been profitable to themselves for they had taught
them the secret of their strength twas great
thing to have learned the fact that if they were
insignificant in peace, they could be terrible in
war; They were emboldened and encouraged to
more positive demands. The feeling of the ma.
ton was awakened they threw OFF the lethargy
of long inactivity; the spell of despair and utter
helplessneSs was broken; vigorous fresh blood
coursed through their velns new thoughts and
new hopes and new resolves gave bounding
spring and elasticity TO their minds.
When, therefore, IN 1892, Just after the second
revolution of France had driven Charles the
Nth from his throne and animated the popular
heart of Europe with aspirations for change
when, we say the National Diet was convoked
in 1882, 1t was found to be Diet which not
only opposed Austria, but which cherished plans
of internal reform. Although, by the Constitu
ton, il was the source of all law 10 Hungary, it
had not been assembled for full seven years be-
tore When it did convene, the purposes Of
good which had been fermenting all over the
land IN the secluded nook no less than in the
magnate's paror, were brought to a head Its
| first proposal, though it was composed mainly OF
landholders, 10 their glory be il Said,) was the
| emancipation OF the peasants,-peasants, as we
have seen, who had been originally in a tolera.
| bly, good condition, but who had been reduced
| TO a state of almost seridom. Its next proposal
| was, 10 make every inRabltant of mature age a
voter, thus placing the liberties OF the nation on
the most liberal and sure foundation. 1t then
ordered the restoration OF the native language of
the people by new and strong enactments. Il
incorporated a college for the revival of the ma.
tive literature. 1t stimulated industry by COM
menclng system OF internal Improvements, and
| thus for four years went on IN the same wise
and generous spirit, to recover the lost preroga-
| tves and enlarge the freedom of the whole
| people.
But all these measures were steadily resisted
| by the agents OF the Austrian Government. who
lef, no means untried to rebuke and suppress the
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