New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-16

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| Msevars and thus no new census was taken. 50
true Is nv assertion that Il Is not language aloie
which makes a nal0n. an assertion which Of course
your own great Republic proves TO the world.
But on the European Co itlnenl mere unhappIy
grew 10 a school which bound the idea of language
oniv to The idea Of language, and joined political
nreiepsions TO It. There are some VINO adyOca g
the theory tina. existing counties must cease and
the territories OF the world be aDe divided by Ian.
guages and nations, separated by tongues.
Sou are aware that this idea If 1t were not in
practicable, would be but curse TO hum anIty-a
death blow to civilization and progress, and thro
back mankind by centuries-lt were an eternal
source Of strife ard war because there is holy
almost religious tie, by which mans heart to ms
home Is bound, and no man ever w0rh consent 10
aoancon has native land only because his neghbOrs
speak another language than he himself and by
this reason, claims for him That sacred spot where
the ashes OF his fathers he-where has own cradle
stood where he dreamed the happy dreams OF
youlh, and where nature Itself bears marx OF his
mdnhOC1s labOnOus toll. the idea we're worse
than the old migration OF nations was-despOilsm
only would nse cut OF the strife Of mankinds fanat-
lcsm.
And really it is very curious. Nobody OF the al.
vOcates OF this mischevOus theory wiling TO yield
TO II for hmse-3ut others ne desires to yield - 1t.
Every Frenchman be cOmes furious when his Alsace
is claimed to Germany by the right Of language-or
tie borders OF has Pyrenees to Spaln-but there are
some among the very men VINO feel TevOlted at thus
idea who Claim for Germany that It should yield up
large territory because one part OF the inhabitants
speak different tongue, and would CLAIM IRON
Hungary TO divide It's territory which God himself
has limited by us range of mountains and the system
Of streams, also oy all the Inks OF a community
Of more than thousand years, to cut of our night
hand, TransyyaDia, and TO give Il up to the neigh
boring Wallachla, to cut out, ike ShylOck, one
pounO OF our very bTeast-ihe Banat-and the rich
country between the Danube ana 1heiss-ts aug
ment by It Turkish Serbia and so forth. 1t s the
new ambition Of conquest but an easy conquest
not by arms but by language.
SO much know, al least, that this absurd idea
cannot. and will not be advocated by any man here
In the United States which did not open IT'S hospta-
bic shores to humanity, and greet the focklng mill
ions of emigraDts with the right OF citizen, In or
Ger that the Union may be cut TO pieces, and even
your single States divided INTO new-fIamed lnde'
pendent countries by and according to languages.
And do you know, gentlemen, whence TINS aD.
surd theory sprung up on the European Continent
1t was tile idea Of PaIslavlsmus-that is the IDEA
that the mighty stock OF Sclayonlc races is called 70
rule the world as once the Roman did. 1t was
Russian plot ii was the internal idea, to make out
OF national feelings tool to Russian pfeponderance
over the world
Perhaps you are not aware of the historical origin
of this plot. IL after the thIrd division of Po
land, this most immoral act Of tyranny, that the
chance OF fate brought the Prince Czartorlsky 10
the Court OF Caiharine Of Russia. tie subseq Iently
became Minister of Alexander the Car. 1t was in
this quality that, with the noble aim TO benefit his
down.troGdcn fatherlaRd, he claimed from the young
Gar the restoration OF Poland, suggesting for equiv
alent the idea of Russian preponderance over all
nations OF the old SclayoDc race believe his IN
tenton sincere | believe he thought not TO
mlScOnSder tnOSe natural DOrOerS, WHICH, OeslucS
the affinity of language, God himself has between
the nations drawn But he forgot that the spirits
which he raises he will not be able to master more
and that uncalled fanacism Will sundry fanIastlca
shapes force into his frame by which the frame Itself
must burst pieces soon. lie forgot that Russian pre-
pOnderance cannot be preptous to Liberty ne Tor
got that II not be favorable TO the develop
ment OF the Sclave nationality, because Sclavonlc
nations would by this idea be degraded into lndivld
uals Of Russiansm-all absorbed by Russia, that 49,
absorbed by despotIsm.
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Maybe that young Alexander had IN the first
moment noble incllnat Ons he was young,
and the warm heart of youth is susceptible to noble
instincts. 1t is not common In history, such
Francis Joseph Of Austrla-so young and yet such
"A Nero as he is But few years of power were
sufficient to extlnguish every spark of noble sentl-
ment-if there was one IN Alexanders young
heart. Upon the throne of the ROmanOw's, is
she man soon absorbed by the Autocrat. The
AR OF the traditional policies OF st. Petersburg,
is not that air where the plant OF regeneration
can grow, and the sensible idea became soon
weapon of horror, oppression and RUSSIAN prepon,
derance. Russia avaled herself OF tho idea OF
Panslavism to break Turkey down, and make an
obedlent satellite out of Austria Turkey wlthstands
vet but Austria has fallen in the snare. Russia sent
out lis agents, It's moneys, It's venomouS secret oil
plomacy through the world II spoke TO the Sclave
nations OF hatred against foreign dominion--of
independence of religion connected with nationality
under its own supremacy but cmeny IL spoke 10
them OF Pansayism uncer the protectorate Oh tne
Gar The millions of its own large empire also, all
oppressed in seryitudeal tool to his ambition;
he attered them with the idea TO become the rulers
OF the world in order that they might not think OF
liberty he knew that mans breast cannot hareOr
two passions at once He gave them ambition ana
excluded the spirit OF liberty. ms alnoltloh got
hold of all the Sclave nations through Europe SO
became Pan.lavism the source of movement not
II nationality but of the DOMINION OF languages
Plat word language" replaced every other sentl-
ment and so 1t became the curse to the development
of liberty.
Only one part OF the Sclavonic races saw the mat,
ter clear and wilhstood the current of this internal
Russian plot. They were the Polish Democrats
the only ones who understood that TO fight for ber-
" is to fight for nationality Therefore they iousnt
in our ranks, and willing TO flock In thousands
OF thousands 10 aid us in our struggle but couid
not arm them so could not accept them: We our
selves, we had hundred fold more hands ready 10
fight than armS-and nobody was IN the world 10
help us with arms.
There is the same orgln ana real nature Oh the
question Of natonalltes III Europe.
Now let me see what was the condition OF Hunga
~ under these circumstances
Eight hundred and fifty years ago, when the hrsI
King of Hungary, st. stephen, becoming Christian
himself converted the Hungarian nation to Chris
tianIty, 1t was te Roman Catholic clergy OF Germa-
ny whom he united TO assist HIM IN his pious WORK
They did, but II was natural that the pous assist
ance happened also to be accompanied by some
worldly designs Hungary offered d vide heldto me
ambition OF foreigners. And they persuaded the
King to adopt curious principle, which he lad
down in his political testament that Is that IT'S not
good when the people of country is but OF one eA
traction and speaks but one tongue. Thefe was YET
adopted another rule that is TO advise the language
OF the Church-Laiin--for the diplomatic language
of the Government, Legislature, law and all pubic
proceedings. The Hungarian, scarcely yet De-
evlng Christian, spoke not the Latin OF course
This Is the origin of that fatality that Democ
racy did not develop for centuries in Hunga-
~. The public proceedings having been car
red on in Latin, the laws gwen IN Latin, the
people were excluded from the pubic LIE. fuo-
hc instruction beng carried on in Latin, the great
mass of the people, being agrculturers, did no par
take and the few who out of the ranks oil the
peoplc partOOk in II, became, by the very inStruc
non severed and ahenated from the peoples inter
ests This dead Latin language, introduced into the
public life OF a living nation, was the most mis-
chey Gus barrier against liberty The first blow TO It
| was stricken by the Reformation. The Protestant
Church introducing the national language into the
Divine services, become a medium 10 the develop
ment Of the spirit of liberty SO were our ancient
struggles for religious liberty always connected with
the maintenance OF political hts But still, Latin