Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-12-13
Hungary, No. 2.


The Hungarians recognized under their con-
stitution as of two classes mobiles and peasants 1t
has been stated that the Magyars were race Of
mobiles, exercising authority over the ensaved Croats,
Serbs, and Slovacks, but such statement is not
correct There Croatian and Soyack mobiles. and
there are Magyar peasants. There was no political
distinction of races in Hungary; that distinction
was merely Evolutionary and local. The administra-
ton of public Affairs in Hungary, was committed
chiefly to the mobiles; but the municipal cities were
subject to the popular will. The Hungarian Diet.
or Congress, which held its sessions at Pesth, was
elected by, and composed wholly of nobles County
Israes, judges, sc, elected by mobiles onIy
but IN village affairs, the peasants always voted.
The Hungarian municipalities were considered by
the people, TO be the great buwarks of their liberty.
ct re manifestoes of the King, and the acts Of the
asvere subject 10 the county Courts. and n ,bs
Providence Srog@ them they were thrown aside. The
No at1ungary were proverbially numerous
MS fact is accounted for, by the facility
prosperous peasant could purchase the
tnmunities of nobility. Several of the
inty constituencies Of Hungary, ex-
everal thousands, the constituencies Of
counties Of England.
the sptrn Of freedom, and consciousness of their
rights, among that people, in spite of the efforts of
the Austrians. The right of public meeting has
always been claimed and maintained in the counties;
and in their county courts, the Hungarians have
succeeded in preserving type Of the trial by jury
The Austrian Government, by falsehood, fraud
corrupton bribery, and all the other numerous art
fees inherent to that system of executive scoundrel
ism, which is dignifed with the name Of diplomacv,
succeeded in taking frem the cities and towns many
OF their privileges, but into the country, where the
shepherd tended his sheep, and the yeoman held his
pillow, and the artisan totally proetarian
serf, but an untitled noble, the corrupous Of The
State Streets Wall Streets and Secretary of States
Offices at Vienna could not penetrate. II was in the
country that Ferdinand and Meteruich found patriot
ism too strong for diplomacy. 1t was among the
plain, honest men of the rural districts that the
power Of money failed.
Since 1880, when the democratic spirit evoked
from the ashes Of the Grondins began to fe ment
and work in the bosom Of Universal Europe, the
Magyars of Hungary, mobiles and peasants, have
striven to beraize their government and to render
their people community Of citizens instead of lords
and serfs. In 1882, upon the convocaton of the
Diet, after an Illegal suspension by royal edct, Of
seven years duration, the first act Of that body was
to declare The comde and universal emancipation of
The peasants from all immortal dues and political dis
Abilities Austria instantly took alarm at this mag
nlicent measure of JUSTICE and exerted her malignant
energies to the utmost to render it imperative.
Aided by the old conservative magnates and the pur
chased tools of Meernich, she suppressed the post
Off md fno.
act Of emancipation amongst the people, She
sezed, upon a trumped up charge Of conspiracy,
Baron Wesseleny, leader of the liberal mobiles, be-
sides several young Of genius and liberal IDEAS
and procured their condemnation and immediate
incarceration, in contravention of their rights and
privileges, as secured by the written laws Of Hun.
gary. Deprived of its legal organs, by foreign
absoutism, acting by the WISH and under the anthor
ny of its own King, sworn to maintain its constilu.
tionai rights and privileges, the Hungarian nation
necessarily adopted system Of secret anti Austrian
associations, and the agency Of coporteurs, to keep
alive the spirit Of resistance to tyranny and 10 con-
solidate the union Of the reiormers By these means.
Hungary maintained against Metiernich, the COM
bat Of right against brutal might.
Ii was now, that Kossuth appeared upon the stage
Of politics, and threw himself into the combat for
liberty. lie had been sent to the Diet in 1882. as
the proxy Of several wealthy peerages. While
there, he prepared transcripts Of the debates for his
clients; and finding that they exciied wish among
the absent nobes for extended circulation Of
them, he caused them to be Autographed The
Ansirian government promptly suppressed this grey.
olationasy organ" Aossuth, assisted at one time b.
ighiy ananoenses, again wrote out his journals, and