The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-11-20


DO you understand me? Loud cheers. We
wished, then, that this should not be dependent on
the will of The landlord to accord it to him, but
that an estimate should be made of what was the
worth OF those duties and burdens and that If the
peasant should pay the capital estimated at the
rate of or per cent. he should be free. [Cheersl
This was opposed by the House of Lords, and then,
by the influence of the Government, it was reduced
to thls-that, when the landlord should give his
consent to it, every peasant, also every corpora
ton OF peasantry together, should have the right
to be free. This proposition | have stated was
agreed to by the common consent of the House of
Lords and House of Commons, but it was rejected
by the Government. That is, the Austrians re-
Jected that REFORM That was the issue of the re-
form question in 1886. | mention it as a fact And
here must explain-whaiever your opinion NAV
be as to pledges know not-ihat The members of
the House OF Commons we're not entirely plenipo-
tentiary, but received their instructions from The
county meetings which were sitting four or six or
even ten times year, and which controlled the
representatives and instructed them how to vote.
The intrgues of the Government, therefore, were
chiefly directed to the county meetings. in order to
carry bad instructions, and then we perceived, for
the first time, the very dangerous direction of the
movement of the Government with respect to these
institutions, to endeavor to influence, % ruin, to
weaken, to corrupt our public meetings and muni-
cipalities. Hear, hear.l Still, with respect to
pendence left in these public meetings, for though
our Supreme Court, who is something like your
Lord Lieutenant of counties, was named by the
King, yet being member of the House of Lords,
and being present in Parliament, he could not con.
tlnually influence the meeting when the instruc-
tlons were framed, and therefore Government ha d
no one present, fit by his influence and station to
carry out his views, and its means of corruption
were few. They therefore adopted the new rule
which was leaving nominally the Lord Lieutenant
to appoint besides an administrator in his place.
who had orders to be present at every meeting, to
control every step they took, and never leave his
county, and every thing being in the hands of the
Lord Lieutenant, such as gifts Of offices, so to
make the votes of county meetings mere non.
sense, or to make them rather tool of the Govern
ment Therefore, we opposed 1t with all our pos
sihle strength, but we opposed it, not ia any
privilegary view. but because we wished for the
Independence of the municipal institutions in order
to carry out reforms in this drection-not to make
the condition of Hungary such that there should
be there no close privileges for few but to erect
temple OF liberty there for all the people. Loud
cheers
But the more we developed our progress in
view to reforms, the more the Government insisted
on the progress to demotaZe the people. That
was our condition when the Diet met in November
or October, l847, just before the French Revolu.
ton. You see, then, that we in Hungary We're not
planning revolution. Loud cheers. Hungary
was not the soul of secret conspiracy but we in
public meeting struggled fairly and openly for the
rights of the people. Loud cheers.l myself had
the honor to be elected member of Parliament in
lS47, as deputy for the chief department, in fact
by l7 geographical position the metropolitan county
Of Pesth, where the Austrian Government did
every thing possible to oppose my election but the
good sense of The people laughter and cheers] car.
rIed 1t out to a trl imphant success. When we
came TO the Diet the first question proposed ac-
cprding to the instructions of my constituents was
that The municipal institutions of the country should
be upheld in their natural purity, and that the
system OF administrators should be put aside and
that 1t this motion was not carried no taxes should
be voted. On this motion The House of Commons
and the House Of Lords did not agree for two
months because it was necessary both should agree
TO carry bill before it could be laid before the
King but there is no limit to the number of COM
muDnatlons which passed between the two
houses, so that they might go on TO the number of
one hundred or three hundred ill The question is
settled or abandoned
This measure did not meet the appreciation of the
House of Lords, because composed for the
most part OF tunctlonarles named by the Govern
ment, or OF those who aspired to be the nominees
of Government. Still, we were happy to have the
most important part of the Lords of Hungary with
us, at the head OF whom was the unfortunate, the
worthy of better fate, Louis Batthyany [Cheers
These supported the House of Commons. Still
| the commission and Government went on to cor
rupt the county meetings, and |, seeing that we
should get the worst in the end, and that the Gov
ernment were carrying after the other by vio-
| lence and fraud, | proposed in the House of Com
mons that we should meet the continual encroach-
ments of the Government by having recourse to
the chief source of them. We that on the
head of the King of Hungary, who is Emperor OF
| Austria, two crowns are laid the was con.
| stitutional crown, the other an absolute crown
| These two opposite directions never could agree
| they never could be united which Of them was to
prevail, history will show but we felt that the
| Austrian crown was the source OF all encroach.
ments on the rights of Hungary, and that so long
as the two were united there would be no solidarity
IN he f1fn nnfr A., II
house of Hapsburg does not restore their rights to
the people OF Hungary-so long will you see q
rebellion ready to break out against Austria and
Hungary, having freedom, it was her duty, as elder
brother, to seek to restore freedom to those other
| countries of which the house of Austria had de-
prved them.
Seeing this, proposed that it was our duty as
the elder brother OF Austria, to go to the King and
| ask HIM to restore the constitutional liberties of the
| other portions of his dominions, and so by this
| means to put away the enchainment placed on tht
| constitutional rights of Hungary. That was wha
proposed. No just man can charge that by pro
posing this measure that was universally accepted
| by Parliament, was planning revolution. Nc
one will say l was Red Republican-the word,
of a true man, faithful to the rights of humanity
ever meet an echo in the breasts of generou.
Engishmen. Cheers.l My speech was trans
lated into German; it was published in Vienna, i
was read In the cotteehouses, in the public resorts
And now the news of the French Revolution cam,
upon us, and Vienna rose up in revolt loud cheersl
that was the Austrian Revolution. | myself witt
knowledge of all the circumstances of Europ,
before me, frankly own decided not to be carrie,
away by the elements, but to take the rens of tn
elements into my own hands cheersl to avail nv
self to the utmost OF the opportunity which Go,
had given-not Hungary made. Loud cheers
| Our first proposition now was for the emancipa
tlon OF the peasantry, which was carried unani
mously by. both houses. Cheers But was anx
ols not 10 hurt the interests of any class but ra he
o spare those which, though not just in their origin
by time, circumstance, age, had got inleraced will
the private fortunes of the people; and therefor
| proposed, and it was agreed 10 unanimousy tina
The people should be free of all its duies-lre
without paying any thing for it. Liberty must nc
be paid for loud cheers but at the same time
there should be an indemnify, not by The peasantry
but for the landlords. Hungary is rich enough ,
give compensation and indemnify TO the noble.
and by good financial operations might be made /
pay more than two or three times what it does now
engaged my honor and my word that full ir
demnity should be given, and the measure wa
carried unanimously; the second measure | prc
posed was that, whereas before the people had ever
duty but no right, there should be an equali,y
Isduty and in rights, and that every man. accordip
to his fortune, should contribute To the public ne
cessites-this was also carried The third propos
ton was, that the people should be admitted to tn
| right Of electng, not only members of ParameD
| but the magistrates who administer Iie laws bu
| OF course, half million OF people could. not /
. cOuvoked together IN one room, and therefore III
. | personal was Transported to representative bash
. | and every community was ordered 10 elect men
, | represent them in the county meetings.
Thai being INV chief directive nrntrinIp-thst