The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-12-16


mont The hssrt full Of righteous feelings the mind full
Of convctens and Of prncplss-snd all this warmed BY
the lively Ore Of patriots heart-snd to see before
your eyes the scissors Of the Censor ready to fall upon
your head like the sword Of Dsmocss looping your ideas
manning your arguments, numbering your thoughts
and his pencil before your eyes, ready to blot out with
single drausht the work Of your sbrous days and of
your slsepls nights and TO know that the people viii
judge you, not By what you svs felt thought and writ
ten, but by what the Censor viih 10 know that tho
ground upon which you stand Is mot ground known
to you, because limited BY rules but unknown slip
perry ground the limits Of which Lie but within the srb
trary pleasure Of your Censor - doomed by profess
sion to be stupid, and . coward, and . fool 10
know all this, and yet not to curse your ds.tiny-
not to deny that you know to read and to write,
but to go on, day BY day, in the torturing work of
sysiphus Oh 1t is the greatest sacrifice which an in
teibgent man can make to fathsrland and hu
maDity And this the present condition of the Press
not In Hungary only but IN ell countries cursed By Aus
TRAN rule Our past revolution gave freedom to the
Press not only to my fathsrand but by indirect niu
ence also to Vienna, Prague Lsmberg In word to the
whole empire of Austria This very circumstance must
be sufficient to ensure your ympsthy to my countrys
cause on the contrary the very circumstance that
the vctsry Of the Hapsbursisn dynasty, achieved by
tree. on and Russian arms watch word Cypress
nay throughout the European continent Ths contsm.
plstion that the freedom Of the Pres ON the Huro
pean continent Is inconsistent with the prepoudsr-
snce Of Rurss, and the very existence Of the Aus.
TRAN dynasty, this sworn enemy or freedom end OF
every liberal thousht-ysur generous support Will
sweep away those tyrants and raise MARTY
where now foul oppression proudly rules Gen.
temeD, constdersbie time ago there appeared In
certain New York papers systematic nd Of the
most foul calumnss falsshocds and
hnIffh a HING ria osv,
ampled erontey to that strugged for eppres
sion while it was the cursed Austrian dynasty which
stood forth for liberty Now there Is degrees Of eront
cry the temerity Of which becomes astonishing even 70
me, who, has seen the unexamplsd treachery of the
House Of Russia, and became familiar with the old Ro
man mAum nal adnsrdri," through my Tempest tossed
hfe We may be msrepresented, scorhed, jeersd,
charged with faults our martyrs, the blood OF
fools; and heroes oommanding the 1eneration of
history may be represented Don Quixottes of trsg
comedy oil this could, If not bear at least conceive
have seen strange specimens of the abeatons of the
human mind but that in the midst of the onder-
full suerDgs not the honor Of un;ortupate ma
ton should be sacred to men, who enjoy the benefit
Of free institutions and profess to be republic
is too much it is sorrowfu psge in mankinds history
You cannot course, expect to see me- on this
son entering into special atiou OF this tonishinx
compound of cslumnies will for my PEN
Is can have free day for it. 1t win be very easy
oil artificial compounds of must
fall into dust before the dspassionst plain statement of
facts the greater part of which, thankfully have to &C
knowk dge are already not unknown to you Permit me
TO make some humble remark upon the question Of
tionalites," which play such important and dare
say such mischevous part In the destines of Europe
nisrepressnted or mistaken, The word pationay'
SO that 1t would be indeed great benefit to humanity
could succeed to contribute something to the recnca
ton OF this idea the Of which
the most mschisvous instrument In the hands abso
lutsm against the spirt of liberty. Let me ask you
a nation or not ( Have You : national sovsrnnsnt
or not? Have you! You answer yes; aud yet you
the people Of the United States are not Of biood
NJ
English, others French others German others Italian
others Spanish others Danish several Indian
mcnts even the government Of your sngls stssss nay
the municipal governments Of Jour different cities are
not egsattng and governing, and administering In a
and every language spoken In your Union in ths res
pective states and in the respective cities themselves
and Jet you have National government Now, suppose
that one part 81 the people Of the United States src
by curse Like that with which the builders Of Babel
mere once .t,uck should at once rise and say-"The
cur in,tiutons, State and city governmental our
very freedom Is an oppression TO us What 10 Union
ny! what geography what Community Of INTERESTS
They are AL nothing. Lipgusge-that Is all. Let US
divide the Unien divide the ststss divide the very
cities Let us divide the whole territory By aud accord
ing TO languages and then let the people OF every
gusge live distinct and form each separate State. Be-
eauie every nation has right TO national life and to
us the language Is the naticn-nothing else aud your
Cnien your rights your laws AID your freedom itself
though common TO u.s. an oppression to u.s. because
language the eny basis upon which States be
you say Of such reasoning What would become Of
ysur great Union What Of your constitution
So.. @mol s. Iy on %:sa
py What would become Of Jour country itsel,
Whence the spirit Of freedom spreads its rising wings,
What would become Of this grand mighty complex Of
your republic, should IL be attacked In ts consis
tepcy by the furious hands Of the Aa.cism OF Ian.
gusgc' Where now she wanders and walks among the
rsins Temples Of human happiness she would tread
upon the ruins q liberty, mourning the rasty Of
tbst thou has. founded Thy hOuio unl. a. aniS .s2
oasls Of a nations bs- Liberty pr,us iad
EYay NE tne world. eternal like the truth and
unv.nh lor every olims.e for every time, like Pro.
uoence. Ihou hast NO tyrants among thee 70 throw
tne apple Of Eros In thy Union. Thou hast no ty.
rants among thee 70 rase the fury Of hatred in thy
nsionsi family haired OF nations, that curse Of
humanity, that venonlous justrument Of despoasn.
What glorious sight !. Is 70 see the oppresss Of so
many different countries, different 10 Language history
mtb,fs ofby great nation regsnerntsd By the prnoi,
pie II common liberty. Would could do the sans;
but can't becsuse love my native land inex pressiby
beupdess feryenv love IL more than life thar
happiness love It more In its gloomy suisrings than
would In its proudest, hap sst days what makes q
nsionf Is 1.-THE language only aen there s no great,
no powerful nation earth because mere Is no mode
rntsy large country in the word whose p,uulaton s
counted by millions, where you would not nd -seral
languages spoken No! IL is not language only WHOM
makes nation Community Of interests, community OF
history, communities Of rights and duties but chiefly
community CT Institutions Of population vhch though
tongue, ana belonging 70 Inherent
races bound together by daily intercourse in their
towns the centres oftheir homsy commerce and homsy
industry the ve'y mountain range, and system Of
rivers and streams the SOIL the duet OF which
with the ashes OF those ancestors who bsi the
field for the interest the common inheritance OF
glory and Of woe, the CON immunity Of laws tie OF nttu
thns tie CT common freedom common oppression eli
this enters into the definition Of nation That this
true-that this instinctively felt BY the common
sense Of the people, nowhere IL more apparently
shown than at this very nicrnent In my native land
hungary was declared BY FrancI. JossSh of Austria
ne no more 70 exist a. nAtius, more as a STATE
va and II put under martial law STRANGERS ruls IN
- tongue where our fathers lived and our broth
ss BED 10 Be- Hunxarsn, beca n almost crime i'm
Sw own native laEd Nov, to justify before the world
the Atncton Of urg gary the partition Of its territory
and the Capitalization pf the dssected limb. into
the BODY Of servitude the trescharous dypasy
anxious t. chow that the Hungarisns are In MI
nority their owl nstive land TAsy hoped that in
tlmidstion and terrorism would induce the very
Hupesrans- Masyws, .~ We are In our own language
tefmed-te sbnesa,e their language and birth They
ordered census Of naonaites TO be made. They per-
formed " with the iron rule o. martial Law; they
poysd terrorism In the e 40 much that thou
ssuds OF women ana men, who proieed TO be Maryars
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