New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-16


SIdra, which in their language slgnlhes
fame or glory.
5. The Mobiles of Hungary formerly d'a
exercise almost despotic power over the
pessantry but the Mobiles were not all Ma
gyars, nor were the peasants all Sclavonlan''
On the contrary, many of the Mobiles were
Sclavonians, many ofthe peasants Msgyars;
and the Constitution recognized no distinc-
ton of Races. The Magyar Noble had no
more power over the Sclavonian peasant
than the Sclavonian Noble had over the
Magyar peasant. A fact which places this
beyond peradventure or cavil Is that OF the
use of Latin as the official language Of
Hungary for generations back. No Race
of Four Millions holding other Millions in
abiect slavery ever yet consented for ages
to use as its official language any other
than its own native tongue. Who denies
this
CO.. g. 9. We have already shown the
utter falsity-nOw the wicked, inexcusable
untruth of these assertions-by citing the
great measures of Reform and Progress
adopted by the Hungarian Diet composed
principally of Magyars) in e March, l848,
months before the troubles commenced
whereby the Right Of Suffrage ,cas ertend-
ed to erery citizen Of Hungary, whether
Magyar, German or Slavon; all immuni-
ties from taxation and other special priv
ileges of the Mobiles abolished; the Feudal
Land Tcnures of the Peasantry changed
to allodial; Tithes and Censorship of the
Press abolished; and National Guard or
ganized from the whole People to protect
the liberties thus guaranteed. The Cou-
rier reiterates its charges without noticing
our refutation. 1t has not printed, 1t
dare not print, the Reform measures OF the
predominantly Magyar Diet in March,
l848, which so utterly refute its most vital
positions. Is this the result of heedlessnesS
or the silence of detected guilt Why is
it that none of the defamers of the Hunga-
rian Patriots has ever ventured to copy or
cite these great Reform measures of March,
l548, to subvert or to maintain which was
the real object of the struggle! What
should we think of Tory history of our
Revolution which accused our fathers
of fighting to uphold Slavery here, but care
fully suppressed The Declaration Of Inde-
pendence and stunned all allusion to it :!
Should we not instantly affirm, not merely
that the History was fable, but that The
historian MEANT TO deceire The Courier
may be ignorant that Kossuth had been for
sixteen gears prior to l848 Except during
the two years when he was immured IN an
Austrian dungeon without being permitted
to know why or wherefore) the Editor at
first of autographed, afterward Of letter
press Journal, wherein he steadily and ably
advocated the abolition of all distinctions
of Caste or Race, and in fact all the great
Reforms W hich he was foremost in carry
ing into effect in the Diet of March, '4S.
These are facts we'll known to those con-
versant with tho recent history of Hun
gary-they utterly scout the foul ISLANDERS
which The Courier has adopted; but the
acts themselves no one who discusses this
subject has any moral right to suppress.
6, 7, 3, 9, 10, IL. Croatia is a border
district of Hungary, inhabited by savage
and warlike people, whose principal voca-
ton is fighting, and who have a Diet Of
heir olcn and chief known as the Ban.
They are nominally Catholics, and, so far
were the Magyars from holding them in
slarery that, while the Magyars were in
good part Protestants, no Protestant was Tor
Isl aLlotced 10 settle in Croatia, Kossuth
himself would there have been an outlaw.
SO much for Croat ideas Of equality and
freedom. The Croatian revolt was really
fomented by Austria, in order to subvert
the Hungarian Reforms; but its Ostensible
object at first was lin concert with the b.
hemian and other Sclavonians) to establish
great Slavonic Empire like the Russian,
from which Magyar and German alike
would be excluded or rendered subordinate
in it. Jellachich was from the first an
Austrian tool, in perfect understanding with
the Court from which he must have lille
gally obtained his appointment of Ban if he
had any for the Hungarian Ministry new
er ratified nor countersigned any such ap-
pointment; j and even when Royal procla-
nations were out, denouncing him as a
traitor and setting price on his Eread, he