New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-30

the Hungarian war W carried on WIN
view chiefly to the maintenance of the Old
feudal institutions Of the country, not for the
extension of personal and political liberty.
On that question we submit the following x
tracts from the official correspondence OF the
British Government in relation to the affairs
Of Hungary from lS41 TO 49, 1t was pub
lished last year by order Of Parliament. The
writer whose words we quote is Mr.. Black
well, an English agent ia Hungary, who
thus writes to Lord Ponsonby, the ambassa'
dor at Vienna, on December %, 1877:
"On Nov 30, ISi7, the Diet appointed Commit
tee TO investigate the causes that have led to the
Croatlan agitation, with view of framing an act to
remedy the evil. All the Committee belong TO the
liberal party, kOssuth being the chairman. On Nov.
90 Szemere roIn of the most liberal counties IN
Hungary brought the question of general taxation
before the Lower House Up 10 the present time,
the county rates and the war tax are levied almost
exclusively on the peasants property. Inc n0oles
voted to pay the county rates conJolhliy Win the
non mobiles, by majority OF seventeen. The propo-
stion to contribute their share to the war tax was
negatived by majority Of fifteen. The proposition
to have the mobiles Iay direct tax INTO the national
treasury, was adopted by a majority OF fory-four
On Nov. 90, a Committee appointed with view
of abolishing the censorship OF the press
This certainly seems like disposition
not to maintain, but to destroy feudal privi-
leges; and we beg The Albion to note that
kossuth was the chairman of the Commit
tee proposing and carrying through this
anti-feudal measure. Mr. Blackwell goes
on to state distinctly the aims and policy of
this so-called liberal party, of which Kos
suth was the soul
"The Liberals or the Opposition as they are now
generally called after oae of then quarterly meet
ings held at Pesth, IN March, 1917. made known their
ances against Austria, they demand the following
guarantees for the independence Of the country \
responsible Ministry Liberty OF the Press Union
Of Hungary and IranSylvaDla Publicity respecting
everything relating to public affairs. They propose
also. as the reforms to be made al the next the pre-
sehD Diet system of general taxation for all
classes, noble and nom noble, without distinction ,
the coordination of the tree towns equality before
the law areform of the drbaral law the abolition
OF the prlmogenlture laws or avilcity laws.
Does this look like feudalsm or like
the extension of personal and political free
dom To our Judgment it is the latter
The address of the Hungarian Diet to
the King, presented on February 20, 1918,
if We mistake not by deputation with
KosSuth at its head, confined tle folio wing
paragraph
1--WE are moreover convinced that the laws which
VIII have 10 be enacted for tre development oi our
social institutions, well : for the promotion Of
The intellectual and material welfare OF tie nation,
can only acquire vlgor aud reality when, fOr iheH
execution, a National Government, totally lnde-
ItnUPlt and free from foreign influence what
ever, shall be called into existence and which, IN
conformity with constitutional principles mas be a
responsible government and the result Of the MAJOR
ity Of the peopie'
On March 10, 1913, Mr.. Blackwell thus
writes:
"The corree, the 1.-THE OF one tenth to the church,
OF one ninth to the manor, and all other uroaral ser
ton for all classes, without distinction, Is to bt forth
with established. The avlticlty laws and the
law of prlmogeniure are to be abolished"
On the 2Sth he says
The abolition Of the corpse or forced labor ofthe
peasants VIII, am told deprive the lanGed proprie
tors, all of them OF one-thrd and many OF them OF
Onehalf, oil their revenue from their estates. Inc
propnetors VIII also have to pay certain taxes, to
which they have not hitherto been subject"
Where is the teudalism of all this ! Who
will discover II ? Or who has ever dlscov-
cred any such thing in the Hungarian revo-
luton except the presses that serve the
cause Of Austria and absolutsm, and those
they have imposed upon?
With respect to the question whether
there was any republican tendencies in Hun
gary, Mr.. Blackwell, in letter of March
%, furnishes bit of testimony, as follows ::
Szemeres provisional Law upon The press has
been highly dlsapproved of by the Pesth
They want to es,hblish a republic. or AZ
least, monarchy surrounded with republican lnsti-
tuUons"
OF course, IN such struggle as that in
which kossuth had now become engaged.
and under such circumstances, it was not
for him to PREJUDICE the question of the form
of government which the nation, if yictori-
Gus, would adopt, any more than did Wash
ington during the American revolution. The
first and most important business was to
gam the victory, and after that the other
would come up for settlement. But there
were republicans in Hungary; and it is
fact that in all the Austrian books and ne vs..
f@EN' 'A"VlSs " tis'eH against hOS>ulh PRIOR
TO 1919 and 80 he Is spoken of as an ultra
radical and the leader of tie EXTREMIST
party, which We take TO be equivalent to
the republican party. At any rate. the in.
ference Is irresistible that his sympathies
were with the ceplblicans. whatever course
policy may have commanded him to follow
until the end Of the war.
HEALTH EXTRAORDINARY In the very