The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-11-26


hit cheers; and, before the eternal God, who W
rd make responsible my soul-before history, I
a. independent Judge of events-I have right
n. say that the house of Hapshurg owes its cx
~ tence dynasty to me. Tremendous chez
in ing) AT last the sanction of the governme
lie was given to these laws but while we were r
or eelving the promises of the Emperor in OF
e room. the Archduchess Sophia, the mother
1t the present king, and sister Of the last, was
lie another, plotting with Met.ernich how to q
3, rid otthese promises. (Hear, hear) In fe
l. weeks the King came TO Presburg, when ";
y Fist Minis,cr-an office which was forced
Is accept: for can appeal to the public know
J. ledge Of my nature, of my enemies, and OF M
J. friends, that | always considered power as
d burden. Before we went to Vienna for sanctio
l. to the law appointing responsible ministers,
h addressed the people of Presburg took m
It poor friend, Louis Bathyany. (M. kossut
h was here affected to tears) by the hand, an
e said to the people, g Don't cheer me- he mus
be the first president of Hungary" He de
clincd, unless | would enter Office with hin,
/ and thus was forced to enter. (liear, hear
, In few days after the Serbs revot"d, STREE
up it appeared by the Camarila Of Vienna
They took tor ptctext that, by ancient diplomas
that part of Hungary which they occupied, {,
the amount of two or three hundred thousand
med this; but they insisted that it should be
politically separated from Hungary, and form
separate banat. Now, although this banat il
which they lived contained 100000 people, the
Serbs nunhcr only 100000, who speak the Wal
lachian tongue, the remainder of the people
speaking German. The government of which
| was member, seeing tina: there must be some
plot in all this, considered that we were bound
to suppress this revolt. Besides, | should state
that one of the chief political manGuvres of Met
ternich was TO Cypress one nation by means OF
another. One army was drawn out Of the land,
part in Bohemia and part in Italy, while we
had in Hungary Germans, Croats, Poles. and
Wallachs. At the head of this revolt the
Ban OF Croatia, and they finished by declaring
their independence. We, the Hungarian minis
tiers, entreated the King To g i've his consent to
| convokc the Parliament, in order that means
light be obtained to suppress the revolt.
/ |, the minister of Hungary, nominated by
the King, stood beside the Archduke Palatine
when he gave the order. Hear, hear The
King He'd to lnspruck, and deputation wen;
| there inviting him to come to Buda, and rely
on the loyalty otthe people. We promised to
defend him against all the world and the Hun
garians have proved that they can dcf.nd wha,
| they have promised to defend (Cheers)
also stood beside the Archduke Palatine when
he read the solemn edict of the King, con-
demning the Vaccinations of the Croats and
Serbs, and stating that he had given orders to
| his ministers in hungary to put down the revolt
In the same cdct he called upon his fai htul
Parliament OF Hungary to levy army, and to
provide means to carry on the | it
who proposed it to Parliament but l had hard
ly said few words when was stopped in my
speech, and the supplies granted at once
While these matters were going or, news ar
rived from Italy that the battle of Costanza had
been won, and that the government of Vienna
were now in position to consider the means of
crushing Hungary A proclamation was is
sued psking Jelachich, who had been proclaim
ed a trotor by the King, to 90 against Hunga-
ry, calling him friend Surely there is not an
honest man in the world who will not condemn
tfat. Hear, hear. Jellachich came on with
$4,000 men; but we beat him, taking two
mics and one general-our force being the I'M
disciplined people armed with scy,hes He then
asked for a truce, and two days were given
him; and, in the mean time, he broke his VOID
and escaped. We followed him. [ was then
president of the council, the ministry having re-
signed, in consequence of the dissolution Of
Parliament, before the arrangement of the bud
get, which was against the constitution, which
divided that the Parliament should not separ
ate without arranging the budget In addition
to this violation of constitutional rights, the
King makes his alter ego giving to him the
power to govern Hungary of Jcllachich, the
man whom he had proclaimed as traitor
We said we would not take the traitor as Cover
nor, and that the Parliament could not be dis.
solved, because it had voted no budget We de-
clared that the order for dissolution had not been
signed by the responsible officer, and that, there
fore, the Parliament must sit. ] had then the
honor to be president of the provisional govern
ment, an2 ordered Jellacbich, who had escap-
ed towards Vienna to be followed. When he
came to the frontiers of Austria, [ sent commits
sio 1ers TO the government, demanding from the
general of the Austrian army that they should
respect the laws of Neutrality towards us, and
not give any shelter to the revoltcd. But they
not only protected him, but permitted him to
join in the operations of the siege Of Vienna
These two armies came to Hungary under
Wnd,schgratz, calling us rebels and slaves
We struggled and fought battles-history tells
how. Loud cheers.) But still one thing |
II, Ist add, that although we were vctors, de.
fcating the imperial armies in several battles
although the Emperor of Austria had issued a
proclamation on the 18th March, 1S49, in which,
relying on the false report of general victory
that mover occurred, he declared by a single
scratch of his pen that the nationality of Hur-
gary was blotted out that its constitution was to
be torn up, and that hencefourth Hungary was
to be incorporated with the Austrian empire,
to be ruled by his good will and pleasure-not-
withs:anding all this, say, still we did not pro-
claim rupture with the house of Hapsburg, an
til had received certain intelligence that the
Russian Intervention had been decided upon and
accepted. (Hear, Hear.) And | am sorry to
add, that we also got information that against
this Intervention we had no help to expect any
where. Mr.. Ko-suth was here deeply affected
and burst into tears] Then considered the
matter in my conscience, and came to the con-
cluson that either my nation must submit to
overthrow, and to an end of its life, without
even trying to save ourselves, or, if we were
not towards and base enough to commit suicide,
some reward was necessary to Justify the strug-
gle and sacrifices of the people. And | pro-
posed that If we were to contend against two
great empires-if there was nobody to help US
nobody to prevent Paskewitsch, as he had prom
ised, treading on the neck of Hungary-if we
were to struggle for our liberties as we had once
struggled for the Christian liberties of Europe,
then proposes as reward the Independence
OF hungary, and my proposal was accepted
cloud cheers) That is statement of what
occurred, and you all know what was the result
How we Jared let me not say it is too deep mat
ter for sorrow. This mach only will say: that
although forsaken by the whole world, am to
this day confident that we would have been a
match for the combined forces of the two des-
potic powers; but it is my fault and my weak
ness that, as governor of Hungary, having the
lead in this great movement, | had not art
enough to fight with equal arms the duplicity of
Russia. You koow how he introduced treason
Into our counsels. Had | only been prepared
for this treason, all would certainly not have
failed. (Hear hear;) But the result of what
has occurred is, that the house of Hapsbnrg,
as a dynasty, exists no more. 1t merely veg
etates at the whim of the mighty Gar, Ga
laugh,) to whom it has become the obedient
servant. (Hear, hear) But if the people OF
England only decided that Russia should not
set her foot on the neck of Hungary-if they
would only resolve to say estop'' to Russia, and
nothing more-we might still be happy. Hun
gary would have knowledge, patriotism, loyalty
and courage enough to dispose of its own do
mestic matters, as it is the sovereign right of
every nation to do (Hear, hear,) And now,
gentlemen, trust you will sxcusc me if have
not answered your expectatons-if have tired
you. NO, no. My intention was to show you
that the cause of my poor country is worthy of
your generous sympathy, because we have
struggled for national existence, which when
once lost, there is no resurrection any more for
people. Thisis the cause for which ask your