North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-12-06

Iperiury of the house of Hapsburg had plucked out
that feeling entirely and the people believed Justice
| impossible under their rule-they were told the
house of Hapsburg would have money and not
love. Cheers.
! In Hungary, then, after what it has experienced,
no rnonarchical combinations be possible again.
Had Austria been just in 1848 towards the great
German nations, it would have had a future; but
they deceived every state and every nation, and
rendered themselves entirely odious to all. The
house of Hapsburg had lost all-hstory, affection,
empire. There was one thing still left to it the
belief that it necessary to Europe to keep the
balance of power against Russian prependerance;
but the idea was a false one because Europe never
could be safe in family but only in nation.
TCheers 1t now, however, was become the mere
vanguard of Russian preponderance, and its exist
ence was not only necessary, but was dangerous to
Europe, Tcheers because it had destroyed the sys-
tenn of equilibrium What was Austria ?-the
loans, bayonets, the Czar-that was all !! [Cheers.
Its armies were composed of men who hated 1T;
and, as to the Gar, he hoped that the time was
come when the Anglo-Saxon race would not lon
ger permit him to rule an empire from the Danube
to the Rhine. But there was still another hope he
had for Hungary. 1t was not only the sympathy
of every oppressed natioa but of every free nation
to which he looked. 1t the sympathy of the
Anglo-Saxon race, called to be the friends of OPP
pressed humanity, which from the New World
sent him vessel of war to take him from the land
of his captivity, while its elder brother in the Old
raised its voice to break his chains, and had hon
ored him with reception almost unparalleled in
history, when the blood-stained Hapsburg, raging
like furious child nailed his name on the gallows
by the hands of the common hangman. [Cheers.
He felt not offended at that; his honor was not
dependent on Austrian folly. There might be
some honor and glory in the idea of his being hat
ed and feared by despots, and he vowed he would
do all he could to merit their hatred Loud cheers.
Why had he been received? Because he rep
resented principle which the English race honor
ed-the Austrians had nailed it on the gallows.
That was a defiance and challenge of an arrogant
tyrant to the opinion Of the civilized world. 1t
was defiance to their generous sympathy for the
fate of his country and for her honor. He felt he
could not be contradicted when he said it would
be almost an offence to the people of England if he
thought this sympathy might be but the passing
emotion of noble hearts, Cheers. He felt their
sympathy no idle thing Let it once be be-
slowed, and it must have some practical result
That rmness of character, that untiring persever-
ance in every noble end, was the true key to the
greatness of their character. Whether the word
revolution was disgraceful or not, he denied Hun
gary had made revolution at ALL It was not the
fear of having a revolutionary epithet applied to
him that he said so. He a man who was for
freedom justice, and right; and little he cared by
what name he called Their Sidneys and
Hampdens also called revolutionists, and SO
might God bless him if ever he asked better lot
than theirs. [Cheers.] When any other means
of obtaining redress had been used by an Cypress
ed people, and had failed, they had right to
make a revolution; Loud cheers and he would
say that his people had done more than exhaust
every means in their power to procure justice from
Austria. England must acknowledge that princi-
pie, for her freedom derived from the practical
success of its truth Cheers. All the late things
which had been said about his being a Democrat
about his despotic government in Turkey-about
the terrorism they had exercised and all such terms
in which vile oppression excelled, must be put in
the same scale. NJ. Kossuth then proceeded.
Though the rule of the house of Austria for
three centuries was nothing but series of perjur
les, yet conserved some shadow of constitutional
liberty. We enjoyed no liberty of the press-that
mother as well as chief guarantee of all progress
but still our municipal institutions afforded us
certain degree of selfgovernment, and our country
meetings and their publicity conserved to us the
power of words. We were prosecuted for it until
it became almost treason to love oir country and
death to defend" but still we spoke. The peo-
pie, though excluded from any share in these Con-
stitutional rights, and still seeing men struggling
manfuily for them and the rights of humanity,
even the people was generous enough patiently to
endure ana conndently to wait, and so the Hunga-
Ran soil was not the soil of conspiracy. My M
ton has still neither the will nor the occasion to
share in the movement of those new doctrines
which disturb the sleep of the mighty of the earth
We have struggled fairly and openly by means of
truth and justice for social and political freedom of
the people you have struggled for all those
mighty reforms which serve to preserve your couu-
try from all dreadful concussions which never fail
to arrive whenever progress and reform have no
fair course. We carried our reforms peaceably,
availing ourselves of the opportunity which God
gave us, not which we made. We knew how to
be just to the people without regarding what tongue
they spoke, or in what church they prayed, but the
Hungarian people becoming masters of their fate,
were moderate enough to reserve their faith to
time, contented with gradual progress. There was
nothing done by violent comrnotion-no equitable
interest trodden down; even those who, though
unjust in their origin interlaced with the pri-
vate fortune of whole class. The people of Hun
gary were rather inclined to undergo many sacri-
fees rather than punish the sins of former ages in
the present generation, crimes of some few by
the suferings of whole classes. There was with us
no trace of anarchy, when in the midst of our wars
and in every part of Hungary which our victories
brought back under our rule, there was more or
der and security of person and property than the
house of Austria" order-rnaking" Austria-can
boast even now. And this was not my merit but
the peoples. The greatest part of our army was
composed of volunteers. The stock of nv fnan-
cial operations made out of free-offerings Our
cannons were cast out of bells, which the people
offered in an embarrassing QUANTITY We defend