New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-22

ysLosh :, ~ s1ns,epe n At ia you We have
III es perisdou In you who for eight ceotarl-s maze
.bsred he ds,iuss Hungary s1c owe 20 thai uoa 1s
Cousututonsl freedom which you alone OF Al me savo
nc peoples have bevr able 70 preserve II vas 20 yu "a.
| We have been misAEen Who have rot ony enl9Veo an
- nri have s,n loved sperisi vigA,s Privileges aaf
h5rhe Iucb As hsve been extended % no oa@ '4s' u
| cur tscTed Hunftlisr troEr
ran De- gave frarfnsi pGt III f1e 1eac7i ~ co1s-
fioa0i f,ssdora and e7noify q rgh Ine Le-satlreu
/ Il Hungarian Crown has abolished ieuiA que. hnoas
YOU e wei g. ia hungary. and converted the fru IA 7so
mo free hodtr The landlords or re othr hsnd Win our
appIobson receive FOR The loss Of the ieuda Dues N IN
Dennis from the mortgage or our pufAc 40 nsns hHe
rLi. wh-ch on could not grant them from your an
rr,tf Which /. hereby granted q you Tbs rghi Of
Cors'tldorA representation IT, among you as wei as ia
Hungary extended o. the people 20 hS Ho only NJ H'7
- al fb~, .A,birf ara The froLt-T regiments
viii take PSI ty their representatives 10 me common -ss
srre hs ell a. in your municipal asse9be and aiyante
ter interests by heir oSn scn0n hn1eilO re NUM-
havec ntnlu'ed lille 20 tie pubic burdens out nov an
equal distributor ofhese burdens on al "lLhou
Obstruction Of rank has been legally es.s3sheo, ana .ls,e
bv pressing load removed from your SHOULDERS me uey
ezwarf, No-v, St)
But if slsvoniars and Msgyars had the same
Constitution, the same rights, and were rePresen'
ted in the legislature on the same basis, wha:
was this freedom and equality OF social and Po'
ltical rights which the Slivons demanded and
the Magyars refused thus exciting the horror of
The Courier We will tell our readers. Itwas
simply this The Magyar language was by Law
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whole OF it; that is the great oppression which
justifes Us in thanking God for the ao~nf'll OF
Kossuth, according to the second and latest oPin-
ion Of The Courier.
From the year 1905, the Latin, which had
been the universal language Of public business OF
all kinds, began 10 go out Of use and to give way
to the Magyar, which was gradually more and
more cultivated and developed in literature and
otherwise The efforts OF individuals in this direc
ton we're accompanied or rather followed bya Sc
ries Of laws passed at different epochS, asi 1907
1880, 1892 and finally in 1910, by which the Mag
var became the official tongue. The last law
that Of ls4O, required the correspondence of the
districts with the central authorities, the notices
and circulars Of the Government, the documents
of the spiritual authorities &c to be in Magyar
instead of L attn. This law was voted Tor, II We
mistake not, by all the representatives from the
Northwestern Savonic counties, but opposed by
those from Croatia Still, in substituting the llv-
ing Magyar Tor the dead attn, it did little more
than recognize change already taken place
Magyar was generally understood and spoken by
the Slavons themselves The Msgyars too beside
being historically and legally the predominant
nation, were more numerous than any other sin
gle nationality The Courier ignorantly classes
all the Slavons together as one race. To be sure,
they spring from a com mon source, but the fact
| ia that they are as little one nation as are the
Enelish and the Dutch. The Slovak cannot I'M
derstand the Croat. Indeed, so widely apart are
the various savonic tribes in Europe, that at their
Congress- at Prague in May, lS4s, their represen'
tatives were utterly unable to understand each
other in any of their own dialects and were com,
PEELED to choose the German as the language o
their discussions. But in Hungary the Magyar
was generally understood and spoken by them.
What wrong, what oppression was there, then,
in fixing on that as the official language? Jast
as much as in making English the official Ian
eueee in the United States. We admit that this
act may not have been polite; it certainly was
carried out in some cases with imprudence, and in
ls43 the Diet acted most unwisely in refusing to
allow the Latin to be spoken in it's debates by
the Croatian Delegates; but Of the rightfulness
! of the pr1nclpie there cuu uc no DOUBT.
| Possibly The Courier will deny that the primary
question in the contest was that Of language, de-
niRl being cheap and easy lue OF argument
The same German traveller above quoted took
one day, into his carriage Servian Fiscal, (Dn
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ton of the country since the war, when the fol-
lowing dialogue took place, in mingled German
and Latin.
Trayer That is the 'achce you have made to tbs Ma
Fcsi The National Cause II hatisso will allow
m,s,. TerHssoHe 10 produce here national cause
Here he Grew manuscript from bic pocket opened and
gave 1t 10 the uAveier The Nation al Cause consists,
then his hat whereas our nothnes AID officials would
uul condescei 10 write good Magyar, they must now
| wIite wreicted German
The document was a complaint in a case OF as.
sRult and battery written in most ridiculous Ger
man and the Fiscal stated the fact as to what
the savonians have gained by the War. Instead
of writing legAl papers in Magyar, which they
knew well they must now write them in German,
which they know poorly, if at all
This question of language was the only start
ing point OF the plant and classification which
the Austrian Court according to its long tried
system Of divide and conquer, carefully foment
ed in Southern Hungary long before the proPo-
sition in the Diet TO demand separate Ministry
for Hungary. As says the GegeHicart, vol v. p.
OPS the government Of MetterLich which had at
first favored the Hungarian movement in respect
Of the language, afterwArd secretly fed the nos.
tile disposition OF the others against the Magyts,
and publicly supported now one, now the other
party in order TO keep dscord ever active. At
| the same time the idea Of Pan-ssyism conceived
| in 1877 by one John Kollar, and propagsted BY
Louis Gay, was used by the same Government still
further to counterpoise the growing power and &C.
tivity of the Magyar Nation. This idea or more
properly this fancy, was TO unite all the Sayonic
tribes and races in one m ghty empire, whether
including Russia and with the Gear at It's head
or independently seems 10 have been no where
brought out with authority and diItinctness But
it afforded the policy Of Metternch focal point