Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-12-12
HungarY. 40. /.

The arrival OF kossuth amongst us at the present
time, has awakened desire in the public mind to
Know more than has been generally known, of Hun
gary, of her history and of the basis of the sanguna
ry struggle, in which she SO lately engaged with
Austria. We propose to crafty our readers, with
short review Of these.
Hungary is situated in the Southeast part Of Eu.
rope, and.is encompassed the North west and
South, by the Calpathian mountains. 1t is fertile
country, watered by the tributaries of the Danube,
and Astounding in plains and picturesque hills and
valleys, and contained IN 1888 ten millions of peo-
pie. 1t is the Pauaonia of the ancients; the IN
habitants OF which were famous for hardihood and
volor. In the eleventh century, we find Hungary
organized into Kingdom, and under the govern
ment Of the house of Arfrad, Magyar chief In
the beginning of the fourteenth century, this dynasty
became extinct and the Magyars, influenced by Pope
Bonace the eighth, elected to be their King Charles
of Anjou /, brother TO Louis the ninth, Of France.
of this Franco Hungarian monarch beca re king
Of Poland, which nation, in conjunction with Hun
gary, stemmed the tide Of Mahommedan invasion,
and saved western Europe from the dominion of the
Turks.
1t was in battle with the Moslems that Louis,
the second, King Of Hungary, was slain, in 1926,
when his brother-in.law, Ferdinand the first of
Austria, was chosen by the Magyars to become their
King. But it was not till 1857 that the Hungarian
diet voted that the crown of Hungary should be he
reditary in the House Of Hapsburg; the King at the
same time, pledgng himself and his heirs, by solemn
oath, to maintain the independence OF the nation,
aud to preserve its rights and laws forever.
Ferdinand was King Of Austria when elected to
the throne of Hungary but this circumstance could
not, and did notn the least affect the independence,
or peculiar rights of either nation. Each maintained
Its own laws, language, and sovereignty. The his
tory of Hungary at this period, is auiost exactly
similar to that Of England on the death of Queen
Elizabeth, in 1868. England placed James the sixth
of Scotland, upon the throne Of the Tudors, bnt
Scotland and England both jealousy maintained
their identity, aud independence of each other.
The lords of Hapsburg, successfully smuten with
the same absolutis disease that destroyed the Stu
arts, have betrayed every oath they swore to God,
as constitutional kings of Hungary, and they have
violated every pledge they solemnly made to the
Hungarian people, They have necessarily labored
to destroy the parliamentary authority and to plant
their own upon its ruins. They have during FIVE
centuries. betrayed the constitutional principles
which were the basis of their power, and which
they swore to maintain as the price Of their throne
Inc Magyars, who are the most enlightened and
numerous Of the Hungarian races and who have for
centuries held sort of moral superiority over the
Serbs, Croats, Sovac ks, and WaIachs, have all
ways signazed themselves in oppostont to the llsur.
patton to the Austrian dynasty On this account
they have always been obnoxious to the tyrants, and
have been constantly visited by their hereditary ma.
lignity The Hapsburgs have constantly pursued
the same policy Of regal egotism that the Stnarts
pursued, and have sought to make the Hungarian
nation die to itself, and live without rights, priv.
leges, or name, in foreign confederation, called
the Austrian Empire. 81
This kingly treason the Magyars have protested
against, have opposed by every legal and constitu-
tional means, and finally with the sword The an.
limitation Of Hungary. nation, is the question
which has arrayed the Magyars against the Heps-
burgs throughout the whole course other connec.
ton. The former have stood faithfully by the laws
and constitution Of their country; the latter support
ed by their hereditary ieudatorIes by the camarila
or kitchen cabinet Of Vienna, anu by the AIachia
vellis and Melernchs Of diplomacy. have strenu
ously soughtto abolish the constitution and laws
This struggle Of people, to maintain their con
sltuional liberty against the worst form Of absou
list usurration, maintained with varying FORUM
By the Magyars during series of ages. until, il
1880, the preponderance seemed to be given to lib
erty.
Since thatperiod 10 ls4s, the cause of progress il
Hungary, led by her mobiles and supported by popu
lar sympathy, steadily advanced, uutil the govern
ment Of that country seemed peacefully and constiu
tonally established, upon broad and liberal basis
The King, who was also Emperor Of Austria, vol IN
tary and with solemn oahs, conserving to. and rat
flying the action Of the Hungarian Diet. But tn
treachery Of this King precipitated the Hungarian
nation in 1919, into the vortex Of the European in
surIections, and the combined Russian and Austria,
sabres subdued and slew her patriots. I'VE will re
turn to this subecI again.