The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-22


according 10 their circumstances, their wishes and
| their wants. England loves her Queen, and has
full motive 20 DO SO. England feels great glorious,
and free and has full motive TO feel SO; but Eng
/ land being monarchy, that can be no Sufficient
reason to her TO hate and discredit republican forms
OF government i'll other countries differing in cir
cumstances, in wishes, and in wants. On the con-
trary, the United States of America, being like
wise great glorious, and free country, under re-
publican Government, the circumstance OF beng
republicans cannot give them sufficient motive 10
hate. and discredit monarchcal government IN
England. This must be entirely left TO the right
Of every nation TO dispose of its domestic concerns
Therefore, all claim for my country also, Is, that
England, seeing out Of our past that our cause Is
lust, should acknowledge the sovereign right of
every nation to dispose OF itself, and, by acknow-
lodging this, England should not interfere, but also
not allow any power whatever to interfere with the
domestic matters of my country, or of whatever
other nation The rest should be left to the respec-
tive nations themselves the more because it is
worthy OF that independence for which we strug-
glcd"
He reviewed the nature of the struggle under
taken by Hungary, and concluded with an EN-,
phatc declaration Of his wish to establish repub.
lican government in that country:
Every Just man must acknowledge that Hun
gary has fairly exhausted every peaceful means OF
self preservation il ia not under the rule OF the
king, but under the iron oppression OF tyIant,
who conquered Hungary by calling in sacrllegious-
ly to his aid the armies of the Car. SO Hungary
10 not under government, but under foreign IN
trudcr, who is not King of Hungary, being neither
| acknowledged by the nation nor sanctioned by
law. Hungary is, in word in state OF war
| against the Hapsburg dynasty. Hungary can IN
no other way regain its independence and Tree,
| dom but in that way in which II was deprived oil
| it-by war-as every nation which Is Tree ana IN
dependent conquered its deverance from its OPP
| pressors-like Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Por-
! tugal, France, Sweden, Norway, Greece, the
| United States, and England itself-[cheers]-
that is, by revolution, as some would call
it--by a war of legitimate defence, as l call
it. | will ever respect the laws OF Eng
land, and do nothing here contrary to them
but SO much | state a matter OF TACT,
that my nation will never accept and acknow
ledge the perjurcd house of Hapsburg to become
again lawful sovereigns of Hungary; never will 1t
enter into any transactions whatever with that
periurous family, but will avail itself of every OPP
portunity to shake off its yoke Secondly, that
though the people of Hungary were monarchical
for one thousand years, yet the continued perjury
of the Hapsburgs during three hundred years, the
sacriegious faitblessnes5 by which destroyed Its
own historical existence, with the historical exist
encc of my nation, as also my countrys present
intolerable oppression, have so entirely plucked
out of the heart Of my nation every faith, belief,
and attachment to monarchy, that there ia no
power on earth to knit the broken tie again; and,
therefore, Hungary wills and wishes to be a free
and independent republic; but republic founded
the rule of law, securing social order, security
TO person and TO property, and the moral develop
ment well as the material welfare of the people
! [cheers lin a word, republic like that of the
United States, founded on Institutions inherited
from England itself. This is the conviction of my
people, which / share in the very heart of my
heart"
Two deputations had waited upon Kossulh at his
temporary residence-on representing the friends
of Italy now in London, the other the French re-
fugces. In responding to the former, he said that
public opinion be eilectual, must be prepared to
carry itself out by active practical measures and
those against whom it is directed must be made to
feel that it would carry itself out, and not stop
short at barren expressions. If the people OF Eng
land suffer il to be known that they never intend
to go further than expression then their public
opinion will have no weight at ALL
'eWhen the sentiments of people take for their
aim the principle of non intervention, 1t should
not be unilateral non. intervention, which would
mean that England would interfere in no case
! That would be TO abandon her position in the face
of the world Cheers IL, whatever may be
done with respect to other nations, England is
to weigh nothing in the destinies of humanity,
then England may be a happy island, as 1t Is;
but it would cease to be member of the human
iamily-cease to be the brother Of other nations.
In short it would not realize the idea, which ID the
chief principle and foundation of the Christian re-
gion, that, having one father in Heaven, that very
doctrine declares to be brothers--and that bro
! theirs have duty TO one another. Loud cheers.
! | wish public opinion to take such n di-
rection that every nation, well as all despouc
powers, should be sure of thi5-that when public
opinion in England declares itself willing to side
/ with the principles OF freedom, those Dchnanons
and those declarations OF public opinion will be
more than mere signs; they will come to realities,
with war or without war, as. circumstances may
require. Hear, hear. In short, that II will be a
more,active participation in the desnes of man
kind, and not merely the passing emotion of noble
hearts: not such compassion as we give to the
memory of the dead, whom we cannot help, can
not restore to life; but thai the public opinion of
England, declaring the sovereign right of every
nation to manage its own affairs, Will be enforced
with all the weight of its moral power and its ma
| rial hpar I lar tnpcp nv
discuss what power mean; but 1t is TO be hoped
that, according to circumstances, England will be
as good as the word OF an Englshman, and become
the England of the deed and of action as well as
the England of sentiment. [Cheers | am firmly
persuaded that if you declare il to be the intention
| of the people Of England to come to a practi-
cal result, in each case ] am firmly persuaded
that to carry out your principle will not cost
England drop of blood shilling OF
money. Hear, hear.l Why? Because every alb
solute power upon the earth will consider the ma
terial torces oil England, and will pause before he
runs the risk of encountering them. tIear, hear
But if you say that in no case you will go to war,
that Will be the surest mode OF provoking war; be-
the absolutlst powers will consider that they
have free charter dispose of the fate Of nations;
and must fairly state my belief Ia, that In that
! case the concessions Of Europe would come home
to England, and that the material interests OF Eng
land herself would be hurt; because to lnJure Eng
land it ia not necessary that the Cossacks should
water their horses in the Thames There are many
interests in India in the colonies, and all over the
|
articles that feed the power of England; and if one
; of them were cut, England would be no longer
, what it is. Hear, hear Therefore, l believe
that, should England declare her intention in ne
CAGE 10 speak the word stop with the intention o
keeping her word, in very short time England
would be obliged to go TO war for the purpose o
upholding her own interests because it is not pos
sbc that for long. in different parts of the world
the two principles OF absolutism and freedom car
l go in parallel directions, but the contrary"
. With respect to Italy and Mazzini, he said what
c he had said before, that Italy and Hungary were
' the wings of one army arraigned against one enc
my. 1t was happy thing for nation to have
= representative IN one man. That was the case
o vanity apart, with respect to himself and Hun
gary:
If % Now, supposing events to go on with giganti
# steps, consider il rather a favorable circumstanc
for the cause Of Hungary that my poor people shou
have centred their hopes and desires round on
man; and having heard, not by unilaeral informs
lion, not from Italians, from particular friends
p Mazzini; because consider 1t would be mischiev
e GUS il would be dangerous to rest on ones eide
d information; and therefore, tried to get know