The southern press., 1851-12-30

Europe at home The peace or the war. the
civilization or the barbarIsm, the freedom or tho
oppression, the happiness or the dist ess, the
progress OF the stagnation of Europe, cannot
iai TO react upon you, as your freedom or your
oppression, your civilization your barbarism,
your staguatlon or your progress, must Of courss
react upon the European continent There is A
iink In the destnes Of mankind from which DO
man IN The world can separate himself. Al
Pause-J fou therefore cannot remain indiifer-
ent To the condition Of that Europe with which
IN so many respects OF your own interests you
are in such close connection
Here there was great deal of confusion in
the hall, owing to the admission of large mum.
Der OF persons at once
am fully aware, gentlemen, this interrupto,
is out OF no disregard, but is an almost unavoid-
able consequence of your situation Where q,
large number of generous men are crowded
together, 1t is not possible to remain silent Knt
then, also, you must not have the expectation to
hear speech. And, indeed must shorten NV
humble remarks. Cries Of "Oh, no." go on
no, 1t is hardly possible. IL is not from inds.
position that wish to shorten my remarks. be.
cause find some strength in my mind 10 com.
mand MY body when it is wanted But il is n,
entire impossbity to make exertions to spesk
to so large an assembly. Therefore | will
shorten my remarks, the more because am
happy to feel myself here, in a land of publicity
| know very well, from the generous attentio,
which you have bestowed upon the cause which
represent here amongst that intelligent peOpl,.
where almost every man reads his newspap.r.
that wherever | have spoken one word nnon
that cause which you honor by your attention. /
have spoken it to the whole people of the Uni
ted States
Every man, every woman is acquainted with
my motives; knows the cause plead, and has
a'so taken resolution in his or her breast already;
and, therefore, | want not many spveches mor.
during my stay in the United States. Lean
dispense with argument. | can only humbIv
make this suggestion, hat it is impossible for
the United States not TO feel interested in the
condition of Europe; and that there never vet
was time when the condition of Europe de-.
served your attention more than at this preciso
moment. You know what is the condition Of
Europe now Il is a universal oppression If
civil, political and religious liberty-Ihose three
great treasures whi n make your glo:y and your
happiness. And you know also, that ont of this
oppression every man has foreseen that new
revolution on the European continent must arise
You know that that great revolution is brought
home already to the nations of Europe. by tha
mpous blow of Louis Napoleon
The elected President of France has bv hi,
impious blow struck down the constitution. IN
order that ne might become Emperor He has
stricken it down as tool of the Car of Russi,
and the Emperor of Austria It was Yesterday
received the news that the Austrian ministrv
has openly declared that the absolutis,ical pow.
ers OF Europe resolved to maintain tn.
usurpation Of Louis Napoleon. Therefore the
revolution is already broken out in Europe.
Ihe hrst blow of war is already struck and no
man IN the world has the power to stop lila
progress Its vibration will be felt through.
out Europe, and no where with more resolution
than IN my poor down-trodden fatherland. Ap-
plause.
The people of Hungary have mighty motives
to risk life, to risk existence, to risk all il ha7
for the restoration of my fatherand to its Free
dom and Independence. We have had nation
atty; now we have none, We have had a con-
stituton. BY the blessing of God W Succeeded
to transfer it from an aristocratic to democrat
Ic one, three years ago. Now Hungary has no
constitution at ALL We were free people for
thousand years--now We are none-we are
mixed, like fold of sheep, into so called
centralized power of-nOt the empire, not the
nation-but the despotic ambition of the house
OF Austria. We have had freedom of the press.
1t is not l9 years when began the strugple of
that great right of mankind, the freedom of
thought. | have endured three years imprison-
ment for it. But at last succeeded in carving
1Ahrough Now the g is no free press there
there is no press at all in Hungary--tLere is
only the hangman and martial law We have
had freedom. We established fieedom-entire
religlous hberty-equal protection to whatever
religion, TO whatever caste. Now, there is
equal oppression for ALL The Protestant church
had lis own self-governmert for its own churebes
and schools. Now, it is taken from it. TIE
Catholic church had its own power to dispose
OF It's temporary affairs Now, that is taken
from it, and day by day the nearly bankrupt
Austrian government Is encroaching upon the
property of the Catholic Church, which is con.
sidered as the best means to get up new loan
What is the condition of the Catholic cburchs
ot which 1t Is with high qualification that ], a
Protestant, rot only by birth, but also by con.
viction, declare that when we STRUGGLED for n
lifetime for religious liberty in Hungary, we had
that church in the foremost rank of the struggle
for the rights of our Protestant religion. [Great
applause. 80 much do we value the freedom
OF conscience that the single thought that
Protestant has lost his religious liberty equally
with The Catholic, or that those who profess the
faith Of Moses arr excluded from the right of
citizenship, because of their relgion-his very
circumstance would be sufficient for us Hunqa.
rians' or Magyars, to carry on, as long as there
is single drop of blood IN our veins, the war
ior .he restoration OF religious independence, as
we have carried it On for three centuries past
because hungary was always foremost in Eu-
rope to struggle for religious liberty, as it was
the only barrier, in former times of Christianity.
when Mahommedis was inva ding Europe lap
plause.
have succeeded with my efforts 10 make fhe
agriculture in Hungary free, and to tran.f form
the peasants into entirely free proprietors of the
soil which they cultivate. Now the government
of Austria is again introducing feudal rights
under different pretext in several parts of Hun.
gary. And when we freed the peasant and tie
people of Hungary, we did not touch any mate
rial right OF whatever class; but We declared
that the nation would give indemnifcation TO
landlords who lost, by the reform laws there
any rlghts-any of the oppressive rights which
they held upon the peasantry. Now Austria,
by heavy taxation, takes from the people its
very life sweat, and out of this peoples treasure