Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-12-25
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ance csnnot be- propitious To liberty; he
forgot tiat L can even not be favorable to
the development Of the Selaye nationality
because Sclavoilic nations would by lhis
idea be degraded into individuals OF kns-
sianisin-all absorbed by Russia,that IS alb
sorbed by dcspoiism.
RUSSIA got hclJ~of the sensible idea very
readily. May be that young Alexander
had in the first moment noble Inclinations /;
he was Young. and the warm heart Of
youth is susceptible to noble Sentiments
Il is not common in history to see such
Francis Josrphs oiAustria--so young and
yet such Nero as he is. But few years
Of power were sufficient 10 exiingush
every spark Of noble sentiment, if there
was one in Alexander's young heart. Up
on the ti,~one Of the Romanows is the man
absorbed by the Autocrai. The air of the
Traditional politics Of St. Petersburg is not
that AR, where the plant of regeneration
can grow, and the sensible idea became
soon weapon Of honor, oppression and
Russian preponderancc. Russia availed
herself Of the idea Of Pauslavism to break
Turkey down, and to make an absolute sa-
telIite out Of Austria. Turkey wilhstands
yet, but Aust ia has fallen in the snare.
Russia sent out lis agents, its money, ITS
ycpomous secret diplomacy through the
world it spoke To the Sclave nations OF
: the hatred against foreign doniinion--of
independence Of religioa. connected with
nationality under its own supremacy; but
chiefly 1t spoke to them OF Pauslavism un
der the proieciorste Of the Gar. The mil
lions Of its own large empire also. all OPP
pressed-all in scrviiudc--all a tool TO his
own AMBITION. He 1aftcrcd them with the
idea TO become the rulers offhc world, In
order thai they might not think of liberty
This ambition got hold ofall the Selavc ma,
tons through Europe. SO became Pau
slavism the source Of movement, not of
nationality, but Of the dominion Of Ian
guages. The word Language" replaced
every other sentiment, and SO it became
the curse 10 the development of liberty.
Only one part Of the Sclavonic race saw
the matter clear. and withstood the current
Of this Internal Russian plot. They were
the Polish dcmocrsts-the only ones who
understood that to fight for liberty is to
fight for nationality. Therefore, they
fought in our ranks. and were willing 10
flock in thousands of thousands,to aid US in
our struggle but | could not arm them
We ourselves, had hundred fold more
hands ready to fight than arms and no
body was in the world to help US witt
arms. There is the same origin and rca
nature Of the question of mathematics il
Europe. Now, let me see what was thu
condition Of Hungary under these crcum
stances. Eight hundred and fifty year
ago, when the first King Of Hungary, St
Stephen, becoming christian himself, con
verted the Hungarian nation TO christian
ty, it was the Roman Catholic clergy o
Germany. who he invited 10 assist him il
his pious work. They did. but it was ma
fural that the pious assistance happened
aiso to be accompanied by some worldly
designs.
Hungary offered wide field to the am
hition of foreigners. And they persuaded
tie king to adopt a curious principle,
which he laid down in his political esta-
mcnt. That is, that it is not good when
The people ola country is but of one ex-
traction and speaks one tongue. There
was vet adopted another rule; that is, to
advise the language fthe Church-Latin
for the diplomatic language of the gov
eminent, Legislature. law and all public
proceedings. So 1t became, of course, that
the real manners of the country spoke
Latin. The Hungarians, scarcely yet be
heving Christians. spoke not the Latin of
course This is the origin Of that fatality
that democracy did not develope for cen
turies in Hungary. The public proceed
ings having been carried in Latin, the
laws given in Latin. the people were ex-
Guided from the public life. Public in
structon being carried on in Latin, the
great mass of the people, being agricul-
tnrcrs, did not par,ake in ii; and the few
VINO, ont of the ranks of the people ,partook
IN il, became by the very instruction, sew
cred and alienatcd from the peoples inter
ests.
This dead Latin language, introduced
into the public life of living nation, wa.
the mos, mischievous barrier against liber
~. The first blow to it was stricken b,
the revolution. The Protestant Church
introducing the national language into the
Divine services, became a medium in the
development of the spirit of liberty. Sc
were our ancient struggles for religion.
liberty always connected with the main.
tenancc of political rights. But still, Latin
public life went on so far as to 1850. Al
that time. Joseph of Hapsbnrg. aiming at
Capitalization. replaced the Latin by the
Ger'nau tongue. This raised the national
7p'rlt OF, Hungary; and our forefathors, see
ING that the dead Latin language excluded
the people from the public concerns, can
not he propiiious to liberty, and anxious
to Oppose the design of the Vienese cabi-
net OF Germanlzing Hungary, and so mel
NY INTO the common absolutism of the
Aus'rlan dynasty say, anxious to OPP
pose this design by a cheerful public life
OF the people itself, begun in the year
1870 passed laws in the direction that, by
and by. step by step. the Latin language
should be replaced in the public proc eed
lngs Of the Legislature, and of the Gov
erpment, by a living language, familiar tic
the people itself.
And Hungary being Hungary, wha
was more natural than that being in the
necessity to choose one language, they
chose the Hungarian language in and ior
Hungary, the more because that was the
lansw~se spoken in Hungary; not only by
comparative majority ofthe people, but
almost by an absolute majority; that is,
those who spoke Hungarian, were not on
~ more than those who spoke whatever
one Of the other languages, but, if not more
at least equal to, all those who spoke scve-
ra' o'hcr languages together. Be SO kind
to mark well, gentlemen; no other Ian
guage was opprcssed-Ihe Hungarian Ian
goage was upon nobody enforced-whcre-
ever another language was in use, even in