North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-12-31

days and of your sleepless nights; and 70 kno"
that the people will judge you, not what you have
felt thought, and written, but by what the Censor
wills; to know that the ground upon which you
stand is not ground known to you, because linn
tied by rules but an unknown slippery ground, the
limits of which lie but within the arbitrary pleasure
of your Censor-doomed by profession to be stupid
and a coward and a fool to know all this and
vet not curse your destiny-not to deny that you
know how to read and to write, but to 60 on, day
by day, in the torturing work OF Syslphus' Oh
it is the greatest sacrifice which an Intelligent man
can make to fathcrland and humanity!
And this is the present condition OF the press,
not in Hungary only but in all countries cursed by
Austrian rule. Our past revolution gave freedom
to the press not only to my fatherand, but by IN
direct influence also to Vienna, Prague, Lemberg
in a word, to the whole empire OF Austria lhls
very circumstance must be sufficient to ensure your
sympathy to my country's cause; as, on the CON
trary. the very circumstance of the Hapsburgian
DYNASTY, achieved by treason and Russian arms,
was watchword to Cypress the press IN Hungary,
in Austria in Italy, in Gernany-nay, throughout
the European continent. The contemplation that
the freedom oflthe press the European continent
is inconsistent with the preponderance OF Russa,
and the very existence OF the Austrian dynasty,
this sworn enemy of freedom and of every liberal
thought-your generous support will sweep away
those tyrants, and raise liberty where now foul OPP
preston proudly rules
Let me ask you, gentlemen, are you, the people
of the United States, nation or not! Have you
| a national government or not? Have you! \ GU
answer yes and yet you, the people OF the United
States, are not of one blood, and speak not one
language Millions of you speak English, Others
French others German. others Italian, others Span
ish others Danish and several Indian dialects
and yet you are nation! And your govern
ment, even the government of your single States,
nay, the municipal governments OF your different
cities, not lesislating and governing, and adj
ministering in all and every language spoken in
your Union, in the respective States, and in the re-
spective cities themselves-and yet you have ma
tional government! Now, suppose that one part
of the people of the United States struck by
like that with which the builders of Babel were
Ionce struck should at once rise and say The
Union in which we live is oppression to us. Our
laws, our institutions, State and city govern
ments, our very freedom, is an oppression to us
What is Union to us what rights? what laws
what freedom? what history? what geography
what community of interests! They are all moth
inc. Language-that is all. Let us divide the
Union; divide the States; divide the very cities.
Let divide the whole territory, by and according
to languages, and then let the people of every Ian
guage live distinct and form each separate State.
Because, every nation has right to national life,
and to us the language is the nation-nothing else
freedom ITSELF though common to us, is oppres-
sion to us, because language is the only basis upon
which States must be founded Every thing else
lis tyranny What would you say of such reason
ing? What would become of your great Union
What of your Constitution glorious legacy of
your greatest men-those immortal stars on man
kinds moral canopy? What would become of
your country itself, whence the spirit of freedom
spreads its rising wings and rising hope clears up
the future of humanity? What would become of
this grand mighty complex of your republic, should
it be attacked in its consistency by the furious
hands of the fanaticism of language?
Where now she wanders and walks among the
rising temples of human happiness, she soon would
tread upon the ruins of liberty, mourning over the
fragility of human hopes Happy art thou free
nation of America, that thou hast founded thy
house upon the only solid basis of nations liberty
Liberty! A principle steady like the world, eter-
nal like the truth, and universal for every climate
for every time, like Providence. Thou hast no ty-
rants among thee to throw the apple Of Eros in thy
Union. Thou hast no tyrants among thee to raise
the fury of hatred in thy national family-hatred
of nations, that curse of humanity, that venomous
instrument of despotism. What glorious sight
it is to the oppressed of many different coun-
tries, different in language, history, and habits
wandering to thy shores, and becoming members
of thy great nation, regenerated by the principle
common liberty. Would could do the same; but
1 cannot, because 1 love my native land, inexpres
sibly, boundless, fervently. I love it more than
life more than happiness; 1 love it more in its
gloomy suferings than l would in its proudest
happiest days.
What makes nation? Is it the language only
! Then there is great powerful nation on thu
earth, because there is moderately large country
in the world, whose population is counted by mil
lions, where you would not find several languages
spoken. No it is not language only which makes
nation Community of interests, community O
history communities of rights and duties but chief
y community ofinstitutions of population, which
though perhaps different II tongue, and belonging
to different races is bonnd together by its daily in
tercourse in their towns the centres of their home
y commerce and homely industry, the very noun
tain ranges, and system of rivers and streams, TIN
l soil, the dust of which is mingled with the ashe
of those ancestors who bled on the same field, 70
e the interests-the common inheritance O
glory and of VICE. the community of law, tie of in
v situations, tie of common freedom or common op
pression-all this enters into the definition of ma
tion That this is true-that this is instinctivel
e felt by the common sense of the people, nowher
: is more apparently shown than at this very momen
u in my native land.
= Hungary was declared by Francis Joseph of Aus
tra no more to exist as a nation, more
e State. 1t was, and Is, put under martial law
s strangers rule in foreign tongue, where our ia
= theirs lived and our brothers bed. To be a Hun
It garian, became almost a crime in our own natiy
+ land. Now, to justify before the world the EXITING
ton of Hungary, the partition of its territory ant
gain the Capitalization of the dssected limbs int.
the common body of servtude, the treacherous DIV
! nasty was anxious to show that the HUNGARIAN