New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-03

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fne-cut. regular features, ct black HAIR usually
and flowing beard and carefully trained NOUS
,achs and Won nave among these men, as me
sueclEens Of manly beauty IS can De- seen ID ne
world
The women. as | remarked among he Baasr,
do not seem by any means - equal me men n
this respect
The funearans are quite proud OF TINS Pc
criiariiy Of thelr race, and though not a. al
frivolous people. they 10 taAe real oreht4!
delight IN rfcn and graceful costume, or VIA
ever SETS of their handsome proportions ms
c.r.scicusncss OF the strength and beauty OF the
race seems TO enter as one element into that very
necular attachment, or pride, they all show IN
regard 10 their country and nation
Zone OF my prison comrades lhe Floits'dh'
clerryman who had served 10 the ranks, told me-
m illustralon of this, that he entered hiausehOefE
IN tho course OF the war. banner IN hand. at the
hcad n larre force Of recruits. gust drawn from
the Vuuoarisn Plains They were as hne-O0k-
ino %, of men. he said. as ever served IN the
ranks. mostly Bduer, tall, vigorous fellows, ac-
cu,;oned 10 work and exposure from childhood
As they entered the town, banners tying, HE
after file of strong men, marching on erect ana
proud In their enthusiasm tor the struggle, an
did bussar bappened To he Al the gate, and rode
aside TO make way i0r them, Dll al Night OF MS
new addition the prime OF the Hungarian man.
hood. he turned, stopped took of his helmet.
and with his hands stretched out over them, and
the tears running down MS weather-5eaten face,
said. God bless YOU. my children You are
worthy OF the Hungarian Fatherland On sees
vou hare not ban fed On bran +" Ny companion
said he went out OF the ranks, and sheok the old
soldier by the hand as they passed.
Everywhere. that then went among the Hun
carians. | would hear the most anxious, continual
questioning, about the Hungarian emlgrants IN
America and Europe. was at that time IN the
neiqhbood of Tjhqzys former residence, and |
heard much too of him. And may be permitted
TO say that every account was most favorable,
even remarkably so. lie had been man OF great
wealth, owning wide lands, and al ObTgesPaa( Tor
Vicegespan OF a Com'fat,-a place Ike that OF a
Duke IA England or OF Governor OF great
State with us--they SAID, Vet a man always re-
markable in Hungary for the extreme simplicity
Of his life and manners He was a famous
" With" or farmer and economist, and his
estates were among the best managed IN the
land On his farm, In the district near Lokay,
he had drained lands introduced improvements,
erected schools. and really helped on the whole
nelghborhood IN most efficient manner. lhey
said. ii seemed almost Providence that ne was
one ofthe few wealthy gentlemen OF Hungary who
ALWAYS worked with his own hands. Esen when
ne was an acting member of the Parliament. and
IN one of the prominent offices of the nation, ne
might he seen, with his family, dong merely ser
wants work. drawing water and laborlng about
the house He was thorough Republican and
had loined heart and soul in the Revolution, and
had lost his all in II. not saving penny, II was
thought
We Americans have no cause to be ashamed
of our treatment of the llungarans, but 1t may
be worth while 10 remember more who these
Emierants were at home, and how their country
regards them.
II any one will imagine IN our War OF hide,
pendence. that the English had conquered If
they Will picture 10 themselves, that all the pest
and bravest IN our cOuntry-the orators and sol
diers and statesmen, Adams and Lee, and Ham
IltOn and Hancock and Nashlngton and Frank
lin and hundred others were suddenly driven
abroad into France or Italy If they will still fur
ther imagine, that these men had been mostly
gentlemen offortune, unaccuStomed to work with
their own hands. and that they were now placed,
almost beggared, III foreign land they VIII get
some idea of the feelings of the Exles IN their
new homes, and Of the sentiments OF hungary
towards them
1t needs not to be said here, that the Hunga
rams have borne themselves IN manly way IN
their disasters / have heard 1t myself, from
leader on the Conservative benches IN the Eng
ish House of Commons, "that whatever might
be the opinion of the Hungarian Cause, no man
could avoid respecting the manly bearing OF the
Exiles IN their mlsiortunes :" No man questions
II | believe IN America.
Still. 1t will be a consolation TO themto Know
what. perhaps. they need not 20 be told-that
they are remembered with undlminlshed ahec
ton In their country. Their exile and poverty
and suffering have only deepened the love OF
their country men for them Their names are
remembered at the fire side prayer,-ln the lone
" cottage On the puSzta, IN the cells ana duh-
geonS OF Austrian prisons, m the hovel OF The
Hungarian peasant The first question asked OF
the stranger Is, if he mas known them or met
them.
Tell them, SAID their counlrymen to me
even those slowly dying under Austrian bondage
not to forget Their Fatherland, and their
Fatherland will not forget them ~
Years may pass away-the stamp OF Austrian
tyranny may be lndelibly imprinted on the gal
liant natlon-but neither time. nor the slow
grinding OF Slavery, nor the pains and mlsior-
tunes surely coming, will wear away from the
hearts of their countrymen the memory OF these
the first sufferers for Hungary g. T.. B.