The southern press., 1851-11-15

NOT ny Vic ifoo cnOlco OF tho bhtloH "ilhOus coh
ditions. but on the basis Of treaties, the CHIEF
feature OF which treaties is, that the monarch
should reign in Hungary by the same lneal sue.
cession as in the dominions of the house OF Aus.
tria; that the Austrian dynasty was recognized
and should remain kings of Hungary, and there.
upon the King took on HIMSELF sacred duty, to
respect and conserve the Hungarian constitution
and to rule and govern Hungary by its own pub.
lie institutions, according to its own ancient
laws. And that was the duty of the King He
swore to God-he swore to the eternal God
that he hoped He would 80 bless him as he
should keep that word. Loud cheers. This
was a resume of the fealty so far. Well, out OF
thirteen kings-out of the thirteen kings we had
of this house and dynasty, no one who knows
anything OF history can charge me with exagger.
alton when | say, that their rule was one OF
continual perjury.-M. Kossutb spoke very earn
estly ard with emotion, dropping his voice 80
that the close of the sentence was not audible at
the end of the table, and some person asked, "A
rule of what" He exclaimed: OF perjury,
gentlemen loud cheers that is the word
perjury. Cheers for several moments, at his
emphatic delivery Of the wort.
] am plain, common man call things as
they are. Now, when the Hungarian nation
elected the house of Hapsburg to the throne of
Hungary-of this Hungary which is larger than
100000 German square miles, which is equal, as
am told, to 100 900 English square miles, with
population of l5OOO,OO0-no small country,
gentleman; no small little patch of land
when she chose the house Of Hapsburg, all the
other provinces of the Hapsburg were consttu-
tional monarchies. Every other of these States
had a constitution, and every one of these af.
forwards united to her had one, too; but by and
by, through the course of three centuries, the
house of Austria has gone on in a straight d.
rection to be an absolute monarchy; and now,
before our past struggle, not one place, or prov
ince in her dominions had constitution-the
ambitious, despotic house of Austria-rather, ]
should say, the house of Hapsburg-had alb
sorbed every single one Of them. Loud cheers
The constitutional life of Hungary was not alb.
sorbed, because it did not belong to tho Aus
TRAN empire Hungary had no other connection
with Austria, than Hanover had with England,
with this difference only, that Hanover had diff
ferent line of succession, while the line of sue
cession of Austria and Hungary was the same.
But we had laws and coronation oaths and paci-
fications, which declare that there should be no
connection between Hungary and the house of
Austria, but Il is, only to be ruled by the same
sovereign-only that Hungary should have a
right to be ruled by its own laws, rights and in
situations; 30 much so, that should we happen
t. have king come to the succession of the
sovereignty, being child in his minority, Hun.
gary should not be governed by the same per.
son as ruled over the Austrian provinces, be-
cause there existed in the house of Hapsburg a
| family treaty, by which the eldest of the house
must be the tutor t. 9. RegenD to the empire;
but by the law in Hungary il must be Palatine,
who rules as tutor Of the King, and therefore
there was this possibility, that regent might
have to govern Austria, while another regent
was governing Hungary. Therefore, the con.
stituiional life of Hungary. was not absorbed
and chiefly was not absorbed, becauss-by the
municipal institutions by that strength which
can never be broken-[ cheers Resisted the en-.
croachments of the crown. | consider these
municipal institutions to resemble, in fair in
stance, the siege of Saragossa, where, after Ma
poleons army had taken the town, they still hat
to fight single battles in every street. Cheers.
SO was il always in Hungary In my own time
though a young man yet, remember that there
was time when the house of Hapsburg, with
out the help of any parliament, attempted {,
destroy the constitution, to levy troops, and t
raise the taxes TO two and half times thei
former amount and that, out Of the fifty-tw,
counties in Hungary, influenced byevery mean
which overnments-immora governments
have at their disposal, oEly some ten or twelv
registered the DEGREES, but that the Others cor
staptly resisted them by lawful grounds, an
that this resistance, on constitutional and law
ful basis, overthrow them.
1t was, as said, Just like aaragossa, wher
the town was taken, indeed, but where the fgh
went on from street TO street, and house +
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these encroachments. we conserved some shadoy
Of constitutional liberty; but the house O
Hapsburg, after having absorbed all constitu
tional life in its domirions, came to this-tha
there was only Hungary which is so bold as L
oppose it in its aim to be entirely an ahsolut
monarchy, and seeing that its head availed him
self of every means IN his power--of open vic
lence-of all kinds Of intrigues--to destroy an
overthrow our constitution, he fomented ou
discords-he undermined our national characte
--he impoverished us---he corrupted us--he op
pressed and, by and Ivy, our rights were take
away, and, by.and.by, we became aware on
municipal institutions and our parliament, whic
should have been convoked every three year.
and was not conyoked once in twenty year,
though taxation went on and an arbitrary gov
eminent went on-were not enough; and vi
became aware that some 200, or 300, or 400, o
500 mobiles by birth, meeting by right in thei
country meetings, were not sufficient TO defent
the constitution Of the country against the pre-
dominant direction Of the head Of the Austrian
absolutism and that was the origin Of our en-
dea .ors, which are rs old as twenty eight years
that men influenced by justice and pure patriot
i-r took for aim 10 go on, degree by degree, an'
step by step, to make the people participate il
constitutional rights and liberties. That wa
the aim and direction Of the public life Of Hun
gary from 1925. The more Hungary has Eel
this necessity, because she had board Of gov
eminent, commission or council ofgoverr msnt
which, by law, was made responsible not only u
do anything contrary to the law, but not to carr
into execution any order Of the sovereign him
self, contrary TO the law but still we saw Their,
was no responsibility in that council, because M
corporate hody can be made responsible. indi
viduals can be made responsible but where tn,
government is collective, responsibility is
folly, Tcheers,l ard vauishes like dream. w,
saw that our national independence and th,
lawful rights Of our nation were entirely alb
sorbed by the Austrian government, and in ou
time chiefly by Prince Metternich, who was al
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