New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-29


foteign policy. Indeed II would be no policy al all
because foreign pOlfcyis not 10 have NJ concern
but 20 have concern with other nations.
But am also told that yOn are interested IN { on
OF foreign nations bu. hat Europe Is too far
Wen, you know, gentlemen, that II Is one OF your
glOres that by the nventon ofone OF your former fell
low cllZeIs the word dstIa-e IS boitea Outfron the
dictionary. but let me OIlY mention that your IVA
territory is large thai you have portions Of
your United Republic taat All more distant '.om
Beilmore than Hungary Is. and therefore the argu-
neLt - that Europe IL too clSIaht, Is IN my o1ht'n
rothlrg, and can be TO mOfNe ior n0' liAlR5 any
COZ Germ 10 the fate ard destiny OF the niucls o!
Europe Besides this distance is refuted by nature
iiSe!f. Is Europe too faT 10 have commercial Ia
far larger cou mercia inter curse with Europe than
with an the other parts Of the continent OF America
ard therefore 4 the COMMERCIAL Interests oil Europe
are rot too far. that Argument stands as no.liag.
The ocean which separates America from Europe IS
now regarded no. as a Sc iaraiion but rather as a
means Of communication and connection between
the two continents.
Now, gentlemen, would you be willing 20 havethe
favor only ofthis ecton with Europe Would You
not take also upon your shoulders the duties which
spring out Of this connection The disregard Of
duties would or later kill the favor OF this IN
tercourse. You cannot help the United States can
not help, feeling the influence of the condition OF
Europe at home The peace or the war, the civiilZa
ton or the bsrbarsm the freedom or the oppression
the happiness or the distress, the progress or the
stagnatlOn Of Europe cannot fan TO react upon
you your freedom or your oppression your civil
Izstlon OF your barbarism, your stagnanon or your
progress must Of course react upon the European
continent. There is a link in destnies Of mankind
from which 10 man IN the world can separate HIM
self You therefore cannot remain indifferent to the
condition Of that Europe with which, IN so many re-
specs of your own Interests there there was great
deal Of confusion in the hall owing to the admission
OF large number OF persons at once
am fully aware, gentlemen, thus Interruption is
out of 10 disregard, but Is an almost unavoidable
consequence OF your situation where so large
number of generous men are crowded together, Ills
Lot possible TO remain silent but that also you must
not have the expectation to hear speech, and in
deed / must sheren ny humble remarks tCnes
of "NO, no, &c on No, il is hardly posi-
BILE. IL is not from indlspOsiton that | wish TO
shorten my remarks because need some strength
IN my mind to command my body when II is wanted.
But il is an entire mpossibility TO make exert0ns to
speak to so large an assembly, therefore l will
shorten my remaTks-the more because am happy
TO feel myself here in land Of publicity.
| know very well from the generous attention
which you have bestowed upon the cause which
represent, here among that intelligent people, where
almost every reads his newspaper, that wherever
have spoken one word upon that cause which YOU
honor by your attention, | have spoken it TO the
whole people OF the United States. Every man,
every woman is acquainted with my motives
knows the cause lead, and has also taken res0lu-
ton in his or her breast, already and therefore
want not many speeches more during my stay in the
United States. ! Candlspense with argument. lean
only hunbly make the suggestion that 1t is imposSl-
bic for the United States not to feel interested ia the
condition Of Europe, and that there never yet was
time when the condition Of Europe deserved your
attention more than at the present moment.
You know what is the condition of Europe now. Il
is universal oppression of civil, political aud
religious liberty, These are the three great treas
ufes which make your glory and your happiness.
And you know, also, that out Of this oppression
every man has foreseen that new revolution
on The European Continent must arise. You
know that the great revolution is brought home
already to the nations OF Europe by the lmDlOus
blow Of Louis Napoleon. The elected President OF
90 has hv imnious bloH Struck down the
constitution in order that he might become En-
peror. He has stricken it down as a tool of the
Gar of Russia and the Emperor of Austria 1t was
yesterday received the news that the Austrian
Ministry has openly declared that the absolutistlcal
powers Of Europe are resolved TO maintain the
usurpatlon of Louis Napoleon therefore the revo-
luton has already broken out in Europe. The first
blow Of war is already struck, and no man in the
world has the power TO stop its progress Its VI
braon will be felt throughout Europe and no where
with more resolution than in my poor down-trodden
The people OF Hungary has mighty motives to risk
li'e-to risk existence-to risk all 1t has for the
restoration of my fatherand to its freedom and in
dependence. We have had a nationality, now we
have none We have had ConstitutioD-by the
blessing of God we succeeded to transfer it from
Arisiocratlc TO Democratic one three years ago.
Now, Hungary has no constitution a, all we were
none. we Sre iKed IKE rod OF shocpfnto
Saon S%s the ddspotc nSon Of he House Of
Austria. We have had freedom of the Press. 1t is
lot nineteen years ago Mnen DeSdn Tue stIuSBie
of that great right of manklnd-the freedom OF
thought l have endured three years lmprison-
ment for 1t but at last | succeeded to carry
it through. Now there is no free PressItheIe
is no Press at all iii Hungary-there Is only the
Hangman and Martial Law. We have had free
dom-we established freedom-ensire religious
hbety-equsl protection TO whatever rehglon, 10
whatever cause. Now there is equal oppression Tor
all The Protestant Church had its own self
COVE rpment for Its own Churches and schools, now
1t is tab from it. The Catholic Church had us own
power to dispose of It's temporary aifars-now tnat
is taken nom it, and day by day the nearly bankrupt
Austrian Government is encroachlng upon the
property OF the Catholic Church, which IS consderel
as the best means to get up ne" loan Ihat lsthe
condition of the Catholic church, OF which tis
with high gratlhcatonthati Protestant notoIly by
birth but also by conviction declare that when we
struggled for a lifetime ioT religious liberty In nun
gary We had that church m the foremost rank oithe
struggle for the rights OF our Protestant Religion
lGreat applause
So much do we value the freedom OF conscience
that the single thought that Protestant has lost ms
religious liberty equally with the Catholic, or thai
those who profess the faith Of Moses are excluded
from the nights of citizenship because oil theh re-
ligion-ihis very circumstance VIII De suihclehs
for us Hungaians Magyars 10 carry on as long as
there is single drop OF blood IN our veins. lac
war for the rest was for religious independence, as
we have carried II for three centuries past, De-
cause Hungary was always foremost III Europe 10
struggle for religious liberty, It the only bar
rier IN former times of Christianity when Mahom-
mechanism invading Europe Applause
have succeeded III my efforts TO make the Agfl-
cultme in Hungary free, and 10 transform the fea'
SAINTS into entirely free Proprietors of the SOIL which
they cultivate. Now the Government OF Austria Is
again introducing feusa rights, under different pre-
texts in several parts Of Hungary, and when we
freed the Peasants and the People Of Hungary We
did not touch any material right OF whatever class
but We declared that the nation would give lncehhi-
fcatlon 10 Landlords who lost, by the reform laws,
any ofthe rghts-aAy tie oppressive rights-Waich
they held upon the Peasartry. Now Austria, oy
how taVstion fakes from the peOpC IT'S very lie
sweat and out of this the peoples treasure Itself
Ills giving the indemnifcaton which we promised,
not Out OF the peoples pocket, because We all know
that freedom is a rieht for which the people have
ro,hins 20 nav The nation has other treasures out
of which to make such decentralization. Now
Austria takes II cut Of the pockets OF the people,
and the landlords viii not collect the lnceunlnca'
,ion except only few Of them who are most faiIh'
6,l 10 the OPPRESSION Of the Austrian DeSpot lap
plause1 Therefore, you see, the Protestahts anu
i,athnlcs eYerY religious party, and the peaSantly