New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-25

trian administration IN Hungary. The police
are careful how they admit strangers, and only
those enter who are known as friends OF the
Government Indeed. ! have no doubt that one
Of the motives for their proceedings against me
was The desire Of holding forth warning to all
future inqulsiilve travellers for, 1t will be re-
membered, the Chief OF Police, Oh my apply
Ing tor a rise for Hungary, objected, on the
ground that 1.-THE English and Americans had
written such shameful descriptions OF the Aus
TRAN afr. Irs .
design in the present letter to write brief
account OF the Austrian pollct toward tina. coun-
try. since the Revolution; and | hope, despite
The treatment which | have received, 10 give
candid and faithful picture.
n cannot be denied that the Austrian Minis
try. in entering on the Office of governing Hun
gary, after the war, had one u the most dllfcult
tasks ever placed before statesmen. There was
conquered country In their hands. which must
be managed as Province OF the Empire. mere
was a land which they had Just won with the
sword, but which must be gained over u 'heh
again by kind treatment
Of course any ludlcIous Austrian statesman
would see that merely to crush the hatlon-to
grind and squeeze every possible penny from
them-though profitable now to the Empire,
would be verv useless in future. IL might lessen
ings. discontents distrust, which could hereafter
burst forth feariuly The problem before them,
as Austrlans, was to incorporate Hungary IN the
Empire and AT the same time TO render 1t weli-elS-
posed to the Government. II could not be ex-
tlnguished and therefore must be carefully gov
erned. go
A difficult problem, plainly, for men OF the
unrest intentions and the best judgments. |
make no doubt, however, the thing could have
been done in an early period after the Revolu-
ton. That the Austrian Ministry, however,
have Enthusiastically, egreglously ialied-wll oe
evident as produce the facts Which came I'M
der my observation. Such stupid, logged,
brutal way OF proceedng-as II nation OF htteen
millions of gallant, generous men could be
crushed, and drilled and nodded like regiment
OF their Bohemian boors-ls almost without a
parallel In European misgovernInent. One can
hardly understand such a disregard OF ther own
interests. 1t often seemed to me IN Hungary,
really. as if Providence had blinded the eyes OF
the Government to their own best polcy.
II might be supposed, that as Republicans we
would rejoice at such laundering For II Is eN-
dent there can be no surer way of forcing Hun
gary into another outbreak than such PoiicS'
But every man knows how feariul Is the Pfice
OF liberty won by a Revolution. III i.loeT'y, IL
Justice could he gained for Hungary without the
terrible storm of war and Contest-by graduai
gentle. rational means for one should prefer
AsIsaid before. the difficulty before the MIN
,>,rv could have been met at an early PERIOD.
The Hungarian nation are remarkably suScep-
tible TO generous treatment. lhey are not
race given to hidden passions, or To cherlshing
hatred and revenge, like the Italians, or the
Spaplards. The Hungarian has an open, gener-
Gus nature, ready indeed to repel wrong, bur
even more ready 10 forgive It. 1 do not az all
doubt that a generous great-hearted act OF am
nesty, after the war from the Austrian Govern
ment-aC companled, too, with some evident ap'
preciation OF the valor aud honor of the nation
would have completely won over the whole csun-
inv for a time Despite the bitterness OF defeat
despite their crushed hopes and the deep
wounds they had received, | believe such
noble act as that would have called forth q thru
of affection and LOYALTY such as would have
strengthened the Austrian authority more than
years of fassiuading and gu'llotnins
The Austrians however, instead OF tnis pro
ceeded in brutal. savage manner, 10 hanging
and shooting by the hundreds. First came the
scourging BY Haynau-and, while that poor
crazed lady lives IN PeSth, who stilI raves,
they saw. of the day when she run the
gauntlet, half naked of two lines OF Haynaus
soldiers IL will be difficult TO make the hrst
specimen OF Austrian administration forgotten;
Next occurred the execution OF the Generals and
officers OF course, II was TO be expected 'nat
the Austrians. with their view of the Kevolu-
ton would sentence the leaders But this shoot
INC OF thirteen Generals IN a batch, as II they
were SO MANY bufialoes-and this hanging of
every man OF prominence they could GET hol o.
was altogether carrying to an excess then rights
even taking Their ownNlew ofthe matter. IL ssup'
posed tina, oper a thousand gentlemen OF station
and character died IN Hungary on the scaiiold
or the gallows that year under Austrian hands.
Accompanying this, there was deception anu
touble-dealng which allenated the HungarlanS,
even rs much IS the cruelty.
There seems no doubt, that before the surTen'
der at Villages, many OF the Chief Austrian
officers pledged their honor for the safety of the
prominent HungsrianS Officers have told me,
who were engaged in The affair that, 4, the time,
letters 10 this effect were shown them-anl,
on the promises IN them, uley had induced their
troops to yield. | need not say that nothing was
ever heard OF these promises aiterwaTd. Again,
al ComoTn, the silpuiatlonS were that az within
the fortress should be placed on entire liberty,
aud allowed, II they chose, 10 leave the country.
The conditions were held toward the officers,
bu, hy an ingenlou, Qulbble the soldiers we've
ssc,ptea and drafted into the Imperial army
All th,s, however, might have been borne, II
the succeeding Administration mac shown Itself
IN any way regsriiul of the national iteins>-
The internal Government o. Hungary, under 'he
Old Constitution, had been very effective ana
economical Goyernmen,-datlng many centuries
back-and one 20 which the people were exceed
lngly attached Ii Is not my purpose 10 deS''oe
here Ii will be sufficient 70 say. mat II con-
tanned IN every part those pecullarltles "hch
have rendered our Constitution, IN the view Oh
all political philosophers. so effective, ana Whlch'
beyond any other provisions, have trained Us IN
political life refer TO our " municipal repre-
sentative systematic village governing nseh'
and being represented IN the Dlstnct-the DIS
met IN the Sta,e-ihe State IN the mon
hungry was entirely divided into ComiiIfs,
which may DC considered as the States, ana
which were quite as independent OF the " Lands.
Jag or Congress IN pesth, as our States are OF
The Central Government. These Comilats, again,
were divided into districts, or Bes1kea, and
these INTO parishes, or Grne,ads.' Each OF
these parts had their separate administrations,
and were Represented IN the one next higher