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

then we are all Hungarians. And mark well,
gentlemen, this happened not under my governor,
Ship. but even under the rule of Austrian martial
law. The cabinet of Vienna became furious; it |
thought of new census, but prudent men told
them that a new census would give the whole IL
millions as Magyars, and thus, no new census was
taken.
So true is my assertion that it is not language
alone which makes nation, an assertion which, OF
course your own great republic proves to the world
But on the European continent there unhaPplly
GREW ND a school which bound the idea of a ma
ton only to the idea of language, and joined poll
cal pretensions to it. There are some who advo-
cate the theory that existing countries must cease,
and the territories of the world be anew divided by
languages, and nations segregated by tongues
You are aware that this idea fit were not lmprac-
ticabe would be but curse to humanity death
blow to civilization and progress, and throw back
mankind by centuries-it were an eternal source
of strife war; because there is holy, almost re
lieious tie, by which mans heart to his home IS
bound, and no man ever would consent to abandon
his native land only because his neighbors speak
another language than he himself and by this rea-
son. claims for him that sacred spot where the ashes
of his fathers Ge-where his own cradle stood
where he dreamed the happy dreams of youth, and
where nature itself bears mark of his manhood's
laborieus toll. The idea were worse than the old
migration of nations was-despotism only would
rise out Of the strife
| Kossuth then dwells upon the eforts of the des-
pots of Europe to divide the people by language to
stir up strife among them in this way, and then
proceeds:
"Wing to give freedom to the people, we ell
minated in Hungary that Latin tongue, which was
an obstacle to its future. We did what every 9TH
er nation did, clearing by it the way to the peo-
Piles common universal liberty. Your country IS
a happy one in that respect. Being a young ma
ton, YOU did not find in your way the Latin tom
que when you established this republic; you did
not want a law to eliminate it from your public
life You have living diplomatic language, which
is spoken in your Congress, in your State eg1sla-
ttures, and by which your government rnles. That
language is not the native language OF your peo-
ple-scarcey Of that of majority; and yet no
man in the Union takes it for an oppression that
Legislation aud government is not carried on In
every possible language that is spoken in the Uni
ted States and yet are found in your common
law, inherited from England, some Latin express
sions, the afidavits, &C.; and having found it in
law you felt the necessity to stimulate 1t by law as
you really did.
And one thing have to mention yet. This re-
placing of the Latin language by the Hungarian
was not a work of our revolution, it was done be-
fore, step by step, by-and-by, from 1901. When
we carried, in 1949 our democratic reforms, and
gave POLITICAL social, civil and full religious free
dom to the whole people, without distinction OF re-
lgon or tongue, considering that unhappy excite
ment of the question OF languages, prevailing
through Europe in consequence OF the Russian
plot, which developed, we extended our cares to
the equal protection of every tongue and nation
atfording to all equal right to all aid out of the
public funds for the moral, religious and scientific
development in churches and schools Nay, our
revolution extended this regard even to the pohti-
cal development of every tongue, slnctioning the
free use of every tongue in the municipalities and
communal corporations as well as in the admins
tration of justice itself.
The promul cation of the laws in every tongue
the right to petition and to claim Justice in what
ever tongue-the duty OF the government to answer
accordingly-all this granted, and thus far more
done in that respect also, than whatever other ma
ton ever accorded in the claims Of tongues by
far more than the United States ever did, though
there is no country in the world where so many
different languages spoken as here. lis there
FORE the most calumnious misrepresentation, to say
that the Hungarians struggled for the dominion of
their own race. No; we struggled for civil, polit-
ical social and religious freedom, common to all,
against Austrian despotism. We struggled for the
great principle of selfgovernment against central
ization and because Capitalization, absolutis Yes,
Capitalization is absolutsm it is inconsistent with
constitutional rights.
, Austria has given the very proof of it. The
House of Austria had never the slightest intention
to grant constitutional life to the nations of Europe
II will prove it on another occasion. 1t hates con-
situations as hell mates the SVatlOn OF human SOUS
But the friends of the Hapsburgs say it has granted
a constitutional March, 1849. Well, where is
that constitution now? It was not only never ex-
3 ecuted, but was, three months ago, formally with
f drawn. Even the word ministry is blotted out
from the dictionary of the Austrian government
!. Schwarzenburg is again House, Court, and State
, Chancellor as Merternich was only Merternich
ruled not with tho iron rule of martial law the
: whole empire of Austria. Schwarzenburg does
: Merternch encroached upon the constitutional
e rights of Hungary, Pennsylvania, Crotia and Scla
s vonia. Sehwarzenburg has abolished them, and
r the young Nero, Francis Joseph, melted all
: promised equality Of nationalties is carried out
most literally, to be sure, because they all equal
lyoppressed, and all equally ruled by absolutistica
y principles, in the German language.
e And why that illusory constitution with
{ drawn Because it was lie from the beginning
because it was an impossibility. And why so
! Because it was founded upon the principle of CEN
tralization and centralized thirteen different nations
which now groan under Austrian rule and yet, to
have constitutional life, is more than impossible
: Iity. 1t is an absurdity-it is an oppression aug
mented by deceit. cannot exhaust this vast topic
: in one speech, so 1 go to the end. 1 only state
1 clearly my own and my nations ruling principle
even in respect to the claims of the naonalties Of
: languages, and that it is-we will have republican
institutions, founded on universal suffrage, and SO
the majority of the sovereign people shall rule in
every respect in the village in the city, in the
e try, in the Congress and governmental all and
= in every thing.
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