New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-07
An Act of Justice.

FRANCIS DOWEN. EulIOI Va inc ANOt6u
American Review and the most industri-
Gus and insidious of the maligners of Kos
suth and the martyrs to the cause of Hun
garian independence, yesterday received
an instalment of his reward in the vote of
the State Board of Overseers of Harvard
University, who decided that he is unfit to
be Professor of History in that institution.
He had of course in his favor the dead
weight of the officers of the University en-
titled to a voice in this election, but these
were overborne by the votes of State Sena-
tors and other representatives of the Peo-
pie associated with them in the Board; so
Mr.. Bowen is not Professor, and may
persevere in his congenial vocation of JUS
tifying triumphant Despotism and heaping
calumnies on the bowed heads of crushed
and exiled Patriots without compromising
the fair fame of Massachusetts or the sin
cerity of American Republicanism by his
ignorance of History, his sympathy with
Tyranny and his libels on the fallen, the
desolate and the dead. q
We should gladly have rested on
simple announcement of the merited and
salutary rebuke just administered to this
apostate, but his own conduct forbids it.
In Yesterdays Boston Atlas he has two
columns of studied malignity, sophistry
and misstatement of the issues on which
he has been Judged and convicted. He
tries to belittle and twist those issues as
follows:
"My whole offense is, that published about
wear ago-not any scandal about Queen Eliza
beth but some few historical facts about an iso-
lated tribe of Tartar origin, who dwell some
where in the neighborhood of the Black Sea.
That "isoated tribe " required the COM
bined armies of the two greatest Military
Empires of Europe to subdue them and
here is an American Reviewer persisting in
his attempts TO make Americans believe
that the Four or Five Millions of that
"isolated tribe" who had scarcely money,
credit, armies or munitions to help them
selves with, were enabled not only TO mas
ter and hold in subsection not only the
Eight Millions of insurgent and dreadfully
oppressed Hungarians of other races, but
actually to fog the vast and we'll appointed
armies of the Austrian Empire out of their
Country Though most of its strongholds
were in Austrian possession,) drive them
from the banks of the Thesis across the
Danube at Pesth, retake Buda, and threaten
Presburg and Vienna, so that the interPosi-
ton of the Russian Autocrat's Sixty Mil
lions became necessary to prevent the sub
version of the Austrian Empire with its
Thirty Millions by this "isOlated tribe " OF
Four or Five Millions Ought not the ex-
Professor to locate them good way beyond
the Black Sea- if he means to have his
story believed
The Hungarian Nation, whose history
and character Mr.. Bowen so foully bellies,
bore most important part in the uncom-
bined and unfortunate but still glorious and
not unfruitfal struggle of the Nations OF
Europe to recover the Rights long usurped
| by Aristocracies and Kings. Their fail
was effected by the joint efforts of the two
greatest and darkest despotisms In the
world, after having baffled the utmost exer-
tons of one of them. That Despotism, at
an early stage of the contest resorted to
its we'll understood expedient Of exciting
War of Races or Glasses, like that with
which it, few years earlier, had filled
Gallicia with devastation and murder. This
dastardly device was exactly like that Of
Great Britain in setting the Aboriginal
savages on our fathers in their Revolution
airy struggle; and the one would have had
the same success as the other had France
joined Great Britain against US as Russia
Joined Austria against Hungary. Suppose
England had in l776 proclaimed the liber-
alton of all the Slaves in these United Colo
MES, and melted them 10 rise and cut the
throats of their masters, would that have
changed the essential character of the
struggle as between the Mother Coun-
try and the revolted Colonies ! The
world is not deceived by these des-
perate shifts of INSCRIPTIONS Tyranny,
though the Gorgeys, BOwens and Brown
sons are sure to mako the most of them.
There are not hundred men in America,
no matter 70 which side their synDathies