New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-22

Slavery and Oppression; and all good men
and friends Of Liberty throughout the
world should rejoice in the defeat Of Hos
suth ard the Magyars. Moreover, Kos
suth was not only an OPpressor and sus-
tainer of Slavery, but also a murderer,
having been accessory to the death OF
Lemberg and Lstour. And yetthis writer
who thus utterly and glsringly gives the
lie 10 his own deliberate and unprovoked
assertion on a subject which he knew as
much about in the first case as in the
second, presumes to accuse others Of in
consistency, falsehood, &c. What esPect
can the public have for a journalist in
whom even the sense Of shame is so utterly
wanting :
The Courier has again and again affirmed
that the Slavons in Hungary were held by
the May ars in slavery Of tie same ab-
solute character as our Negro Slavery, only
much moro - that the " Sclavonisns
in 1S48, headed by the gallant Jellachich,
demanded from the Hungarian Diet their
freedom and equality of social and political
rights" and that this being refused by
Kossuth and the Magyars, the Ban of
Croatia and all the ScLarOnian races rose in
revolt against their oppressors." These
ScavOnian races, be elsewhere says, were
nine millions in number. This is the sum
of his statement on this head. We have
denied and disproved it by reference to no.
torious facts, but, having no other refuge,
be scouts our refutation as reckless and
false, because we have not quoted authori-
ties. Well, authorities he shall have.
First look at some of the glazing blum
ders Of The Courier. He gives table of
the population of Hungary thus Magyars,
4,46O,OOO; Germans, 1,25O,OOO, and then
adds the Sclaves," Distinguishing them
as Wallachians, Sclavacks, (Slovaks is the
proper term,) Croatians, Servians, Rasni-
acks, Seekers and Jews The Seekers are
Magyars and so spoken Of by every au-
thor who knows more of the subject than
The Courier, and if the Jews are of SlavO-
mic origin it has not before been discovered.
The Wallachians too, are not Slavons
though hostile to tho Magyars, but a people
of mixed Dacian and Roman origin, speak
ing a mainly Latin language, which is
altogether unlike any Slavonian tongue.
These are tri1es, but they serve to illus
trate the laundering and utter ignorance 0
the writer.
But what was this Slavery of which so
much is SO positively said The fact is
that it was no Slavery at ALL it was not
even serfdOm like that Of Russia. 1t was
simply the relation of feudal tenantship
whereby the Peasant holding land was
bound to pay to the Lord certain tithes and
services in labor. 1t was the same relation
as existed until l943, in southern Germany
and in all Austria. Abuses it had, no
doubt, and great and crying abuses, and for
that the Hungarian Diet abolished it be-
fore the Revolution. But there was no.
thing about it peculiar to any one nation
OF race. There were in Hungary Magyar
Landlords and Magyar Peasants; Gelman
Landlords and German Peasants; Slavo-
mic Landlords and Slavonic Peasants. Mel
ther Magyars nor Slavons were exclusive
~ of either one caste or the other, but OF
both. What sense is there then in this
tslk of The Courier's about >lavonic
Slavery! Just as much as in the rest of
its desperate disGuisition on this war.
But documents, give US documents cries
The Courier. These facts are so notorious
to every one who has had paid any careful
attention to the matter that only ignorance
or impotence can dispute them. But we
will bring witnesses. In a number of the
Grtn-boten, which we received fromLeipzig
only on Saturday by the Pacific, German
traveller in Slavonic Hungary. writes as
follows:
Almost all ths villages IA The BschEs and tic Binst
30 pceed IN all hungary, bear IN heir arrangement and
the msIks Of sue origin, Tue sIAnp Of me peculiar
relation between landlord aud vassss A nobleman who
ObiAned piece OF lard by purchase Dy marriage, or az
eh from The Crown for Distinguished services IL built
IN the dsI OF hs possessions spacious dwelling
suited TO b noble wsniS The plslns which lay
around the new dwelling required hsncs 10 Ill them,
order that Trey ushg yield enough for he Lord and
bis guests Money 10 pay these hands was seldom here
sra sd sb, und no hanes could have been got even
for lhe beat psy IRE Turkish IN Southern Hungary
especially, had SO sxIrpsed aud driven Oa tbs pOpu
thai oen IN ducls larger sn many sovereign STA Of
GeTnsny there breslheo not sinsls soul TIE Gracious
Lord he would Io return 10 the nes 81 Abel aud n the
Of God sci about digging the SOL himse. must look
for Then be wroN TO some good friend IL tbs So
tke Northwestern Hungary which had suffered est by
ihe crony th- country about Oeb-eCZn 10
psnon Ia IL Syfms 20 sn0lheI 90 tie .iclsp
frontier. asking o. them some o. their W his
land cOndou thai they should receive plots Of
own. Ofep The Gracious Lord brought home these new
terent Al expense arc - around manor
lhere won be snval Arolna hnnLnar 49,. lLsra