The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-12

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sppoint besides an administrator in his place
VINO had orders To be present al every meeting
10 control every step they took and never to
leave his country; aud everything being in the
hands OF the lord lieutenant, such as gifts OF
offices, so TO make the votes of county meetings
a mere nonsense, or to make them rather tool
of The government. Therefore, we opposed it
with all our possible strength; but we opposed
il, not in any privllegiary view, bat because We
wished for the independence OF the municipal
Institutions, IN order To carry out reforms in this
direction--not to make the condition OF Hun
gary such that II ere should be no close
privileges for few, bat to erect temple of
liberty there for all the people. cloud cheers
But the more We developed our progress in a
view TO reforms, the more the government in
sists on the progress TO demoralize the people
That was our condition when the diet met in
November or October. lS47, just before the
French revolution. You see, then, that we in
Hungary were not planning revolution. Loud
cheers Hungary was not the soul of secret
conspiracy; but we in public meeting, strug-
gcd, fairly and openly, for the rights of the
people. Loud cheers myself had the hon
or to be elected member OF parliament in l847
deputy for the chief department, in fact, by its
geographical position, the metropolitan country
OF Pesth, where the Austrian government did
everything possible to oppose by election but
the good sense of the people aughter and
cheers carried it out to triumphant success.
When we came TO the diet, the first question
proposed. according to the instructions of my
constituents, was, that the municipal institutions
of the country should be upheld in their natural
purity, and that the system of administrators
should be put aside. and that if this motion was
not carried, no taxes should be voted. On this
motion, the house Of commons and the house
OF lords did not agree for two months, because
1t was necessary both should agree to carry
bill before it could be laid before the King; but
there is no limit to the number Of communca-
tons which passed between the two houses, 30
that they might go on to the number of 100 or
300 till the question is settled or abandoned.
This measure did not meet the appreciation of
the house Of lords, because it was composed for
the most part of functonaries named by the
government, or Of those who aspired to be the
nominees of government. Still, we were happy
to have the most important part Of the lords of
Hungary with US, at the bead of whom was the
unfortunate, the worthy Of better fate, Lonis
Batthyany. cheers These supported the
house of commons. Still the commission and
government went on to corrupt the meetings,
and seeing that We should get worst in the end,
and that the government were carrying one
after the other by violence ard fraud, proposed
in the house of commons that we should meet
the continual entertainments of the government
by having resource to the chief source of them.
We saw that on the head of the King of
Hungary, who is Emperor Of Austria, two crowns
are laid; the one was a constitutional crown,
the other an absolute crown. These two oppo-
site directions could agree, they never could
be united; which of them to prevail, history
will show bat as We felt that the Austrian
crown was the source of all encroachments on
the rights of Hungary, and that SO long az the
two were uEited there would be no solidarity for
the fate Of nations in the future-so long as
he house of Hapsburg does not restore their
rights to the people Of Hungary--so long will
you see rebellion ready to break out against
AUSTRIA and Hungary, having freedom, it was
her duty, elder brother to seek to restore free
dom to those other countries of which the house
Of Austria had deprived them. Seeing this, ]
proposed that it was our duty, as the elder
brother of Austria, to go to the king, and ask him
to restore the constitutional liberties of the other
portions of his dominions; and so by this means
To put away the entertainment placed on the con-
stitutonai rights of Hungary. That was what
proposed. No just man can charge me, that,
by proposing this measure, that was universally
accepted by parliament, was planning a revo-
luton. No one will say was a red republican
the words OF true man, faithful to the rights
Of humanity, ever meet an echo in the breasts of
generous Englshmen. Cheers NV speech
was translated into German, it was pr blished in
Vienna, it was read in the coffee houses, in the
public resorts And now the news of the Frenc'
revolution came upon us, and Vienna rose up in
revolt loud cheers that was the Austrian rev.
olution. myself with knowledge of all the
circumstances Of Europe before me, frankly own
decided not TO be carried away by the elements,
but to take the reins of the elements into my
own hands cheers to avail myself to the Utmost
of the opportunity which God had given-not
Hungary made. Loud cheers Our first pro-
position now was for the emancipation of the
peas antry, which was carried unanimously by
both houses. Cheers. But | was anxious
not to hurt the interests of any GLASS; but rather
to spare those which, though not just in their
origin, by time, circumstance, age, had got inter.
laced with the private fortunes of the people
and | therefore proposed, and il was agreed to
unanimously, that the people should be free of
all ITS dutles-free, without paying anything
for it,
Liberty must not be paid for loud cheersl
out, at the same Tune, there should be an lndem-
nifty, not by the pea-antry, but for the landlords
Hungary is rich enough to give compensation
and indemnity to the obles and, by good finan-
cial operations, might be made to pay more than
two or three times what it does now Iengaged
my honor and my word that full indemnity
should be given, and the measure was carried IN.
the second measure, proposed was
that, whereas before the people had every duty
but no right, there should be an equality in duty
and in rights, and that every man, according to
his fortune, should contribute TO the public ne
cessities-this was also carried the third pro
position was that the people should be admitted |
TO the right of elect'ng not only members of
parliament, but the magistrates who administer
the laws; but, of course, half million of peo-
pie could not be convoked together in one room,
and, therefore, the personal was transported to
a representative basis, and every community |
was ordered TO elect men to represent them in |
the county meetings. That being my chief direc-
tive prnciple-that recognized the rights of
men, the rights of families the rights of commu
mites, which considered as not to be sui jected
to parliamentary Observation-Disclosures has