Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-12-25

sal liberty. Your country is happy Que
in that respect. Being young nation you
did not find III Your way The LATIN iongne
when you established tins rerobi'c; so
Won did not want q law TO eliminate II from
your pnblic life. You have hv'ng d.
plomaiic language. wlsch rs spoken an
your Congress, in yesr State legislatures
and bv which your Government rules
| That language is mol the native language
of your pcoplc-scarccly Of that cf a ma
jo-ity; aad yet no man in the Union takes
it for an oppression that Legislation and
government is not carried on IN every pos
sible language that is spoken in the United
States; and yet are found in your common
law, inherited from England, some Latin
expressions, the aflidavits, &c. and having
found it law, you felt the necessity to stiin-
ullie it by law as You really did.
And one thing have TO mention yet
This replacing of the Latin language by
the Hungarian was not a work ct our re-
volu,;on it was done before, step by step,
by and by from 1871. When we carried,
in 1913. our democratic reforms, and gave
political, socisl, clva and full religious free
dom to the whole people, without distlnc-
lion OF religion or tongue, considering that
unhappy excitement ofthe question Of
guages, prevailing through Europe in con-
sequence of the Russian plot, whi'h de-
/ veiopcd, we extended our cares to the
equal protection of every tongue and ma
ton, aiordng to all equal right, to all aid
on, Of the public funds. for the moral, re-
ligious and scientific developmentin church
es and in schools. Nay. our revolution
extended this regard even to the political
development Of every tongue, sanctioning
the free use Of every tongue. in the NUM-
cipalitics aud Communal corporations, as
well as in the administration of justice 1t
self
I The PRONUNCIATION Of the laws in every
tongue-the right to petition and to claim
Justice in whatever tongue-the duty Of
the government to answer accordingly
all this was granted. and thus far more
done in that respect also, than whatever
other nation ever accorded TO the claims
Of tongues; 10y far more than the United
States ever did, though there is no country
in the world where so many different Ian
guages are spoken as here. 1t is, there
fore, the most calumnious misrepresenta-
tion 10 say that the Hungariaus struggled
for the dominion Of their own race. No (!
We struggled for civil, political, social and
religious freedom, common to all, against
! Austrian dcspotism. We struggled for
| the great principle of self government, a
D gainst Capitalization and because cen
E tralization, absolutism. Yes, Capitalization
= is absolutism; it is inconsistent with consti-
5 tuuonal rights.
= Austria has given the very proof oft
Inc Housed of Austria had never the slight
est intention to grant constitutional life TO
( nations Of Europe. will prove it on an
D other occasion. 1t hates constitution as
= hell hates the salvation ofhuman souls
| But the friends ofthc Hungarians say il
: has granted constiiution-in March 1919
Well, where is that constitution nowl-
II was not only, never executed, but ii
was. three months ago, formally with
drawn. Even the word ministry is blot
ted out from the dictionary Of the Austrian
government. Schwarzenburg is again
House, Court, and State Chancellor, as
Metternich was; only Mettcrnich ruled
not with the iron rule of martial law over
the whole empire of Austria. Schwarzcn-
burg does; Metternich encroached upon
the constitutional rights of Hungary,
Pennsylvania, Crostla, and Sclavonia.-
Schwarzenburg has abolished them; and
the young Nero, Francis Joseph, melted
all nations in common bondage, where
the promised equality of nationalityis car
ried out most literally, to be sure, because
they are all equally oppressed, and are all
equally ruled, by absolutistical principles,
in the German language.
And why was that illusory constitution
withdrawn Because it was lie from
the beginning, because it was an impossi-
bility. And why so? Because it was
founded upon the principle Of centralza-
ton, and centralized thirteen different ma
eions, which now groan under Austrian
rule; and yet, to have constitutional
life, is more than impossibiity. 1t is an
absurdty-tis an oppr' s.ion, augmented
by deceit. l cannot exhaust this vast
topic in one speech; so go to the end
, | only state clearly my own and my ma
TONS ruling principle, even in respect to
the claims of the natlonalities of languages.
and that it is-we will have republican
institutions, founded on uni, ersal suffru ge,
and SO the majority ofthe sovereign peo-
pie shall rule, IN every respect. in the VII
lage, inthe city, in the country, in the
Congress and Government--in all and
every thing.
What to the public concerns ofthc vii
lage. ofthc city, of the country, Of the
Congress bclongs-selfg government every
whcre-thc people sovereign everywhere
and universal suffrage and tie rule of
the majority everywhere. This is our
principle, for which We live and are ready
TO die. That's the causei for which !
humbly request the protecting aid of the
people of the United States. and chiefly
your aid and protection. genilemen-you;
the mighty engineers Of public opinion OF
your glorious lard! Let me entreat YOU,
gentlemen. to accord this protection to the
cause of my down-trodden land; it is the
curse of oppressed humanity on the Euro
pcan continent. 1t is the cures of Gcrma-
ny, bleeding under the scourge of some
thirty petty tyranis, all leaning upon tina,
: league Of despots. the oasis of which is Pc
: tersburg. Ii is the curse Of fair but unior-
tunaie Italy which, in SO many respects,
is dear to my heart. We have a common
enemy; so we are brothers in arms, for
freedom and ind, pendcnce.
| know how Italy stands, and dare con-
fdcntly declare there is no hope for Italy
but in that great republican party, at the
head of which Mazzini stands. 1t has moth
ing to do with commonstcal schemes or
the French doctrines OF socialism. Bat it
wills Italy independent free and republi-
can. Whittier does Italy look for freedom
and independence, if not TO that party