New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-14

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isiana, Missouri and Wisconsin. Several
years were allowed by the Diet before TINS
act should so take effect as to disquality
officers who could not speak and write the
Magyar tongue. Perhaps it was impru-
dent in the Diet to make this change at the
time but it certainly tends to prove that
they had no intention of breaking with
Austria and no suspicion that she meditated
a trsacherous foray upon them. 1t was
right that Hungary should keep her records
and transact her official business in a living
lar guage-right that the native tongue OF
a majority of her Diet and larger number
of her people than could converse in any
other should be that language-but 1t was
obviously putting powerful weapon into
the hands of Austria and her mlnions to
decree it on the verge Of sanguinary
struggle. We think it would not have
been done had the tendency of that strug-
gle been suspected.
And now look at another point. A race
ruling subject races never, so far as we
remember, consented to adopt a neutral
language for its official proceedings, but
has always prescribed and employed its
own. The Courier (premising that the
designation Slaronian is derived from
common root with Scldres or Slaves, which
the Slavonians indignantly, and we think
Justly, deny, affirming that the radix Is
slara, signifying fame, or glory asserts
that the Ssvonic tribes in Hungary were
literally slares, held in AFFECT bondage by
the Magyars, who had for eight centuries
enjoyed and abused unlimited power over
them. We ask every candid, intelligent
reader to weigh with this the conceded fact
that the Magyar has NOT been the eGc'dl
language Of Hungary throughout the Pc
Rod of alleged Magyar mastery and Slav-
oman servitude. No clearsighted student
of History will need more than this to
assure him that the tale of Magyar domi-
natien and Slovenian abasement IS false.
The Magyars were the dominant race in
Hungary just as the Anglo-SaNon IS here
or in California; but its members had no
legal ascendancy as Magyars; and that
which many of them enjoyed as MOBILES
was freely surrendered by the Diets Re-
form of 1848. And it is worthy of note
that the Editor of The Courier speaks of
the exultation of Slovenian peasant who
drove him over the bridge at Buda- Pesth
at seeing Magyar Noble paying toll as
we'll as himself-the Editor evidently sup
posing that this equality was established
by Emperor Franz oseph's Illegal con-
stitution of l849, when in fact it had been
decreed by the Magyar Diet of Mobiles long
before
But space fails, and we must draw to
- oIese- l.. his former article. the Editor
of The Courier affected to speak with 1.-THE
highest respect" of the Magyars' struggle
for their ancient rights" and volunteered
the assertion that &" Kossuth and his CO.
laborers were rise in refusing to grant
equality of rights, because the mass of the
People are the most ignorant of any in
Europe, and utterly unfit TO gOrern them
selreS." But in his second article he seems
to forget all this, and assails Kossuth and
his compatriots violently for not doing
what he had before asserted they Oughtnot
to have done, (although, by the way, they
had done it, What justice can be ex-
pected from such an adversary as this
We will but allude to one exhibition of
his malevoence. Kossuth is charged, by
the .plaiRest implication, with having plot
ted and effected the murder of Counts Lem
berg and Latour! Now Latour was killed
in an Instruction at Vienna, Kossuth being
two hundred miles distant, and with not
the remotest chance of knowing that any
such man as Latour was being or would be
killed at Vienna. He might with equal
FEASIBILITY be accused of suborning the
London brewers to fog Marshal Haynau.
AS to Marshal Count Lembcrg, the case
was this: Jellachich, unlawfully created
Ban of Croatia, had raised the standard of
revolt in that martial province, and, taking
the HuDgarians completely by surprise,
had marched into the very heart of their
country before any means were provided
for resisting him. The head of the Hun
garan Administration was the Palatine,
an Austrian Archduke, who like his rela-
tive the Emperor was very free in issuing
denouncing Jellachich as