The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-08

merely ban of the insurgent provinces, but su-
preme dictator Of all Hungary Then rang
throughout that land well-known voice--a
voice that a tyrant had once stihed for three
years in an Austrian dungeon, and that in its
turn had made that tyrant take refuge in the
subtenanean vaults OF Schoenbrunn, and in the
mountain Businesses of the Tyrol--a voice that
has since been heard by all nations. In tones
sad yet bold, and in language solemn yet cheer
ing and prophetic, it predicted that this treason
of the King would work out the independence
of the Magyar State, and closed with the ap.
peal, $40 arms, to arms, every man 10 arms
and let the women dig a deep grave between
Veszprem and Fehervar, in which to bury either
the name, fame, and nationality of Hungary, or
our enemy" The sons of Attila rose as one
man, the Diet took its firm resolve, the ministry
executed il, and the nation organized almost i'm
a day, and appointed and supplied as soon, by
the genius which had summoned il to the field,
met, defeated, and chased the invader TO the
very walls of Vienna, and there sat down and
waited, unhappily in vain, the concerted rising
of the German republicans for tho overthrow OF
the Empire The constitutional assembly of
Austria, although cheered by popular victories,
vaciated and then of course covered and at
last, amid the defamation OF the patriots, aban-
doned the easy revolution. Hungary was thus
left alone. Her constitutional compact and oath
embarrassed the Emperor. lie therefore re-
signed and his son, youth of seventeen, sprang
to the throne, spurning the hateful ceremonies
OF a Hungarian coronation, and trampling the
constitution of St Stephen into the earth. Nine
armies at once entered Hungary on various
sides, instructed to complete its subjugation by
concentrating on the banks Of the Thesis Not
one of them reached that beautiful river. An
were assaulted, routed, and repulsed; and on
the nineteenth day of April, l849, only one year
after the nation had become free by the act of
her prince, the Diet deposed and banished the
House Of Hapsburg, pronounced the connection
between Hungary and Austria at an end, and
declared Hungary an independent State, and
committed its government under due RESPONSE
biities to its deliverer, Louis Kossuth, as gov
ernor and president Three days afterwards
the last of the invading armies withdrew, and
thus the war ceased and Hungary was then, in
fact and by success of arms, as we'll as in law
and by the voice of justice, Independent and
free.
Nine months later, that independence was
overthrown by 100000 Russian troops with
100000 auxiliaries, at the command of the Car,
on no better pretext than this: that the success.
full example of Hungary was dangerous to order
ard religion in Europe But this was nothing
less Gin the words of Grotius) than, ga depriva-
tim" of Hungary of "what belonged to her." by
Russia, "for her own advantage !" and such acts
have been universally condemned as criminal by
all writers on the law of nations from the
dawn Of that science until its present MONDAY
| When, in this fresh and accumulated invasion
and Intervention, the national army, not with
out extraordinary and cheering successes, were
at last hemmed in and around the national for
nd anil hat
terms ofcapitulation might be obtained, Gorgey,
the victorious and popular military chief, be.
came contumacious towards the civil authorities
He was deposed, but was restored as an inds-
pensable alternative; and then, holding in his
own hands the only available means of effective
resistance. he exacted an absolute dictatorship
as a condition Of using them Invested with
supreme power, he used it to complete sur.
render of the country in pursuance of previous
COZ cert with the enemy, without conditions,
except in one instance, and without striking
blow. The civil leader with small but heroic
band, excared into Turkey; and now, after
long surveillance there, restored to freedom and
activity, he is amongst u.s. with n soul unsubdued
by treachery, misfortune, poverty, reproach, and
exile, preparing new revolution for his father
land. which, as soon as il was surrendered to
the Gar, was by him delivered over TO the EN-
peror, and at once submerged In the Austrian
empire.
Sir, on the grounds of these principles and
these facts | submit to the Senate and to the
people of the United States that certain propo.
sitions implied in the protest offered BY the
honorable Senator from Michigan, Mr.. CAss,
and fully and distinctly expressed in that pre-.
sented by myself, are established, namely:
al That the people Of Hungary, in the exer-
n IN thaf kv he laut of
tons, in solemn and legitimate manner asserted
their national independence, and established a
government by their own voluntary act, and
successfully maintained it against all parties
lawfully interested in the question.
80 That the Emperor of Russia, without just
or lawful right, invaded Hungary, and by fraud
and armed force subverted the national indie
pendence and political constitution thus estab-
| lished, and thereby reduced that country TO the
condition of a province ruled by foreign and
absolute power.
"3. That although the United States, from the
necessities of political society, recognise the ex-
isting rule in Hungary, yet they are not indif:
ferent to the usurpaton and conquest by which
il WIS established.
"4. That they may lawfully protest against
that conquest and usurpation and against any
new armed Intervention by Russia TO uphold il
against the will OF the people Of Hungary, IL 1t
shall be expressed"
Sir, this being the whole Of our case aud il
being thus established, ask why shall we not
proclaim that just and lawful protest!
An honorable Senator Mr. MILLER answers
that we shall not speak, because the matter is
foreign" But how is il foreignl Does il not
arise in the family Of nations, and are we not
member Of that family; and interested in it's
welfare, aud therefore in the laws by which that
welfare is secured! There was a Senate two
thousand years ago, in which that objection
provoked n rebuke from one who never in
duged thought Of the republic that was not
divine. aIfaec ier sociaiis est" said Cicero,
"hoc jus natiOnum erterGrum est: Hanc habent
arcem, minus diiquanfo nuac quidem muniiam
guam antea; ucrUmiamen, 81 qua rei'qud sPes
est, quae soeioruM animos consoiari Possei, ca
tOia IN hae lege positd est cWus Iegis non Hodo
POpuiO Romano, sed eiiom alb uhipis nation
ibus Jawpridem sereri custodes requiruntur.
Another Senator Mr.. Cemensl tells us that
interest is the first law Of nations, and that an