Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-10

course of years, laid he deep foundations of an
empire which has survived through the vicissi-
tudes of centuries, to be cloven down at last by
the combined armies of despotism, whilst conten-
ding for the glorious prize of national freedom
Such is meagre outline of the early history
of this remarkable people, until they obtained per-
manent habitations on the banks of the Danube.
Since that time, the Huns or the Magyars, as they
style themselves in their own tongue, have played
distinguished parts in the drama of European
war. In the military annals of Europe this chiv-
alrous people have ever been conspicuous for en-
thusiastic valour. 1t has bee mainly due to their
stubborn and unbending courage, that the boun-
dar'es OF Mahomedan power have not been extern
ded into the heart of Europe. By the unexam-
Piled fortitude with which the glorious Magyars
bore the brunt of Asiatic conquest, and rolled it
back almost to the Dar1anees, Hungary has
dearly won the envied distinction of the bulwark
OF Christendom. Since her union with Austria,
Hungary has in its darkest and most calamitous pe
RODS, been the principal support of this despotic
aud peridious throne. Ofthis striking and TO-
mantle proof was exhibited when Maria Theaesa.
beset On every side and fugitive from her enc
mics, threw herself upon the generosity of the
Hungarian mobiles. The portrait of this celebra-
ted princess has thus been drawn by the historian
ofthe House ofHapsburg- -"Her person was form
edto wear acrown, and her mind gave virtue to her
exalted dignity; she possessed commanding fig
e:great beauty animation and sweetness of oun-
tenance pleasing tone of voice, facinating man.
ners; and united feminine grace with strength of
understanding and an intrepidity above her SEX
NO princess ever assembled throne under circum-
stances OF greater peril, in a situation which
demanded more energy, fortitude, and judgment"
With her infant on her bosom, to the assembled
peers OF Hungary this matchless beauty repeated
the narrative of her misfortunes, and with such
queenlike dignity and supplicating grace that eve
ny heart was taken captive 1t was a scene wor-
thy OF the greatest minstrel when that peerless
woman appealed for redress to an ancient chivalry
in whose veins flowed the warm blood of Asia.
As if animated by one soul these brave various
declared, in language that will be long preserved
We will die for our queen-we will die for Ma
ria Theresa" Before we conclude this imper-
feet sketch, we wish to throw out suggestion as
to this proposed visit to the antipodes. We en-
terrain but little doubt that the accounts which
have reached Col. Berzcenzcy, true, and that
there now dwells in the spacious regions of Chi
nese Iartary, people of the original breed of
the Magyars But little is known of the people
who at present inhabit those parts, except that in
their mode of life, they resemble the ancient
Huns. Weneglected to mention that q section
of the Huns who had fixed themselves on the East
ern banks ofthe Volga trans-migrated to the seats
from whence they came, and their descendants
under the name of the black Calmucks now wan
der over the dreary plains of central Asia
Has the enterprizing exile conceived the idea
of making an appeal to his Asatic kinsmen, in
behalf of his oppressed country This may seem
wild conjecture, but scarcely less reasonable
than the enterprise which the country man of COL
Berzcenzcy has unde-t taken on this atlantic
| continent.
The European Magyars have at least the claim
Of blood and lineage upon the hordes of Asia
Their unsettled mode of existence, their hab-
its and warlike propensties, in degree pre-
pare them for sudden and impetuous Eruption
upon Eastern Europe. The Gar Nicholas, in
these wild and swarthy horsemen, would find foe
men, worthy to cope with his fiery Cossacks.-
| lmpracticable as it may seem, for a houseless
and homeless exile, to combine such distant ele-
ments of resistance, and translate them to the
seat OF war, it yet appears to cur mind, to be
more feasible than, in the memorable language of
Anne OF Confines, to loosen from its foundations
one continent and precipitate it on another
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