New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-22

ADDRESS.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
During six months appeared many times be-
fore the tribunal Of public opinion in America.
This evening appear before you in the capacity
Of working man. My aged mother, tried by
more suferngs than any living being on earth
and my three sisters, one Of them widow with
two fatherless orphans; together a homeless fam
lily Of fourteen unfortunate souls have been driven
by the Austrian tyrant from their home, that Gel
goths Of murdered right, that land Of the OPP
pressed, but also Of undespOnding braves, and the
land Of approaching revenge. When Russian vio-
lencs, aided by domestic treason, succeeded to
accomplish what Austrian perjury could not
achieve, and with bleeding heart went into exile,
my mother and all my sisters have beea inn
prisoned by Austria; but it having been my con-
| slant maxim not to allow to whatever member Of
my family any influence in public affairs, except
that ! iDtrusted to the charitable experimenting
of my youngest sister the hospitals of the wound.
ed heroes, as also to my wife the cares of proyid
ing for the furniture Of these hospitals, net
the foulest ntrgues could contnve any pretext
for the continuation of their Imprisonment. And
thus when diplomacy succeeded TO fetter my patriotic
ACTIVITY Dy intoIHdliOu W lar sOuc
ofuDust imprisonment my mother and sisters and their
family have been released and though surrounded by
thousand ,pes tortured by continual Int rference with
their private fe and harassed by insulting police meas
ures thsy had least the consolation to breathe the
native air. their falling upou native soil and
to rejoice the majestic spirit Of people, which
no adverses could bend and no tyranny could break
But lest the humanity of the Sultan, backed by
American generosity, seconded by England once mere
restored topersons freedom, and by freedom TO &C
tyity Having succeeded to escape the different
and traps which unexpectedly met considered |, my
duty publicly declare that the between Austrian
tyranny and the freedom of Hungary 10 not ended yet
and swors eternal resistance the oppressors Of my
country, and secared that faithful 10 the oath
soemnly 10 my people, will devote my life the ho
Grafton of my iaherlaDd Scarcely reached the dings
of this my after resolution the bloody Court of VsnAs
than Of my sisters were again imprisoned; my poor
old mother escaping the same cruelty only account
that brisDg bayonets of the boodhounds Of despotsm
breaking IL the dead Of nigh upon the tranquil house.
and the persecution of my sisters, hurried away Of
Hungary 10 the prisons OF Vienna, threw her 10 half
| dying condition upon a sick bed Again no charge
coulo be brought against the prisoners because
knowing them In the tigers den, and surrounded by
syts, not only did not communicate nything TO them
about my foreign preparations and my dispositions at
home but have expressly forbidden them to mix In any
way with the doings of patriotism.
But tyrants suspicious. You know the tale about
Marcus He dreamt that he cut the throat of Donysus
| the tyrsnt, and Dony sus condemned him to DEATH
saying tos be would not have dreant suco things in
the night II be had not thought of by day Tnus the
Austrian tyrant imprisoned ny sisters because he
pectd that being my ssters they must be initiated in
my plans. At last, after FIVE months Of imprisonment
they were released The condition that they as
well my mother and all my family, SHALL leave our
native land Thus they became exes, homeless, help
ess poor ! advised them to come to your free coun-
| uy-Ihe asylum Of the oppressed where labor 10 hon
ored and where they must try to live by their honest
| work
They followed my advice and are on their way; but
| my poor aged mother and my youngest sister, toe
| widow with the two orphans, being stopped by
dangerous sickness at Brussels another sister stopped
with them to them. The rest of the family Ii
slIeady the way-iI sailing ship of course, be-
lieve and not 10 steamer. We are poor. My mother
and sisters will follow soon as their health perms
felt the dsty TO help them In their first establishment
here. For this had 10 work, having ne means Of my
own.
Some generous friends advised me to try lecture for
this purpose and did IT, will the part Of cry
ing complainant about msfortunes; will bear It
| Let me at once go 10 my task
There stirring vitality Of busy life about this your
city Of New YORK. striking with establishment the
susIger's mind How great Is the proges. Of hn-
mainly It's steps arc counted by centuries, and
| yet while countless millions stand almost at the
| same point where they stood, and some even
| have declined since America first emerged out Of
| an unexplored darkness, aud which had covered
her for Thousands OF years. Ike the gem In The sea-
while 1t 10 but yesterday few pilgrims landed on the
wild coast of Plymouth, flying from causeless oppres
sion seeking but for place OF refuge and OF rest and
for free spot In the wilderness to sdore the Almighty
In their own way Still In such brief time, shorter
than the recorded geneaogy of the noble horse The
wandering Arab; yes, almost within the turn OF tbs
hand, out of the unknown wilderness mighty empire
arose, broad ocean. solid . mountain rock
and upon the scarcely rotted roots of the primitive,
forest proud cities stand, teeming with boundess life
growing like the prares grass In spring, advancing
like the steam engine battling time and distance ike the
telegraph and spreading the pusaton of their hfede
TO the remotes parts Of the world and In those cities
and on that broad land nation, free as the mountain
air independent the soaring eagle active as nature
snd powerful the giant strength OF millions OF free
men.
ture yeti
the veil Of unrevealed eternity
The shadow of that dark word passed across my mind
ard amid the hustle of this gigantic beehive there
stood with meditation alone
And the spirit OF the immovable past before my
eyes unfolding the misty picture rolls OF vanished great
ness ard of the frseilty of human things
And among their dissoiying views there saw the
scorched so of Africa and upon that coil Theoes WITH
s hundred gates splendid than the most splendid
Of ell the existing cnss OF tne moru 81 &c nd
sciences and the mysterious cradle OF 30 many doc
tripes which still rule mankind in different shapes,
though has long forgotten their source ineie
syria with It's hundred cities, every city nsuor ana
eyery nation with an empires might BI6ecS with Us
gigantic temples the very views OF which pane tne I'm
seinstion of man, SIS they stand IKE mo1nslns Vi
carved rocks in the where for hundreds OF miles
not stone Is 70 be found, and river lows, ouering
il, tolerant bark to carry mountains WEIGHT upon,
and vet there they stood those gigantic ruins ana as
we glance them with sstoIshrient though We nave
a,t,rsA the mysterious elements OF nature, and kno"
he combination Of levers and how 10 catch the ient
ming, and to command tie power OF steam ana
| of Compressed air, ard how 10 write VIII lae
burning fluid out of which the thunderoot IL forged
and how 10 drive the current Of streams up the noun
tsins top and how make the sir shine In the blight
like the light of the sum- and how to dive 70 me oos,9
of The deco ocean, and how TO rise TO the skycues
Hte New York dwinde to the modest proportion OF
cbilds tow that we tempted to take the nice nIe
thing up ON the nail OF our thumb, ss Mlcromegas o9
with The man of wax Though we know ali tnis, ana
many things else still looking at the times oil bsoeex
we cannot forbear 10 ask whsi people OF gsnt' was thaI
which could DO what neither the puuy ehjrts OF our
skil the rsvsging hand oil unreien.,hg f. 80
-. III And then saw Lne