Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1852-01-15
NUMBER 3S.

NUMBER 3S.
rule, in a foreign tongue, where our
fathers lived and our brothers bled.-
To be Hungarian, became almost
crime in our own native land. Now,
to justify before the world the extinc-
ton OF Hungary, the partition of lis
territory, and again the centralization
of the dlssected limbs into the common
body of servitude, treacherous dvnas-
ty was anxious TO show tina, the Hun
garians are in minority in their own
native land. They hoped that intimid
alton and terrorism would induce even
the very Hungarians- as we
are in our own language termed-to
abnegate their language and BIRTH
They ordered a census OF nationalities
to be made. They performed it with
the iron rule of martial law; they en-
ployed terroism in the highest degree,
so much that thousands ef xonaen and
men, who professed to be Magyars. pre-
ierred not TO know, nay, not TO have
perhaps heard any other language than
the Magyar, notwithstanding all their
protestations, were put down 10 be
Sclaves, Serbs, Germans, or Walla-
chains, because their names had not
quite Hungarian sound.
And still what was the issue of this
malignant plot But of the twelve
millions of inhabitants of Hungary
proper, the Magyars turned out to be
more than eight millions, some two mill
lions more than we know the case real
lyis. The people instinctly felt that
the tyrant had the design to destroy
with the pretext of language the very
existence of the nation formed by the
compound of all those eingredients which
have mentioned above, and with that
common good sense which every ma
ton possesses, met the tyrannic plot as
if it answered, awe want TO be nation
and if the tyrant takes language only
for the mark of our nationality, then
we are all Hungarians." And mark
well, gentlemen, this happened not un-
der my governorship, but even under
the rule of Austrian martial law. The
cabinet of Vienna became furious, it
thought of new census, but prudent
men told them that new census would
give the whole twelve millions as Mag
vars. and thus no new census was ia
ken.
So true is my assertion that it is not
language alone which makes nation,
an assertion which, of couse, your own
great republic proves to the world
But on the European continent there
unhappily grew up school whchbound
the idea of nation only to the idea ol
language and joined political preten.
sions to it. There are some who advo-
cate the theory that existing countries
must cease, and the territories Of ths
world be anew divided by languages
and nations segregated by tongues
You are aware that this idea, if it were
not impracticable, would be but curse
to humanity deathblow to civiliza.
ton and progress, and throw back man
! kind by centurieS-it were an internal
souce of strife to war, because there is
a holy, almost religious tie, by which
mans heart to his home bound, and no
man ever would consent to abandon
his native land only because his neigh
bors speak another language than he
himself, and, by this reason, claims
for him that sacred spot where the ash
es of his fathers he-where his own
cradle stood where he dreamed the
happy dreams of youth, and where
nature itself bears mark of his man.
hoods laborious toll The idea were
worse than the old emigration of ma
tions was-despotism only would rise
out of the strife.
j Mankind's fanaticism is really very
curious. Nobody of the advocates Of
4 this mischievous theory is willing to
yield to it for himself--but for others he
desires to yield to it. Every French.
man becomes furious when his Alsace
is claimed to Germany by the right o.
language-or the borders of his Pyr.
enees to Spain-but there are some
amongst the very men who feel revolt
ed at this idea, who claim for Germs ny
that it should yield up large territor,
J, because one part of the inhabitants
speak a different tongue, and would
. claim from Hungary to divide its terri.
tory, which God himself has limited by
its range of mountains and system o
streams, as also by all the links of /;
community of more than thousand
years, to cut off our right hand. Tran
sylvania, and to give it up to the neigh
, boring Wallachia; to cut out, like Shy
lock, one pound of our very breast
. the Banat-and the rich country be
tween the Danube and Theiss-to aug
|. ment by its Turkish Seibia, and SO forth
1t is the new ambition of conquest, Blu
an easy conquest, not by arms but b,
language.
So much know, at least, that thi
absurd idea cannot, and will not. b,
! advocated by any man here in the Z
nited States which did not open its hos
pitable shores TO humanity, and gree
f the focking millions of emigrants witt
! the right OF citizen, in order that til,
, Union may be cut to pieces, and eveI
) your single States divided into new
J framed. independent countries by ans