Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-03-04


must forcbly npart your mind the conviction that
certainly will not perish, under the present tyranny
oil Austria-tsai we have iuure-iha our success Ia
ceriain chiefly when You consider that the very mode
by vhish Austria succeeded tread Is down or
nen. is IN iseI an augury Of resurrection, because
the very ihci al how eli proves the Ouwurn weak
OF despote Austria and proves vitality and our
strength
With your permission will give in few outliaes,
skr tch of 5 political history
in nut shell il you please. 1t will perhaps he not quite
superiluous chiefly by the perseverDg alsehocJ IL
our enemies there still kept up misrepresen-
tat"ns 40 that respect, whch hnd their way even INTO
compilations written with friendly intention but not
we'll dgesied by criticism
The Hungari4ns people of Asiaiic origin which
the last swarm out Of that great beehve ASIA IN the
time oil the migration Of naiioHs 10 Europe
IN the 9th century conquered present country, an
cen Panonia and Daca. aud settle ed there Thousand
years ago. Scarcely settled the rst dead OF our lure
lathers TO frame, 10 national conventl0n, eon>il
tuition for the government of their home- IL is
highly Interesting fact OF which VIC Magyars may well
be proud that there is nation earth could show
history of Thousand years existence, aud glory in the
statement that from the FIRST moment o It's exist ence
through all the changes o time amidst all the dticutrs
all the vcssitudes Of centuries submitted nlso
lutlsm--never sanctioned illimed government-was
rather always constitutional countryso lively perva
ded by the spirit Of freedom that whatever
may have beenthe inducements ofdanger. gratitude
it never surrendered its constitutional rightsnever edu
red oppression for single mans without
ting its constitutional life and accepted rather the lot
/ fight against whole world than redeem life and
tranquility by submission TO servude.
N natnn earth can boast OF sucha glory Why
have sufficiently shown in late Struggle that
that lnd0mitabe spirit oil thousand years vet alive
that true oisprings of our foreiahersl Why!
have we not redeemed. 10y heroic defence, glor
Gus than the most glorious day of our long past
tional reputationl Stood ever the name of Hungary
higher in the esteem and opinion oil the whole world,
undafing with lis fame the most distant climates of The
earthf Who. endowed with a common sense could
be one nul natio
earth which has future yet Hungary has it II has
IL tie because that future is a necessity of the
whole Chris.on world II has il because never
yet so strong as we now are, and our enemy
weak il now, having lost in its late struggle all
It's vitality not being able tn live single moment with.
out foreign interference, and that foreign interference
beng IN such striking opposition TO the common inter-
Of all the Christian world and also to the interest of
lnrkey. whose very exstences necessary condI-
ton 10 Enropes freedom and security that imposs
lbe silently 20 admit that foreign interference by hicb
alone the House OF Austria could cursed exis
! tence yet for short while
| Well, let to the outline Of our history.
Having established thousand years ago consti.
tuiiona government conserved il through nl the
following centuries. First, we had constitutional kings
out Of the House Of Arpad great leader in the *
century. That dynasty being extingushed elected
our constitutional kings by free choice foreign
princes fellow citizens from the 14th TO the
! 10th cenury. One Of these kings Louis the Sc
cond having fallen together with the bloom of Hunga
ry in the great battle of Mohais fought the Danube
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our king, Ferdinand Of Austria. and after him TO the
first quarter of the 18th century, continued elect
members OF this fatal dynasty kings but always
upon the condition OF being crowned by the of
ST. Stephen, first king and by pedgng their sacred
honors, in a solemn oath and by written that
they woud govern Hungary and its admitted provinces
aree anil Independent country, according 10 It's own
constitution and TO ITS own laws and customs, which
they would have power alter and inter-
pref without the Of the nation, having equal
share in the Legislative power.
1 Thus it went to the first quarter OF the XIXth
century, when royalty vested hereditarily in the
House of Austria and the rules of succession adopted
they fixed for the Hereditary doninons of that dy
nasty; that 10 the kngly throne Of Hungary, always
! the same Prince should succeed who had also TO
succeed in Austria. But beyond this single excep.
ton, namely that instead of elective Kings fore
fathers consented TO have hereditary Kings, aera
ton made In the Political Constitution oil Hungary.
Ii rather explicitly stipulated by coronation by
and enacted repeatedly into the Statute Book
Of country fundamental law, that Hungary and
its appurtenanc and have remain free and
dependent country, not belonging to any other country
nation-no: bound TO any duty towards Austria but
the duty Of good neighborhood and 10 be governed
10y the hereditary kings according 10 its own constitution
and its laws as they were, and should be enacted,
with the of the nation assembled in the Para-
mcn and according to these laws and that Consri-
tnon, had 10 be governed by its own National Consti-
tuition aud responsible authorities and by whaiso-
foreign Austrian government, much that for
eigner of whatever tongue race, who was neither
born Hungarian citizen. natursized in due form,
had right To hold othce oil
or Judiciary chai acter.
You see by this, gentlemen, what foul msrcpre-
sentation it is say that Hungary part of the
Austrian Empire Those who disseminate this foul
misrepresentation, display besides i'll will, also the
most striking ignorance. They do not know what
of thing the Austrian Empire is, else they would
not be babbng such nonsense which is quite snch
anochronism if some body would say that Indiana be-
engs Of right to Iowa, whereas Iowa did exist
when Indiana already state What is the Austrian
Empire7 Well, it is complex OF provinces but az
old The Archdukes of Austria also Kings of
Bohemia, of Markgravcs, OF Morava, etc. but Aus
TRAN Empire existed before 1908.
They often elected Emperors Of Germany and
they had provinces appertaning to Germany, but
body in the world has yet dared TO assert that Hungary
has belonged Germany Now in the beginning oi this
century, the German Empire dissolved; and It's last En-
pe.or Francis Archduke of Austria and also constiu-
tiona King of Hungary. having been forced TO abdcae
his German Emperorshp, he issued a proclamation by
which he united those OF his domnions which belonged
TO Germany with the addition of Galaca into En-
pre called the Empire of Austria but in that very
camation he explicitly declared that Hungary and all
the dominions belonging to the crown of Hungary
(namely Croatia Scavonia TRANSATLANTIC being free,
independent and constitutional, shall be for all the u
ture also considered be such and belonging to the
newly constituted Empire OF Austria. Thus il was
again recognised in the European Congress Vienna
in 1915; and when at that very Congress- the German
confederation was established, and the Austrian EN-
pre- entered into IL, again it automatically
guaranteed that Hungary and its appurtenances as well
as the kingdom of Venice and Lombardy do not belong
IL and scrupnlousy in every respect,
ed this independent and distinct independence
OF Hungary, that mp to 1851, we were always sep
Grated by distinct CUSTOM barriers commercial
respect from the Austrian Empi.e.
! You see. gentlemen that Hungary in that
relation to Austria in which the United States
were formerly England. in such England
Scotland and Ireland recprocally and by
in the relation your States to your Union but simply
in the relation Hanover 10 England, Norway is
tn Sweden having the same sovereiunfy but distinct