The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-01-15

to the ladies Of America.
Our second particular claim is. that the
source of all the misfortune which now weighs
so heavily upon nay bleeding fatherland, is in
two ladies-Catherine of Russia, and Sophia of
Hapsburgh, the ambitious mother of the young
Nero, Francis Joseph You know that one hun
dred and fifty years ago, Charles the Twelfth of
Sweden, the bravest of the brave, foreseeing the
oppress and overwhelm civilization, ventured
with handful Of men to overthrow the rising
power of Russia. After immortal deeds, and
almost fabulous victories, one loss made him a
refugee upon Turkish soil, like myself. But,
happier than myself, he succeeded in persuading
Turkey Of the necessity of checking Russia in
her overweaning ambition, and curtailing her
growth. On went Mehemet Balzordsi with his
Turks, and met Peter the Car, and pent him
up in corner, where there possibility
of escape. There Mehemet held him with iron
grasp, till hunger came to his aid. But nature
claimed her rights, and in a council of war it
was decided to surrender to Mehemet. Then
Catherine, who was present in the camp, ap-
peared in person before the Grand Vizier to sue
for mercy. She was fair, and she was rich with
jewels of nameless value. She went to the
Grand Vizier's tent. She came back without
any jewels, but she brought mercy, and Russia
was saved. From that celebrated day dates the
downfall of Turkey and that of Russia's growth
Out of this source flowed the stream of Rus
sian preponderance over the European continent;
and down-trodden liberty, and the nameless
sufferings Of Poland and Of mypoor native land,
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that day, cursed in the records of humanity.
The second lady who viii be cursed through all
posterity, in her memory, is Sophia, the mother
of the present usurper Of Hungary-she who
had the ambitious dream to raise the limited
power of a child upon the ruins o. liberty, and
the neck of down trodden nations. 1t was her
ambition-the evil genius Of the house OF Haps-
burgh in the present day-which brought desc
lation upon US. l need only mention one fact
to characterize what kind of heart was in that
cursed woman. On the anniversary Of the day
Of Orad where our martyrs bled, she came to
the court with a bracelet of rubbies gathered
together in so many roses as were numbered by
the heads OF the brave HUngarians wAs fell
there, and declared it gift which she joyfully
presented to the company as memento, which
she wears on her very arm, to cherish Its cter-
nal memory, that she might not forget the plea
sures she derived from the killing Of those men
who died at Grad.
! This very fact car give you a true knowledge
| of the character of that woman. And this is
the second claim to the ladies' sympathy for op-
pressed humanity and for my poor fatherland
| | wish the free women of free America will
| help my down -trodden land to get out of that
iron grasp or to get out OF those bloody fangs,
and become independent and free. Our third
particular claim is the behavior of our ladies
during the last war 1t is no wanton praise
! it is a fact what I say-that, in my hard task
to lead on the struggle, and 70 govern Hungary,
/ had no more powerful auxiliaries, and no
more faithful executors Of the will of the ma
ton, than in the women of Hungary. APP
plause. You know thatin ancient Rome, after
the battle Of Canine, which won by Hanni-
BAL the victor was afraid to come down to the
very walls Of Rome. The Senate called on the
people spontaneously to sacrifice all their wealth
on the altar of their fatherland, and the ladies
were the first to do it. Every jewel, every or
nament was brought forth, so much that
the tribune judged it necessary to pass law
prohibiting the ladies of Rome TO wear iewelry
or any silk dresses, in order that it might not
appear the ladies of Rome had not, by their
own choice, have done so. Now, we wanted IN
Hungary no such law. The women of Hungary
brought all that they had. Great applause.
You would have been astonished to see how, in
the most wealthy houses Of Hungary, if you
were invited to dinner, you would be forced to
eat soup with iron spoons; and when the woun-
ded and the sck-and many of them we had,
because we fought hard-when the wounded
and the sick were not so well provided it
would have been our duty and our pleasure to
do, | ordered the ministry and the respective
public functionaries to take care Of them. But
the poor wounded went suffering, and the
ministry went on slowly to provide for them.
When l saw this, one single word to the ladies
Of Hungary and in Il few hours there was pro-
vision made for hundreds of thousands of sick.
Applause from the gentlemen present. And
never met a single mother who would have
withheld her son from sharing in the battle;
but have met many who ordered and COM
manded their children to fight for their father
land. Applause. L saw many and many brides
who urged on the bridegrooms to delay their
day of happiness till they would come back
victorious from the battles of their fatherland.
Thus acted the ladies of Hungary. That
country deserves TO live; that country deserves
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