The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-07

, vading chief his dignities, and, suspending the
, fundamental laws, proclaimed him now not
{ merely ban of the nsurgent provinces, but gu
preme dictator Of all Hungary. Then rang
throughout that land well-known voice--a
voice that tyrant had once stifed for three
years in al Austrian dungeon, and that in its
turn had made that tyrant take refuge in the
subterranean vaults of Schoenbrunn, and in the
mountain Businesses Of the Tyrol---a voice that
has since been heard by all nations. In tones
sad yet bold, and in language solemn yet cheer
ing and prophetic, it predicted that this treason
OF the King would work out the independence
OF the Magyar State, and closed with the APP
peal, 10 arms, to arms, every man 10 arms
r and let the women dig deep grave between
Veszprem and Fehevar in which to bury either
the name, fame, and nationality of Hungary or
our enemy" The sons of AttiIa rose as one
man, the Diet took its firm resolve, the ministry
executed it, and the nation organized almost in
a day, and appointed and supplied soon, by
the genius which had summoned it to the field,
met defeated and chased the invader to the
very walls of Vienna, and there sat down and.
waited, unhappily in vain, the concerted rising
of the German republicans for the overthrow of
the Empire The constitutional assembly of
Austria, although chcered by popular victories,
vacillated and then of course covered and at
last, amid the defamation of the patriots, aban-
doned the easy revolution Hungary was thus
left alone Her constitutional compact and oath
embarrassed the Emperor. lie therefore re-
signed, and his son, youth of seventeen, sprang
to the throne, spurning the hateful ceremonies
of Hungarian coronation, and trampling the
constitution of ST. Stephen into the earth Nine
! armies at once entered Hungary on various
sides, instructed TO complete its snbjugation by
concentrating on the banks of the Thesis. Not
| nm off ham, chaH hat hanu f,I riy Al
were assaulted, routed, and repulsed and on
the nineteenth day of April, l849, only one year
after the nation had become free by the act of
her prince, the Diet deposed and banished the
House of 1apsburg, pronounced the connection
between Hungary and Austria ut an end, and
declared Hungary an Independent State, and
) committed its government under due RESPONSE
blities to its deiverer, Louis Kossuth, as gov
ernor and president. Three days afterwards
the last Of the invading armies withdrew, and
thus the war ceased, and Hungary was then, in
fact and by success Of arms, as well as in law
and by the voice of justice independent and
free
Nine months later, that independence was
overthrown by 100000 Russian troops, with
140 900 auxiliaries, at the command of the Gear,
on no better pretext than this that the success-
; full example of Hungary was dangerous to order
and religion in Europe. But this was nothing
less Gin the words of Grotius) than, ga depriva-
ton" of Hungary of "what belonged to her." by
Russia, "for her own advantage )" and such acts
have been universally condemned as criminal by
all writer's on the law of nations from the
dawn of that science until its present MONDAY.
When, in this fresh and accumulated invasion
and Intervention, the national army, not with
out extraordinary and cheering successes, were
at last hemmed in and around the national for.
tresses, and there remained only hone that
terms ofcapitulation might be obtained, GOrgcy,
the victorious and popular military chief, be-
came contumacious towards the civlauthortes.
He was deposed, but was restored as an indis-
pensable alternative; and then, holding in his
own hands the only available means of effective
resistance, he exacted an absolute dictatorship
as condition of using them. Invested with
supreme power, he used it to complete a sur
render of the country in pursuance of previous
COZ cert with the enemy, without conditions,
except in one instance, and without striking a
blow. The civil leader, with small but heroic
band, excared into Turkey; and now, after
long surveillance there, restored to freedom and
activity, he is amongst us, with a soul unsubdued
by treachery, misfortune poverty, reproach, and
exile, preparing new revolution for his father
land, which. as soon rs it was surrendered to
the Gar, was by him delivered over to the EN-
peror, and at once submerged in the Austrian
empire. :.
Sir, on the grounds of these principles and
these facts submit to the Senate and to the
people of the United States that certain propo.
stions implied in the protest offered by the
honorable Senator from Michigan, Mr.. Glass;,
and fully and distinctly expressed in that pre-
scented by myself, are established, namely
81. That the people of Hungary, in the excr-
else ofrights secured to them by the law Of ma
tons, in solemn and legitimate manner asserted
their national independence, and established
government by their own voluntary act, and
successfully maintained it against all parties
lawfully interested in the question.
go That the Emperor of Russia, without just
or lawful right, invaded Hungary, and by fraud
and armed force subverted the national indie
pendence and political constitution thus estab-
iished, and thereby reduced that country to the
condition of provil ce ruled by foreign and
absolute power.
"s. That although the United States, from the
necessities of political society, recognise the ex-
isting rule in Hungary, yet they are not indif
fereut to the usurpation and conquest by which
it was established.
"a. That they may lawfully protest against
that conquest and usurpation, and against any
new armed Intervention by Russia to uphold it
against the will of the people of Hungary, if it
shall be expressed"
Sir this being the whole of our case, and it
being thus established, ask why shall we not
proclaim that just and lawful protest!
An honorable Senator Mr.. MILLER answers
that we shall not speak, because " the matter is
foreign" But how is it foreign? Does it not
arise in the family of nations, and arc we not a
member of that family and interested in its
welfare and therefore in the laws by which that
welfare is secured! There was Senate two
thousand years ago, in which that objection
provoked rebuke from one who never in
dulged thought of the republic that WAS not
divine. "Haec lea socialis est" said Cicero,
shoe jus ndtionum erterarum est: Hanc hd6ent
arcem, minus aliquanto nunc quidem munitam
guam antea uerumtamen, 81 qua rel'qua SPECS
est, quae sosiorum animos consoiari posSet, ca
tola in hac hge posta est; cyus legis non modo
q PnnlLLa Ra,nano sed eiiQtu 1h uLtiuiS naki0u-