The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-14

lations were intact. Hungary was both de jxre and
de facto, independent Of Austria Hungary and
tho Austrian hereditary States had nothing in COM
mon except ono and the same sovereign. But al
though Hungary had, generally speaking, main.
tanned its independence, several fundamental arti-
cles of its constitution were not observed by the
dynasty. The Diets continually insisted on their
strict observance, bat the dynasty, although they
did not venture TO call them in question, refused to
fulfil them. The task Of the hungarian Diets for
this last century has been-6rst, 70 maintain the
cid constitutions and second, to introduce such re-
forms as the course Of time had rendered necessary
In lSlS the Diet Sas sitting at Presburg, when
the French revolution broke out, but this unex-
pected event exercised no further influence on it
than that Of increasing it's activity and rendering
the sovereign more inclined to acceds to the legi
Diet were strictly legal. lst In respect to their
principle For the political acts were simple re-
novatien of the old laws and rights the Observance
Of which had been neglected by the dynasty, aad
the other acts related to subjects which the Diets
had been accustomed to discuss for half century.
For the rest the relations between hungary and
Austria remained unchanged. I'd 10 respect to
their form For all these acts were drawn up and
went through both Houses in the usual manner,
and received the royal sanction with the usual for.
malities. There was no revolutionary movement.
The people throughout the country hailed with joy
the reforms effected by the Diet and sanctioned by
the Sovereign.
That the dynasty may have acceded to the legiti-
mate demands Of the nation through fear is possible;
but 1t s on the other hand an undeniable fact that
the Diet did not demand anything that it had not
previously sought to obtain, or that was contrary
to the principles Of the constitution. defy you to
point out any political act passed by this Dict that
i6 at variance with our old la Vs. Make as many
objections as you please, and will answer each OBJ
lection by citing the text of legislative enactment.
Paramount in importance was the act binding the
King to exercise the executive power by means of
special Hungarian Ministry, and investing the
Palatine. in the Kings absence, with royal pleni.
potentiary authority. But this was simply literal
renovation Of our old Fundamental rights. There
was nothing new in the ministerial form Of govern
ment but the name; the principle of a responsible
government being essentially rooted in our old con-
situation.
shnll now proceed to give succinct account of
what took place from April Ia, when the new It's
received the royal sanction, to December, 1873.
You may be assured that shall conceal nothing
that tended to change the relations between HUI
gary and Austria.
The Prime Minister was already nominated when
Jellachch raised to the dignity of Ban of Croa-
tia by royal decree which the Premier was not
even asked to countersign. The Hungarian Mi
nisters, nevertheless, for the sake Of peace,
looked this irregular proceeding.
BY q decree, dated June TO- 1913, the king made
known to all whom it mil ht concern, that all the
troops stationed within the kingdom Of Hungary,
whether Hungarians or Austrians, were placed
under the orders of the hungarian Minister Of War,
and that all the hungarian fortresses were under
the jurisdiction Of the said Minister. Yet at this
very time officers of the imperial and royal army
were taking an a,tive part in the rebellion of the
Serbs and Valachs, while General Mayerhofer was
enistipg recruits in the principaity Of Servia and
sending them TO assist the rebels. The people thus
heheld with astonsbment civil war break out, aud
saw with still greater establishment that imperial
officers were fighting on both sides.
Jellachich, as a tunctionary of the Hungasian
crown, refused to obey the Hungarian Ministry, and
illegally summoned a Croatian Diet to meet at
Agram on June g. In eonsequen,e of these pro-
ceedines Ferdinand ", by decree dated June 10,
lS4S, deprived him, rebel, Of all his civil and
military Offices and dignites, but ut the same time
sent him, through his Minister of War, Latour,
field officers, artillery, and ammunition.
The troubles increased daily. The Hungarian
Ministry requested the Archduke John TO act
as mediator. He accepted the office, but did no
thing.
The Diet met on July 2 Tho Palatine, as the
representative of the sovereign, in the speech from
the throne said that, several districts were in
state OF open rebellion, the principal objects to
which, in the name Of his Majesty, he should di-
rect the attention of the Diet the finances and
deferces of the country, and that bills relating to
these objects would be brought in by the ministers
He then proceeded as foil sws-" His Mljesty has
learned with painful feelings that although he only
followed the dictates of his own gracious incina-
ton. when, at the request of the faithful Huaga-
rian people, he gave his sovereign sanction to the
laws enacted by the last Diet-lsws which the COM
Nmon veal, according TO the exigencies of the pre-
sent age, rendered imperatively necessary-there
are, nevertheless, number OF sed,tious a9itators,
especially in the annexed territories and the Hun
gsran districts of the Lower Danube, who. by
false reports and terrorism, have excited the differ
ent religious scots AID speaking different Ian
guages Bgainst each other, and, by mendac;ously
affirming that the above mentioned laws are not
the free expressions of his Majesty's royal will,
have stirred upthe people to offer an armed opps.
tion to the execution Of the law and to the legally
constituted authorities. Aud, moreover that some
Of these agitators have even proceeded 80 far in
their Ubiquitous course as to spread the report that
this armed opposition has been made in the interests
OF the dynasty, snd with the knowledge and CONN.,
vance of his Majesty or of the members of his Ma
jesty's royal house. therefore, in order that all
the inhabitants Of the kingdom, without distinction
as to creed or language, may have their minds set
at rest, hereby declare, in conformity with the
sovereign behess of his Majesty our most gracious
King, and in his sovereign and person, that it
is his M sjestys firm and steadfast determination to
defend With all bis royal power and authority the
unity and integrity of his royal Hungarian Gro gn
against every attack from without, and every at
tempt at disruption and separation that may be
made within the kingdom, and at the same tine
invioably to maintain the laws which have received
the royal sanction. And while his Mejesty will not
suffer any one to curtail the liberties assured to all
classes by the law, his Majesty, as we'll as all the
members OF his royal dynasty, strongly condemns
the audacity of those who venture to affirm that
any illegal act whatsoever any disrespect of the
constituted authorities be reconcilabe with his
Msjestys sovereign will, or at all compatible with
the interests of the royal dynasty.
II thus clearly appears that the King acknow-
lodged the validity and the inyiolabty Of the acts
passed by the Dict Of 1878, three months after
they had been sanctioned.
Relying on the sincerity Of the Royal assevera-
tions, the Diet humhly requested that His Majesty
would be most graciously pleased to render tho
country happy by his presence. 1t was, in fact,
the general wish that the King should come 20
Hungary; even the most radical journals loudly
declared that if he came, no would DO received
with enthusiasm bordering on madness.
Meanwhile the rebellion Of the Croats, Serbs and
Valachs was spreading daily, aud that, too, in the
rame OF the Sovereign Generals, colonels, and
other field officers Of the Imperial army, were at
the head Of 1t, without any Of them being SUM-
noned by the King to answer for his conduct The
eyes OF the too credulous natives were now opened
and still more when the King refused to sanction
the acts for The Ievying Of troops and raising Of
funds for the suppression of the reboion, although
the Diet had been convened chiefly for this plr.
pose.
! must here observe that at this period nothing
whatever had occurred that could serve az pretexs
for the dynasty to support the rebellion. Tho
Diet, II IS tue, would not consent that the troops
that to be levied hruld ha tod tho