Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-01-31
Frontiers. has $4,000 square miles. with a.
10000 inhabitants. and contains

Cities IS |
Towns sss
| Villages 10000
Roman Catholics 100000
! Greeks 4000000l |
ProIestants 3,25oo0o
Jews 25o,09o
Hungary is about the size of Great Britain,
and comprehends nearly half Of the territory
] Of Austria.
1t is stated By another authority that the
population of Hungary is nearly 100000;
that of England (in 1s4I) nearly $1,000, 900; /
that Of Prussia about 100000.
Thus it is evident that, in point of power
. So far as power depends upon population,
| Hungary possesses as much power as Eng
land proper. or even as the kingdom of Prus-
sis. Well, then. there is population enough
there are people enough. Who, then, are
they? They are distinct from the Austrians
on the west and the Turks on the east and
will say in the next place that they are an sn-
lightened nation. They have their history i
they have their traditions; they are attached
to their own institutions-institutions which
have existed for mora than thousand years
/ Gentlemen, il is remarkable that, on the
western coasts Of Europe, political light exists
i There is sun in the political armament, and
that sun sheds its light on those who are able
to enjoy it Butt Eastern Europe, general
ly speaking, and on the confines between
Eastern Europe aud Asia, there is no political
sun in the heavens It is all an arctic zone of
political lifes (Applause) The luminary
that enlightens the world in general seldom
rises there above the horrison. The light
which they possess is at best crepuscular, al
kind of twilight, and they are under the me-
cessity of grouping about to catch, az they
may. any stray CLEANS of the day. (Hear,
hsar) Gentlemen, the country Of which your
guest to night is native, is a remarkable ex-
cepticn. She has shown through her whole
history, for many hundreds of years, an at
tachment to the principles of civil liberty. and
Of law and order, and obedience to the consti-
/, tuition which the will of the great majority
have established. That is the fact; and it
ought to be known wherever the question of
: the practacability of Hungarian liberty and
! independence are discussed. 1t ought to be
known that Hungary stands out from it aboye
: her negbbors in all that respects free institu-
tions constitutional government. and hered-
itary love of liberty. (Applause.)
3 Gentlemen, have taken the pains to pre-
pare some facts from an intelligent writer, and
: that writer is lady. She must, Of course
: be great authority. She says:
!. The Hungarion nation has been distinguish
n ed from its first appearance in history for unit
ing to passionate love eff liberty a scrupu-
lous reverence for war; The Magyars did not
r enter the plains of Dacia an undisciplned rab-
BILE. From the first they possessed fixed
: form Of government, and were distinguished
i for their subordnation to their leaders and
their laws. TO the habits of. discipline, in
4 which the Magyars were trained, to their love
. of order and regard for law, it is to be ascrib.
r ed that they did not pass away, like the COM
n mon hordes of barbarian adventurers, but es-
a tablshed permanent kingdom in the country
n they invaded. To these qualities, not less
v than to their courage, is to be ascribed their
q successful maintenance of their constitutional
: rights against all the attacks of Power be-
;. fore which the libirties Of so many ether ma
= tons have fallen
J. The ancient institutions of the Magyars
e were eminently democratic Their chief ruI-
er was elected by the votes of the people
For the first century after their establishment
in the country he received only the title ei
4 'VeZer,' or reader. In the year 1000 they
, bestowed the title of King on Stephen. of the
- family of Arpad, the leader under whose gui.
- er of the King was, however, strictly limited
: The consent Of the people was necessary tc
;. give efficacy to every royal act The excel.
IS lent prince who first filed the throne of Hun.
= gary had no disposition to infringe the liber.
>, ties of the people, on the contrary, he endeav
- ored to guard them against the encroachments
4 of future sovereigns. He framed code O
m laws, founded on the ancient institutions of the
a Magysrs, which have ever since been regard
ed as of the highest authority. These stat
at utes were drawn up for the guidance of hi
N son Emeric, whom he educated as his success
70 sor in the kingdom. The enlightened anS
,fl humane spirit in which these DEGREES are com
posed gives very high idea of the civilization
and political advancement of Hungary at th
a period We find in them an express recogni
W tion of the principles of universal equality
'Onnes hon.inas aniHs sunt cOnditiones'.'
1t is in the following terms that he pres
cribes the duty of King towards his subjects
Let them be to thee, my son, as brother
and fathers reduce none of them to servitud,
neither call them thy servants. Let then
N fight for thee, not serve thee. Govern then
N without violence and without pride-peaceful
NJ y, humbly, humanely. Remembering tina
NJ nothing Slevates but humility, that nothint
NJ aliases but pride and an evil will
'My sop, pray thee, I command thee, I,
N show thyself prOpitious, not only to thy kind
red-not only to princes, to leaders, to tn
rich. nor only to thy country peOple-bu
10 likewise to strangers, and to all that come unit
20 thee Be patient with all, not only with tn
% powerful, but with those lacking power. Bes
10 ever in thy mind this precept Of the Lord :
DO will have mercy and not sacrifice
= He recognizes the right of the people to de
10 pose an unworthy prince:
"1f thou art mild and just, then thou shal
DO be called King; and the son of King but
thou art proud and violent. they will delive
thy kingdom to another"
The princes of this dynasty (the House {
so Aprad,) with few exceptions, were just an
DO patriotic Kings who understood the origin an
90 true objects of government, and held the
- power fer the benefit of the people, not fe
% their nSrn salGSh arnrnn ndizannant III nrn o,