The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-02-19

"'A'h3A justice pronounced IN the
sanctuary Of your people collective majesty.
80 much to guard me against misundcrstand-
ing.
Sir, ] most fcrvcntly thank YOU for the
acknowledgement that my country has PROV
ed worthy be free. Yes, gentlemen, |
tec proud of my nation's character. heroism.
love of freedom and vitality; and bow with
reyerential awe before the decree of Proyi-
dence which placed my country into a posi-
ton, that, without It's restoration to indepcn-
dence, there is no possibility for freedom
and independence Of nations on the European
continent. Even what now in France is a
bout to pass proves the truth of this. Every
disappointed hope with which Europe look
ed towards France is a degree more added
to the Importance of Hungary to the world.
Upon our plains We're fought the decisive bat
tie for christcndom; there will be fought the
decisive battle for the independence of ma
tions for State rights, for international law,
aud for democratic liberty. We will live
free, or die like men; but should my people
be doomed to die, it will be the first whose
death will not be recorded as suicide, but MS
martyrdom for the world, and future ages
will mourn over the sad fate of the Magyar
race, doomed to perish, net because we de-
served 1t, but because in the nineteenth cen
fury there was nobody to protect the laws
Of nature and Of natures God.
But look to the future with confidence
and with hope Adversitics manifold Of a
tcmpast-tosscd life could Of course not fail to
impress mark Of checrlcssncss upon my
heart, which, if not a source of joy, is at least
a guard against sanguinc Illusions |, for
myself would not want the hope for success
for doing what is right To me the sense
Of duty would suffice therefore, when hope,
it hI7 nothing common with that desperate
instinct of drowning man, who, half sunk,
IS still grasping to a straw for help. No,
when | hope, there is motive for that hope.
have steady faith in principles. dare
say that experience taught me the logic Of
events in connection with principles. have
tathomcd the very bosom Of this mystery;
and nowhere was | deceived in my calcula-
tions thcrcabout. Once in my life suppos-
ed principle to exist in a certain quarter
where indeed no principle proved to exist.
1t was a horrible mistake, and resulted in a
horrible issue. The present condition of
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precisely this condition Of Europe proves that
l did not wautonly suppose a principle to
exist there, where found none Would it
have existed the consequences could not
have failed to arrive as | have contemplated
them. Well, there isa providence in every
fact Without this mistake the principle oil
American rcpubIicani,m would have for Il
long time yet not found fertile soil on that
continent, where it was considered wisdom toI
belong to the French school. Now matters
stand thus that either the continent of Eu-I
rope has no future at all, or this future is A
morioan rcpubicau,m. And who could be-
lievc that two hundred millions Of that con-
tiucnt, which is mother Of civilization,
are MOTTO have any future at all E? Such al
doubt would be almost bIasphcmy against
Providence. But there is Providence in-I
doed--a Just, bountiful Providence. | trust
with the pioty Of my religion in it. II
dare .ay my very humble self was a coutin-|
ual instrument Of it. How could | else, in
such condition as | was born, not couspc-I
nous by any pre-cmincnt abilities-hayiugI
nothing IN me more than an non will, which
nothing can bend, and the consciousness of
being right-how could l, under Che most
arduous circumstances, accomplished many
thing which my sense Of honest duty
prompted me to undertake? Oh, there is
a Providence which rules And even my
being here when four months ago ] was yet
a prisoner Of the league Of European dcspots
in far Asia, and the sympathy which your
glorious people honors me with, and the
high benefit Of the welcome Of your, Congress
aud the honor to be your guest, to be the
guest If your great Republic, the poor,
humble, uupretending cyilc--is there not
very Ineligible manifestation of Providence
in 1.-THE more, when | remember that
the name If your humble but thankful guest
Is, by the furious rage Of the Austrian tyraut,
to The gallows nailed.
Your generosity is loud protcstation Of
republican principles against despotism. |
firmly trust TO those principles; and, rely up
on this very fact Of your generosity, | may
be permitted to say that that respectable or
gan Of the free press was mistaken which
announced that ] considered my coming
hithcrt to be a failure.
confidently trust that the nations Of Eu-
rope have a future. ] am aware that this
future IS "ortradictcd by bayoucts Of abso-
lga.m; ,a, l know that bayonets may sup
port but afford no chair to itupon. | trust
70 the futute of my native land, because l
know that it is worthy to have it, and that
tits necessary to the destinics Of humanity.
trust to the principles Of rcpublicanism;
and, whatever be my personal fate, so much
l know, that my country will conserve to
you and your glorious land an everlasting
gratitude.