The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-15


field and assaed kossuh for yacoation and Iaxity
Of prnciplcs 1t h true that the Governor ju q
this time attacked In America being AZ ,en ana
ungovernabe Old Hickory himself but every attack =
good against Kossuth, they thought The selfwn aaA
ungovcrnaby has not succeeded perhaps the vacola-
ton and axity of principle will do better And besdss
Batthianyi Count and aristocratc title Is aways
great weight with tho National Iegecv and The Css-
guard his able and accomplished friend Szcmrre"
backed him; and szemerc who was so able that
he the only among NIL the Hungarian out
laws who got the considerable property OF his
wfe out OF the clutches Of the Austrians, is M
turally great example for Count Casmir Batthanyt
whose large property yet in the hands of the srsns
Szcmere H. of great republican, though he new
nds fault with the declaration Of independence. He
great patriot too who during the last two years has
lived retired In his snug apartments I'm Paris and loft tho
wearomc ask Of replying to the caumnious attacks ON
Hungary to others hut treasured by the coup dsisG
Of Louis BoDaparte unmolcsed by the suspicious police
Of tho Prince President he attacks his former chief be-
cause the triumphant progress Of great troubles
his sleep In the meantime two replies by Count Ca
simir Batthiany and the other by Szemere, to somo
charges of their fellow ministers Mr. Vukovics and Bahcp
Horyath are published by the NEw YoRw HERALD from
tho antiquated files OF the Austrian .1ugsbug Gdree but
without the charges OF Vukovcs and liorvath frag-
mcnt from the memoirs Of tho Polish General vysocki IL
added and II IL necessary to find fault with Governor
kossuh cuogy him Il transformed into accusation
by some ably managed misprints Vysocki describes
the desperate state of Hungary IN the beginning of $40
and observes it can be sad TINT kossuth was the Onlv
who did not lose couragc and whose energy equal
to the emergency" but tho NEW foRK HERALD prints
boldly who did not lovc courage and whose energy
not equal to the emergency.
Rut tho attack of Count Casimir Batthanyi though
IN ade while kossuth abroad, remained not
answered, and the Count urged to substantate his
charges accused Kosuh Of lack Of statesmanshp.
Of blundcrs and mbocty becauso he had proposed the
Declaration OF Independence, in order that Hungary
should be acknowledged by foreign powers, while Ns
foreign powers had not made overtures to that
posc because he had raised Gogey to the position Of
Commander in Chief Of the Danube army and because ha
delegated his powers to the same general.
Let examine these charges Tho first Of them IL
obyou1y ridiculous Hungary was in open war with the
Emperor of Austria who. on the 4th Of March had abo
shed the Hungarian constitution who had refused to be
crowned King Of Hungary and whose general had i'm
prsoned Count Louis Batthanyi the onvoy to him BY
the legal Diet saying that ho did not with rebels
Whit was to be done! Tho nation did not mcokiy
submit thcsc encroacmcnts its rights il expelled
tho Austrians Hungary The Emperor had already
called for Russian intervention Should Kossuth then
have carried on the wnr against Francis Joseph. in tho
name Of Francis Joseph? Should the Hungarian army
have taken the oath OF allegiance to the very
reign whom 1t about to fight would foreign powoss
have acknowledged nation which had not the
age to declare its independence We do not under
stand the diplomacy Of the Count who seems to have had
a different yiow Of the matter mt the time when he
took the oath Minister on tho very same Declnra-
ton Of Independence Hungary but followed tho
ample Of the American colonies with the only difference,
that while tho Americans had declared themselves ndc
pendent at the Of the struggle the Hun
garians did it when they had defeated the enemy. Or,
was personal ambition the desire Of aggrandzement
which prompted Kossuth to propose tho decarntionf
But Count G. Bathianyi himself asserts that up to this
time kossuh the real Dictator Chairman Of the
Committee Of National Defence while after the dccaru-
As to the second charge 1t Is true that 1t kossuth
who had gyed Gogoy the command Of the army Of tho
Danube, but he knew him to be accomplished scholar,
man ofindomtnbe energy gallant officer an able gon
cral series of brilliant victories the evidence that
he not mistaken in this respect lie knew him also
ambitious he aware that Goryey the only
who could become his rival and yet he raised him to
tho important station. But no did suspect him
Of lack Of pntrotism; he did not believe him traitor.
Though suspicion ID republican virtue yet generous
heart is not easily ready to suspect a rival u
trea son against his own country but Count atthianyi
nsks 10 he VII h0
set himself up against Dembinski tho Commander n-
Chief?' We answer dispassonately who ess than the
able and accomplished friend Of the Count. Mr. SIZE
the Extraordinary Commissioner Of tho govern
ment? He sanctioned the mutiny in the name, but
Defence.
Tho Count asks further" Who shrank from tho
who although naturally attached to their Icadsr
would. there IL every to believe have desert
arms, but who had never known how to wcId the
he had created feoricssy shown them that their
leader trator' But kossuth had at that time no
proofs Of Gorgey treason In his hands though many Of
his ambition and when Gorgoy refused to obey his order
coming down to Pesth kossuth deposed him from his
,ommnpd the Generals Mes9aros and Dcmbinskf
% the army in order to take tho command from him.
xapka relates the transaction The two old gencrnl
anne lust after battle had been won md thev failed in
moral courage to fulfil their mission. So much the worse
all the generals Of Gorgeys army in council assembled
esolved to send Kapka to the government with the de-
nand to maintain GorRey In his command. Does tho
'ount think that these generals (who bndly Mt
aehed to Gorgey that many Of them would not believe
rian hangman would have had more respect for Kos
nth the civilian than for the Lieutenant Generals Mos
aros and Dcmbinski!
The Coune continues. 'who suffered the cxecutivs
ower be wrestcd from his bands by this very man.
'hose treachcry was SO we'll known to him, Who, de-
nand but Kossuth? Now as TO this point Count Bat
hany and Mr. Szemcre at variance. Mr.. Szemcrs
ays that Governor kossuth had cowardly delegated his
over to Gorgey while he had yet three fortresses and
10000 men at his command The statement Of M.
Iukovcs IL again different All Of them have been pub
shed by the papers, let therefore consider the evcns
.,u t,l
on the 11th Of August army Of hundred thousand
russians approaching at two days distance from
Arad At three days distance there another army of
ighyhorsand Austrans and Russians; and around the
there Gorgey with Of thirty thousand
ungarinns, ofhcered by his friends The tidings had
arrived that Benz had been defeated ut Temcsyar
he 9th and his forces which the Governor could rely
were dispersed, Such wore the circumstances under
which Gorgey insisted that the Governor should delegate
his power to him. Sixty Of tho representatives had under
the Leadership Of Max Herelenly declared themselves
for the Genera five o1t Of the eight ministers Csany h.
Pereayi, Gen. Aulch vukovics, and Bishop Horvath.
advsed the Governor to yield to Gorgey who pretended
that the Russans ready TO grant terms upon the
bosis Of the auton,my Of the country, and of &C.
M rnl amnesty II the negotiation should not
eeed the way the Thesis and the Danube to ths
fortresses OF Petsrwardein and Of Comorn was ye<
open Gorgcy night have rallied all the different por
ito Of tho Hungarian army, and rcenorccd by the
,t tho hcnd Of 100 600 men beyond the Danube in por
lion Of the country which had not yet suffered from thu
Trained Gcrgey the rival of Kossuth had yet the power
maintain the struggle his ambition known to the
Governor not his treachery Five ministers rendered
heir res,, latons to Kossuth the sixth Duschck.
,ot present and business not politician who
always voted with the majority The remaining two,
'zcmerc and Batthanyi adverse, then well W
1orgey a. to the Governor. What should be now have
lone VI he refused TO delegate his power to his rvas
should he make an appeal to the army Of orgey against
heir officers and their chef' Should he destroy the dis
pne OF the and excite mutny In the face Of tho
nsmy7 and this during ministerial crisis and against
hs advice Of a majority Of his ministers Would the
ION not have him Of having sacrificed the country
% his ambition, lie yielded therefore, under such pres
Of circumstances he delegated his power to his rya
but he did IT. it proved by Count Batthianyi him
sef in his lc.erto the .fvgs6s Ga-e (see NEW foRx
HERALD, Feb 49, only under condition that Gorgey
would maintain the autonomy OF the country and get
general amnesty But Bem, tho daring Pole requested
him once after the surrender Of Gorgey to renew
The Danube at the moment when the example Of dorsey
The struggle at the head Of the small army the banks
had blinded most Of the other rails who seeing the
rato and his unfortunate dupes the honorcd guests os
he Russian generals fastened to surrender under tne
sme conditions Gorgey because they did not surmtse
hat he had surrendered Internationally. To accep4
Benz Is propoea would have been the act Of desperad0
Il c.a.l tlav.af, A.t