The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-01-07


their ports and territory, and have allowed the |
agents OF both TO procure within their lursd,c
ton in the way of lawful trade, any supplies
which suited their convenience" Now, gem
t'emen, this is the principle which humanity
expects, for your own and manknds benefit, to
see mairtiIncd by you, and not yonder fatal
course, winch admits tvraa.s TO draw from your
country whatever SUPP ~ Of oppression against
their nations, but forbids to nations 10 buy the
means OF defence. That was not the principle
of your Washington; when he speaks OF har
mony, of friendly intercourse and of peace, he
always takes care To speak OF nations, and not
! of govcrnmcnts-stil less of tyrauts, who sub
due by foreign The sacred word of
nation, with all its natural rights, should, at
least, from your political dictionary, not be
blottcd out; and yet, | am sorry to see the
word nation is replaced by the word Govern
ncnt. Gentlemen, | humbly wish that public
opinion of the people Of fhe United States
conscious Of its own rights should hrhly and
rrsn'ntclp declare that he people of the Unt,d
states Will carry on trade and continue its com
merclal intercourse with whatever nation be
that nation IN revolution against lis oppressors
or not; ana that the people of the United
states express, with confidence from lis govern
ment, TO provide for the protection of your
trade. | am confident that your national GOV
crnm"nt, seeing public opinion so pronounced,
will Judge 1T convenient to augment your naval
forces in the Mediterranean, and to look tor
some such statement Of it rs would not force
the navy of Republican America to such abro
cations towards tyrants, which cannot be con-
sistcnt with republican principles or republican
dignity, only because the king so, be he even
the cursed King of Naples, grants you the
favor of an anchoring place for the naval forces
Of your Republic. | believe your glorious
country should everywhere freely unfurl the
star spang led amer of liberty with all its
congcnIal principles, and not make itself de-
pendent on whatever respect of the glorious
smiles of the Kings Bombaste Campaigne.-
The third object of my humble wishes, gentle
men, is the recognition Of the in dependence of
Hungary. Your glorious declaration of indie
) pcndcnce proclnms the right of every nation to
assume among the powers of the earth the sep
nrate and equal station TO which the laws OF
nature and natures God entitle them. The
political assistance to your glorious Republic
: was founded upon this principle, upon this
right My nation stands upon the same ground
and there is a striking resemblance between
your cause and that of my country. On the 18th
: of July, 177o, John Adams spoke thus in your
Congress, ''Snk or Swim, live or die, survive OF
| perish, am f,r this declaration In the be.
l ginning we aimed not at independence, but
: ''therc is divinity that shapes our ends. -
ll'St IlDlc WDIuS were pTcscHL 10 my iIlIliu
, The 18th of April, IS49 when moved the Dec
! laration of Independence in the National AS
sembly of Hungary. Oar Condition was the
same, and if herc be any difference dare say
it is in favor Of ourselves. Your country was
: before this declaration, not sclf-consistng
5 independent State. Hungary was. Throug!
the laps of a thousand years, through every vi
, cissitudc of this long period, while nations van
ishcd and empires fell, the selfconsisting indie
; pendcnce Of Hungary was never lost but recog
nizcd by all powers OF the earth' sanctioned BY
treaties lost with the Ilapsburgh Dynasty, wher
this Dynasty by the free will of my nation, anG
by bilatcral part was invested with the kngly
5 crown of Hungary. Even more, this indepen
Gence OF Hungary acknowledged to make
part Of the international law of Europe, and
J guaranteed not only by the foreign European
governments, such rs Great Britain, but ast
several of those, when yet constitutional ma
tons, which belonged formerly to the German
and after its dissolution to the Austrian empire
This independent condition of Hungary, il
, clearly defined in one of our fundamental law.
; of 1871, in these words Hungary is free
and independent kingdom, having its own self
; consistent existence and constitution, and no
subject to any other nation or country in the
; world"
, This, therefore, was our ancient right. We
. were not dependent from, nor a part of, tn,
Austrian Empire, as your country dcpen
dent from England. II was clearly definel
, that we were to Austria nothing but good neigh
borhood, and the only tie between us anc
} Austria was, that we elected to be our kings
the same dynasty which were also the sover
cigns of Austria, and occupied the same line o
hereditary ascension Of our kings but by ac
ceptng thiss our forcfathers, with the consent
t of the king, again declared that, though she
| NJ he DYNASTY 10 he ber
; all the other franchises, rights and laws of the
nation shall remain in full power, and intact
and our country shall not be governed like the
other dominions Of that dynasty, but according
=, to our constitutonaty established authorities
We would not belong to the Austrian empire
because that empire did not exist while Hun
cary did already nearly two years exist, and TX
istcd some two hundred and eighty years under
; the Hapsburgian dynasty. The Austrian en-
t pire, as you know, was only established in 1908
when the Rhenish confcderacy of Napoleon
struck the death blow to the German empire, o
which Francis list, Of Austria was not hereditary
but elected emperor.
That Hungary belonged to the German EN-
pre, that is thing which no man ever imagin.
ed yet; it is only now when the Ilapsburgiar
tyrant Processes the intention to melt Hungary
into the German confederation. But you know
this intention to be in so striking opposition t'
the European public law, that England anc
France soemnly protested against this nten
ton, which is not carried out even to-day. The
German empire having died, its late emperor
Francis, also king Of Hungary, has established
the Austrian empire in 1866, but even in tina
fundamental charte of the new established Aus
trian empire, he solemnly declared that Hun
gary ana its annexed provinces are not intended
f and will not mark part ofthe Austrian empire
Subsequently entered with this empire int
the German Confederation of 1895, but Hun
gary, as we'll Lombardy and Venice, no
making part of the Austrian empire, remained
again separated, and were not entered into thu
, conf drracv. The laws which | succeeded t.
carry in 1913, did, Of course, nothing alter il
that old, chartered condition of Hungary w
transformed TIE peascntry in,o freeholders FIRE,
proprietors, abolished teuda incumbrances.-
We replaced the political privileges of arstoc
racy by the common libety of the whole people
gave political representation to the people fo
the legislature transformed our municipal cor
p ratipns into democratic corporations intro
duced equality in rights and duties, and before
he law, for the whole people; abolished thu
immunity of taxation of the nobility; securet
equal religious liberty to all, secured liberty o
the press and of association; provided for th'
public gratuItous instruction. for tae whole pco
pie of every confession and Of whatever tongue
nut not HiJuFlhg vi any way, tic IieiitS vi th
king. We replaced our own arlstocratica
constitution by democratic constitution, found
ed upon nearly I'M: vcrsal suffrage of the Who'll,
people, Of whltcver religion, or whatever
tongue. All these were, as you see, inerna
reforms which did in no way interfere with ou
allegiance to the King, and were carried law
fully in peaceful legislation, with the sanction o.
the King. BESIDES this, there was another
thing which was carried We were formerly
governed by Board of Counsel, which had
the express duty to govern according to sure
laws, and be responsible for doing SO /; but we
saw by long experience that this responsibility
is an empty sound, because a corporatioa car
not really be responsible, and here was the rea-
son why the abs "lu'is,ical tendency Of the
dynasty succeeded to encroach upon our lib
rrty. So we replaced the Board of Counsel by
ministers; the empty responsibility of hoard
by the individual responsibility of men ; and the
King consented to it. | myself was named by
him Minister Of the Treasury This is all
But precisely here was the rub. The tyrant
could not bear the idea that would not give to
his ambionary disposal the life sweat of my