The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-02-19
SPEECH or VIM. ID. PHILLIPS,

Mdxoufka Hail, Satufuay, SahunEJ |
81, 1852. .,. s4sa -a ssWN |
we have assembled together, fellow ci,i- |
, eu<, 10 take into consider alton the liroprie-
" of expressing our -ympa,Lies for Louis
kossuIb and for his people, crushed AS they
are iy the despoiic powers Of Austria and
Russia. To properly appreciate the eond-
t,oa OF Hungary aud understand why the
cause Of her sons, appeals most strongly to
our feelings, u is necessary TO take a brief
review of her history. q II = CG
The Huugarians an AsIatic people, set
HE'D IN the country now occupied by thea
about The year eight hundred and ninety
four, AMI remained an independent people,
governed by their own constitutional mon
s-chs until the year I526. The monarchs
OF Hungary were, not like those OF Austria
and ihe then baTbarous Russian, absolute,
cat of whose mouths came forth tho laws
Ia Re obsyed hy the people, but were guild
esI in their course by laws passed by the Di-
et or Parliament Of the nation.
Besides this the municipal or county insti-
tsiions, which have existed in Hungary
time inlinemoriai, was the most powerful
barrier against encr sochnents on the rights
Of The people These counties containing
populaiion of thirty or forty thousand in
hsbitants, had the right Of discussing and
disproving of any order of the government.
By means sf institutions like these, Hungary,
although surrounded by absolute govern
msnt.; Turkey on the south, at one time
powerful and conveying terror even 10 CEN
frsl Europe 10y The success OF her arms,
Russia on the north and Austria on the
west vet mslntained III great degree her
freedom until crushed IN her late struggle by
tbs overwhelming powers OF the Russian
Autocrat With an extent of country not
as large a. the states of Pennsylvania and
Virginia, dense population 10 be nourish-
si by her soil, amidst the commissions and
agitation. of Europe, her Independence has
feen upheld until pui down IN tb. blaze OF
the freedom and intelligence of the nine
teeuth century. I'm other countries of Eu-
rope, in France aud Italy the municipal
privileges granted To cities was the first ad
vance of humanity towards freedom. These
cities became tenacious of those rights once
granted, aud strong opponents OF cenlrali-
zatioD and absolute power. But Italy lost
her freedom; France succumbed 10 the alb
.olute will of Louis the l4ih. England
sni Hungary alone maintained the land
marks of freedom, both advancing gradu-
ally ia iiberiy and civilization. But one
reason, stronger than all others, why we, as
inen and Christians, should take deep M
terest IN her fate, is, thai she was the
"Breakwater Of Christianity" against the
inroade of the Mahommedan powers
When tie Turks, ,riumphing over the
weakness OF The eastern Roman Empire,
sapiured COnstantnople, and advancing,
spread CONSERVATION throughout eastern
Europe, who breasted this shock of the i'll
Giei power. Whose blood was poured
L., G.f .,,I rt,, y
The Moslem Hosts! And when under The
Sultan Solomon the 2,i they laid siege 10
Vienna, the capital OF Austria, the Hunga-
risns aifs. Poles came 10 the rescue of that
power, which has since crushed them and
sen, their chosen Governor, Kossutb, a
wandering exile from his fatherland.
Cast for one moment your eye over the
map Of Europe AMI behold Hungary, not
a. large as our own Territory. See her
brave people confined within thesa narrow
limits contepding inch by inch against a
power spreading the religion Of Mahomet
and The Koran with fire and the sword. In
this cause, in the year 1916, fell the last o!
the HBogarian line &C Princes, Loui. the
81, on ibe blood stained field of Mohars
Most Of the other portions of the Austrian
Empire, have besl attached TO II by con-
quest. Nearly all of them had constitu-
i'onal governments, but have been depriv.
ed Of them hy arbitrary power, Bohemia,
The isnd OF John Huss, and of Ziska, the
lani 10 which religious liberty has been de-
fenied with zeal worthy of better success,
WAS deprived Of her privileges and Of tbs
right Of choosing her own King. Moravia
LJabar1y, Venice and the low countries
have in turn suffered, and the House Of
Hapsbnrg has presented an example which
stands alone in history, Of the manner IN
which violence and oppression can stop tbs
progress Of human liberty. But Hungary did
not come under her domination by conquest
but by the marriage Of the sister Of her las
King to Ferdinand the first, the then reign.
ing King of the House of Hapsburg. She
was to be governed by her own constitution
laws and customs, which Ferdinand wa,
sworn to protect. The same relation which
existed brtween the King Of England anu
lr-isn'i, while Ireland had her own parlia
went, existed between the reigning Hous'
of Austris and the Hungarian people. Tn
Austrian Empire, weakened as it was h,
the successive overthrow Of it's armies b,
Napoleon. many Of its fines, provinces tori
from il, became stronger than ever by tn
paci6caiion and settlement Of Europa, b,
the overthrow of Napoleon and by the nsv
SssseH e-taohsacu py tuc SopBTeSs Vi VI
enna In 1915. Not ouIy increased in Ter
rissry, bu; in conpactness and comineroia
importance by the accession Of Venice. Th
influence of Austria since the formation o
the Holy alliance, has been steadily on tn
increase, and that influence has been exer,
ed on all occasions TO arrest end retard tn
onward march of liberal principles. Anoih
empower which has grown up with rapid
~ unequaled by, any exeep, our own,
Russia. M;Hching forward with majes.i
grandeur, she has met with no reverse
since the time Of Charles the 18th OF Swe
sieB. At that time less powerful, less skiifu
Iess practiced in the military art than eve
Sweden, she suffered reverses every where
Bn;l the battle Of Pultowa, where Charlie,
army was destroyed by the prudence an
caution of The Gar, and Charles hmse
became renegade in the hands of the Turk
Napcleon, il Is trae, at the head OF fou
hundred thousand men advanced into Rus
sia, but abandoned il with scarce a rem
mint Of his army. 1t may then in truth b
said, tba; no nation in Europe has SO stead
lily consolidated her, power and wealth, .