Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-18
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The TROUBLES IN HUNGARY, Psh, March
l0.-Had the Austrian government proclaimed
the state of siege in this city after the attempt
to Stay the students and townspeopIe on the
18th, nobody would have been surprised; but
1t has done wOrse-it has ordered that any
young man who takes part in a demonstration
shall be enlisted in the army. This is worse
than the state of siege, because though that
state supersedes the civil by military tribunals
1t, at all events, requires that man shall not
pc condemned without being tried with some
thlng like the forms of law, and without being
heard III his defence; whereas in virtue of the
order given PrOttman, the director of police
ana his subordinates, are to be the sole judges
OF what demonstration" is and are to decide
OF their own authority whether or not a young
man is to be considered as taking part in it,
In other words, the police of Pesth can con-
denim any student, or citizen, or working man
they please to serve for many weary
years in the army Anything more s,an-
dalously unjust could hardly, l imag-
inc, be conceived in Western Europe
What is a demonstration g" 1t may be ap-
plause of national air or a popular sentiment
at the theatre, even though the applause be
only given because the one is well executed,
oG5a the other well delivered it may be say
ing "Amen !" too emphatically to PRAYER at
church for the prosperity of the country, or
not emphatically enough to one (if one could
possibly be otfered) for Francis Joseph, or for
Prottmann himself; it may be admiring this
actor, or beng indifferent to that preacher; it
may be attending banquet or a wedding, or
funeral, or gazing at the moon, or looking at
straws floating in the Danube; or it NAV be
abstaining from doing any of these things
No one can tell beforehand what it is-not
even the police themselves and the police are
to decide, without appeal, on the spur of the
moment And for this the flower of Hunga.
rlan youth are to be thrust iuto the hated ar.
my OF the HapSburgs, to pine for years,
and to be beaten with sticks This
order OF the Austrian government has excited
intense Indignation in Pesth. In the provinces
1t has caused such terror that a considerable
number of families have already removed
home their sons from the University the Poly
technlcon, and the normal school; and others
will, of course, follow the example. Thus,
rather than see their children run the risk of
being transformed into soldiers of the Haps-
burgs, the wealthy families of Hungary deter
mine to make them torego the advantages of
public education. Though on the 18th the
students and the population had not the slight
est idea OF engaging in any outbreak, and
though they even carried moderation TO the
extraordinary length of allowing themselves to
be fired at and bayoneted without resistance,
the Austrian authorities, both civil and militia
rY, were in great alarm lest the long-expected
revolution should break on them, While some
prepared for resistance 10 the last, others went
to the chiefs of the national movement TO pray
for protection. Prottman, the police director,
who is not hero, retired to his cellar and re-
NAMED there until night-fall