, 1860-01-17
'aEfE STRUGGLE IN HUNGARY.

supposed protection Of a Few hundred baber-
dashers and whisky sellers Of those citiesl :
'aEfE STRUGGLE IN HUNGARY.
While the friends Of free government il this
couatry arc making sup 2crhu.nau cxer:ons TO
prevent the spread Of slavery into territory
now exempt from its blight, aud to defeat tho
coalition which exists between Popery and
Slavery :9r uprooting and destroying the prin-
eiPlss upon which our institutions are based.
the lovers Of liberty in Hungary arc maintain
ing contest there, hardly less fruitful Of con-
sequences than the issue Of the struggle bore.
They are contending as arc the Republicans Of
tais country against the doublc-headod despo-
t'sm-the despotism Of the Stale and tho more
lnsidious and dangerous drspotism Of tho Gu
tholic church-hy which they have been op-
pressed There as lerc power is in the hands
Of those to whom no reform, however just and
nrccssa1y, is welcome; and to attain the
changes demanded: there. as here. those who
claim to have vested right in the government
70 administer it solely for the benefit Of tue
class with which they arc identified, must bonnet
and overthrown. The demands Of tic Hun
garian Liberals and Protcstants are, like those
Of the Republicans in this land, marked by
moderation and patriotism. They are:
i. The liberty Of The press aud The suppress.
sion Of ceusurc. .
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=. lie aunuaI convention nf the Diet and its
reunion at pesth.
4. Equality under the civil AID religious
S. The National Guard.
6. The public expenses equally supported by
:. The abolition Of all the feudal ties between
$. Tho national jury and representation con-
ht'tuted on principle and equality.
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10. That all soldiers make oath TO the Con-
stitution; that, Hungarian soldiers may not be
sent against foreigncrs; that foreign regiments
bc Withdrawn from tho country.
II. The liberation Of political prisoners,
III addition to these which are purely polit-
ical, the PEotestaats demand for their faith, for
their ecclesiastical assemblagcs and for their
places Of ordinary worship, certain exemptions
from the supremacy of Catholicism to which
;hcy are now subjected But they ask nothing
Of revolutionary character, nothing subver-
slve Of the government, nothing preiudicial to
commerce or industry-nothing hut restora-
lion Of the rights and privileges, which, under
their ancient constitutions, they wero wont to
enjoy. Americans will wonder when Hunga-
r is The theme, thai demands like these should
be resisted; but when a majority Of our people
i'll tllis boasted country plead as They do in
tai", for
l. Liberty of tho Press in Tue slavc1olding
States
9. For the Equality Of citizens Of the North
and South, guaranteed by tue Constitution
3. For the equal division Of the public cx.
penses-
T. For national concurrence in series of
measures which will prevent the extension of
4 system ten fold more hateful mud unjust than
Feudu1s1nt, to our Territories now free
a. For better system of national represcta-
ton in which property" shell hare no share
s. For restoration Of tho rights and privi-
leges secured by our fathers to their descend
ants, and for a rc-inauguration Of the policy.
Wllca tley Sahctloheu--
When, we say, a large majority Of tho peo-
pie Of this Union ask for these and arc denied
with contumely and scorn, ITO need not
wonder that the prospects Of wringing from
that other despotism- -Aus..ia-the couccs-
siors which the Hupgarians demand, are not
such Us will gladden. any patriotic heart The
despotic, principle there as here is ever
aroused md on the alert In possession
Of the power and, patronage Of the gov
ernment, .unscrupulous in their measures
willy in their sedultions, cunnins in their,
appeals to opposing classes, skillful in the
touch Of the rrejudiccs and antipathies Of race,
bold in prostitutins tho popular religion 10
their purposes adroit in fixing upon their OPP
ponents the epithets whicl, ~:unthihking men
kate and which none like to encounter, ctu-
ming in alarming the commercial aud monetary
fears Of the trading aud manufacturing classes
tho friends Of that principle, in the Austrian
Empire and in The United States, will not sur.
render until not only their outposts are driven
in, but their centre is attacked and routed
The struggle here and the struggle there will
20 On simultaneously. We do not doubt tho
beneGcence Of the results to he attained by
tue Huugarians or the Americans The dawn
lug Of Freedom in Europe will not he the sig
nal for the setting Of that sun in this continent
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