Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-09-24

clPuiIy III pultln8 some need
l Scotchmen into English offices, t
the very great disgust of English
men. After the union of Englan,
and Scotland, century later, bro
about by legislative action on th,
part Of both States, and when the,
had become one country, the En-
glish we're in the habit of putin.
down rebellion in Scotland in tha
relentless manner which has always
characterized that people. Aftel
the unsuccessful rising in 174j, {
great many Lords suffered -upor
the gallows; others, who in order
to save their estates from confisea.
ton, would not plead, suffered the
terrible punishment for STANDING
mute, by being crushed to death by
heavy weights. The English sol.
diery, at and after the decisive bat.
tie of Culloden, gave no quarter to
the rebel army! ..r.
We can pardon cheerfully Mr..
Pendlcton for his forgetfuIness OF
Hume and lis continuators, but SO
finished and accomplished a gentle.
man ought at least to recollect his
Walter Scott. Cannot one of his
admirers furnish him with blue
and gilt copy Of "Waverly," or
scotland sixty years since p
He is still more unfortunate in
his reference to Hungary and Fran
els Joseph. According to Mr.. Pen
dleton, "Kosutll led the Hungarian
army" He was simply exiled af-
ter the rebellion was suppressed
But "Francis Joseph says Mr..
Pendleton, chad learned lessons Of
wisdom from the experience of his
short reign" He went to Hunga.
ry, restored their constitution, he
forbore conllscation, he made them
contented, he made them happy
The Hungarians in their turn saved
him at SadOwa, and repaid with
their fidelity the lenity and justice
of his administration. Cannot
American citizens learn a lesson ofI
wisdom from experience of the
past ?"
Now the brilliant and gifted |
statesman of the West has an ina
lienahlc right to be ignorant of his
tory, but he certainly has no right
to make any pr tension to know it'll
when be does moi. Georgy, who
led the Hungarian army twenty
years ago, surrendered it at Villa
gor in l849. In October Of the
same year the just and lenientl
Francis Joseph had thirteen of the
most distinguished of the Hunga- |
rian generals executed on the gal
lows at Avad, amongst whom was
I cousing german of Queen Victo-
ia. A few days afterwards there
we're hung and shot at Pesth eight
If the most eminent Hungarian no.
'lemen, Count Louis Bathvani at
he head of them. Hundreds OF
officers of less distinction, military 4
nd civil, were either executed or
condemned to hard labor for life
All their property was confiscated
thousands of men and women were
.riven into exile. And the Rcpub,
can party is exhorted by Mr. Pen.
Teton to learn that lesson of wis
ON from history! True, after
Austria's defeat at SoIferino in
$50, and the loss of Lombartly
he adopted from necessity a mild
r course towards Hungary, after
ne crushing blow at Sadowa, and {
he loss of Venice, just twenty
ears after she had subdued the
hungarian rebellion, she has been
0mpelled to restore the ancient
institution of Hungary, having
cen driven cut of the German
ontedCracy and compelled by dire
ncessity to find her chief support
ow in her Magyar and Slavonic t
opulation. An english statesman
impatrs his reputation if v
commits a mistake in the quan. o
ty ofa syllable in a Latin quota C
on in the House of Commons, but n
S name and fame as a statesman n
ould be gone forever, and he Il
ould have made his last speech if a
should chance to make half the m
storical blunders Of Mr.. Pendle- d'
n, just pointed out.
If Mr. Pendleton has betrayed a
deficiency in history, !
A very sorry to say that he has
It shown a better knowledge OF R
Iance. His financial scheme II Ia