The New York herald., 1873-10-06
now tns Nations Arc Coming TO-
gether-The Evangelical Alliance
Hungary and Austria-silent Prog
rcss OF Internationa alism.

The presence in this city of the various repre-
sentatives of Professionalism from the four
quarters of the globe, in the sixth General
Conference Of the Evangelical Alliance, ma
turally carries the mind away to other instru-
mentalities cooperating in the great work of
bringing the nations together. Having, in
several editorial articles already given our
readers on this Evangelical Conference, fully
presented the cosmopolitan character and OBJ
| jects Of this religious assemblage of learned
men, we may turn to some of those other in
strumentalities engaged in other forms and
ways in the same high and sacred cause Of
our common humanity The universally
popular institution of these international
exhibitions of the worlds industrial products
is one of these other agencies which, since
the memorable year 1851 has been from year
to year, bringing the nations nearer and
nearer to each other. The latest of these
worlds fairs, that which has just closed at
| the far distant city of Vienna, has, in many
respects been the most remarkable of the
SERIES particularly in bringing the peoples Of
| the West into fraternal communion with the
| tribes and races Of the Orient And this, in
! connection with the late visit Of the juries
| Of the Vienna Fair to the ancient city of
Pesth-the beautiful capital of Hungary-re-
Hungary, the great results in bringing the
nations together achieved by the political
forces steadily tending in this direction.
Many men in this generation not yet in
middle life will remember the enthusiasm
with which Louis Kossuth was welcomed in
| the United States. Kossuth had led the rebel
lion against Austria in 1S48 when the great
revolutionary movement was sweeping over
Europe. He had failed, and the failure had
! been visited with circumstances of atrocity on
the part of the victors. We do not suppose
that Haynau and Radetsky and the other VIC
torious commanders were in any sense more
severe in repressing rebellion than our gener-
ais in the South or active generals anywhere;
for this business of murder has few alleviat-
ing traits, whether we call it massacre, assas-
sination or war; But Austria had new
Empress, then scarcely more than eighteen,
and her councils were under the influence of
the school of Prince Metternich, who was the
inspiration of the Holy Alliance, disciple of
the law of severity and reaction, one of those
famous and gifted men who aimed to over
throw the French Revolution by engrafting the
ideas of the Middle Ages upon the nineteenth
century. So Hungary was harshly punished.
Her leaders were shot or hanged. Kossuth
fed in exile. Andrassy accompanied him.
Kossuth came to America The splendor of
his eloquence, his felicitous and extraordi-
nary command of the English tongue, his en-
thusiasm, what he aspired to do, what he did,
what he failed in doing our fondness for
new name and new face, especially if they
came as champions Of repubhcanism, all
combined to render the welcome of
Kossuth an extraordinary event. Nothing
came of the welcome but champagne and
eloquence. America would not send an army
to restore Kossuth to the government of Hun
gary. We believe that Mr. Webster, in one of
the last acts of his long and varied career ex-
pressed the reasons for our governments re-
fusal, and Kossuth, bitter and disappointed,
retired to Europe to live in an exile which he
maintains in his sad old age. The gates of
Hungary have long been open to him, but he
will not return.
1t is nearly quarter of century since
Kossuth and his comrades made their un-
availing effort to free Hungary. Then came
the years of oppression and tyranny-the
strenuous effort to reduce Hungary into
nameless, shapeless, soulless fragment of
the Austrian Empire; mere segment of
Power which despised it and aimed to control
Germany and Italy. But Austria found weak
ness in this success. First came the
war with France, the overthrow of the
Austrian power in the lesser Italian
States and the first steps towards
Italian unity. Austrian statesmen then saw
weakness that came from discontcnted Hun
gary, and the Emperor relaxed his rule. The
constitution, going back for thousand years,
and which had been declared forfeited on &C.
count of the rebellion, was restored. This
was after Magenta and Solferino. Then came
the last Austrian struggle to win ascendancy
in Germany, its failure and the fall of Sadowa.
One of the schemes of that campaign was to
march Prussian army corps into Hungary
and proclaim its independence. Austria saw
this danger-saw in it no less than the dissolu-
uon VI ner EInpIre, ana made peace. Inc
German dream was broken, and the Emperor
fell back upon Hungary, which he had per-
secuted, to be his bulwark and mainstay. The
ancient and renowned kingdom, almost as
populous as Spain, or as Prussia when she
claimed to be one Of the great Powers of the
Holy Alliance, was restored. She had her own
government, her own army and her own King.
The Emperor was compelled to assume
the special VOWS and dignities of
the Crown of Hungary. To make them surer
he went to Pesth, the ancient capital, and was
crowned King Of Hungary with the venerable
and tabled crown of ST Stenhan Riding 10