Part 25

Our limits will not allow us, at the present time, to enter into the history of the intrigues and illegal proceedings of Austria in the southern provinces of Hungary, and more especially in Croatia, for many years before the breaking out of hostilities. The citizens of this latter kingdom were, in many places, debarred from the exercise of their political rights. They were attacked and driven from the place of election by the members of the Illyrian faction, furnished with arms from the public arsenals. It was in vain they appealed to the king. Their remonstrances were unheard. During the sitting of the Hungarian diet of 1843–44, the district of Turopolya, in Croatia, addressed a petition to that assembly on this subject. The county of Zágráb, the largest county in Croatia, likewise addressed to the county of Pest in Hungary, February 20, 1846, a very earnest letter, relating the acts of illegality and violence which had been committed in that county, with the connivance and assistance of the authorities, and calling on the Hungarians, in the name of the ancient ties which bound the two countries, to join with them in earnestly petitioning the king for the redress of this injustice, their own appeals having been wholly without effect.

Footnote 34:

The young prince confesses to some scruples with regard to the first project. He suggests, that it might “perhaps” not be thought “suitable” for a government to abandon its subjects, “a portion of whom, at least, are well disposed, to all the horrors of an insurrection.” It is probable that these plans did not originate with the Palatine, but were dictated to him at Vienna.

Footnote 35:

An attempt was likewise made, by the emissaries from Vienna, to excite an insurrection in the North of Hungary, among the Slovacs; but with little success. A band of marauders was, by the aid of money from Vienna, got together, who committed some depredations in the county of Trencsén; but they were speedily suppressed. A company of three hundred of the Presburg National Guard was sufficient for this purpose.

Footnote 36:

See HEEREN’S Researches among the monuments and concerning the commercial relations of the ancient nations of Asia and Europe.

Footnote 37:

LANDSEER’S Sabæan Researches.

Footnote 38:

Herodotus, § 89 of Thalia.

Footnote 39:

See Herodotus, 108 of Erato.

Footnote 40:

Herodotus.

Footnote 41:

See Dr. TEFT’S Hungary and Kossuth, p. 337.

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221 the crisis which Austria had the crisis which Austria had been for year preparing for the been for years preparing for the

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