33. Debrecen, 1849 február 24. Kossuth közli Teleki Lászlóval és Pulszky Ferenczcel azokat az alapelveket, amelyekről a nyugati k…

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Debrecen, 1849 február 24.
Kossuth közli Teleki Lászlóval és Pulszky Ferenczcel azokat az alapelveket, amelyekről a nyugati kormányokat – különös tekintettel az olasz kérdés rendezése végett tervbevett brüsszeli kongresszusra – tájékoztatni szükséges.*
Kossuth e levelet Teleki Lászlóhoz, a magyar kormány párizsi ügyvivőjéhez intézte. Teleki továbbította azt Pulszky Ferenchez, a londoni megbízotthoz, aki márc. 16-án eljuttatta a levelet szószerinti angol fordításban Palmerston lordhoz, az angol kormány külügyminiszteréhez. Francianyelvű kísérőlevelében Pulszky utalt arra, hogy a levélben foglaltak érdekelhetik az angol kormányt, mert »a legjobb felvilágosítást adhatják a Debrecenben uralkodó nézetekről és a magyar kormány lojalitásáról«. (Pulszky levele francia eredetiben és angol fordításban közölve van az okmánnyal együtt az idézett helyen.)
Debreczin, February 24. 1849.
Our nation exist still. The surrender of the capital has no effect on its vitaity, for our municipal institutions have now as through all history asserted their stability. The fall of Vienna, of Paris, of Warsaw, und of Milan caused in each case the fall of the nation, but Hugnary has shown its existence not te depend upon Pesth. The Diet is here, and Debreczin is the seat of Government; the conflict is continued wieh alternating fortune. We have 55.000 men concentrated on the Theiss under Dembinski, and are adding daily to their numbers. We have assumed the offensive, and Comorn and Peterwardein are still firm. On the line of the Maros there are 10.000 men. Bem marched successfully through Transylvania as far as Hermanstadt, where he was overmatched in numbers by the enemy and retired with loss to Deva, where he was joined by 7000 men sent to assist him. He then beat General Puchner in a very sanguinary action near Piski. The Austrians lost there 1200 men. Bem joined at Medyos the corps of the Szeklers, 8000 strong, and returned to Hermanstadt in the expectation of retaking the place. Ladislaus Csany is Commissary of the Government at Klausenburg. The »Transylvanian Messenger« of the 12th July* states that the Saxons applied for and received aid from the Russians, but merely to secure Cronstadt and Hermanstadt; and that on the 4th instant the Aide-de-camp to the Emperor, Colonel Skaratiatine entered with 1500 men. This is a f earful breach of the law of nations, a breach of the principle of non-intervention. Represent this in firm language to the Cabinets of London and Paris. Will the Great Powers longer look on in silence at the devastation and bloodshed which Austria in longer look on in silence at the devastation and bloodshed which Austria in the face of the most solemn engagements, in carrying over Hungary? Will they allow sanguinary ingratitude to trample this country under foot? Will they look an at the annihilation of the independence of a nation which dates from a thousand years? Does it no longer lie in the interest of those Powers to preserve the balance of power in Europe and to prevent the destruction of Hungay, the aliance of power in Europe and to prevent the destruction of Hungary, the bulwark between the rival races and nations who are now engaged in a comissions lead wild hordes of Servians and Wallachians, who do not fight, but who burn and plunder the country before them, as Bala Khan (the General of Gengis Khan) did with his Tartars. Old men, women and children have breen cut to pieces, tortured, and even roasted! What the House of Austria has here been guilty of, that house which was so often indebted to us for the throne, and which but for the loyalty of Hungary even in March last, would have been destroyed, is beyond endurance shameful.
Elírás Febr. helyett.
A Congress has been summoned at Brussels to egulate the affairs of Italy. The Italians had risen against a Government which had had received the sanction of the other Powers of Europe, and yet do these Power intervene diplomatically in the affairs of such small States as Lombardy and Venice. We have rebelled against no Gouvernment; we have not broken our allegiance. We have no desiere to separate from the Austrian Empire; we desired no concessions and no innovations; we were statisfied with what, was ours by law. The Servians and Croatians had rebelled against the law and the King, and the King himself (4th July) declared that they were in a state of rebellion. The Diet of Hungary was summoned specially to devise means of protecting the country and the constitutional Throne against those rebels, and while occupied with this matter we found that the King, who had so summoned us, was supporting those whom he had denounced as rebels, with arms, ammunition, and money. When with the aid of Hungarian troops he obtained a victory in Italy he openly united the Imperial troops with those of the rebels, attacked us on nine different sides, excited the various populations of Ruthenians, Wallachians and Saxons against us, commenced a war of extermination, and turned the name of rebel against us. The prisoners taken in the fight which followed were shot; our Constitution was superseded for a Military Dictatorship; and the country was ravaged with bloodshed and fire. The Camarilla deposed the feeble Monarch without the knowledge of his subjects, and obtained from his legitimate successor the Archduke Francis Charles an act of resigantino equally without our knowledge. The third in consent of the Diet, and commences his reign not with an offer to swear like his forefathers to maintain our rights if we crown him, but denounces us with the fearful threat, »With the sword will I subdue you, and force you to amalgamate with Austria.« And Europe looks on at this, and is perhaps about to settle the question of Italien independence at our cost. You are charged not only to follow this Congress with the greatest care, but also to treaties, and to endeavour to enlist public opinion on our side by an open declaration of our rights and our positino. You must at the same time make knowh that the Hungarian nation is resolved to perish to the last man before it will allow the country from dishonour. The Great Powers of Europe ought to remember that if we are victorius in the field the Empire of Austria will be crushed under the pressure of our victory. If we are conquered, the Court of Olmütz will require but a burial-place, and it will inflict a fearful spot on the policy of those States which looked on while a flourishing land was devastated and depopulated. These are your instructions as regards the Congress of Brussels, all the others qou have received remain in force.
A magyar eredeti alapján készült angol fordítás: Correspondence relative to the affairs of Hungary 1847/49. London 1850. 132. sz., 164. s köv. l.

 

 

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