But I am often asked,--"What hope has Hungary should she rise again?" Pardon me, gentlemen, for saying, that I cannot forbear to be surprized as often as I hear this question. Why! The Emperor of Austria, fresh with his bloody victories over Italy, Vienna, Lemberg, Prague, attacked us in the fulness of his power, when we had no expectation, and were least in the world prepared to meet it. We were assaulted on several sides; our fortresses were in the hands of traitors, we had as yet no army at all. We were secluded from all the world--forsaken by all the world--without money--without arms--without ammunition--without friends--having nothing for us but the justice of our cause and the people burning with patriotism--men who went to the battlefield almost without knowing how to cock their guns; but still, within less than six months, we beat all the force of Austria,--we crushed it to the dust, and in despair, the proud tyrant fled to the feet of the Czar, begging his assistance for his sacrilegious purpose, and paying him by the sacrifice of honour, independence, and all his future! In contemplating these facts, who can doubt that we are now a match for Austria. Then we had no army--now we have 120,000 brave Magyars, who fought for freedom and motherland, enlisted in the ranks of Austria, forming their weakness and our strength. Then hostile nations were opposed to us, now they are friendly, and are with us. Then no combination existed between the oppressed nations--now the combination exists. Then our oppressor took his own time to strike--when he was best and we were worst prepared:--now we will take our time and strike the blow when it is best for us and worst for him. In a word, then every chance was against us, and we almost in a condition that the stoutest hearts faltered; and we only took up the gauntlet because our very soul revolted against the boundless treachery;--now every chance is for us, and it is the native which throws the gauntlet into the tyrant's face. Our very misfortune ensures our success--because then we had some something to lose, now we have nothing. We can only gain--for I defy the sophistry of despotism to invent anything of public or private oppression which is not already inflicted upon us.