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[Concluzii]

The right of nationality is but personal liberty extended to the organic agglomeration of the people who compose the nations; nationality is only a collective interpretation of liberty, and for this reason it is holy and divine as liberty itself.....

Those who attack nationality, stifle liberty..... and are led logically to deny to man his liberty in all the relations of life, whether public or private, and by the same reason they are forced to destroy the only real basis upon which the entire social order is established, with all the duties incumbent upon it.

Mancini.[1]

Every one who knows the perilous situations of the nations of the South-East of Europe must admit that it is not the Magyars who will gain anything by the discontent which they have stirred up in the hearts of the Roumanian people.

The Magyar students themselves terminale their Reply by insisting upon the community of interests which should exist between the Magyars and the Roumanians.

This is quite true. These two nations are but islands in the midst of the Slav ocean.

It is to be regretted that the Magyar students only recall this great truth to mind at the end of their pamphlet.

Had they thought about it at the beginning, we are certain that they would not have published their Reply, which is far from being grounded on truth and on the community of interests,

But we will most willingly forget all this and be the first to hail a joyous heart the appearance of such a conviction on the horizon of Magyar views.

In fact, if the Magyars thought of it a single moment they would see how fatal their politic is toward the existence of the monarchy of the Hapsburghs and towards the future of the Magyar nation itself: if they recognized that by their conduct full of provocation towards the nationalities, they themselves are the most active agents of panslavism; if they had abnegation enough to understand what every body else here understands, they would a long lime ago have put an end to their aggressions.

Every Roumanian knows that in face of Russia which counts a 100 million of inhabitants interspersed by 30 millions of Slavs, the Magyars and the Roumanians should be on the most friendly terms.

Since 1848, the Roumanians, in Parliament, in their papers and in their writings, have done all they could to convince the Magyars of the absolute necessity of establishing a « modus vivendi», or better still a friendly intercourse with which to face the permanent danger by which these two nations are equally threatened.

Mr Mocsary himself acknowledges that the Roumanians of Hungary and Transylvania express on every occasion their opinion that the Roumanians and Magyars should aid one another in their efforts against panslavism, that is to say, against Russia.[2]

The late deputy L. Vajda, says: « There is not a single Roumanian who . . . does not recognize that there exists between the Magyars and the Roumanians a communion of interests; and who does not insist upon the immense misfortune it is, that the conviction of this communion of interests only penetrates so slowly into the minds of the Magyars, so that instead of harmony existing between the Magyars and the Roumanians' these two people treat each other as enemies. »[3]

The sole cause which has rendered since 1868 and still renders the intercourse between these two nations so intolerable is, the politic of magyarization.

To speak of liberty and to invent means of magyarization are two things so contradictory and so incompatible that it is only people underhanded — to say the least, who can admit both in the same programme of activity!

To suppose that a communion of interests on the basis of the politic of magyarization could be established between the Roumanians and Magyar would be an absurdity.

Just as the Magyars of to day endeavour to establish in Hungary one nation, so there was a time in which in many a State, one single religion was tolerated and all the others were exterminated.

It is in virtue of these principles of the Middle Ages that the Spanish inquisition was founded, and that so many bloody religious wars were carried on, and that such a state of hostility and hatred has been perpetuated amongst different people.

And just as these wars did not cease until liberty was given to all religions, so in the States containing different nationalities, the national struggles will not cease until they give to each nation in the limits imposed by the existence of the State, a complete national autonomy.

We do not live in the times in which thanks to the accomplishment of I know not what formalities, one could tyrannize over and impose upon whole nations to favorise certain castes.

« Every yoke, says Mamiani imposed upon people who have a sentiment of their own individuality is unjust, nay sacrilegious, because it is contrary to the intentions of God and nature. [4]

Who can admit that a principle of a force so elementary as that of the nationalities can be arrested in its natural development by the temporary violence of a class of people « with great passions and but little heart, »

For more than 25 years, even the most moderate Roumanians have convinced themselves that it is impossible to live side by side with the Magyars in direct political communion.

Day by day the conviction grows stronger in the hearts of the Roumanians that only the national separation of the Roumanians from the Magyars can put an end to the Magyar aggressions.

The Roumanians demand the right ot being a free nation in Hungary,possessing equal rights with the Magyars and having equal obligations.

Consequently so long as the Roumanian nation is not recognized as a free one, it does not enjoy a complete autonomy in its administrative, judicial, and intellectual affairs, there can be no question of peace between the Roumanians and Hungarians.

In a lucid moment the Magyar students in their Reply express a wish to see these two nations live together on a friendly footing.

That is very well, and we should like to see it also: « but between the oppressed and their oppressors, between slaves and their masters, friendship never has been and never will he seen to exist!»

The Magyar students will admit with us that peace, communion of interests and even friendship between two such nations as ths Magyar and the Roumanian can only be based upon one foundation and that is; national liberty!