Upon the pretext that thousands of Polish exiles--his subjects--were in the ranks of the insurgents, a Russian army marched into Hungary.

By the following August the revolution was over--thousands of Hungarian patriots had died for naught, thousands more had fled to Turkey, and still other thousands were suffering from Austrian vengeance administered by the terrible General Haynau.

Francis Joseph, that gentle and benign sovereign, who sits today upon the throne at Vienna, subjected Hungary to more cruelties than had been inflicted by Nicholas in Poland.

Not only were the germs of nationality destroyed--the Constitution and the Diet abolished, the national language, church, and institutions effaced; but revolting cruelties and executions continued for years.

Kossuth, who with a few other leaders, was an exile and a prisoner in Asia Minor, was freed by the intervention of European sentiment in 1851.