The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-18 00:00:00

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a hard task—hard to me, beessuso I wi❑ have to sp

address your people in a foreign tongue to ow; nods r,.
fore, you will not desire from mu long and ,• , . ~
speeches, but a few warmly told words of thaukfutio 1
gratitude—(elietr.)—fereent thanks for your generou.
Come to my arrival to your happy shores, to th.0.'...z.1
bless you for the sanction of my hopes, which you 1..,e
pressed. You have truly expressed what are me t. •
when you tell me that I consider the destiny of y...ir
rioue country to be what it is, that hence the .1.11.... f
liberty will go forth to achieve the liberty of the a..ria.
Great applause.) Yes, citizens, these are the !rims
infused into me, in the most important period—when
movement was a turning point in European
until I crossed the Atlantic, to hasten tuck to C.

field of duty sooner than I expreted, nr nerliaps hlatl,
I confidently hope that as you have anticipated by the
expression of your generous sentiments, that you will .ogee
with me in saheti ' g that spirit of liberty—not only spi-
ritually but actually, to go forth front this maim's country,
in order that it might achieve the free aotii of the worfil.
(Cheers.) That spirit 14 the umpiring itowcr ts dt
is no deed itself, for do you know that tlime who will he

free must, besides beam inspire I. strike the Wusr.
blause.) Despotism and oppre.den never yet were
ut with heroic resolution and much haltering. '1%.•

necessity, but a necessity it is. I hares 1 kat-m.41 it
the great hook• of life, history. I hope the people
United States will remember that in the hour ut the

liaustiestiny
.they
Tiny received trout Europe m ire than
wishes and friendly sympathy. received 11l
and they will readily impart its own to Europe in it.
I have the assurance given to me before 1 ',Nice a q
entreaty to that effect. Be assured that the indepei:
of Hungary is not only a benefit to Hungary itse,
an indisputable condition to the independence
European continent. I thank you that you
spoken by your speaker, not the lati4uage of part!
the language of liberty, and, therefore, the language
people of the United States—(hurnense cheering); Is
as I told in England, it is my desire to see nspect

solemn right of mitioni to divose of their own de.to.
and, therefore, I myself must feel resolved, in every 1,1,
in every country, to respect their 1 ' 'plea. Then i;
I am not here in the United StAtes to mix with into

affairs. That is your concern. You are ',over...l.p' mat
of your fate. I come in the name of a clostu.troadt
but not broken I/NOpie. (Citron and waving ..1 handk,
chiefs). I come here humbly to intercede, in the limn
Hungary, the generous protection of the peopl.• and
all parties of the Unitcd States. (Appleune). lam
to mention, citizens, that having the cruseiousitev. of M.,

I have never spoken in my life a single word l have
felt from the bottom of my heart. 1 ant sorry to
that these declarations, which I so often and so 'colo'
professed in Europe, and on which declarations I
happy to say you bestowed generous attention, wen•
suflictent to prevent me, before my arrival, of being chart
to meddle with your domestic coneeras, and to mix
the question of the presidential election Ohm ge
for the Conrier and Inquirer, three cheers tiir the A

Fork Herald, were here proposed and trie.m) ; bee..
it so happened in one of my addresses in England I un
tioned one of your able fellow citizens, Mr. Walker, as
of the candidates to the presidency. Now, gentlemen.
feel quite at home in your midst, and therefore, I ,p,
(Applause). I confess, with the must ss.r
feelings of gratitude, that Mr. Walker has prononne.l
England sentiments such, that if it shall be toy
luck to see these sentiments to be the sentiments a
feelings of the people of the United States, then 1 u.. 1
with fervent joy declare, Hungary and Europe as fr
(Tremendous applau-a, and cries of " Good, goo t.") At
therefore, I feel highly indebted to him, and to you,
sentiments which were quite entirely like those 1 heard in
Walker in England. But all this has nothing to do wi
the question of my mixing with the presitlensial electi
question in the United States. A matter simply, that t
gentleman front the United States in an offkia! capaei,y, I
Introduced me to Mr. Walker, whom I had not the hone
to know before, as one of the candidates prop's.' by 0
party in the United States; and the information I got
I mentioned the fact, as I got it, without having t
slightest idea in my mind to mix with wv party pt
tion whatever in the United States, us I declare that
consider no man to be an honest man who is not wfilii
to respect the principles towards other men which he is e
willing to be respected in other. I recognise the sore:, i
right of any country to dispose of her destiny as sic pleas,
and I would not bo an honest man not to respect this pis,
ciple towards other men. (Loud applause.) Allow me
ret'ct on an expression of your kind address, width
rather a delicate matter to me ; hut 1 confidently hope th
you will not misunderstand me. You hare named ne.
the beginning or your address " Kossuth, Gseernor of I I u
gary." (Cheers.) Now, citizens, my lite is a curious
Never was there a man in the world more fund of Mugu
lily and retired life than myself. I was not able to enj..y
because I considered always the duty of a patriot to Is' lie,
and then afterwards to get his individual wish. s and iudlt

dual conceptions. My nomination to the high station of Go-
vernor of Hungary was not satisfactory to any ambitions use,
because I know no other ambition than th, only ow., not to
be ambitious. (Cheers.) I declare, perhaps, ni sir in my lite
I felt more sad than the moment 1 was Willltta those nor of
Hungary, because I considered the feeble faculties of none,
and high duties laid on feeble shoulders, and felt the rane ty
of responsibility of that great station. It is not, thcrefilre,,st
of ambition I thank you for your words naming me Gover-
nor of Hungary ; but I thank you for it, because it is a no-
mination from the heart of the people of the United State.,
whom I have the honour to address, as a declaration of the
rightful existence of the declaration of the independent*, of
Hungary. (Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I fro ly
declare that I believe the people of the laid
States are bound iu honour and duty to recognise this der's,
ration of independence as a righteous, existing fact, bemuse
your existence reposes on a similar declaration. (Vociferous
applause.) The declaration of the independence of Ilea-
gory is the only existing recognition among nations. It
was not the pronouncement of a party, but of the whole
people lawfully assembled in et arress—as your forefathers
were assembled when they put torah their glorious &aera-
tion of independence—and sanctioned by every village and
municipality of the whole country. And to the declara-
tion of, the independence of Hungary there is nu contrary
declaration from any people, and, therefore, I have the
right to say, that the declaration of the independence of
Hungary exists rightfully, in the whole power of right
and lawful existence. What is contrary to its es-
istence ? Contrary to it is the Czar of Russia, as yeti
know, a foreign power who had no right to intermeddle
with Hungarian affaifs, who had ambitious views to
thrust upon us his legions, and found a traitor for an
ally in our ranks to trample on the liberty and the national
existence of Hungary. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, from
what time has violence the power to annihilate right?
Violence can establish a fact contrary to law, contrary to
tight, but violence never can destroy the right source of
this declaration of independence. (Loud applause.) Take
an instance: You had, nut long ago, a glorious struggle
with Mexico. (general Scott drove the president of
Mexico out of his residence. Now, suppose the contrary—
, that Santa Anna had come to Washington, and driven
away from Washington General Taylor, would General
Taylor cease to be rightly-elected president of the united
States, because a foreign power canto and forced him for
moment to leave his post ? (Loud applause, and cries of
" No, no.") 1 believe there is not a man in the United
States who would answer me that. And if this be so, there-
fore, I have the right to say that it is the duty of consistency
and logic for the people of the United States to nrcooniw
the declaration of independence of Hungary as the only CO.
iating public law of my poor down-trodden country.(Chors.)
That is what I expect to find here ; and whatever may he,
the declaration of your government in that respect, I know(
have the honour to be in a country where the sovereign isnot
the government, but the people. (Loud burst of apnlaw.).
And where the government must be the representative of
that direction of the public spirit of the people. (1411°. d
applause.) And it is, therefore, I thank you once more tar
your kindness of having named me Governor of Hungary,
because it is but a tribute of acknowledgment of the inde
pendence, of the declaration of independence of my faun
land—(cheers)—as an honour which you art au kind tIN to
dare I am conscious to have no merit at alt, but only to,
bestow on me. It is no affectation of modesty, when I des
be a plain, straight-forward man, and a faithful friende!.
freedom, and a good patriot ; and these qualities, g,11,1`,.
men, are so natural to every honest man, that it
scarcely worth while to speak of it ; because I cannot col,
ceive hew an honest man, with understanding and
heart, can be any thing else than a
lover of freedom, and an honest man. Gut this 5!.,/
humble capacity as not preserved me from calunimo_
I can almost tell what poor O'Connell
once told, that
orld,
I am the most calumniated man in the w
now. (Laughter, and cries of " Ne, no.") Well. 'il'',
tlemcn, I don't care muck about it. (More
As long as exists in the world despotism, we will
fin'l ca
lunmiaton to calumniat those opposed to despoaall
good patriot al