Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-06-28
From the Boston Transcript.
HUNGARY AND KnSSUTu.


that where Hungary is the stage, ane
kossuth the principal actor. We have
as yet received by the Niagara little thai
is satisfactory from this quarter in add.
ton to our last intelligence. The accounts
are favorable to Hungary SO far as they
go. The fighting Is said to be still going
on, and the victorious Hungarians were
within few days march of Vienna, with
er the Russian auxiliaries, which Austria
has pusillanmously called in, were also
pressing. The rumor is added, that the
protest OF France and England would prob
ably arrest the advance ofthe Russians. -
Should Russia refuse to withhold her CO.
operation at their remonstrance (sup-
posing the remonstrance has been really
made) the prospect Of "a general war would
be most imminent.
In the mean time public curiosity is
alive to the particulars respecting x-edi-
tor Kossuth, the new President of Hunga-
ry, and unquesticnably one Of the master
spirits of the age. From correspondent,
of the Newark Advertiser and other wri-
tiers, we gather some interesting facts in
regard to him. Louis Kossuth was born
in a little village of the north of Hungary,
April ~, 1906, OF poor but noble family,
Of Sclavonic origin. The application and
talents Of the son, found him friends, who
not only enabled him to finish his studies,
but also continued to assist him subse-
quently. In 1885, when strong oppose
ton existed against the Austrian govern
ment in the Hungarian Diet, Kossuth was
employed to conduct an opposition paper,
and he learned stenography for the pur-
pose Of giving true reports Of the Diet,
which had been discouraged by the gov
eminent, and issued them, with immense
labor in manuscript, to escape the censor
ship. A great number of persons were
employed to copy, and the report was sent
Autographed TO every part of the country.
This extraordinary manner of proceed
ing surprised the government, and under
the internal system, for which Austria is
so notorious, he was secretly seized, with
other political leaders, and placed in a
dungeon. For three years nothing was
known Of them. AT length they were re-
leased. But wha: change had three
years confinement in damp, filthy dungeons
made in them! One was blind, another
crazed, and the rest dangerously ill. Kos
suth seems to have escaped the least al
fected, but his constitution was much shat
tered nevertheless. His unjust imprison-
ment rendered him very popular; and a
year afterward, he became editor, though
not openly, of paper issued in Pesth,
called the PesM Hiriap.
The government succeeded in 5rioing the
publisher of this journal, and driving Kos
suth from the editorship. He now turned
his attention TO active measures for the
benefit of his countrymen; ito founding So
cie,ies for establishing and encouraging
domestic manufactures, and for construct
ing public roads. In the Hungarian Diet,
which me, at Presburg, Nov llth, lS47,
he was elected deputy to the Lower
House, in which he took, from that mo-
ment, leading part, until last ptember,
on the appearance of the Imperial Mani
fest, which led to the open rupture be-
tween Hungary and Austria, al the head
of the committee of Safety, Kossuth be-
came the conductor of Hungarian affairs.
He has issued proclamation to the peo-
pie, in which he tells them that there is
nothing TO fear from the Russians.
So much for the personal history ofthis
extraordinary man. But it is not only as
a statesman OF consummate foresight, that
the poor editor of Pesth has figured. As
a military chief he has shown the union Of
the most daring courage with prudence,
which though it may have seemed like
over-caution at the moment, proved in the
result to be most wise and sagacious. As
an orator he exercises surprising power.
The effect of his oloquence is described as
truly astonishing. Whenhe rises to speak,
his features, finely moulded aud of an ORR
entail cast, though pale and haggard, as
from mental and ply steal suffering united.
Immediately excite interest. His deep
toned, almost sepulchral voice, adds to the
first impression. Then as he becomes
warmed by his subject, and launches into
the enthusiastic and prophetic manner Pc
culiar to him, his hearers seem to imblbe
all the tlings that so strongly reign in
his own bosom, and to be governed by the
same will. In his tour through the prov
inces to raise the landsiarm Gall the able
bodied, SO great was his power over the
peasan:ry, that frequently men, women
and children together, running to their
houses, and Selling hooks or whatever
their hands could find, assembled on the
spot, and insisted on being led directly
against the enemy.
The present position Of Hungary is in
the highest degree interesting. The Aus
TRANS were at first victorious in their en-
But the genius of kossulh
never quailed. "Supported," says the
London Times, "by the answering pa
triotism of all classes, and by that alone,
without the assistance of strangers either
in men or money, without foreign levies
or foreign loans, he, step by step, recov-
cred every advantage which had been
won from him at first by the overwhelm-
ing force and Simultaneous attacks Of the
And now Russia is called
upon to crush the Hungarian nation p
VIII France allow it? win England?
uN,,w while there is nothing more
contemplate tfsn an ostentatious display
Of wealth, nothing ,neaner or more ludic-
rous than a substitution OF the mysterious