Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-08-26
From the Washington Union, Aug. IL.
KOSSuth'S Letter to Gen. CaSs.

rom the w aShlngtoH Union, aug. IL.
K0ssuth'S Letter to Gen. CaSs.
We have been permitted to present ,c
our readers a letter from the renowned
Hungarian leader and patriot, Louis Kos:
suth, addressed to Gen. Cass, Senator from
Michigan. The intensity Of patriotic feel.
ing which it manifests, the beautiful sim.
.plicity of its expressions, and It's confident
hope in the progress of the great cause of
human liberty, will commend it to the
warm regard Of every true hearted Ameri.
can. How proud is the reflection for an
American, that wherever man is struggling
for freedom, he looks to this country for
encouragement and example during the
contest, and for sympathy if defeat and
misfortune, instead of victory and triumph,
should come upon him! And much proud.
er would have been the reflection had the
resolution of Gen. Cass TO terminate di.
plomatic intercourse with Austria, in to.
ken Of reprobation of her hagilious con-
ducL passed Congress, and gone out to
the world as the condemnation by free
people OF the most atrocious act Of tyranny
recorded in the long conflict between pow.
er and the oppressed victims Of power.
1T must be source of true qualification
and of honorable pride TO Gen Cass, that
his efforts to suspend diplomatic intercourse
with Austria, although they were unsuc-
cessful, have been so highly appreciated
and approved by the heroic leader Of the
gallant people whose exertions command
ed the sympalhies of every true lover of
freedom throughout the world-a people
who,, though now down trodden, las the
noble Kossuth says we yet hope will, in
the dispensations of Providence, assert and
maintain their rights as free and inde-
pendent nation among the nations of the
earth: -.- .... a..s.- -... .-a
ed: kUTALYA. Asia Minor,
# May 25, 1850.
GENEnAL: It is already ten months
that have the anguish of exile 10 endure.
Nature has mans mind with wonderful
elasticity endowed. 1t yields to many
changes Of fate, and gets accustomed even
10 adversely. But TO one thing the patri-
OTIS heart never learns to inure iself--to
the pangs ofexile. - 5-..'--@ '' y
You remember yonnatrician of Venice,
who, when banished, feigned high treason,
that he might at least from the scafold cast
over the Rialto glance once more. NIL
This fond desire can easily understand.
can so the more, because yon Venitian,
though exiled, knew his fatherland to be
happy and great; but |, sir, carry the dolor
Of millions, the pains of Il down-trodden
country in my wounded breast, without
having even the sad consolation to think
that it could not otherwise be. Oh! had
Divine Providence only from treason de-
signed me to preserve, swear 10 the Al.
mighty God the threatning pillows Of des-
ootisn, would have fallen like foam from
.he rock Of my brave peoples breasts i
10 havesthi firm conviction, sir, and, in
stead of the well deserved victory of free
1om, to find oneself in exile, the father
and in chains, is u profound sorrow, n
1ameless grief.
Neither have the consolation 10 have
ound mitigotions of his grief at the hospi- I
able hearth Of a great free people, the
of which, by the imposing
view Of freedom S wonderful powers, warns
he despondent heart, making it in the des.
my Of mankind believe 4a@9
r., *..7.,t* - 4es /
1t is not coward lamentation which
makes me say all this, General, but the
lively sense ofgratitude and thankful &C.
for your generous sympa-
by. want ed to sketch the darkness of
ny destiny, that you might feel what
benefit must have been to me your beam
IF light, by which you, from the the capt
al Of free America, have heightened my
night 80 if5z z.jsalag q saj'1
. 1t was in Bropssa, General, that the no
ice of your imposing speech has reached
ne: in yonder Broussa, where Hannibal
oewailed his coun,ry's mischief, and fore.
old the fall ofits oppressors-Hannlbal,
,xiled like myself, bu. still unhnppier, as
ne was accompanied, in exile by the in
gratitude of his people, but ! by the love Of
nine.
-" :. gzzz. ~ s.. ~. #s@*#
:: Yes, General, your powerful speech
was not only the inspiration of sympathy
or unmeri.ed misfortune, SO natural to no.
ole, feeling hearts. it was the revelation Of
he justice of God-it was leaf from tho
book of fate, unveiledito the world. On
hat day, General, you were sitting, in the
name Of mankind, in tribunal, passing
Judgment on desp potism and the despots of
Ihe vorld; and as sure as the God of Jus.
lice lives, your verdict will be accom-
plished. .*ssff&3 E-:@s ETsaa
,c SHALL yet have my share in this great
work or not? do not know. Once al.
most an efficient instrument in the hands
of Providence, | am now buried alive
With humble heart will | accept the call to
action, should | be deemed worthy of it, or
submit to the doom of inactive sufferipgs,
if it must be so. But, be it one or the
other, know that your sentence will be
fulfilled. know that aged Europe, at
the sun of freedoms young America, will
herself grow young again. know that
my people who proved so worthy. of iiber-
ty, will yet, Notwithstanding their present
weigh heavy in this balance
of fate; and / know, that, as long as one
Hungarian lives, your name, General, will
be counted among the most cherished In