Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-08-29
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Hungarian patriot, was recently
received by Gen. Cass, and the no
Bile sentiments it contains, will richly
repay its perusal:
KUrALYA, (Asia Minor,) !
May 25, 1850.
General-It is already ten month:
thatl have the anguish of exile tc
endure.
Nature has mans mind with won
derful elasticity endowed. 1t yields
to many changes Of fate, and ge's
accustomed even to adversely Du'
to one thing the patriots heart new
or learns to inure itself-to the Pangs
of exile.
You remember yon patrician ol
Venice, who when banished, feigned
biob treason, that he might at least
from the scafold cast over the Rialto
a glance once more.
This fond desire | can easily un-
derstand. can so the more, be-
cause Won Venetian, though exiled,
knew his fatherland 10 be happy and
great; but ], sir, carry the dolor Of
millions, the pains OF downtrodden
country in my wounded breast, with
out having even the sad consolation
to think that it could not otherwise
be. OH had Divine Providence on
ly from treason designed me to pre-
serve, | swear to Almighty God the
threatening pillows of despotism
would have fallen like foam from the
rock ofmy brave peoples breasts. To
have this firm conviction, sir, and, in
stead of the well deserved victory
of freedom, to find ourselves in exile,
the latherland in chains, is pro-
found sorrow, a nameless grief.
Neither have | the consolation to
have found mitigations of this grief
at the hospitable hearth Of a great
free people, the contemplation OF
which, by the imposing view of free
dom's wonderful powers, warns the
despondent heart. making it in the
destiny Of fmankind believe.
1t is not a coward lamentation
which makes me say all this, Gene
raj, but the lively sense of gratitude
and thankful acknowledgements for
your ge.erous sympathy. l wan
ted to sketch the darkness OF my des-
tiny, that you might feel what bene-
fit must have been to me your beam
of light, by which you, from the cap
itol offree America, have heightened
my night.
II was in Broussa, General, that
the notice of your imposing speech
has reached me; in yonder Broussa,
where Hannibal bewailed his coun-
try's mischief, and foretold the fall
Of its oppressors-Hannioal, exiled
like myself, but still unhappier, as
he was accompanied in exile by the
ingratitude Of his people, but | by
the love Of mine.
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Yes, General, your powerful
speech was not only the inspiration
Of sympathy for unmerited misior-
tune, so natural TO noble, feeling
hearts: it was the revelation of the
Justice of God-it was a leaf from
the book of fate unveiled to the
world. On that day, General, you
were sitting, in the name Of mankind,
in tribunal, passing judgment on
despotism and the despots of the
world, and as sure as the God Of
Justice lives, your verdict will be
accomplished.
Shall yet have my share in this
great work or not! do not know,
Once almost an efficient instrument
in the hands of Providence, | am
now buried alive. With humble
heart will ! accept the call to action,
should l be deemed worthy oft, or
submit to the doom Of inactive suf-
ferings, il it must be so. But, be it
one or the other, know that your
sentence will be fulfilled. l know
that aged Europe, at the sun Of tree
dom's young America, will herself
grow young again. know that
my people, who proved so worthy oi
liberty, will yet, notwithstanding
their present degradation. 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 cherish
ed in my native land, as the distin-
guished man who, a worthy inter-
prefer of the generous sentiments OF
the great American people, has up
on us poor Hungarians the consoIa-
ton bestowed Of a confident hope,
at a moment when Europe's decrep-
it politics seemed our unmerited fate
forever to seal.
May you be pleased, General, to
accept the most iervent thanks Of an
honest friend of freedom. Let me
hope that should Mr.. Ujhazy, (myI
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