Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-30

INTERESTING LETTER FROM Kos
sUTH TO Gen. CAss.-The eXpatr-
ated Hungarian Chief, Louis Kos
suth, has written the following strik
ing letter to General Cass, in return
for the. sentiments of sympathy for
Hungary expressed by the latter in
his speech in favor of suspending di-
plomatic intercourse with Austria:
KUTALyA, (Asia Minor,)}
May 25, 1850.
General: 1t is already ten months
that l have the anguish of exile to
endure.
Nature has man mind with won
derful elasticity endowed. 1t yields
to many changes of fate, and gets
accustomed even to adversely. But
to one thing the patriots heart never
learns 10 inure itself-to the pangs of
exile.
You remember yon patrician Of
Venice, who, when banished, feigned
high treason, that he might at least
from the scaflold cast over the Rialto
glance once more.
This fond desire [ can easily un-
derstand. | can so the more, be-
cause yon Venetian, though exiled,
knew his fathcrland to be happy and
great; but |, sir, carry the dolor of
millions, the pains of a down trodden
country in my wounded breast, with
out having even the sad consolation
to think that it could not otherwise
be. Oh! had Divine Providence only
from treason designed me to pre-
serve, swear to Almighty God the
threating pillows of despotism would
have fallen like foam from the rock
of my brave peoples breasts. To
have this firm conviction, and, instead
of the wcll-deserved victory of free
dom, to find oneselGin exile, the faith
erland in chains, is a profound sor-
row-a nameless grief.
Neither have | the consolation to
have found mitigations of this grief
at the hospitablc hearth of a great
Tree 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 mankind believe.
1t is not a coward lamentation
which makes me say all this, Gener-
al, but the lively sense of gratitude
and thankful acknowledgment for
your generous sympathy. | wanted
to sketch the darkness Of my destiny,
that you might feel what benefit must
have been to me your beam of light
by which you, from the capital of
free America, have heightened nv
night.
y 1t 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 tie fall of
its oppressors-Hannibal, exiled like
myself, but still unhappier, as he was
accompanied in exile by the ingrati-
tuade of his people, but by the love
of mine.
y X
Yes, General, your powerful speech
was not only the inspiration of sym
pathy for unmerited misfortune, so
naturalto noble, feeling hearts; it was
the revelation of the justice of God
1T 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, pass
ing judgment on despotism and the
despots OF the world; and as sure as
the God of Justice lives, your YER
dict will be accomplished
Shall l yet have my share in this
great work or not ? [ do not know.
Once almost an efficient instrument
IN the hands of Providence, I 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 suf-
terlngs,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 free
doms young America, will herself
grow, young again. know that my
people, who proved so worthy of
ihiberty. will yet, Notwithstanding
thelr present degradation, will weigh
ineavy IN this balance of fate; and I
EI.now that, as long as one Hungarian
hves' your name, General, will be
counted among the most cherished
IN my native land, as the distinguish,
ed man who, worthy interpreter of
the generous sentiments of the great