The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-08-28
Kossuth's Letter to General Cass.

/ Kossuth's Letter to General Cass.
We have been permitted, (says the Washing
ton Union,) to present to readers letter from
he renowned Hungarian leader and patriot,
Louis Kossuth, addressed to General Cass, Sc
nator from Michigan The intensity of patriot
ic feeling which it manfests, the beautiful SIM
plicity of its expressions, and its confident hope
in the progress of the great cause of human lib
erty, will commend it to the warm regard Of ev-
cry true-hearted American. How proud is the
reflection for anAmerican that wherever man is
struggling for freedom, he looks to this country
for encouragement and example during the con-
test, and for sympathy, if defeat and misfortune,
instead of victory and triumph, should come up.
on him! And much prouder would have been
the reflection had the resolution had the resolu-
ton of Gen. Cass Ito terminate diplomatic inter
course with Austria, in token of reprobation Of
her fagitious conducD passed Congress, and
gone out to the world as the condemnation by a
free people of the most atrocious act of tyranny
recorded in the long conflict between power 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, al
though they were unsuccessful, have been so
highly appreciated and approved by the heroic
leader the gallant people whose exertions COM
manded the sympathies of every true lover of
freedom throughout the world-a people who,
though now downtrodden, (as the noble Kossuth
says,) we yet hope will, in the dispensatons of
Providence, assert and maintain their rights as
free and independent nation among the nations
of the earth.
KurALYA, (As1A M1SoR) May IS, 1850.
GENERAL:-It is already ten months that 1
have the anguish of exile to endure.
Nature has mans mind with wonderful elasti-
city endowed. 1t yields to many changes of
fate, and gets accustomed even to the adversely.
But to one thing the patriots heart never learns
to 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 scatfold cast over the
Rialto glance once more.
This fond desire | can easily understand
can so the more, because yon Venetian, though
exiled, knew his fatherand to be happy and great;
but 1, sir, carry the dolor of millions, the pains
of downtrodden country in my wounded breast
without having even the sad consolation to think
that it could not be otherwise. Oh! had Divine
Providence only from treason designed me to
preserve, | swear TO the Almighty God the
threatening pillows of despotism would have fal.
len like foam from the rock of my brave people
breasts. To have this firm conviction, sir and
instead Of the well-deserved victory of freedom,
to find one sclfin exile, the fatherand in chains,
is profound sorrow, nameless grief.
Neither have the consolation to have found
mtgations of this grief at the hospitable hearth
ola great free peoplet the contemplation of which,
by the imposing view of freedoms wonderful
powers, warns the Respondent heart, making it
in the destiny Of mankind believe.
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1t is not a coward lamentation which makes
me say all this, General, but the lively sense of
gratitude and thankful acknowled gments for your
generous sympathy. l wanted to sketch the
darkness ofmy 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 my night.
1t was in Broussa, General, that the notice of
your imposing speech has reached me; in yon-
der Broussa, where Hannibal bewailed his coun
rys mischief and foretold the fall of its Cypress
ors-Hannibal, exiled like myself, but still I'M
happier, as he accompanied in exile by the !
ingratitude Of his people, but by the love of
mine.
y.
Yes, General, your powerful speech was not
only the inspiration Of sympathy for unmerited
misfortune, so natural to noble, feeling hearts;
it was the revelation of the Justice of God-it |
was leaf from the book Of fate, unveiled to the
world. On that day, General, you were sitting,
judgment on despotism and the despots of the
world; and as the God of Justice lives,
your verdict will be accomplished.
Shall yet have my share in this great work
or noto | do not know Once almost an eff
cient instrument in the hands of Providence,
am now buried alive. With humble heart will
accept the call to action, should l be deemed
worthy of it, submit to the doom of active suf
ferings, if it must be so. But, be it one or the
other, know that your sentence will be fulfill
ed. know that aged Europe, at the sun of free
dom's young America, will herself grow young
again. know that my people, who proved so
worthy of liberty, will yet, notwithstanding their
present degradation, weigh heavy in this balance
oftate; and know that, as long as one Hunga-
rian lives, your name, General, will be counted
among the most cherished in my native land, as
the distinguished man who, a worthy interpre-
ter of the generous sentiments Of the great A.
merican people, has upon poor Hungarians
the consolation bestowed of confident hope, at
Il HloucHI WHICH, EUROPE 3 ucCIcpAt pollICS Secul-
ed our unmerted fate forever to seal
May you be pleased, General, to accept the
most fervent thanks of an honest friend of free
dom.-Let me hope, that should MIR. Ujhazy,
(my oldest and best friend, and present represent
tative in the United Statcs,) in the interest of
the holy cause to which You have so generously
your protection accorded, address himself to you
for something which you might, in your wisdom,
Judge convenient and practicable, you will not
withhold from us your powerful support; and
please to accept the assurance Of my highest es-
TEEN and most peculiar vereration.
l.. KOSSUTH,
Anc. Governor of Hungary.
To the Honorable the General CAss, Wash
ington.
l hope you will excuse my bad English.
thought it my duty to address you in your own
language.
Spain protects Cuba.
The latest arrival from Europe brings the fol-
lowing:
The Spanish Government are sending 5000
troops as u reinforcement to Cuba. The appoint