Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-08-17
LETTER FROM KossurH TO GEN. cAss. ,

.ETTER FROM KossUTH TO GEN. CAss. |
The Union Of Saturday publishes the fol-
owing letter from the renowned Hungarian
eader and patriot, Louis Kossuth, addressed
o General Cass, U. S. Senator from Michi-
yan. The intensity Of patriotic feeling which
1 manifests, the beautiful simplicity Of IFS
and its confident hope in the |
progress of the great cause of human liberty,
will commend it 10 the warm regatd of eve
ry true hearted American:
KUTALYA, (AsIA MINOR May 25, 1850.
General 1t is already len mouths that
have the anguish Of exile to endure.
Nature has mans mind with wonderful
elasticity endowed. 1t yields 10 many chan
ges of fate, and gets accustomed even to adj
versiiy. But to one thing the patriots heart
never learns 10 inure itself--to the pangs oi
exile.
You remember yon patrcian OF Venice,
who, when banshed, feigned high treason,
that he might at least from the scafIold cast
over the Rialto glance once more.
This fond desire can easily understand.
| can so the more, because yon Vehetian'
though exiled, knew his fatherland to be
happy and great but l, sir, carry The dolor
Of millions, the pains of down-'rodden
country in my wounded breast, without hav'
ing even the sad consolation 10 think that it
could not otherwise be. Oh! had Divine
Providence only from treason deigned me TO
preserve, swear to The Almighty God the
threatening pillows of despotism would have
peoples breasts. To have this firm convic.
tion, sir, and, instead of the well-deserved
victory of freedom, to find oneself in exile
the fatherland in chains, is profound sorrow
a nameless grief
Neither have | the consolation to have
found mitigations of this grief at the hospiia
bic hearth of a great free people, the con
temptation of which, by the imposing view
of freedoms wonderful powers, warns The
despondent heart, making it in the destiny o
mankind believe.
1t is not a coward lamenta,ion which
makes me say all this General, but tht
lively sense of gratitude and thankful ack
nowledgments for your generous sympathy
| wanted 10 sketch the darkness of my des
tiny, that you might feel what benefit mus
have been TO me your beam of light, b,
which you, from the capital of free America
have heightened my night
1t was in Broussa, General, that the no,c
of your imposing speech has reached me
in yonder Broussa, where Hannibal bewaile,
his country's mischief, and foreiold the fall O
its ppressors-Hannibal, exled like myself
but still unhappier, as he was accompanied
in exile by the ngrati,ude OF his people, bu
by the love of mine.
Yes, General, your powerful speech wa
not only the inspiration of sympathy for ur
merited misfortune, so natural to noble, fee
ing hearts; it was the revelation of the ju.
tice Of God--it was leaf from the book c
fate, unveiled to the world. On ,ha, day
General, you were sitting, in the name c
mankind, in tribunal, passing judgment o
despo,sm and the despois OF the world; an
as sure as the God of Justice lives, your vel
dict will be accomplished.
Shall yet have my share in this grea
work or not | do not know. Once almos
All efficient instrument in the hands of Prov
dence, | am now buried alive. With hun
bic heart will accept the call TO actor
should be deemed worthy of it, or subm
10 the doom of inactive sutIerings, if it mu,
be so. But, be it one or the other, kno,
that your sentence will be fulfilled. kno,
that aged Europe, at the son of freedom
Young America, will herself grow youn
again. know that my people, who prove
so worthy of liberty, will yet, notwihsanC
ing their present degradation, weigh heav
in this balance of fate and know that, &
long as one Hungarian lives, your namt
General, will be counted among the mo-
cherished in my native land, as the distir
guished man who, worthy interpreter
the generous sentiments OF the great Amer
can people, has upon us poor Hungarians til
consolation bestowed of a confident hop
at a moment when Europe's decrept polite
seemed our unmerited fate forever to SEAL
May you be pleased. General, 10 acceI
the most fervent thanks of an honest frien
of freedom. Let me hope that should NJ
Ujhazy, (my Oldest and best friend, and pr,
sent representative in the United Siates,)
interest of the holy cause TO which you hav
so generously your protection accorded, az
dress himself TO you for something which yo
might, in your wisdom, judge convenient an
practicable, you will not withhold from ,
your powerful support and please to accel
the assurance of my highest esteem an
most peculiar veneration l.. KossUTH,
Anc Governor of Hungary.
The the Honorable the General Cas-
Washington.
hope you will excuse my bad Euglisl
1 thou0ht IL NV duty In addraes vo, in yot