The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-11-27
KossUTHs SOUTHAMPTON SPEECH.

No man who is aware of the Importance G
| his destiny can live satisfied without freedom
but he to whom God has granted freedom ha
got everything if he has got the mind and tn
will to use his freedom to the development O
his own and his fellOw-creatures' happiness
with such consistency of purpose as the Eng
lish people have exhibited. Cheers That i
the basis upon which England has grown int
the paradise she now is upon which my sac
heart rests with JOY, and which cannot fail t.
increase the desire of every foreigner to become
also free and 50 endowed with capabilitv o
changing ,IhIs own. part OF one. rorro "..e .
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all my life have had one single leaurng suca-
liberty Loud cheers. The aim of my exist
ence was to secure the blessings of that liberty
to my people, although know those blessing,
but instinctively. Hear, hear. Now, when
behold England, and see how liberty enables
men to beautify nature how should not feel
doubled in my determination to endure, to
work, to struggle, and if it must be to die, that
my people may become lree-that people OF
whom say there are none who better deserve
to become free Loud cheers.
But besides the blessings of freedom, it is also
glory allotted to you your proud position is
to be able not on y to bear good will to those
who do not enjoy the happiness of freedom, but
also to have a helping hand always ready for
your more unfortunate brethren. Cheers.
That is tie glory Of England, and in your ma
tional capacity you have illustrated the words
of our Saviour Love thy neighbor as myself"
Cheers. 1t is only so can explain the great
phenomenon that | see around me, where so
many of different rank and station, but all
united in the love of liberty, join to express
their sympathy for the principle of liberty of
which they choose to consider me the humble
representative. Cheers. 1t is only thus can
explain the great phenomenon that even that
honorable class whose entire capital is the labor
of their hands, stop in their work and sacrifice
their time, to say, with that noble internal in
stinct of people before whom every individual
purpose must bow that the great principle of
liberty can reckon on the people of England
CHEERS. And well may the working classes
of England be identified with the great principle
of liberty, because without liberty there is no
lasting social order 1t is Indispensable that
every man should in full security enjoy the
fruits of his own labor,
1t is not without reason that all classes of
England unite in expressing their sympathy
with that principle which, under different
forms of government, but under similar insti-
tutlons is the blessing, the glory and the hap
piness of the English race on both hemispheres.
Loud cheers. The blessings of this liberty
may be allotted to other nations, to enjoy it
under such government rs may suit their wants
and wishes 1t is not without reason, this SYM
pathy with liberty not only because there is a
moral solldlty in the destinies of the world, but
also when the productive labor of country
produces more than it can consume such a
country must have free intercourse and unin-
terrupted communications with other countries.
Hear This free intercourse this uninter-
rupted interchange Of products, is summed up
in the words-trce trade. Hear, hear Now,
beg to ask the question, is this idea of free
commerce realized by the fact of free imports
INTO England | believe there is yet another
part 10 the idea, very important, very vital, and
that Is the Tree expectation of that which the
industry OF England produces Hear. hear
But Tree export has no meaning. if that which
Is exported cannot find free market in other
parts OF the world Therefore | say that, not
without reason, the people of England sympa-
thlze with the principles of liberty, because
without the liberty of Europe there can be no
Tree trade Hear, hear. All despots fear
Tree trade, because liberty of commerce is the
most powerful vehicle for the extension of civil
lzaton. Cheers Free trade to England, M
to every nation, is only with free Europe pos
slble, Hear, hear. hope Mr. Mayor, and
other gentlemen, did not do wrong in touching
upon tins matter here No, no feel that
IL glorious when the material interests of q
great nation are identified with the freedom of
that nation. This is providential matter
No single community can enjoy welfare and
happiness except on the condition that the in
terests OF the community are in harmony with
the interests of individuals
We are in the neighborhood of great ma
ton which mourns enough at not enjoying the
fruits OF its many sorrows and sufferings
There is party there which is called don't
know with what right--the Jesuitical party !;
and you all know that that party threatens
France with the Cossacks. And even here, in this
glorious country, it is not long since there was
IA question much agitated ~ well in public
opinion rs in Parliament know what is con-
yenent in this place and due to you. ! will
not enter into the question but will only state
one curious coincidence ] am a Protestant
Cheers NOT only Protestant by birth hut
by conviction. Cheers. But am an humble
member of nation the majority of which is
composed Of Catholics. Now. it is one of the
least glories of my nation that in all times in
the present day rs well as in former times,
when our fathers blcd for liberty in religion
and freedom of conscience, there have been
Hungarian Catholics who have taken the lead
in struggling in Il peaceful manner, as well as
on the field of battle for religious liberty and
freedom of conscience. In that way the free
dom and the rights Of Professionalism, always
opposed by the house of Hapsburg, who were
ever strongly united with the principle of Jesuit.
ISM this freedom, these rights were established
by treaties by pacific means, by the victorious
swords of Hungarians fighting for freedom Of
conscience IL is true that rs soon as freedom
was obtained, the sword was laid aside; for
Hungary has been a land of loyalty in all time
1t may suffice to say that the freedom of Prot
estantism in Hungary was secured by laws, was
secured by treaties, on the maintenance OF
which the existence of the Hapsburg dynast,
was made to depend In isls this was in
cluded among other reforms; and scarcely had
Russia raised the fallen house of Austria. b,
putting its foot ON the neck of Hungary whcr
the first deed of the restored house was 10 do
stroy the rights of Protestant liberty in Hun
gary. And then, gentlemen, this is connecte,
with another fact with respect to the Catholi,
church. The Kings Of Hungary, in former times
Were always anxious not TO allow any power B,
meddle and chiefly not to allow the Court o
Rome to mcddle with the temporal affairs o
the Catholic church in Hungary, 80 much S,
that one of our most glorious kings Matthiu
Corvinses Hungarian by birth, seeing tn
encroachments of the Court 0f Rome ON hi
rights, said to one Of the Popes, MAY YOU
Holiness remember that Hungary, which bear
n double cross ON her banners, has never en-