Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-11-26
ARCH BISHOP HUGHES AND KossuTH

ARCH BISHOP. HUGHES AND KOSSUTH.
Arch Bishop Hughes recently delivered an address:
in New York ia which he made the following slight
ing ausion to Kossath:
And here can't help abiding 10 the ignorant praise
which has been bestowed on that race, on occasions
that have attracted the eyes OF the world. We all
know that the distinguished Hungarian, who had been
t5e poet OF insurfeccn 10 Europe the moment he was
liberated hom prison and landed in England, became
lie preacher OF submission became the euogls oil the
Anglo SaXons-and like the veriest Ogangeman OF the
norm OF ireland, he must have fling at Jesullism and
the Pope. (Hisses.) Anglo Saxonism was the theme
OF ms euogy tie, the man who forgot the advocates
Oh his own pflncples-the man who was recreant IN
IN hfs hour OF his freedom those who risked their
lives 10 the causetha man forgot everything but the
Eagt'sh, who crushed the principles ia their own
domlnlons twas not in good taste. Neither was it
III good taste 10 blaspheme the knowledge OF mankind,
when ne called the county OF the oppre ssors Of Ireland
a paradise, iorsooh. Oh, it must have been exceed
ngly gratifying to John Bull as 10 the indulgence of
his selt-compiacency one layer after another OF Hun.
garian blarney laid upon him. He (eltso soft and
comfortable, that he desnt there any thing
but truth ia it. Qaughter) He never thought while
ne enjoyed this soft composition the hungarian UNDER
stood to be an operation only preliminary shave
tGFea laughter) Smith o Brien was as true man as
ever hossuth was, and Thomas Meagher was as eIo-
quent; aua these men are forgotten. The man who
fisked his fortune for principles fer which they risked
theirs, Turns around TO bespater their tryans with
praise.
The Tribune took the Arch Bishop severely
to task for this attack upon the Hungarian Elk.
lie, and other parts of his public course Here
torts in sharp reply through the Courier, in
which he speaks of Kossuth as follows:
You have taken me to task aso in regard to the
he'd Hungarian leader who to visit cur
shores 1t seems That in estimating his character |
have again the misfortune not TO agree with YOU in
opinion, Whether the error is on your side or on
mine, am wiling to leave to The decision of public
OPINION in both hemispheres that decision st all
stand hive years hence. have watched with moderae
interest the movements that have been going on in the
name OF liberty throughout Europe within The last four
or i've years. Their results have disappointed both the
trends and the enemies OF freedom throughout the
world. The c0nyulsions which have taken place. con-
trary to almost all similar commissions in past times
nave rot thrown up to the surface single great
mere was time when thought that distinction was
possibly reserved for RossuIh.
Ills speeches were eloquent and beautiful; his pray
ers to the God Of Hungary seemed redolen of piety
and PATRIOTISM Indeed am not sure that he did not
compose Revolutionary Lanies, invoking the aid of
the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the Saints And this
seemed 10 mark so great difference between him
and most Of the Revolutionary leaders that, at one
time, imagined history weuId write his name as
that ot great Like the Others, he was unsuc"
cessiul and unfortunate And so long as he was
captive in the Turish domnions, was willing to for
get his faults consideration OF his captivity But
when, his release from prison, find HIM offering
incense of aduation to the god OF British pride, and
chanting peans of attery to the very power that had
crushed principles such he proiessed TO have
tended form the persons of Smith O'Bren and the
other Irish patrots-when find him unnecessarily
hngag insult at the religion Of most of tn" people OF
Hungary simply because such insult would be CRATE
full in the ears of his English auditors, could not
help forming the opinion that the stuff in him.
and that history would write him down, not among
he heroes, but rather among the humbugs, of which
his nneeth century has been prolific. My mind
3 so constituted that could not come TO any other
;oncnslon and, therefore, threw myself your in
iugence. seeing that in this also have the msfor-
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