Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-24

pressed country, let me respectfully ask.
do you not regret to,have bestowed upon
me the high honor of this glorious recep-
ton, unparalleled in history, though l
know that your fathers have welcomed
Lafayette in a similar ways but Lafay-
cite had mighty claims upon your coun.
try's gratitude; he had fought in your
ranks foryour freedom neutrality-suspicious.,
and what was still more, in the hour of
your need. He was the link of your
friendly connection with France--a con-
neetion, the result of which were two
French Fleets, of moro than thirty light
mel. of.war, three thousand gallant men
who fought side by side with you against
Cornwsilis, before 'Yorktown-the preci-
Gus gift of twenty -four thousand muskets.
and loan of nineteen millions of dollars,
and even the preliminary treaties of your
glorious peace, negotiated at Paris by
your Immortal Franklin.
l hope the people of the United States,
now itself in a happy condition to aid
those who are in need of aid, as itself was
once in need, will kindly remember these
facts and you citizens of New York,
and yourselves become the Lafayettes of
Hungary. Lafayette had great claims
to your love and sympathy, but l have
none. l come humble petitioner, with
no other claims than those wAiSG., the OPP
pressed have to the symPShN of free
men, who have the power .tOSffp; with
the claim which the unfottl& shas to
the happy and the down-trSda, NJ has to
the protection of eternal justice and hu-
man rights. In a word, have no other
claims than those which the oppressed
principle of freedom has to the aid of
Victorious liberty. Then would humblY
ask, are these claims sufficient to insure
your generous protection, not to myself,
but to the cause of my native land-not
to my native land only, but to the princ-
pie of freedom in Europe's continent, of
which the independence of Hungary is
the indispensable keystone.
If you consider these claims not suf
ficient to your active and operative sym
pathy, then let me know at once hat the
hopes have failed with which Europe's
oppressed nations have looked to your
great, mighty, and glorious republic-let
me know at once the failure of our hopes,
that may hasten back, and tell Europe's
oppressed nations, LET us fight forsakcn
and single-handed the battle of Leoni-
das let US trust to God, to our right, and
to our good sword there is no other help.
for the oppressed nations on earth. =
But if your generous republican hearts
are animated by the high principle of
freedom, and of the soliditary in the des-
TIMES Of humaniy-ifyou have the will.
as to be sure you have the power to sup
port the cause of freedom against the sac
religious league of despotism, then give
me some days of calm reflection to be-
come acquainted with the ground upon
which l stand-let me take the kind ad-
vice of some active friends on the most
practical couse l have to adopt-in favor
of that cause which l have the honor to
represent; and then let me have new
opportunity to expound before you my
humble requests in practical way.
l confidently hope, Mr.. Mayor, the cor
poration and citizens of the Empire city
will grant me the second opportunity. If
this be your generous will, then let me
take this for boon of happier days; and
let me add with sigh of thanksgiving to
the Almighty God, that it is your glori-
Gus country which Providence has selec-
ted to be the pillow of freedom, as it is
already the asylum to oppressed human
ity.
am told that l will have the high
honor to review your patriotic militia.
Oh, God, how my heart throbs at the
idea, to see this gallant army enlisted on
the side of freedom against despotism
the world would be free, and you the
saviours of humanity. And why not
These gallant men take part in the NIGH !
ty demonstration of the day, proving that
l was right when said that nowadays
even the bayonets think.