Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-11-01
THE DAILY TIMES
KOSSUTHS FAREWELL ADDRESS TO HUN
GARY

| GARY.
| Before Kossuth's departure from the Hungarian soil
ne knelt down upon it, opened his arms az if he
would embrace its fields kissed the earth moistened
and sanctified by the blood of its most valuable chill
dren, and after addressing short prayer to the Dispo
ser ora events he pronounced The following eoquen
Address: rAsmonoan
God with thee, my beloved Fathetland! God with
thee Faherland of the Magyars! God with thee land
OF toftures shall not be able behold the sumn11fs
o. thy mountains; no more shall be able to calI nv
FatherIand the soil, where on the mothers heart inn
blbed the milk OF Freedom and Justice!
Pardon me, my Fatherland, me who am condeu-
neg p wander about far FROM thee, because strove
l9r> my welfare. Parden me who more cali any
tllng free than the small space where am now kneel
ing down with few OF thy sons. My looks fall upon
thee, o, poor Faherland l see thee bent down with
sufeflngs! l now turn them to futurity thy Future
smoothing but great grief!-thy plains are mostep-
ed with crimson gore, which will soon be backened
by unmefeltu devastation and destruction, as if 10
mourn over the nunberiess coDquests which thy
sons nave achieved the accursed enemies Of thy
uauo"ed SOIL How many grateful hearts lifted up their
PRAYERS 10 tdie Throne OF the Almighty How many
Tears nave ho~n which would even have moved He'll
10 compassion How many streams of blood have
run, as proofs, how the Hungarian loves his Father
land, and how he can die for it and vet hast thou
beloved Fatherland become slave
. Thy beloved sons chained and dragged away
IKE slaves destined to etter again everything that is
noly 70 become servlceabe to all that is unloly!
LORD, II thou lowest thy people, whose heroic ances-
Tors thou dIdst enable to conquer under Arpad amid
So many told dangers, beseech Thee and impore
Thee, Y humble it not!
Behod, my dear Fatherland, thus speaks to thee
my son Ia the whrlwind of troubles and despair, on
thy utmost boundary
Pardon me, if the great number Of thv sons have
shed their blood for my sake or rather for thine be-
cause was their representative because protected
nee Wleh on thy brow was written in letters of blood
NE wofa Ddnger; because l. when it called unto
thee, BE slave,'' took up the sword rthec be-
cause glfded on my sword when the enemy had the
huudc ~ 10 say Thou art no more nation, The
w lth gigantic PAGES time rolled on-with black vel.
U 81 aye wrote on the pages o. thy history
Nor,h ana TO stamp the seal upon it, called the
Soitleln Coossus to assist. But the reddening morn
ing Dawn oil the South will melt this seal!
beholo' my dear Fatberand for thee who hast
sheo SO much OF thy blood there is NOT even commas
sion; because, on the hills which are lowered m bv
the bones OF thy fallen sons tyranny earns her bread
" see, my dear tatherland the ungrateful whom
lot oost nourlsh from the fat of thy pentitude has
turned against thee against thee has tnrned the I'M
oi 10 uestfoE thee from head to the sole of thy f3
Du1 lnou, noble nation has eAdured all this-hou hast
not cursed thy fate, because in hv bosom over all s
fefing toPE is enshrined
Magyars turn your looks not away from m.: for
even a. thls moment my tears flow only for you and
ie son on winch am kneeling yet bears your name,
Ihcu art fallen, truest of nations Thou art thrpst
DOWN under thine own blowl not the weapon of a 70.
reisn enemy which has dug thy grave! not the cannon
OF the many nations, who were brought IN sGa,nst
thee they have tottered back at thy love to thy Fs.
therland! not the Muscoviies who erawled ever tina
hapahes nave compelled thee 10 lay down thine arms
tence OF death, beloved Fatherland was wri,Ien hv
'li whose love to hiscounty never Questioned for
atbar h. - IN the bold flight Of my Thoughts would
atnet nave doubted the existence of good man that
should have thought he could have hecona Tho rs;
tor to his Fatherand '0''i'7 '''0 u
And thou hast been BETRAYED by him in whosehand
d re" days ago laid the Government OF our counrv
who has sworn to defend hes with the last dop of his
oioou. ne became traitor to his country because the
co 2 OF eod was dearer to him than that OF blood
which was shed for the Independence of the Father
land. The protane metal had in his eve, more value
than the molly God OF his land, who lorsook him, when
he entered into covenant with ha asSociatas IS -
Devil VI ''''
Magyars, my dear tellow-sons Of the same countrvl
10 not accuse me, because | compelled to cast
my eye on this man, and to yacate my place for him.
was Obliged 10 do so, because the people placed con-
hdence In HIM, because the army loved him. and he had
already attained to such position in which he could
have proved ms fldeliy and yet that abused the
confidence OF the nation and in return for the love Of
his nation. treated them with conemp!
Curse hlm, people OF the Magyars! curse the heart
wnleh ana MOI dry up when attempted to nourst him
love thee, Europes truest nation as love the
freedom Tor which thou fought so braveIy! The God
OF liberty will never blot you out from His memory
Washing on, though my deeds were not those of VII
liam Tell! wished for free nation, free like God
only can create maitland thou art dead, because lhy
winter has arrived ; but this will not last 90 ono as Inv
fellow sufferer. angushing under the lev sy of Siberia
no hteen nations have dug thy grave the thousands of
tine slxteenths will arrive to thee
De athlu as hllhefo, Keep to the holy sentences of
the Bible, pray for thy beralion and then chant Inv
national hymns, when thy mountains reecho The thun
der of the cannons thy liberators God with YOU.
dear comrades and fellow sufies ers The angels of
God and OF liberty be with you. You may still be p,ond
for the Lion of Europe had to be aroused TO CONQUER
the rebels! The whole civilized world has admired Won
as heroes, and the of the heroic nations will be
supported by the trees OF the Tree nations on earht
God with thee, sacred soil drenched with the blood
of so many of thy noble sons Preserve these sacred
spots that they may give evidence before the world for
a 70.
God with thee, young King of the Magyars, forget
not that thy nation has ELECTED THEE There
lives in me still the hope that day will come, on
which you will see the confirmation Of the word-fit
even be on the Ruins Of Buda!
FaThe blessing of the Almighty, my dear nation, rest
upon thee. BELIEvE-LovE--and HoPE