American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-22
THE PATRON KossuTH.

THE PATRIOT KOSSUTH.
The annexed is telegraphic despatch from
Washington, on Sunday, to the PHILADELPHIA
North american:
i" Dispatches were yesterday received from
Mr.. McCurdy, U. s. Charge at Vienna, Of the
date of March Goth, stating that the Austrian
Government had refused the application of the
sultan for permission to release Kossuth and
the hungarian patriots, his companions, from
confinement. BY a compact existing between
Austria and Turkey, the latter Power was
charged with and accepted the surveillance of
these unfortunate exiles, numbering several
hundreds; but finding the expense of their
maintenance becoming burdensome, she applied
to be released from the incumbrance. PERMITS
sion was granted in reference to all except
Kossuth and eight or ten others. This decision
was communicated before intelligence reached
Vienna respecting the recent action of our Gov
eminent. An urgent appeal will be addressed
to Austria on this subject"
We feel well assured that the influence of our
Government will be exerted to the utmost in
this behalf. The great and noble letter of Mr.
Webster to our Minister at Constantinople will,
OF itself, produce most salutary effect and its
arguments will be pressed with undated en-
ergy.
When an american press can be found to de-
nounce the patriots of Hungary, and to uphold
the cause of bigotted and tyrannic Austria, it is
time for every friend of human liberty and hu-
man progress to speak, and to ask who it is that
thus ibels the sentiments of the republicans of
our land!
The editor of the New York Courier and En-
qusrer, awaiting an appointment to foreign
embassy until the adjournment of the Senate,
and then receiving it under circumstances, alike
discreditable to the giver and the recipient, re-
paired to the court of Vienna to pass the happy
season OF honeymoon, and to remain, as he
well knew, only until the voice of the American
Senate should recall him, and implicitly rebuke
the power from whom his appointment had been
importuned or extorted. Returning with the
overpaid rewards of his services, the antece-
dents of his life do not forbid nor render very
dubious the conjecture that new mission was
assigned him, to be rewarded with as rich a
recompense; and the sequel has shown that in
this instance at least, he will prove faithful to
the obligations he has assumed
That the American people will yield to the
influence of his Misrepresentation of a people
whose sufferings have but too well attested their
patriotism and devotion to the cause of liberty,
we will not for moment believe; nor will we
:, doubt that all that can be done by our country
men and Government in aid of the noble Kos
suth and his compatriots will be done with
prompt and willing hands.
The following just and truthful remarks are
quoted from the Cincinnati Gazette:
"In looking on all the subjects connected
with the Hungarian struggle, we are struck
with admiration at the number Of distinguished
men brought forward by that glorious upheav-
ing of an oppressed nation. In that bright
galaxy the name of Kossuth must ever stand
pre-eminent. His noble devotion to his country,
combined with his unimpeachable integrity and
honesty, will to all time surround his fame with
a glorious halo, and the names of George Wash
ington and of Louis Kossuth will descend to the
latest posterity, revered and honored
"At the present day, more than ever, now
that Hungaryis trampled under foot by foreign
mercenaries, all ranks, all classes, look on his
past career as an earnest for their future indie
pendence. In the towns on the landed estates
of the nobility, and among the country people,
all revere him as the greatest, the most true
hearted of modern patriots, and look on him as
the future regeneration of their country.
"One fact in Kossuth's history, that bears
the strongest testimony to his integrity, must
not be forgotten. The Austrian government
never attempted to bride nor to buy him Jel-
lachich, the Ban of Crotia, was won by few
soft words addressed to his vanity! Gorpey
the traitor, sold his country and his brethren
in arms for lucre but the character Of Kos
suth, from the first moment when he was hur-
ried into public life, was stamped with such
resolution that the policy of the Austrian cabi-
net never ventured an attempt to gain him over
to their side.
Such is the man who is about to seek a
temporary asylum on our shores. May he re-
ceive that welcome from our citizens to which
his merits entitle him, and may his next appear
ance in Europe be as president of the HUSGA-
RLAN REPUBLIol