The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-11-19

AAOssush'S rareVeIf 10 hungary.
The following remarkable andeioqlent address
SAID TO have been pronounced by Kossuth OF,
is departure from the Hungarian soil, upon
'hicl: he kne!t down. opened his arms, as if
e would embrace It's fields, kissed the earth /
aoistcned and sanctifed by the blood of it's
most valuable children, and, after addressing
hort prayer to the Disposer of all Events,
the following cloquen,
FaremeH 10 the FdMerland
God be with thee, my beloved Faiherland
r; I'd be with thee, Fatherland Of the Mayors
God be with thee, land Of tortures shall
no, be able to behold the SUBMITS OF Thy morn
ains No more shall be able to call my Fa-
Lherland the soil where, on the mothers heart,
imbbcd the milk of Freedom and Justice
Pardon nc, my Faiherland-lne, who am
condemned TO wander about, far from thee,
because strove for thy welfare. Pardon me,
who can no more call anything free but the
small space where am now knfellnG down
with few of thy sons. My looks fall upon
thee, oh poor Fatherland | thee bent
down with sufferngs ! new turn them TO
fu,uriy thy future is nothing but great grief
Thy pains are moistrned with crimson gore,
which will soon be blackened by unnerciful
d, vasta!ion and destruction, as il TO mourn over
the nunberlcss conqucsts which thy sons have
achieved over the aecursed enemies of thy hal
lowed soil How MANY grateful hearts lifed
mp their prayers to the Throne of the Almi ghiy !
How many tears have flowed which would even
moved hell to compassion How many streams
OF blood have run as proofs how TIE Hungarian.
loves his Fatherlaud, and how he can de tor 1t
And yet hast thou, beloved Fatherland. become
slave
Thy beloved sons are chained and dragged
away like slaves, destined to fetter again every
| thing that is holy-to become serviceab!e to-
all that is unholy Oh Lord if thou lowest thy
people, whose heroic ancestors thou ddst enable
to conquer under Arpad, amid so manifold dam
gers, beseech Thee, and inplore Thee, oh
| humble them not
Behold, my dear Faiherand, thus speaks to
thee thy son, in the whirlwind Of troubles and
despair, OH thy utmost boundary
Pardon n,e if the great number Of thy sons
have shed their blood for my sake, rather
for thine. because | was their representative
because protected thee when on thy brow was
written, in letters of blood, the word "danger;'
because |, when it was called unto thee"B
slave" took up the work for thee; because |
girded on my sword when the enemy had the
audacIty to say, "TlIou art no more nation
in the land of the Magyars
With gigantic PAGES, Time rolled on with
black, yellow letters, Fate wrote on the pages
Of thy history ''Death p and. to stamp the seal
upon it, it called the Northern Colossus to as
sist. But the reddening morning dawn Of the
f South will melt this seal "a
Behold, my dear Fatherand, for thee, who
hast shed so much of thy blood, there is not
even compassion, because on the hills which
are lowered up by the bones of thy fallen sons
Tyranny earns her bread.
Oh see, my dear Faiherond,, the ungrateful,
whom though dldst nourish from the fat of thy
plenitude, has turned against thee-against
/ thee has turned the traitor-to destroys thee
from the head to the foot But thou, noble
nation, hast endured all ths-thou hast not
cursed thy fate, because IN thy bosom ever
all suffering hope is enshrined. .ss
Magyars. turn your looks not away from me;
, for even at this moment my tears flow only for
you. and the soil on which am yet knceling
I bears your name
, Thou art fallen, trucst of nations! Thou art
thrust down under thine own blow Not the
weapon Of foreign enemy, which has dug thy
grave not the cannons of the many nations
/ who were brought up against thee-(the have
to.tered back at thy love to thy Fatherland s.
not the Muscovites who crawled over the Car
pathians; have compelled thee to lay down
thine arms . Oh, no sold thou vast, dear
! Fatherland Thy sentence of death, beloved
, Faiherland was written by him whose love TO
t his country ! never questioned for a moment
In the bold fightof my thoughts, would
/ rather have doubted the existence of good
I man than that | could have thought he could
have become the traitor of his Fatherland
: And thou hast been betrayed by himin whose
r hands few days ago laid the government of
our country, who had sworn to defend thee
with the last drop of his blood He became a
traitor TO his country because the color of gold
was dcar'r to him than that of blood, which
: was shed for the independence of the Father
!, land. The profane metal had in his eyes more
K value than the Holy God Of his land, who
K lorsook him when he entered into a covenant
n with the associate of the devil! t
Magyars my dear fellow sons of the same
n country do not accuse me because was
v compelled to cast my eye on this man. and to
e vacate my place for him. l was obliged 10 do
so, because the people placed confidence in hin,
/ because the army loved him, and he had al
d ready attained to a position in which he could
o have proved his fidelity. And yet that man
abused the confidence of the nations and, in
O return for the love of his nation, treated them
!. with contempt.
Curse him, people of the heart which did no,
dry up when it attempted to nourish him with
# the moisture of life
II love thee, Europes truest nation, as | love
the freedom for wi ch thou foug htest so bravcly
|. The God of liberty will never blot you out
!. from his memory Be blessed for evermoTe =
It My principles were those of Washington,
d though my deeds were not those OF william
Tell I! | wish for free notlon-free as God
|. only can create man-and thou art dead, be-
cause thy winter has arrived; but this will moi
last so long as thy fellow sufferer languishng
under the icy sky of Siberia. No; fifteen ma.
tons have dug thy grave-the thousands of the
sixteenth will arrive to save thee
BE faithful as hitherto, keep to the holy sen.
G fences of the Bible. pray for thy liberation, and
d then chant thy national hymns, when thy
: mountains re-echo the thunder Of the cannons
$ Of thy liberation. God be with you, dear
n comrades and fellow suffer- rs. The angel cfGoc
r be with you. You may still be proud, for the
J Lion of Europe has to be aroused to conquer
. the rebels The whole civilized world has
d admired you heroes, and the cause of the
! heroic nations will be supported by the frcesl
. of the free nations on earth iss.t