Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-24
IAessath,a Castle Garden speech,

the srecch Of Kossuth made at Castle
Garden, New York, The language is
forcible, and must go home to the heart
Of every true lover of liberty,
ain republican, have avowed it
openly in the mOnarchial but FREQ Eng,
land and am happy to state that l have
nothing lost by this avowal there. /
hope | will not lose hero in republican
.Smerica, BY that frankness, which must
be one OF the chief qualities of every
republican. So beg leave frankly and
openly to stste the following points:
First, that take 1t to be the duty oil
honor and principle not to meddle with
whatever party question of your own
domestic affairs, ] claim for my country
tho right to dispose of itself; so I am
resolved. and must be resolved to respect
tho same principle here and er@Iywhere'
Others may delight in the part OF Snlghts'
errant for theories, IL Is mo- my case
am tho man Of enc great puncipie OF
tho sovereignty OF every people 10 dispose
Of its own domestic concerns and most
solc4,nly deny to every foreigner. as to
erory foreign power, the right to oppose
the sovereign faculty,
Secondly, profess, highly and openly,
my admiration for tho glorious principle
of union, on which stands the mighty
pyramid OF your greatness, and upon
the basis Of which you have grown, in
tho short period of seventy-fve years, to
prodigious giant, the living wonder of
the world have the most warm wish
that the star.spsngled banner of the Uni
ted States may forever be floating, uni
tod and one, the proud ensign of man.
kinds divine origin, And taking my
ground on this principle of union which
find lawfully existing, an established
constitutional fact, it is not TO a party,
but to the united people of the United
States. that confidently will address my
humble requests for aid and protection
10 oppressed humanity. l will conscien-
tiouSly respect your laws but within the
limits of your laws will use every hon
est exertion to gain your operative sym
patty. and your financial, material and
political aid for my country's freedom and
independence, and entreat the realiza
ton of these hopes which your generos
~ las raised in me and my peoples
breasts, and also in the breasts of Eu-
tPo's oppressed nations And, there.
fre,
Thirdly, beg leave frankly to state
that my aim is, to restore my fathcrland
10 the full cnjoyment of that act of de-
clarAtion Of independence. which being
the only rightful existence of public law
of my nation, can have lost nothing of
its rightfulness by the violent invasion of
foreign Russian arms-and which, there
fore. is fully entitled to be recognized by
ihc people ot the United States, whose
very existence is founded upon a similar
declaration of independence,
Thus having cxpounded my aim, l beg
leave to state that came not to your glori-
Gus shores TO enjoy happy rest. came
not with the intention to gather triumphs
Of personal distinction, or to be the OBJ.
icct OF popular shows-but l came a
d humble petitioner in my country's name,
as is freely chosen constitutional chief
What can be opposed to this recogni
ton which is tho logic necessary couse
Qutncc Of tho principle Of your country's
political existence?
What can be opposed to it? The
'frown OF Mr. iHulseman--the anger Of
that satellite of Tie Gear, called Francis Jo-
srph Of Austria-and tho immense dan
srr with which some European and
American papers threaten you. and by
which, of course, you must feel extreme
~ terrified, that your Minister at Vienna
will have offered his passports, and that
Mr. Hulseman leaves Washington, should
be received aud treated in my official
capacity. Now, as to your Minister at
Vienna, how you can combine the letting
him stay there with your opinion of the
cause of Hungary, i really don't know i
hut so much know, that the present alb
sulutistical atmosphere of Europe is not
very Propiheus 10 American principles
know a man who could tell some curl
Gus facts about this matter. But as to
M HHlseman, really don't believe that
he would be so ready to leave Washing
ton. He has extremely well digested the
caustic pills which Mr.. Webster has ad-
ministered to him SO. gloriously,
But, after all, know enough OF the
public spirit of the sovereign people of the
United States, that it would never admit
to whatever responsible depository of the
Executive power, should he even be viii
ling to do SO. which, to be sure, your
high-mihded Government is not willing
to do, to be regulated in its policy by all
the Hulsemans or allthe Francis Josephs
in the world,
so l confidently hope that the sovc-
reign of the country, the people will make
the declaration Of independence of Hun
gary soon formally recognized, and that
Il will care not bit for it if Hulseman
takes tomorrow his passports-bOn coy
E4qc TO him. But it is also my agreeable
lGHty to profess that I am entirely convin-
ccG that tiS Government of the United
States shares warmly the sentiments OF
the people in that respect. 1t has proved