Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-12-20
K0ssuth and his Views.

The papers are almost wholly filled with de-
scriptions of KossUrH's reception in New
York. Read the excellent letter of Nj. KEN
DALI, respecting him. We are not mistaken
incur view of his character on better acqualn-
lance. If he was bold and fearless, if not
presumptuous, in England, he is still more so
here. The march of despotism, which he ho-
ped to see checked, and plead there for sym
pathy to aid in SUCH a result, has here changed
to arms! In London he was assured- unex-
ampled aasssurancc7-by Mr.. WALKER, ex-Sec-
retary of the Treasury, "that ,chen the time ar
~riires," the people of this country would be
found ready t" assist in the arrest of despotlsm
and aid the spread of liberty throughout the
world! And the great Magyar thinks that thai
time has arrived the moment he sets his foot
upon this continent. False and delusiye ex-
pectations. Great as all will acknowledge him
to be, he is not great enough to make our ru-
lers lose their fealty to the constitution OF the
country, nor our people forget their true posi-
ton and their true policy, if they would remain
happy, prosperous and independent.
We are glad to perceive that able journals
throughout the country, not led away by en-
thusiasm, are criticising severely the course of
the Hungarian, and severe as those remarks
are against him, we have read none rs yet
which we do not deem just. We may add
others equally as just. While in Turkey I'M
der the protection of the Sultan, a resolution
was passed Congress and a national vessel des-
patched, inviting him to pass his exlled life
in the peaceful bosom of our happy land. As
an exiled patriot this honor was rendered him.
KossUTH was fully aware Of the nature of that
invitation and one so deeply read in the his
tory of nations, must have understood the con-
s%titution Of this country, and the ayoWed doc.
trine of our Government in regard to the inter-
~yention principle. notwithstanding, he takes
passage in the vessel sent for him as an exile.
and says nothing of his future views till he
lands at Marseiiles. Here he gives the world
an insight into his future plans: he is no long
err an exile! He next leaves the vessel sent
for him, which comes home without him, while
he proceeds to England, and there opens the
next page in the history Of bis designs: boom.
ing cannon and the waving Of flags in New
York harbor, next welcomes his arrival to the
shores of this great Republic. He is doubt
less dazzled with his magnificent and unexam-
ped reception in the Empire City, and mistakes
the unbounded enthusiasm of her mixed pop
ulation for the general frenzy of the whole ma
ton, and boldly appeals to the people for prac-
teal as sis'ance to free Hungay by uniting with
England and throwing the gauntlet to the
mightiest despot upon earth. But in the midst
now the agitator and se'f.created ambassador,
if not a fAibusler on a grand scale-receives
intelligence Of the action of Congress in re-
gard to him, and he is sick, chagrined, disgust.
ed, with the tame and insipid manner in which
the representatives of the country honor his
arrival, and ia ks of Immediately returning to
Europe! Fame has blinded hi~m--adjulation
has made him giddy.
We can only hope that if kossuTH is, as he
intimates, disp|eased with The action Of Con.
gress, lie will retain his suddenly forhled de-
sign, and that prosperous gales may watt him
speedily back to the shores of the old world
We wish no excitement here through him, cal
culated to interfere with our domestic politics
or the doctrine of our Governr ent with regard
10 its relations with foreign powers. Great
as we admit him to be, We, - one voice in our
wide land, would wish him to understand that
he is now in a country Of so~vereigns, where
all are g%reat--and where great men, like frothy
torrents, find their level.