New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-05

IAN several mOlIDS IN pIioOh aWdlsibb MS Sit"i
He was the son OF a poor Hungarian estate
agent Of the North, who had educated himself
had been tutor in the family Of noble lady,
had ACQUIRED some notions of the law, and some
NJ public matters, and had been chosen even 20
sit in the Diet as the representative OF an absent
magnate, where he could vote, but could not
sneak. Brooding on the wants of his country
men. he had thought that a knowledge OF what
was doing by their rulers might be OF use 10
them and he therefore wrote ont and printed
the debates. first of the National Assembly, and
then of the county meetings. As these debates,
however. were aptto be little free, the Govern
ment suppressed his reports by law He then,
to evade the law, autographed his reports, when
the Autographs were also suppressed. His next
resort was to write out the debates, get them
copied by company of young men of his own
sort. and have them transmitted everywhere
as ordinary letters. But the Government foiled
him here too. for the Government kept the Post
Office, and his letters, by some curious hocus-
pocus, never got to their destination In this
dilemma, he finally established post OF his
own, and making his copyists also carriers, in
spite NtlloOiSiAP VI NiiN EA'9 "'tH III 'PtN~
of the hocus-pOcus of the mails, found his dis
patches safely delivered. 1t was not long before
an edition of ten thousand copies was circula-
ted ineyery hamlet and almost every house OF the
land But such ingenuity, coupled with such
energy, YOU may readily conceive was not TO be
endured Accordingly, once in the still watches
of the night, when ne was walking alone on the
softly down upon his medtatons, the quiet
waters rolling at his ieet, he was suddenly
seized by the minons of tyranny, blindiolded
and cast into dungeon After long contine-
ment, he was at last brought into daylight to
take his trial. He came to the bar, and as the
rumor of the event had gone forth, thousands Of
the readers OF those letters had come to
listen to the result His face was pale
and haggard from long duress, but his
step was firm, his head erect, and his eyes
burning with unquenchable fire. As lawyer
he managed his own case, but had not as most
OF US have, in such attempts, according to the old
adage fool for his client. He met the accusa
lions against him at every point he folled the
skill of the attorneys; he made the Judges vince
under his rebukes he reused the people to fury
by his appeals. Never" says a historian,
had Hungary witnessed more magnlfceni,
struggle for life and liberty" But what is adroit
ness of logic, what intellectual fire, what dignity
and elevation Of character, opposed to the pre-
determined will of Austrian despotism He was
condemned to long and solitary Imprisonment.
His friends accompanied him to the dark and
pestilent fortress of Buda, but as they walked
along ne was silent and subdued. His heart was
too full for the vain relief Of words yet, as they
turned to depart, he said there is something
here which can not now be spoken. But, those
nameess words have since been spoken, and in
the glowing and deathless eloquence OF LOUIS
KossUTH are echoing round the world
Happy fate martyr to a great principle in
his earliest youth he was secured to the cause of
freedom forever for he that suffers for truth
comes to love 1t with double attachment while
he is thereafter enthroned in the hearts OF all to
whom it is dear Kossuth, in his Imprisonment,
.us3.rsd all ,i,o which cluster about the
life of the dungeon, yet his gain was infinitely
great The long hours of solitary thought, sep.
arated from the lives which too often dazzle
and mislead the best-consttuted young men,
prepared him for his great destiny. His studies
made him familiar with the English tongue, and
through that with the inspirations of Mllton's
thoughts, and Cromwell's and Washington's
deeds They enabled him. at this later day, to
commune with fifty millions of the most ad-
vanced people on the globe, and in those magnif-
cent outbursts of high thoughts and generous
sentiments which have lately thrilled us at
Southampton and London, to urge these people
to glorious career.
Meantime, while the young advocate was
learning to read ShakSpere by the faint light Of
his dungeon-grate and bordering his own and
his country's destiny, in the slow hours OF the
night, the rumOr of his condemnation flew on
the wings of birds to every corner of the land.
The people, mobiles and peasants alike, lnstinc-
lively knew their friend, and took up his cause.
Even as far off as the Austrian capital the Dem
ocratic instinct recognized Its man, and made
common cause with the masses of Hungary.
Associations were formed in Vienna, as well as
IN all the chief towns and villages OF the Magyar
land, to sustain the natural rights of humanity
against the arrogant pretensions of reigning faIa-
lies. Three years of busy agitation accomplished
the work of twenty years of slow-moving discus
sion. When, in ls4l, Kossuth was released
from his cell, he found his companion, the old
Baron Wesselenyi, blind, under the cruel treat
ment he had received-he found the young 10
vassi a maniac-he found the three others ready
for death, under the diseases they had contracted.
Heaven pity the sufferers; but he found the
eyes of the people open, their judgments sane,
and their bodies strong TO do the work OF the
time. Condemned for the sake of the press, his
first act was to establish press-the Pest Hn-
iap--ihe first liberal newspaper in the east OF
Europe. The satraps of Austria tried to stran-
gle it. bu. they tried in vain matters had gone