The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-06-16

under more favorable circumstances, the sa-
viour Of his country; or those whose hearts
do not swell with indignation against the
tyrants and oppressors who have rendered
such an appeal necessary:
Kossuth's Protest.
ADDRESSED TO THE SUBLIME PORTE.
The undersigned, late Governor of Hunga-
ry, is by his prolonged detention, reduced to
dispair of either justice or generosity. He,
who is forced to abandon hope, has nothing
further to fear from force or violence; he is
beyond all constraint.
The undersigned has reached this point.
To-day is the anniversary OF our arrival at
Kutahia! Kutahia the tomb where the
Sublime Porte has buried us alive, whilst
speaking to us Of hospitality.
Pursued by misfortune, we stopped before
the threshold Of the Mussulman, and asked
from him, in the name of God, in the name
of humanity, in the name of his religion, q
hospitable asylum, or free passage. The
Turkish government had entire liberty to re-
ceiye us or not.
1t had the right Of saying: Twill give you
shelter in prison, or in some distant place
where you will be detained and strictly
guarded. This is the hospitality which
Turkey offers you. If it does not please you
hasten your departure, rid US of your embar
RAISING presence.
This was not said to us.
The Sublime Porte designed to open to ui
its sheltering tent; it entreated us to cross
the threshold, and swore by its God and it
faith that it would grant us hospitality and 6
safe asylum. We trusted ourselves TO the
honor Of the Turks. We eat of their breat
and of their salt; we reposed under theil
roof. We prayed to God to bless them, ant
we offered them our courage, our experience
matured by vicisitudes, and our everlasting
gratitude. And Hungarians keep theil
word.
Look at Bosnia, where Mussulmen, sub
jects of the Sublime Porte, are revoltet
against it. Ahandfu. Of Hungarian soldier
are in the ranks of its army--it is but ;
handful, for they would not accept more
Well who are first upon the breachY whit
are first in the charge? who are they tha
never retreat, who advance, in the midst o
fire and grape shot, bayonet in hand, to vic
toryY They are this handful Of exiles. The,
die for Turkey; the Hungarian keeps hi
word.
They offered us hospitality, and they CAV
us prison; they swore to US that we shoul
meet with an asylum, and we have foun
banishment. God will judge; and God ]
just. III
We have suffered; but for the sake Of no
causing embarrassment, we have confidence
We have shownit. They begged us to wait
We have waited long.
They said TO us, it is.only until Austri
shall succeed in re-establishing that whic
the despots call order (the order of oppress
ion,) that which they call tranquility 9Th
! tranquility Of the tomb.)
Il Well she has sre-established this order, thi
! tranquility, bv her executioners. She ha
4 |re-established itso far as to dare to provok
Prussia to war; so fai as to dare, trusting 7
1.-THE support Of her master, the Car, to en-
croach upon the nations Of Europe, to exten
her forces from the Baltic to Rome; SO far a
to threaten Piedmont and Switzerland; s
| far as to bribe the border provinces to revol
--she has re-established this tranquility, sb
/ has even announced its establishment I
the Sublime Porte; and we are still prison
They begged us to wait one year, reckon
ing nom the day on which we first place
our ieet upon Ottoman soil. We waited
/ Afterwards we were told to reckon n
year hom the day when the sentence Of ou
] transportation into the interior was decreed