American telegraph., 1851-12-10
From the Louisville Journal
Is KOssuth an .

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Kossuth has acknowledged himself to be a
republican, and that his object is the establish
ment of republic in Hungary. This announce
ment, we confess, has surprised us, for we have
hitherto understood that among the objects
contemplated by the Hungarian patriots the in
| stitution of a democratic form of government
did not enter. We have not supposed that Kos
suth and his coadjutors felt any hostility to de-
mocratic government; we supposed that they
declined espousng the project of republic in
Hungary only on the grounds that the people
are not sufficiently advanced in a knowledge of
government to safely and successfully carry on
the institutions of a republic.
The occasion on which the great hungarian
patriot and leader announced himself devoted
to the establishment of a republic in Hungary
was the presentation Of an address to him on
the 31st of October, in London, by the French
Socialists and Red Republicans residing in that
city. These French exiles met Kossuth, and
in presence of q large company read an address
| to him to which he listened attentiyely and re
piled. In his reply he said, in alludng to hi.
address at Marseilles, that he had in that ad
dress affirmed that he wished for his country
the government of republic. 81 am con-
vinced," he added g that there is nothing pos
sible henceforth in Europe but the republic
based on universal suffrage, with the principle
of the solidarity of peoples and the independ
| ence of nations If have not manifested il
England that thought which | expressed a
Marseilles, it is because | do not wish to inter
| fere in the affairs of country which gives IN,
hospitality, and whose assistance | desire fol
the future Of Hungary, for which, / repeat,
wish the republic based upon universal suf
| frage"
This is very clear and explicit as far as il
goes. If Hungary is ready for a republic-and
Kossuth is a far better judge of that question
than we are--we hope she win have it as speed
lily as circumstances will permit.
Kossuth also told the Socialists and Red Re-
publicans that he did not occupy himself with
| those ideas which divide France, meaning there.
| by that the socialism, communism, and other
radical theories that have been proposed in
that country do not occupy his thoughts. His
object is the establishment of free institutions
in Hungary, and to this end he bends all his
great energies. He is in favor of the only ra-
tional plan yet devised for the protection of the
people from expressions of all kinds-namely
such government as VIC enjoy. In his address
to the exiled Italians who waited on him in Lon
don, he thus referred TO the French doctrines
"There is no occasion for those new doctrines
which are termed socialism or communism, nei-
ther of which, / confess, do | very well under
stand have read the works and have con-
suited the professors, and from no two can | get
a similar definition and therefore do not un-
derstand the words. There is none of that
clearness about these doctrines that there is
about the doctrines Of political freedom. But
whatever distinction there may be in these SO.
cialist doctrines, there is no occasion for them
in Hungary and, as ! am informed, the same
is the case in Italy"
IT, tta, ,art &c x. al IL q
" Hungary wants no theorists and theories about
the distribution of labor and capital They
work each in an independent position, and only
want political freedom to enable them to 20 on"
We infer from what has fallen from Kossuth's
lips thus far that he is good conservative de-
mocrat, full Of practical rather than theoretical
wisdom. We are very glad to know that he is
not n theorist or visionary. He belongs rather
to that class of political reformers of which our
own revolutionary patriots furnish SO many
conspicuous examples, men who were in favor
of the great and we'll defined principles Of civil
and religious liberty, and of government
which should secure the blessings Of those prin-
ciples to all classes alike. The great curse Of
France is that her people are too much devoted
to theories and visionary schemes In the
great divisions of the people into antagonistic
classes, and in the endless and bitter contro-
yersies that result from them, is the great
stumbling block in the way of the success of
French republicanism. We're the French as
practical and as full of common sense in their
ideas of government as our, revolutionary an
cestors were, they might have we-ordered
democratic government at the present time, in
stead of that ricketty, nondescript, uncertain
despotism under which they now live and suffer.
We rejoice that Kossuth has discovered the err
rors of the French, and has decided that their
political theories are inapplcable to Hungary.
If q republic is ever established in that unhappy
country, we earnestly hope it may not be en-
numbered by the blunders and theories Of the
French