The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-12-17

Here we have the same singular and unwarrant-
| able attempt to mark out Congress and the people
as in an attitude Of defiant hostility. More than
| this, the refusal to appoint committee to wait
upan him, is the action on which he threatens to
reject our popular Inequalities. What right ba,
he to claim more than these and shelter! Congress
resolved that:
81" it be the Dish Of these eriles to emgrate to The
United States, the President of the United States
be requested to authorize the employment of some
one of the public vessels which may be now cruis-
ing in the Mediterranean, to receUe and convey "a
| the United States the said Louis Kossuth and his
associates in captivity"
This resolution and few popular phrases, a
savo of artillery, and this huzzas of city demon.
stration, summoned into life, in the enthusiastic
vision of the Magyar, armies, feeis and great
war upon European powers. His idea--the idea
of Magyar freedom and nationalitp-s to him a
pyramid of elevation, from which he looks down
scornfully upon all other plans and Objects and al
the base of which are to be recklessly risked the
great destinies of our mighty Republic. He says,
| rather grandiloquently:
81 am the harbinger of the public spirit of the
people, which has the right to impart direction to
| its government"
81 am the man of the great principle of the SOW.
ereignty Of every people to dispose of its own do
nestle concerns"
He comes, then, to make Us free, at last. 81
am the harbinger." Washington has gone before
Hampden has gone before O'Connell has gone
before; they arc nothing; now we have Kossuth,
the harbinger." 1t has been remarked with wha,
| wonderful exaotness and aptitude Kossuth uses
words, and this is Written speech; but we should
be loath to believe him SO vainglorious, so depre.
ciativs Of others, so eulogistc of himself But the
speech before us would almost justify the remarks
of the London Examiner. This is liberal paper,
of republican tendencies, which has enthusiastic.
ally advocated the cause of the Magyar But in
its issue Of Nov. 18th, it thus speaks:
I'VE must be permitted to regret that he has not
on all occasions spoken as the representative of
Hungary. We are quite sure that in go speaking
he would not have lost one of the golden opinions
from all sorts of men which he now holds in Eng.
land and most certainly he would have held them
more securely. We believe M Kossuth to be a
true patriot, as we see him to be man of genius
and an orator but the suspicion reluctantly presses
itself upon us that he is deficient in the sterner
stuff which gives definite form and completeness
to the heroic mind. NJ Kossuth seems unwilling
| to turn any man away without smile, and 10 not
quite SO guarded as he should be in the manner of
his smiling. The consequence is, that his outline
daily becomes more indistincs; we see him as
through mist and, unless this mist be dispeed
by full breath of plain speaking upon sundry mat.
tiers during the next day or two, we shall feel the
union of ideas between M. Kossuth and Hungary
to b. less complete than we have felt them hth.
erto.''
Perhaps the brilliant Grafton at New York pro.
voked the threat against our Government, and the
appeal from the peoples representatives to the PEG.
pie they represent by free choice.