The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-11-11
k0ssuth In ENGLAND.


the highest order, in q remarkable degree, and to
despotim he is as dangerous IS he is talented and
able. Even that portion of the English press which
was violently opposed to his public reception, and
which sough. to blacken his character and to blast
his reputation as patriot and an honest man, 10
advance of his arrival in their country, cannot help
admitting the splendor of his talent, his extraod
nary capacity and capability, his wonderful know
ledge of the English people and of English institu
tions and his great eloquence, by which for hours
at q time he commanded the attention and led sap
tive the minds of an English audience. Indeed,
the manner in which he acquired such perfect
command of the English language as he displayed
in his recent speeches at Southampton aad Win
chester, is an index to the character of the man.
Having been consigned to imprisonment for three
years, for disobeyng the eiicts of the Austrian
government, he applied at the end of one year. for
the Of books. He was offered the choice of one,
provided it was not of political character. He
asked for three. The request was granted, and he
selected the English Grammar, Walkers Pro-
nourcpg Dictionary, and Shakespeare. BY a.ten-
tive study of these three volumes, he mastered the
English language before the term of his imprison-
ment expired. Such man is Kossuth-the great
Magyar hero, and the idolized of Hungary.
impressed with the facility with which he adapss
himself, his views, and his opinions, to the people
whom be addresses Thus, in Hungary, We see him
appe alng to the religious feelings of his country
men, and by invoking the God of Hungary, as we'll
as the God of Battles, inspiring them to deeds of
valor almost without parallel. In France, or on
her borders, and in addressing the people of that
country, he draws . wide and deep line Of dstin,-
inn hafu and
speaks to them as a republican would to republi-
cans-as a democrat to democrats. He then crosses
the channel to England and astonishes the conser-
natives and wings by the midness of his views and
his praise of constitutional monarchy In that coun
try he steers clear of both radicals and socialists,
and expresses his admiration of the liberty enjoyed
there under the English form of mixed municipal
and imperial government He alludes, in eloquent
and glowing language, to the brilliant side OF Eng.
lish hstory-to the enterprise and skill Of the
people, and to the successful working Of the Eng
lsh government; but he is silent regarding the dark
and terrible social slavery which exists in the
country, and which has reduced the population of
nation Of eight millions to six-refers not to the
terrible and degrading slavery which exists in The
mining and manufacturing districts-to the de-
plorable ignorance of even the name of Christ, that
cndracterlZcs portion Ol people, anu WHICH
proved to exist, by Parliamentary commission
few years since-he says nothing of girls and wo-
in a state of almost perfect nudity, harnessed
to cars in underground caverns, seeing the blessed
light of heaven but in a week, if SO often-he
does not comment upon the slavery, political and
social that exists in all the British colonies and de-
tendencies, to the millions and millions of white
human beings, of the same flesh and blood as
monarchs and aristocrats, struggling in penury,
year after year, and living from day to day on oat
meal and hot water, while the privileged classes
(the lords and ladies, and barons, and viscounts,
and "Queen, Lords, and Commons y are revealing
in wealth, luxury pride, and all sorts of dissipation
moral and physical. Kossuth alludes to none OF
these. He simply refers to the brigh. side of Eng
land, and to the modified liberty which is vouch-
safed TO the less than one million ia one hundred
millions Of people of that country, in India AMI
England, living under constitutional monarchy
But kossuth is merely transient guest in Eng
land With extraordinary good nature, and ne
slight tact and discrimination, he said nothing dis
pleasing but, the contrary what was well calcu-
lated to faster and crafty. Thus he displays bis
consummate tact ard ability. When asked his
opinion of the Turks and Turkey, he says he has
"no recollection Of either, except that Of graft
tude;" when he went on board the American
steamer Mississippi, his eloquence was redolent Of
republicanism, republican freedom, and republican
institutions; when he touches at Marseilles, he as
sumes the red tinge Of French socialism and demo-
cracy, and when he arrives in Eng and, all his re
publicanism and socialism vanish, and he eulogizes
English institutions, while at the same time he pre-
pares the way for saying, in the United States,
what prudence and admirable tact obliged him
TO reserve TO himself in England, aud OF which he
let's out enough and just enough, to leave the
inference TO be drawn that Ne had much more to
say, but he cid not consider England the right
place for him to express it in We thus see him
omit recurring to the phase which the Hungarian
revolution in its last step ass 1med-a phase which
looked not only to the overthrow Of the detestable
house of Hapsburg-to the deposition of the
"beardIess young Nero but to the establishment
Of confederated republic like tina. Of the United
States This part Of his speech and these his real
sentiments concerning it, he has reserved for ex-
preston in America; ard we will be much mistaken
10 this analysis and sketch Of the great Maygar's
career, II he do not republican ideas and opin
ions when he arrives our shores. Kossuth there
fore, delivered only half Of his speech in England
the remainder will be given in New York to the
American people.
kossuth il, undoubtedly, wonderful, remark
able man. lie ia as much the Hungarian hero a,
be ever was, and still is determined to make an:
other, and We hope successful, effort, to rid his
corntrymen Of despotism. Like a skilful general,
be avais himself Of all the advantages Of his posi-
ton, at home and in foreign countries and draws
upon all available 7rces for aid in the great enter
prise in which he has embarked, and in which be
has periled ard is still willing peril his liberty
and his life. He is a cool and calculating enthu-
sisst His mind seems 10 be bent on the enfran.
chisement Of his native land and be draws upon the
sympathy Of the world in bis aid-wiling to perish,
il necessary, in the effort
When, therefore, Kossuth comes to the United
States, be will be free to deliver the sentiments
L.. IL. Z.