North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-12-03
KOSSUTH.

.s IN ENGLAND upon nearly every topic co""e''ou
with Hungary and Europe, and IN all Oh 'HeNi "0 ndS
W." S:-.s,f;o Tho most admirable manner One
of the strongest proofs of his genius Is 10 Dc iouhu
c., H., will, a knowledge of the English Ian
,.n.ro rained only in eighteen months study OF it
o.,v disadvantages, he is able to address by the
hour audiences thoroughly English, without the least
hesitation and with choice Of words scarcely
PASSED by Brougham, Cass, or Webster. The Lon
don Correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser gives the following sketch of his person.
al appearance and manner speaker:
" His personal appearance is very progressing.
His countenance changes with every expression to
which he gives utterance His voice IS full, clear
and musical. His enuRciation is uncommonly dis
tinct. His action is rapid, but almost always grace
full His manner is cordial and open His reception
of the uRbounded applause with which he meets,
whether in the streets or during his various recep-
tions is full of meaning, and less subdued in its
preston OF feeling than TO that which We accus
TONED in country. However his first visiting
England may be regarded in the United States, it
was undoubtedly capital stroke of policy. England
becomes to him vantage ground, upon which
he may observe, and from which he may be ready to
act, in of an emergency in Hungary. He does
not hesitate this everywhere and to declare
that he looks the continent in the constant hope of
being able distant day to throw himself again
into struggle which shall shape out glorious flu
ture for Hungary.
Kossuih has certainly displayed in his Speeches
in England, wonderful vgor beauty, and versatile
ty of thought. We have read these Speeches with
pride and joy They wake up the best feelings of the
heart; they send the blood with quckened life along
the veins; they make US love and admire, more and
more, the man who has conceived and uttered them;
and they attach US, by still stronger ties, to
the cause of his crushed and suffering land. His
Birmingham Speech is, perhaps, the greatest he has
E.. tIo
following. He is speaking of his people, and of the
spirit which moved them in their late struggle:
:. But it was said it was he IN. kossuth) who in
spired the Hungarian nation. No, it was not he who
inspired them it was the Hungarian people who in
spired him. [Hear, hear.] Whatever he thought
and felt was but feeble pusaton which in the breast
of his people heat. Hear, hear The glory of
battles ascribed in history to the leaders, and
-theirs the aures OF immortality; they knew
they would forever live the lips of their people.
Very different the light spread the image of those
thousands of the peoples who knew that where
they fell they would lie their unhonored and
unsung, and who still, animated by the love of free
dom and fatherland, went calmly against the bat
teries whose crossfre vomied death and destruction
upon them, they who fell falling with the shout
A''hurrah for Hungary !" And they died by thou
sands, the unnamed demgods! A burst fcheering.]
Such was the people of Hungary. Cheers."]
We hope 10 make room in our next for this great
Speech
NoSSutH clearly SHOWN tldt ne is no AndIcnlStS
no Red Republican, Socialist. He is Democrat
we use the word in party sense-because he
believes in mans caracty for selfgovernment, and
looks to the people the only of power
in all countries. He is no professional Revolution
ISL his conduct has proved he avoided bloodshed
long as it possible do So and he stood by the
House of Rapsburg until the last ray of hope that it
would Go justice to Hungary had departed. A Prot
estan the Catholics fought under him with much
spirit and unanimity if he had been of their
own faith one of the people, the mobiles of his coun
try first placed him in office, and contributed much
as any other class to make him the foremost in
all Hungary. We have watched the career Of this
extraordinary being with the deepest interest. Judg
ed by his and expressed opinions, he stands forth
Republican OF the truest stanp; he speaks of the
power Of the people, of representative government,
OF the meanness of despots and their mnions, OF.
Church and State, and of the necessity of keeping
them separate in establishing free governments, with
much ease, force, and common if he had
Been born in America. and educated the feet of JEFF
ferson or Washington.
Kossuth's reception in England has been triumph
'of which Napoleon might have been proud in his
,palmiest days. Hundreds of thousands have risen
up to greet him and to do him honor g No man, ="
as the European Times well remarks, IS has produced
any thing like the sensation which Kossut has done
in the different nations of Europe, and the blaze of
triumph will follow him from the old to the new
world. Surely there is moral in all this on which
despots would do well to PONDER"