New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-22
Loais Kes.uth.

teenth and last day Of his public sojourn.
1t is understood that he will spend to-day and
tomorrow in private at the house Of some
friend, in the hope of recruiting his over
taxed energies preparatory to proceeding on
Wednesday to Philadelphia, where he will
spend that and the following day, departing
on Friday morning for Baltimore, where
he will remain till Monday, when he will
visit Washington. Probably all the week
will be given to that City, whence he will
proceed to visit Cincinnati and few other
of the most important points in the West,
prior to his return to Europe in February
Events may compel his return to that con-
tinent at much earlier day, cutting off his
visit to the Great West entirely, but he does
hot anticipate them.
TO be lionized is the severest test of hu-
man character or human fortitude. We can
imagine nothing more trying to health, tenn
per, intellect or capacity of endurance, than
to be an object of popular interest for fifteen
mortal days-to be spoken at by deputa-
tons a dozen times day, and compelled to
run the gauntlet of public dinner or formal
reception nearly every night-tc be
watched by eager eyes from morning to
bed-time-to be accosted by every other
blockhead with the shrewd remark that it is
a fine day, or that you are looking very
well, and be written down an ass if you do
not make profound or witty response-and
to have your most careless words caught up
by gossiping and often secretly hostile
press, exaggerated, distorted. and sent abroad
to excite hostility and work alienation-this
is an ordeal which brave man might wise
| " shun or wise man avoid without i'm
parchment of his courage. This ordeal
| Gov. Kossuth has encOunted in our City,
and has nobly triumphed over its perils.-
Coming among US stranger from the other
side of the globe, he leaves us his admiring
and devoted friends. A defeated and hunted
fugitive, he has met with a reception
which any king or president, how
ever popular or powerful, may well
envy him. Finding us very generally
united in the conviction that we could do
nothing as a Nation and very little as indi-
viduals toward the rescue Of his suffering
country, he leaves us inspired by a
very general conviction that this Country
both can and should do something decisive
and ehectual in behalf of European Liberty,
especially that of betrayed and suffering
Hungary; and that, whatever may be done
by the Government, we the People ought as
individuals to do with all our might. A
| great moral revolution has been wrought
here, whose influences will be felt through
out the Nation, and will ultimately make
! their mark on the dcstinies OF mankind
None other than man of great abilities,
and more Of absorbing earRestness
and entire conservation to his work -
could have made this deep impress
sion; none but such man could have
made speech after speech, ovation follow
inc ovation in land of strangers and in
foreign tongue. with increasing public in
tciest to the last. Simply as examples
of logic, we believe Kossuth's arguments
in our City on the subject Of Non. lnterven-
ton, and the duty resting on our Country
Of unfolding the cause of Freedom when
despots combine to crush the Liberties OF
Nation. have rarely or never been sur
passed by those of any man living. And
for pathos and power over the chords OF
the human heart, we point to his speecht to
the Ladies at Tripler Hall, reported in this
paper, as a specimen Of the deepest and
most moving eloquence.
New.York can well afford to be enthu-
siastic in her admiration of this her heroic
Quest He has aroused or quickened aspi-
rations for Freedom and Right in many
hitherto torpid breast. lie has caused thou
sands TO realize that Life has higher and
nobler ends than the accumulation of Wealth,
the worship of Fashion, or the indulgence
of Appetite. He has taught thousands OF
the hitherto unthlnking 70 consider and
prize the rich blessings of Civil and Reli-
eious Liberty which heroic ancestry won
for us. and which only a heroic spirit can
preserve. He has caused US to forget our
petty differences of sect or party IN the
Glow of common brotherhood-a common
sympathy for outraged Public Law and
fcullv OVERCOME People. We are as COM
munity better Americans and better RePub-
leans for having seen and heard Louis
| kossuth.
And. now that bis voice is lost TO rs,