The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-01

As by far the most interesting matter the
mails contain, we present our readers again this
morning with another speech from KossUTH-
one of his p. p. C.'s to the English people.
Among the many remarkable traits of this truly
remarkable man, his gift Of tongues is the most
noticeable. The reports of his speeches are evi
IDENTIFY daguerreotypes of the actual utterances
of the orator, taken by the most accurate re-
porters; for there 10 freshness, fervor, raci-
ness about them all, which prove them to be the
productions Of no common man. And yet
under all the disadvantages of speaking in Ian
guage so new to him, KossUTH yields that
weapon with power and an effect rivaled only
by a favored few among those whose mother
tongue it is. The chief art of the orator, too
that of relieving the weghtier parts of his
speech by brief but brilliant flashes of fancy
he possesses in an eminent degree and Gas we
have before remarked) whatever varying opn.
ions may be entertained of his STRAIT egy as a
general, no one now can deny him the palm of
oratory.
The press of this country, with exceptions
few and far between, has done justice to the great
Magyar; and its conductors echoed the general
voice of welcome TO this true votary of freedom,
standing true TO the faith that is in him, in des-
pite of the lures or the threats of despots--as
firm in exile as while flushed with the hope of
coming conquest. The InteHgencer, the New
York Courier, followed by their faint and feeble
echo, the Richmond Wing, affect to sneer at the
enthusiasm which his advent to our shores has
excited in the breasts of our people. But as
soon could the Nile be damned up with bull
rushes, as those puny efforts at disparage-
ment prevail in turning back the current of
popular admiration setting so strongly towards
him. Both as a patriot and an orator-whose
hate Of tyranny and tyrants though baffled, is
yet burning still"--we welcome the illustrious
exile, who reared under the shadow of despot-
ism, has yet worked out his own deverance
teaches the true doctrines of constitutional free
dom, respect for law, and rational liberty.
More especially do we admire those eloquent
outpourings of his, because in them all he incu-
DEsPoTrsM are synonymous terms, and that the
former tends to produce the latter az invariably
and inevitably as the report follows the flash of
the engine of destruction. This lesson we too,
and the advocates of strict construction in this
country, have sought to inculcate; for it applies
as forcibly here as in Hungary. In a popular
government especially, the encroachments of the
central power are more to be dreaded, because it
adopts indirect modes of action, and while most
rapidly stealing power from the sections to
strengthen ITSELF loudly proclaims the largest
liberty OF each, and the general welfare" as
its Prete1t and apology
Hence 1t is that the antiqusted organs of an
Gent federalism, tho discites Of the consolids-
ton school, and the eager apologists for foreign
a we'll a. domestic deapotism, and all the swarm
that fatten woi.s they aptser around " the court"
attemp, 10 prejudice the public mind against
Kossutb, first by retailing slanderous gossip, and
afterwards by indirect insinustion and nu.ndo.
again, therefore, we say: thrice welcome Kos
suth.