North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-11-22
KOSSUTH IN ENGLAND.

Kossuths Speech at the Southampton banquet
This is the second festive occasion at which
have had the honor to express my most sincere
thanks to the mayor and corporation ofSouthamP
+o, Cor the generous welcome with which they ia
vor me, and to all the gentlemen for the sympathy
with which they join this demonstration. AP
plarise.1 God has awarded two blessings to those
whom he has elected-bliss in heaven and freedom
on earth TCheers. May you all-nay your ma
tion-be blessed by both these blessings. NO man
aware of the value of his destiny, can i've sausneo
without freedom; but he to whom God mas gram,
ed freedom. he has got all if he has got the mind
and the will to use his freedom for the oeVeioP-
ment of his happiness with so consistent an exer-
ton as the English people do This IS the basis
upon which England has grown paradise on
earth. on which the eve and the heart ret WITH
low. and which must strengthen the desire in every
foreigner to become likewise free, and, by becom-
ing such, to be endowed with the possibility OF con
vering other parts of the world into paradise sucn
as Englandis During all my life have had but one
leading idea-iberty. 1t was the aim OF my hfe-
the aim of my existence-to secure its blessings to
nv people, though knew these blessings but IN
stinctivelv. Now that behold England, see how
liberty ennobles men and beauties nature. lap
plause.1 How should l. then, not be doubly de-
termined in spite of all danger, in spite OF all dlt-
ieultes, to endure to act, to struggle, and, II 1t
must be, to die, that my people should become free
my people, of which 1 can say, with deeply-teit
satisfaction that there is people on earth which
deserve better to be free? But besides the bliss
of liberty gentlemen, there is also glory allotted
to you this is the proud position which the Eng
lish hold not only to bear good will to those who
do not enjoy their happiness but also to offer their
hand to their less fortunate brethren. Gentlemen,
this is great glory, it raises the dignity OF men.
Being in that position, you, in your national ca
pacity, carry into life, even in your relations and
feelings towards other countries, the divine doctrine
of our Saviour" Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
myself" 1t is only thus that can explain the
grand phenomenon that many undetermined
men, different in rank and station, but united all IN
the love and enjoyment of freedom, that they all
join in the expression of their sympathy for the
principles of freedom, of which they choose to con-
slider me an humble representative. Yes, it is so
can explain that even those honorable classes whose
only capital is their honest labor and their time,
stop their work and sacrifice their time to express
with that noble instinct of the people before which
every individual grandeur bows, that the great
principles of liberty can reckon on the sympathies
of England. And there is a reason why they can
justly reckon on the sympathies of the working
classes for without liberty there exist no last
ing social order, so indispensable that everybody
may enjoy in full security the fruits of his labor.
Without liberty there is no field for productive la
liberty there is no personal security, and securi
ty for property. And if it is not the aim of soci
ETY. to open field for productive labor, to grant
security to the person and property, and by this to
develop mans mind and to ennoble mans heart
if this be not the aim of human society, then do
not know what aim it can have. Applause. But
it is also not without that all the classes of
England united in sympathy, in order that that
liberty, which, under different forms of government,
l,,k- Al Al
pride of the English race in both hemispheres,
should likewise be allotted to other nations to en-
joy it, under a government which best suits their
wishes and the wants. 1t is not without reason
this sympathy, not only because there is a moral
solidarity in the destinies of the nations but also
because where the productive powers of people
bring forth more than they can consumes is the
case in England-such country must have free in
tercourse, and uninterrupted interchange of COM
munication with the world, in order to secure the
benefits of its labor that by the stoppage of one
channel there should not arise plethora no less
dangerous than consumption. Now, without the
liberty of Europe, there is no liberty of trade All
despots fear free trade, because the liberty of COM
merce the great vehicle of political liberty. Free
trade is only possible with free Europe. Applause
L hope am not wrong in touching likewise on the |
material side of the question. feel that it is for
tunate, well glorious when the material inter
ests of great nation are identical with the inter
ests OF the freedom of the world. This is a prov
ldential law. Even single community can but !
enjoy welfare and security when the interests of
the whole are in harmony with the interests of in
dividuals. Applause. Your sound Judgment
gentlemen, and your comprehensive views, make
it unnecessary for me to develop all I could say
about the connexion of the material interests of
England with the liberty of the continent Be it i
'ufhclcnt to express my views in a few dry but Il
truthful words. The principle of all evil on the
continent is the despotc and encroaching spirit of
he Russian power. There is the pillar which sup
ports every one who wishes to establish his ambi-
lous sway on the sutferngs of nations raising him
el on the ruins of their liberty Russia is the Il
ock which breaks every sigh for freedom; and this
russian power is the same which England encoun-
ers In her way, on every pont-in Picking and in
1erat at the Bosphorus and on the Sound, on the
Vile and on the Danube, and all over the continent
II Europe Hear, hear Even Jesuitism, which S
latter times has again begun to raise its head, {
8 employed in support of Russia. We are in the t
of great country, which unfortu-
ately does not enjoy the fruits of sorrowful times
nd great sutterings. The Jesuit party in France
hreaten that country with the Cossacks Even
ere IN this glorious country, question connected
WITH this not long ago agitated as we'll in pub
&c OPINION as IN Parliament. know what is con- t
enlent to myself and due to you | will not enter T
nto the question 1 will on y state one curious CO.
incidence am Protestant GApplause.1 lam +
Protestant not only by birth, but by conviction.
am an humble member of nation the majority y
II which is composed of Catholics, and it is not +
ne least glory of my nation that in all times we G
AVE fought and bled for religious lberty-Catho
les as devotedly as Protestants. The rights and +
reedom OF the Protestants were always strongly on
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