New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-28

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The reception given to kossu,h in our
great cities and IN the districts OF England, most
replete with intelligence, wealth and population
qives TO the universal sentiment IN his favor the
character of 4 national adhesion. No man and
no cause have awakened The admITing voices OF
80 many millions We know not when English
men were so unanimous. They have been tred
of late wears on many domestic question. on
some connected with religion, or with taxaucn,
with reform, or cheap yiciuals, YET the pure and
dislnterested feelings evoked by The coming oil
Kossuth are more enthusiastic, more ovefpO ~er-
ing than either the political or material interests
Of the mos, household questions could pr0tlce
in Englishmen
Ii is seldom that c0temporane0us history pre-
senis IN action, IN events. IN cause, AMI IN char-
acters, spectacle OF such noble dramatic inter
est as the Hungarian struggle. >hakspere
never drew picture OF greater perhdy, mean.
ness and tyranny than Austria displayed, or OF
more generosity of sentiment, and noOleness OF
courage than Hungary evlnced In the develop
ment we have seen two campaigns, the injured
and menaccd country calamity resisting and
defeating Austria, and then making noble hight
against Austria and Russia combined, and only
snccumbIng to an ascandancy, bought even then
more by gold and treachery, than by manly hight
ing IN the open held.
The great features OF this epic, for II Is the
great epic Of the age, have been placed before
the popular view, wl.hthe characters who figure
IN II all brought out in the b0ldesi relief. Win
tischgratz the bombarder Of Vienna, the slaught-
eref of Blum, driven ANONYMOUSLY out OF Hun
gary, and dlsgraced IN consequence by ms cour-
-opposed 10 him the dauntless courage and cool
defensive policy OF kossuth. Haynau. and his
women-fogg ing, Schwarzenberg and his edlct
for the hanging of Louis Ba:hyani, with the trag-
ical circumstances of that execution, the strug
Gle round Comom, the fight of GOrgey and his
stimulated defense, the heroic battle OF Temes.
var fought by the rash but lndOmitabe BEN, and
that occasion seized as pretext by the traitor
G0rgey TO deliver VI his soldiers 10 the Russian
genera and his officers 10 the Austrian hangman
all these are events that have penetrated into
every English workshop, and every English cot.
tage, until, as We have said, they have become
the great popular epic Of our time.
" ha, vain folly is u, what pnsre mahgnity,
10 strive against this great, this generous and
honest expression o. national sentiment, by ex-
amnIng as some OF our journals do, with cni-
cal scalpsl, INTO the exact shade Of political
opinions professed by the great chief OF the Hun
sarian struggle, by kossu.h himself What on
earth cares the English public IN is devotion
that Kossuth be a little more or little less Of a
republican What care they whether be has
thought with Washington with Jefferson
with Edward HYDE or with Algemon Sydney
II in these days the English people have learned
10 be profoundly indifersnI.o shades OF religious
difference, they have also earned TO be SO In re-
spect Of political theory. By sinsul,r mistake.
It is assumed that EnglishmeR award their
praise and meie out them enthusiastic attach
men,s according 20 the political opinions Of their
hero And they are told what g:ea. error ,nev
sake In wershiping kcssulh, and n nc. woI-