New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-19
Ueputations To-day.
A deputation of Congregational Clergy
men will wait upon Kossuth to-day and present the

men will wait upon Kossuth to-day and present the
follow ing address
NEw.YoRK, Wednesday. Dec. II, 1851.
GOVERNOR Louis kossUTH We have the honor
and happiness to address you as population from
the Congregational Ministers of New-York and
BROOKLYN. For the sake Of our own country as we'll
as yours, we welcome youten thousand times among
us. We rejoice in your visit, and IN your addresses
to the nation, the people, whose heart you every
where carry With you, kindllng new and pure en-
thusiasm in the sacred cause Of liberty. And we
haA with delight, IN your own career. such an ex-
ample presented before our young men, OF tho glory
and supremacy of principle above interest," ana OF
conscience above profit.
We rejoice IN the prospect Of Christian and Re-
publican liberty for your own beloved country You
possess already, there as we do here, independent
Churches Of Christ that by the Spirit and tae Word
OF God shall be the bulwarks OF civil and religious
freedom. Remembering, with gratitude to God, that
the struggle Of our Fathers Tor religious liberty,
wrought out through Divine Providence, or civil
and political freedom. we are inspired with conf
dence IN the final triumph OF freedom IN Hungary
because there Also the struggle OF enlightened con-
sciences for freedom of faith and of worship IS lden
titled with the national movement! for independence
We pray earnestly that God may lead you in your
coming conflict.
we thank YOU from our inmost hearts, for the
faithtuness with which you have proclaimed Gins
ian principle the only Just ground and rule OF Ma
ticnal policy. We thank you for your warnings
against secret diplomacy, for your impressive de-
mands of a ceaselesS vigilance on the part OF the
people over the spuit and movements OK those who
Administer their Government and for your afnonl-s
ton not 10 let the word NATION be boted out by the
word Government. We thank you for the forcloe Ut.
terance OF the trth that Pocy not the science Of
principles but of exigences and that principles are
neverto be sacrihcced 10 exlgencles and that 10 an
immortal nation, nothing can be OF higher import
ance than immortal principles. In those principles
max God strengthen you and carry you onward
We maintain with you, the great peace principle
of international law the right OF every nation TO ts
own freedom, and 10 the determination and Tegila-
| ton OF lis own forms OF national Development
without the interference Of any other power and
hold il 70 be the duty OF our Government TO re-
cognze and maintain this principle III It's intercourse
with foreign nations. May God preserve your life,
and permit you 10 stand again among your own peo-
pie as free people yourself their Governor deJact0
as you are now de nre. We bear you on our hearts,
and we pledge you our earnest enceavors 10 procire
such action on the part Of own country toward
your oppressed and beloved Hungary, a. shan DC
Consistent with that great rcie, " men you nave
rightly asserted 70 be OF supreme o0lganon upon
nations as well as individuals TO love our neisnoors
as ourselves and 70 do 20 others as we would have
them do to us By the great Law Of benevoience, We
are our brothers. keeper and BY Gods grace we wlli
remember and treat your nation as oFo,nef na'oh.
May God bless you, and sustain you and gs1oe you
10 victory. Most respectfully and auIy your ooe'
az nj servants IN behalf Of our brethren,
los p. THOMPSON,
GEO d. CHEEvER, COMMITTEE
II. W BEEcHrR.