The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-02

how resolutely ne sui keeps MS nohor unstan-
ed and his determination mistaken. He pre-
SCENTS that sublime picture of a patriot, strug-
Cling with the storms of fate.
Kossuth's Protest.
ADDRESSED TO THE SUBLIME FORTE.
The undersigned, late governor of Hungary,
is, by his prolonged detention, reduced to des-
pair of either justice or generosity. He, who is
forced to abandon hope, has nothing further to
fear from force or violence he Is beyond all
constrant.
The undersigned has reached this point.
To-day is the anniversary of our arrival at
Kutahja Kutahja the tomb where the sublime
porte has buried US alive, whilst speaking to us
Of hospitality.
Pursued by misfortune, we stopped before
the threshold Of the Musselman, and asked from
him, in the name of God, in the name of human
ity, in the name of his religion. hospitable
asylum, or free passage. The Turkish gov
eminent had entire liberty to receive US or not.
1t had the right of saying; will give you
shelter in prison, or in some distant place
where you will be detained and strictly guarded.
This is the hospitality which Turkey offers you.
If it does not please you, hasten your departure,
rid us of your embarrassing presence.
This was not said to u.s.
The Sublime Porte deigned to open to us its
! sheltering tent; it entreated us to cross the
threshold, and swore by it's God and its faith
that it would grant us hospitality and a safe asy-
lum We trusted ourselves to the honor of the
Turks We eat of their bread and of their salt
we reposed under their roof. We prayed to
God to bless them, and we offered them our
everlasting gratitude. And Hungarians keep
their word
Look at Bosnia, where Mussulmen, subjects
of the Sublime Porte, are revolted against it,
A handful or Hungarian soldiers are in the ranks
of its army-it is but handful for the Porte
| would not accept more. Well who are first
upon the breach who are first in the charge
who are they who never retreat who advance,
in the midst of fire and grape shot, bayonet in
hand, to victory They this handful of exiles.
They die for Turkey; the Hungarian keeps his
word.
| They offered us hospitality. and they gave us
| prison; they swore to US that we should meet
with an asylum, and we have found Punishment.
God will Judge; and God il just.
We have suffered but for the sake of not
caus ng embarrassment we have been silent.
They begged us to have confidence. We have
shown it. They begged us to wait. We have
waited long.
They said to us, it is only until Austria shall
call O DER the order of oppression,) that which
thsy call tranquility, (the tranquility Of the
tomb)
Well, she has re-establshed this order, this
tranquility, by her executoners. She has re-
established it so far as to dare to provoke
Prussia to war so far as to dare, trusting to the
support of her master, the Gar, to encroach up
on the nations of Europe, to extend her forces
from the Bait to Rome; so far as to threaten
Piedmont and Switzerland so far as to bride
the border provinces to revolt-she has re-es-
tsblished this tranquility, she has even announced
its re-establishment to the Sublime Porte and
we are still prisoners.
They begged us to wait one year, reckoning
from the day on which we first placed our feet
upon Ottoman soil We waited.
Afterwards we were told to recken the year
| from the day when the sentence Of our Transport
taton into the interior wns decreed. Again we
waited patiently At length they seemed to re-
volt at being any longer the jaiers of Austria,
and they permitted us to hope that on the ami
versary of our arrival at kutahja, our liberty
would be restored to US.
Well, this anniversary has arrived. Let us
see what it has brought us.
A poor Hungarian, Major Domotor, prefer
ing, as do, exile or even death to servitude, des
ttute of all means of subsistence had come
eight months before to ask my advice and some
assistance to 90 to Belgrade, in order to send
for his wife thither, who was living at Peterwar-
dein.
It was matter Of simple humanity. gave
him some slight assistance, and he departed for
| Belgrade
When he arrived there, he had been already
anticipated by the accusations of Austria, who
sees everywhere my hand in the well-founded
discomfort Of her oppressed people. and who, IA
her whole life is conspiracy against God and
humanity, finds conspiracy in everything. Aus
'ria then anticipated him, by the lying accusr-
ton Of being the bearer of proclamntions from
me to the Hungarian nation.
This accusation was false. ! affirm it on my
honor. Nevertheless, on the faith Of spies, with
out honor and character, Austria caused to be
arrested, ut Semlin, his poor wife, on her way
to join her cxiled husband, and the imaginary
proclamaiions demanded as the price of her lib
|, ertv.
Domotor justified himself before the Serviar
; government in so striking a manner, that thai
, government, although only feeble vassal o.
the powerful Ottoman empire, found sufficient
strength in the justice of his cause TO protec
him.
Austria was Obliged to loose her hold tn,
poor wife was permitted to join her husband, bu
upon condition that Domotor should immediate
ly leave Belgrade.
This poor woman il creditor Of Austria
Her entire heritage, the m oney Of the orphan, Il
in the hands of Austria, not by con6scation. bu
in trust.
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