New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-09
Kossvtn IN America,

we have heard that any special conditions
were annexed to the invitation which the
Governments extended to these exiles. There
was nothing in the resolutions of Congress
making it obligatory on them to forget their
fatherland and their duties toward it because
they received our friendship. And we ven
ture to say, that, had such suggestion been
made in Congress when the resolutions
were adopted, it would have been secuted
with derisiOn, as too mean and pitiful for
that body to entertain.
1t would indeed be shameful and disgust
ing for Americans to say to a great leader
of the people in another country,-great
because he had done what constitutes the
greatness of our forefathers and the glory
of our national history,-that they would
welcome him to this land of freedom emily
on his entering into bonds to abandon patrl-
otiSm, and leave his own countymen uu-
aided and uncheered, without an effort for
their relief, under all the expressions of
merciless and heartless despotism, compared
with which that America rebelled against
would be trifing and insignificant.
The Courier also takes kossuth to task
because he has g directly and indirectly "
made certain imputations against 1t. We
copy the following from cur contemporary:
1--WE have avery few words to say of the miser-
able imputalions which NJ Kossuth directly and In
directly has made against this paper. We regret
them far more on his account than on our own, Tor
they are utterly unworthy OF his character II is
kind of abuse that might have far better come from
the lips Of Tammany Hall demagogue NJ. Kos
suth charges lch harlng dectaIed that Austria IS
the champion Of liberty We have made TO such as
sertion.'
We are used to Standardization on the
part of The Courier, but we were not pre-
pared for such qualification as this. Here
is what our neighbor has said, and the pub
lie can Judge how near ii now comes to the
fact:
From the Courier and Enquirer Of April 10. 1851
Thus tcor between Hungary and Austria viz
tually commenced and we ask the reader to pause
and inquire for what cause Was it for Liberty, or
for Republicanism, or for redress of grievances
Was for equal rights or IN resistance 10 oppres.
sion Nest assuredly not But, on the contrary,
was il moi because Austria would not assist the
naughty and Arstocratic Magyar to put down the re-
beon of the SclavODlc races who had rlsen In their
might TO throw of the yoke of vassaage and slavery
which they had borne for eight centuries Was 1t
no. because Austria ,cod not AID koSsuh and has CO.
cd utorS IN enslauing the trho had raised the cry
Of liberty and equality, ami demanded at the hands Of
their masters FREEDOM from rorse than Egyptian
Surely, no honest OF candid man can read this OK
tract without concluding at once, that We have CIV
en- faithful history OF the cause OF the war In Hun
gary and that hOtrerer much Austria tray hare Of
Tended against trtedOh IN times past m rms dDdT az
eaSf, she tcaS battling on The SIDE Of hberty and free
dom, against tyranny and opPresSi0n-when she
waged successful and triumphant war against
Kossuth and the most arisocratic people in Europe
That on the 4ih of March, 1919, the Emperor Jo-
seph granted Constitution to the empire, giving
liberty the oppressed scaves and placing all races
and nations upon footing OF equality as Austrian
subjects, and CURING them Qoiitoa! freedom and the
electro FRANCHISE.
That because Of tbs grant Of freedom to the scla-
vonlc races Hungary declared her entire tndepend
ence OF Austria on the lith of April following.
That Kossuth and his Government warred in de-
tense of Siatey and Oppression, and against personal
freedom, political liberty and equality Of personal and
political rights, and that all good and friends Of
i5erty throughout the uoyld should Oice IN ms orer
throir because it broke the chains o. nine millions
Of white Slaves. held in bondage, and denied even
personal as we'll political freedom. by four millions
and half Of proud, naughty and ambitious Magyars
"a Tartar Tribe, who for eight hundred years have
he'd IN slavery the descendants OF the Scavonic
races, which they subjugated in the eleventh CEN
fury.
That as republican ana Christian people, haze
cause 10 reioce he fall Of hOSsuh and should give
thanks 10 the Almighty Ruler Of the Universe. that
through that provldental event he has gracl0usy i5
Grated from bondage nine millions of the Scavoaic
race, and bestowned upon them personal freedom
and a fair share Of political liberty.
We might give other extracts to the same
purport, proving, in The Courer's own
words, that it has again and again asseve-
rated that in the Hungarian war Austria
"was battling on the side of Liberty and
Freedom. against Tyranny and OPpres-
SION But the above are ample, and must
qualify sll faith in whatever our cotemPo-
rary may choose to say upon the matter
It's worthy olnotice that in the Staten Isl
and speech Kossuth did not once speak of
TIE Courier, and that the assumption that ne
meant it, indicates very sensitive con-
science on It's part. But we must protest
atainst holding him responsible for what,
every person in his auditory may choose to
shout cut. An orator ought not to be ar
raigned because nameless person among
his hearers called for groans for The COu-
rler or cheers for any other paper. Over
such expressions no public speaker can ex-
ercise control, and least of all one who ar
rived in the country but day since, and
cannot yet be expected TO be familiar with
all the facts in the past cOnduc. Of even SO
inhuential and consistent journal as The
Courier. Kossuthhad heard that 4 certain
part OF the press had taken certain sourse,
and he spoke accordingly in very general
way, whereupon somebody called for groans