The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-26


10 address from The Inhabitants Of Londo
and an presence Of an AUDIENCE estimated D
he London Times al $4,000, and by friends
The speaker at 100000.
Mr. Petty secretary of the committee havin
read the address, which was elegantly enprosse
on veium and bound on roller covered wit
velvet, handed il to Kossutb, who pressed il Il
ms breast laundering applause followed
When silence was restored the Hungarian pro
ceeded follows:
GEsTLEMEN: | most warmly THANK you fol
your generous sentiments of active and operat
I've sympathy with the freedom and independ
ence OF my native land 80 closely connected-
as you have rightly judged-with the freedom
and independence of other nations ON the Euro
pean continent. Ii is to me highly gratifying
70 know that large party of the present meet
ing belongs to the working classes. II is graf
Hiying TO me, because, il to belong to the work
ing classes implies man whose livelihood de-
Pehds on ms own honest and industrious labor,
,nen none amongst you has more right to call
himself working man than / go 10 emil myself
inherited nothing from nv dear father and
nave lived my whole life by my own honest and
industrious labor
ms, my condition, ] consider to have been
my lrst claim to my peoples confidence, because
We'll they knew that being in that condition,
must intimately know the wants, the sufferings,
and necessities of the people And 80 as
suredly it was 1t is therefore, that | so prac
tlcally devoted my life to procure and to secure
political and social freedom to my people.-Dot
10 race, not to class, but to the whole PEG.
pie; besides, devoted all my life, for many
years, by the practical means of association to
extend the benefit of public instruction to the |
working classes, and to forward the material |
I'M .F H..
turers, and Of the trading men. Among all the |
enterprises to that effect, of that time of nv
life, when was yet in no public office, but
private man, there is none to which look back
with more satisfaction and pride than to the
association for the encouragement of manufac-
turing industry-to its free schools, to its exhi-
bltions, to its press, and TO its affiliations Be-
SIDES comforting immense material benefits, it
proved also politically beneficial, by bringing IN
closer contact and more friendly relations the
Inherent classes Of my dear native land by in
terestlng the working classes in the public po |
lltical concerns of our nation, and by so devel. |
oping strongly united public opinion to support
me in my chief aim, which was conserving the |
municipal aud constitutional institutions of my
country-to substitute for the privileges of sim
gle classes the political emancipation Of the
whole people, and substituting freedom for
class privlleges-to impart to the people the
faculty of making the constitution common
benefit to all, for all-in word to transform
the closed hall of class privileges into an open
temple of the peoples liberty. =
ENGLANDs DUTIES TO THE CONTINENT.
Allow me, firstly, to congratulate you on tie
attention which you have hereby proved that you
devote TO pubic matters, to the glory as well as |
10 the interests OF your country, and to the free
dom and interest OF humanity. Allow me, sec
ondiy, to congratulate you on the just and happy
instinct with which, bestowrg your attention on
public concerns, you have seized the very point
which really is the most important among ALL ia
which the mind and heart of Engshmen can be
interested. That point is the freedom of the
European continent. ! said it is the common
council OF the city of London. repeat il here;
there is none among your internal question wi ich
outweigh in importance the external. And how
may be summed up the external interests of the
British empire on the European continent? II
is to be summed up in this question: by which
principle shall the continent OF Europe be ruled
by the principle of freedom or by the principle
of absolutism? Can England or can il not re
main indifferent in the approaching struggle and
hnal decision OF this question? and if it cannot
remain indifferent, without losing its position
IN the world, endangeIing its own freedom, and
hurting Its own interests, with which principle
shall England side with the principle of free
dom, or with the principle Of aggression p
Shall it support the rights, freedom and har nj
ness OF natl, ms, or the oppressive combinations
OF arbitrary governments That is the cues
ton; question the more urgent and the more
important than no man of whatsoever party can
dissimulate, still less deny that the situation of
France, of Italy, of Germany, of Austria, OF
Hungary, of Poland and of Russia is so unna.
tura, so contrary TO the human and national in
terests OF the respective people, that it is utterly
impossible IT can endure. Yes, no man can dis
simulate the conviction that France, Italy, Ger.
many, Austria ard Hungary, are already on the
eve of those days. when the great. and hone
final, battle of these adverse principles will be
fought out. Now, the people of Great Britain.
by us loudly proclaimed sympa by with the cause
OF the freedom aud independence of Hungary.
has pronounced itself willing not TO remain in
different, and TO side not with absolutism but
with liberty, by supporting and protecting against
all interference Ct foreign governments the soy.
erelgn rights OF every ration TO dispose of itself
You, yourself, have pronounced by this demon.
stration, and by your generous address in favor
OF this principle; so, thanking you most ferventy
Tor It, beg leave TO congratulate you on the
sound Judgment and on the comprehensive views
you give, ano tnal you entertain, on the duties
OF England towards Europe, and on the proper
interests of England itself You have right
fully considered that the freedom of England,
and that happy condition which you feel assured
that your institutions, your freedom, and your
public spirit, will 60 on peacefully developing
morally, materially, and politically that all this
is intimately connected with the victory of the
principle of freedom on the European CONT
nent. In a word, you have pronounced for that
truth, ], since in England, on no occasion have
omitted TO express, viz That there is a com !
munity in the principle of freedom as there is |
an identity in the destinies of humanity.
FREE EUROPE AND FREE TRADE.
Besides, you have duly considered that the
material welfare of Great Britain is also in the |
highest degree dependent on and connected with |
the victory of the principle of freedom in
Europe. And truly it is so. On several oc.
casions have discussed already this important
topic and will do so more amply yet on another
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