The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-04
The banquet liz the "Old Cradle
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TIE Cetd Uoto Banquo-1Hc character of the IN
dioaee amd the P,ocecdings-Kosspth's SPEECH
aG,,t,d b. tie mature If tie Urink-.Scrambie f3r
the SyoHs- Terrific onslaught upon the Braady ~
ayg'iraic yoon,-1he Statc ,rW Pig for all THE
fonicomtng Yam al Bunker HW
The legislative banquet to Kossuth off last
evening, at faneuil Hall, and was about as drowsy
an affair ever it my misfortune to listen to-
Even kossuth who is generally poetical, seemed to
be entirely forsaken by the muses., and was as prosy
a. can well be imagined lie said he could not de-
pend himself for his inspiration that evening, but
must trust to God. No wonder, when they did not
give him single drop Of Champagne, sherry, Ma
dcira, brandy, any other kind of wine or liquor
prohibited by the Maine law. Horace Says that
poets in all ages have quafed their inspiration from
the wine cup Eossuth deprived Of the cheer
ng stimulating d,ausht, "earieu and toll worn as
he was, and hence his reply to tho toast of his
health was not "prose mad" but prose
exceedingly tamc-as fiat as stale beer, as
dull as ditch water 1t was an extempO-
'raneqxs speech-not written-and was, there
fore, controlled by the circumstances of the
hour His &C tenpo,e speeches are always failures.
This was emin0ntly so, because it was under the
SOLDERING influence Of Cochituate water. 1t put
many to Sleep and cleared the gallery of the ladies'
men; yet he continued, repeating over and over
again, in the same or in other words, what he had
said before, till he expended two hours and half
"by Shrewsbury clock" filling the shrewd members
establishment at his want Of judgment and tact, in
wearying the audience to an extent perhaps never
witnessed before in Faneuil Hall. Some of them
were drcadfuly annoyed, and every quarter OF an
hour, when he came to the close of q paragraph,
where they hoped he would have stopped, he com
menced again gentlemen" to their utter chagrin
The speech of last night has produced greater re-
yoluton in the minds Of men who were friendly to
his views, and had exaggerated notions about him
self than all that has ever been written to place Kos
suth and theIlungaran question in their true light.
Many, very many, of the enthusiasts now salts
fed, not from the showing Of Others, but from Nos,
suths showing, that he is utterly destitute OF all
practical judgment for the conduct OF public affairs
Some of the papers here made arrangements to give
a re,batim report Of the speech q should like to see
one) but the most industrious have contented them
selves with about column, and one paper aa'rety
adds. where it breaks of-"To be continued"
Several of them despatched the whole proceedings
in half column, or Whereabouts. Kossuths speech,
if reported rcrbatim, would have made about eight
columns of the New York HERALD. Just think of
his giving history of Hungary and its institutions
for thousand years, by way Of reply to the state
ments OF many journals, that Hungary is unfit for
rcpublicanism. What he did show, does not refute
the papers, but proves that in Hungary there
modified system of fcudalsm, not essentially differ
ing from that which prevailed in France and Eng
land, and other countries Of Europe. The mobiles
possessed degree Of municipal liberty, but they
monoIolsed it to themselves, and did not share it
with the people at large. And yet kossuth contends
that people long enslaved, is ready all at once
to embrace the institutions of the people of the
United States. They want little education and
training FIRST.
kossuth goes further, and says that the Hunga-
riars are the only people IN the world who, for
thousand years. willingly submitted 70 tyranny
lie admitted last night that he was m favor OF
ROYALTY, and would have been content with that
before the revolutionary struggle Quere, would he
not be content with il now, provided kossuth was
king
Knowing that The feeling Of The Irish popu-
laiion here is against him, he lebored hard 10
explain why he did not come out strong Tor
Ireland placed in the prcdcament with
regard to England as Hungary i with regard
10 Austria. 40 doubt his explanation Will be
highly satisfactory them, and the logic perfectly
conclusive, viz, that by REFRESHING we power OF
Russia he would do more Tor Ireland than II ne
lifted his voice directly i'll her favor As iof nun, u
he had been in ireland, he would not have T ised
The standard of rebellion in lSts-he would have
sought to establish municipal institutions and not
to separate entirely from England, but to have
domestic parliament. Why, that is the very thing
that q Cornell and his followers sought so long,
and failed in achieving. O'Connell, most people
who happen to know, both regard as infinitely Kos
vu,h's superior in practical talent, and even as
regular orator He certainly had more resources