Washington telegraph., 1852-03-10
KDSsrIth's lAbdicafiOn.

publishes a letter from Ba,thOlomeeus
S1nscyc, formerly President of the Hun
gaian Ministerial Council-the highest po-
sitin in Kossuth's ministry and who
among the first avowed himself a thorough
republican. He is now an exile at Paris.
He says he "neyer saw nor subscribed the
act Of Kossuth's abdication, which he says
was done at d timewhen the strongest for
tresses we've in the hands Of the nation, be-
sides an army of $4,000 men and three
hundred field officeH; and Mr.. S. says he
believes that never hfore in the history Of
the world has the he'd of nation turned
his back on 50 powerful a military force. -
The army, he says urrandered only be-
cause they heard that kossuth had abd:cated
and thus declared the hopes Of the nation
lost; and that he had also fed the country,
avoiding his friendl that he might the
more certainly secure lis own safety. -
Kossuth, he says, vas chosen Governor
professionally by the National Assembly,
and not by the people and though he could
resign, he could not tansfer his power
The letter contains thefollo wing condensed
and strong expressions
Mr. Kossuth on tie 11th Of August,
1919, in Arad, not only resigned, which he
had The power to do, bu not only did not
assemble the ministry, which had received
OWES CT government contemp0raneously
with himself, but he transferred to another
the power which had been entrusted to his
own person.
He did more he appointed dictator,
which he was not himself
Mr.. k0ssuth can no longer consider
himself, either in law or in right as the Gov
ernor of Hungary.
Because he voluntarily surrendered this
power:
Because he transferred this power to
another, which he had no right to do
Because he alse abdcated in the name
of the whole ministry, without having pre-
viously consulted them
Because he Immediately transferred the
power of the State to Gorgey, man VIII ON
he, and he more than all others, had long
before considered traitor:
Finally because he did all this without
consulting with, and without the knowledge
of, that ministry, which had been appoint
ed with him, and consequently, even SO far
as mere form is considered, acted contrary
to the law.
II is not my intention to dissect the un-
fortunate and ever fiuctuating policy of Mr..
Kossuth vet as | am obliged to eXculpate
myself from any infarences to be drawn
from that act, which, nevertheless, though
done IN my 7aanee was done acith0M my
k7aou2cdge and aoithom my consent it is
impossible for me on this occasion not to de-
declare that Mr. Kossuth has no claim either
in law or of right, to the character of Gov
ernor Of Hungary. Not IN lalo, because
he so hastily SURRENDERED the office, with
out even observing the legal forms rat 0f
rght, because while on the l4th of April;
1919, when our troops were everywhere
victorious, we saw him stand forward as
Governor; vet afterwards on the llth of
August, 1919, when we were suffering con-
tinual defeat, we saw him hastily and pre-
cipitately free himself from the same office );
that is to say, in the day Of victory and glo-
ry he accepted the office; in the day of
danger he suy1eldered 1t to the first who
demanded it Of him.
And now he steps forward, weakly and
unconscicntiously forgetting all this, before
the world as the Governor Of Hungary, and
as the dictator among his fellow exiles, de-
manding from us unconditional obedience,
and asks, for second time, for a power for
which he showed himself before partly inca
pable, and part Of which he misused. y