New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-13
KOSSUTII.

KOSSUTH.
We learn that the Washington, which
sails on Saturday next for Southampton,
will convey Gov. KossUTH among her pas
sengers. That day will nearly complete
seven months and half since the moment
of his landing in America, amid the man
ifestations of a popular enthusiasm such
as is rarely witnessed here or elsewhere.
That enthusiasm was called forth not
alone by the magnetism of his genius, the
noble nature of his cereer in his own
country, or the fact that he had led ma
ton in war whose justice was surpassed
only by its heroism, but by the higher fact
that disaster, exile, poverty and all the
circumstances of external weakness, had
abated nothing of the resolute courage OF
his heart, distracted nothing from the
utter integrity of his patriotism. This it
was which touched the souls of the mas
ses as with prophetic fire, and evoked from
them cheers and benedictions before which
even the bitter enemies of the man and the
cause he represented, were hushod in
to silence. For there was no ambiguity
in the position of Kossuth. From the
first moment that he touched our shores it
was known that he had come here not to
seek an asylum for himself, not to lose the
memory of his Fatherland in the security
and happiness of an American citizen, but
to implore from our prosperity and our
strength aid for the recovery of Europe
from despotism and desolation. And it
was in this capacity, as the missionary of
a new crusade, as the hero whom no ca
larity could break, as the avenger of
nations, of a continents despoiling, that
his arrival was saluted with all the de-
monstratioi Of national and popular SYM
patty and applause.
To that mission be has never for a mo-
ment been unfaithful. His labors ePos-
tie could. have exceeded, either in amount
or in zeal, and they have all been devoted
to single object, the enlisting of Ameri-
can sympathies earnestly upon tho sise of
Erronean freedom. In public speeches
and private intercourse, in season and out
Of season, he has been instant in the dis
charge of this absorbing duty. The re-
sources of a mind of Incompatible fertility,
the power Of an eloquence whose lofty and
whose winning strains even the dullest an
tagpnist cannot hear unmoved, and every
fiber of physical frame which, with all its
frailty, seems ever prompt to obey the be-
hests of the unquenchable spirit within,
have all been given to the one object of
his soul, with an exclusive and manly sim
gleness of devotion that must Immortality
grace the annals of patriotism and shine
conspicuous among the illustrations of hu-
man virtue.
Were Kossuth the weak and shallow
man, the mere rhetorician and histrion,
that his enemies pretend, he would not
have adhered thus nObly to the cause of
Hungary through evil as well as through
good report. Other paths of honor and of
fortune would easily open before his feet
were he inclined to forsake his country.
Suppose he chose 10 establish himself in
America in the practice of his profession as
a lawyer, who can deny that he might at
once step into position of great affluence
and extensive relations! Or, if he should
choose to look for political influence, he
would no sooner be naturalized an Ameri-
can citizen than some great party would
be ready and eager to offer him place and
power Or, were he accessible to baser
motives, were the gangrene of that con-
temptible sel6shness upon him which
makes men sell all for riches, what price
ne might again and again have bargained
for with the enemies OF his people! How
paltIy the sum entrusted to him in Ameri-
ca compared with the wealth which the
Austrian Monarchy would have poured
into his hap as the reward of treason to
liberty and humanity!
We honor Kossulh, taea. 61st of al. e.,