Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-01-05
Kossuth in washin gton. :


g. The bold and manly bearing of the great Hun
garian refugee, his fervent appeals to the people
in behalf Of liberty, and the rights Of man, seem
to have cast shadow of dsmay upon the spirits
of slavery upholding statesmen at the South, and
their bunker sympathisers at the North. Brief as
has been the period Of Kossulh's visit to the Ma
tional Capital, he seems already to have become
an eye sore to the Southern members of Congress,
almost to man, and TO be an object Of equal fear
and dread to the President, Cabinet, and not
few representatives and senators, who profess to
represent constituencies of Northern freemen.
The cold Formally OF President Filimore's adj
dress, which we publish in another column, is en-
tirely keeping with the cowardly character of
the man, who, born and reared in free State,
made the fugitive slave bill law Of this republic.
And the delegation Of Soulherniunkiesw who wait
ed upon the distinguished Magyar chieflan, and
insused him with threat of slaveholdng dis
pleasure, if he continued to keep company with
such men as Senator Seward, very APPLY illus
tates the extent Of their dread Of the influence of
man whose whole life has been devoted to the
cause of liberty, and the establishment of free in
sttu,ons
The visit of Kossuth to Washington, has un-
doubtedly opened the quick eyes Of his under
standing to full knowledge of the controlling in
huence of the slave power in the government o.
this country, and erased many of the false impress
sions he had imbibed from perusal OF our histo-
Ties, which impressions the inspiration Of
those eloquent euogles he pronounced upon our
free institutions when he first landed upon these
shores. For this reason, if for no other, we are
glad that he has visited Washington, though to
his sensitive mind, the chickering's of Congress, and
the reluctance Of his reception, must be Notifying
and painful in the extreme.
1t is well for the republicans Of Europe to be
acquainted with the blighting, whitening infu-
enees Of slavery in this boosted land of the free,
and to with their own eyes, how it initiates
against the progress of free institutions the world
over. Nowhere but in the South, will any con-
siderable body Of men have the hardwood to in
suit Kossuth, or spurn his mission to our country.
A patriot, in the broadcast and fullest sense of the
term, with his great intellect bent solely upon the
accomplishment Of his country's deliverance, he
will be hailed everywhere by the people of the
NJ inan, nau
proved his devotion to principle, by such labors
and sacrifices as his have been. But at the South
what other treatment can he expect, than that
which he receives. No greater absurdity could
be conceived Of, than that people who make it
the daily business of their lives to Cypress their
own countrymen with worse than Austrian des-
potism, would sympathize with the oppressed peo-
pie of Hungary. If the southern Haynaus, and
their northern unkies, who as they dictate, be-
lieved that they could use Kossuth, and then be-
tray him as GOrgey did, and as they have some
other men, their reception of him would be alto
gether different; but they evidently feel that the
great Hungarian is not a dough-face; that he can
not be bent to the service of sustaining oppression
here, and SO they denounce, Willy, and abuse
him, and threaten ''to withdraw their sympathy
Thank heaven, it is sympathy which can well
be spared, for the success OF the cause Of freedom
rests not with them, but with nobIer souls, and
less crime stained hands,