Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-01-28
KOSSUTH'S SPEECH BEFORE THE ST
NATE OF MARYLAND

Mr. President: The stormy current Of
my life has offered several moments to me
when the importance Of occasion, connect
ed with associations of historical interest,
impressed deep emotion upon my mind.
| But perhaps never yet in my life has the
memory of the past made such glowing
Impression upon me as here.
bow with reverential awe before histo-
~ in bowling before you, Senators of Mary
land, in this glorious hall, the sanctuary of
immortal deeds, hallowed by the memory Of
immortal names.
Before thank the living, lie, me look to
those dead, whose spirits dwell within these
walls, Hooking a. the portraits hanging up
on the walls, living an unimperishable life
in the glory, freedom and happiness Of your
great United Republic, destined, as conf
IDENTIFY hope, to become the cornerstone of
the future of Humanity.
Yes, there they are, the glorious architects
of the independence Of this Republic, grown
up to such giant in such short time.
There is Thomas Stone; there, your De-
moshenes, Samuel Chase; [poin'ing to the
portrait Of each, as named there, Charles
Carroll, Of Carrollton, who designedly
added tina, epi.hel to the significance of his
name, that nobody should be mistaken about
who was the Carroll, who dared the noble
deed, and was rewarded by being the last
Of his illus,rous companions, whom God
called to the Heavenly Paradise, after he had
long enjoyed the paradise Of freedom on
earth, and here William Paca;-a,l Of them
signers Of the Declaration of American In
depend noblest, that happies.
page in mankind's history.
How happy that man must have been,
| pointing to the portrait Of Governor Paca
having to govern this sovereign State on
that happy day when, within these very
halls, was ratified the act, which by the re-
cognition Of your very enemy, raised your
country to the seat of an independent nation
on earth.
Ye spirits of the departed! cast ray of
consolation by the Numbering voice Of your
nation over down-lrodden land, whose
cleo. chief, wandering exile for having
dared to initiate the inspiration Of your
manly hearts, lays the trembling hopes Of
an oppressed continent before the generous
hear, Of your people-now not only an in
depndent nation, but also mighty and g To-
rious power on earth
Alas what a difference in the success Of
two like deeds Have not done wha. We
did? Yes, have. Was the cause for which
! did it not alike sacred aud Just as yours /?
1t was. Or have We not tough, to sus,sin
i. with equal resolution as your brethren
did j? Bold though i. be 10 claim, glory
such as America has, am bold to claim,
and say-yes, we did. And wha, differ
ence in the result? And where this differ
ence? Only out OF tina. sing lie circumstance
that while you in your struggle, met with
assistance, We in ours, met not even with
':fair play''-because when we fought there
was nobody on earth TO maintain the laws
Of natures Gud.
America was silen, and England did moi,
stir =; and while you were assisted by o
French King, we were forsaken by French
Republc-llself now ,rodden down, be-
cause i, has forsaken US!
Well, we are no, broken yet. There is
hope for US, because there is God in hea
ven and an America OH earth. May be tina,
our nameless woes were necessary, that the
glorious destiny of America may be fulfill
ed that after it was an asylum for the OPP
pressed, il should become, by regeneIaiing
Europe, the pillar Of manhood's liberty.
Oh it is not mere capricious change
of fate, that the exiled Governor Of that land
whose name, four years ago, was scarcely
known on your glorious shores, and which
now, Ooh, let me have the blessings Of this
faith is dear 10 the generous hear, Of Ame-
RIGA il is not mere chance that Hungary's
exiIed chief thanks the Senators of Mary
land for The high honor of public welcome
in tina, very Hall where the first continental
Congress met; where your great Republics
glorious constitution was framed where
The treaty of acknowledged independence
was ratified, and where you, Senators, guard