Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-04-02
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will compare in lofty eioquence with the follow
ing, which was made by Rev. B. F. Barrel
on behalf of the Clergy of Cincinnati. Mr.. E
is resident of our city, and his numerous friend
here, Will doubtless be gra.ifed to read his ad
dress.
GOVERNOR KossUTH:
come to tender you an affectionate greeting
| in behalf OF that portion Of the Clergy of Gin
cinnGti, whom have the honor TO represent, ant
! | beg to assure you that the task is most CRATE
| full to my feelings.
We have brought you here little substantial
ali for Hungary. The amount is small, (fol
we are few i'll number, and none of us, | believe
are rich in this worlds goods J but it is sufficien
| trust, to prove that our hearts are with you,
and that you have our full confidence, and our
prayers for the success of the cause YOU have
come here to plead.
We come not TO you with fattering words
but with few WORDS Of sympathy and friendly
encouragement, which you will be pleased 70 re-
ceiye as an expression Of the homage which our
hearts pay, not so much to yourself personally,
as to those great principles which you advocate,
and the righteous cause which you so faithfully
represent.
Permit me tosay then for your encouragement
Governor, and in behalf of the Clergy whom
that new AGE-a new era, political, social and
moral--has dawned on humanity. We believe
that the days of absolutsm-the days of polite
al and religious thraldom are numbered that
the hand writing has already gone forth upon
the wall, and in view Of it the faces of despots.
like the countenance Of the impious Balshazzar
Of old, are beginning to change, and their tho'ts
10 trouble them, and their knees to smte one
against the other. We believe that God has
prepared you, Sir, in an especial manner as well
by stern adversely that fiery furnace through
which He generally causes all his faithful ser
wants 10 pass-as by the rare and extraordinary
gifts with which He has endowed you to preach
oehverance to the captive nations of the earth,
and undo the heavy burdens beneath which the
toiling millions of Europe even now lie groan
ing.
We believe that the cause you plead with such
moving elOquence, is the cause Of right of JUS
tice and humanity, and therefore the cause of
God. We regard the struggle in which you are
engaged as struggle between freedom and des-
potlsm, justice and oppression right and wrong
We admire the unWeared devotion with which
you labor to have christian principle-the great
law OF neghborly lovP--reCOgnised and acted up
on by christian America in the regulation of her
foreign policy, and in her conduct toward other
and weaker nations. And this law of christian
brotherhood requires us to regard Hungary as
our neighbor, TO feel for her wrongs as though
they We're our own. And as to danger. why sir,
we feel that there is never danger in individuals
or nations pronouncing too cmphatcalIy, or com
hitting themselves too decidedly, in favor Of
righteous cause. The danger is always on the
other side, is always in falling to act with our
Whole hearts on that side where truth, and right
and inStica "a ,od and IJcaro, 4, 20 :,
side, and what danger is so much to be dreaded,
as the danger of finding ourselves where they
are not? We believe that in NE coming time
the brightest and most honorable page in our
country's whole history, would be that page
which should record her Intervention, with eve
ry atom of her influence, to make respected the
sacred right Of your noble and now bleeding
country TO dispose of its domestic concerns in
its own way Would to God that deed so inst
and christian like might be recorded OF the Uni
ted States Would that page in our counry's
history so honorable and glorious Us this might
be written
AS ministers of the Gospel of peace and love,
we deeply depreciate the horrors of war. But
we bclive, sir, that there are things more dread
ful and more depIored even than war. The dy-
ing groans of struggling freedom, the stifed sobs
of manaced and imprisoned justice, the tears ard
blood Of murdered innocence the despot's iron
heel upon the peoples necks, systems of legal
zed oppression, and wrong, and outrage upon the
dearest rights Of man-these arc things which
we think more deplorable even than the horrors
of war.
Sir, you have great and glorious mission to
tol!oW--a mission not for Hungary alone, but for
Europe, and America, and the world. Go on,
then, noble Magyar--go on with your christian
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name trusting in God and in the Justice of your
cause. Your true and noble words are echoing
round the world, and moving and swaying the
hearts of millions. They are more terrible, far
to tyrants, than bullets AID bayonets. Go on!
but do not forget, Oh you will not forget Him
from whom you have received your splendid en-
dowmenis, and to whom alone, therefore, all the
praise and glory of Your words and deeds are
due. Go on! and should your hopes in respect
TO your dear fatherlGnd be Decentralization God
OF truth and justice grant that this may not be
your IabOrS will not have been in vain. Oh
no. You will have achieved glorious work for
humanty--a work which will cause your name
to be remembered and bonored by the wise and
good through all coming time.
We hail you as a noble patriot, and more even
than Christian palriot-as the friend ofoppresed
humanity cverywhere-the brave defender effhe
rights OF man-the champion of political and re-
hgious freedom throughout the world. In you
Sir, we seem to see the bleeding form Of Euro
pean liberty, kneeIing upon the cold earth, I'M
der the open sky, with eyes uplifted to Heaven
and arms out>irttched towards Young America,
and IN suppicating accents, PRAYING her last
prayer for help. On God that this prayer
might find n tender spot in young Americas
heart, and move her TO lend listening ear. aud
10 render beimes the succor 50 teellngy impor-
ed. But be this as it may, we bid you hearty
God speed on your glorious mission. The thro5-
bIng hearts OF millions on both continents are
with you. The friends Of freedom ard OF hu
manity throughout the world are WIKI YOU. The
angels Of Heaven in unnumbered hosts are WIKI
you. The eli wise, all Just, and almighty God
IS with you. You have noughi to fear then,
but everything to hope. Yea may die in the
struggle-Or your body may, but what OF that
Your ; phi and spirit stirring words, no em?e
ror Nicholas nor Francis Joseph, can ever Kill
or conquer. These have within them the life OF
God, and, therefore, cannot die They shall live
and work nightly for the nations OF the earth
when your talr tieshy tabernacle shall have
cTumbled 10 the dust. So, Magyar
"Les all the ends thou airn'ssat
Be thy cpuutr! :. thy Gods. AMI truths;
Then, If tAou all 81 thou fails! q nooie marry.
Aye, a martyr to the cause Of wr0nged and
bleeding humanity And angels III that world
above Will stand ready to receive Won there, with
loving arms ouIs,retcned and words 81 welcome
ON their Inns and t-iH Mace un1n v0ur noble