Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-02-09
The legislative tennittee anu Kessath

htot q Hiel Ahsspeh III CIeNtlduu, ana were
present at The Banquet given at the Melo
doom on Monday. In behalf of tho Com
mittee, Senator GILLErr addressed the
Governor as follows:
GOVERNOR KossUTR:
As Chairman OF the Committee appeint
ed for that purpose, by resolution of the
General Assembly OF the State Of Ohio,
now in session.
have the honor TO tender to you in the
name and on behalf Of the State, q cor,
dial welcome TO her Capital. " ~-'-'
We proffer this greeting as small tribute
Of that admiration which your courage,
your elequence, your integrity, and above
all your seli>denying devotion TO the cause
of Hungarian freedom has reused in our
breasts.
You must not wonder at the enthusiasm,
which your presence exciles in people
who cherish with tond recollection, and
reverences. the smallest relict Of that time
when liberty wres,!ed with oppression in
America, md who hail the anniversaries of
her triumphs with such grateful remem-
brances Of those brave and patient men
who wrought out cur full measure of ma.
lional happiness.
In you we behold living employment
Of those great principles which we cherish
with such tender affection.
You are the realization of that virtue,
that courage, that civil, and military ge-
MUS which sheds such lustre on our early
history,
You call to mind more freshly than po.
etic, or historic page, song, or speaking
canvass, that glorious record which was
craven more than two centuries ago, by
the first exiles of European oppression up-
on the granite rocks of New England,
Resistance to Tyran,s is obedience to
God"
Our affection Is warmed also, by the live.
ly interest which We feel in the spread Of
this cardinal principle and the fitness of its
championship, which you have evinced,
revealing constantly resemblance to that
immortal man. the impress Of whose great.
ness you behold on every side.
When liberty scou-ged from the Old,
sought out New World, wherein TO raise
her sncred temple. it was to his master,
hand she con6ded the noble work.
Had he been less great, that glorious
shrine might never have beaconed in the
sky, or al least, lis proportions nigh. have
been uncoath and insecure.
Now therefore. since liberty has secured
the manifold blessings that flow from hu>
man equality and proudly flung back the
saunts Of Tyran,s, ii is q JOY Gus reflection
TO the children of this her first home, thai
she has al length found man in foreign
lands fi!ly gifted to appreciate those bless
lngs, industrious 10 search out and fullw
the path by which they were attained, and
virtuous TO west no selfish advantage from
the thanksgiving that her mission will
arouse.
Sir, it is splendid characteristic Of our
National Gov that Ohioans are as
keenly touched by the story Of your
wrongs as the bofderies Of the Atlantic
conSt
Free,nen at The centre of our country's
population leap fast at the slrieks Of Free.
dom in every cline, believing in no cold
unbrotherlike law of distance, and we yielo
to no State in the sincerity with which the
following resolution was adopted:
Resolred, That we declare the Russiar
past inlerv enlion 10 the affnirs Of Hunga
ry, a violation Of the law of nations, which
il repeated would not be regarded indiffsr-
emily by the people of the State Of Ohio
In conclusion. sir, present 10 you q
copy of The Resolutions of the Genera
Assembly, and again welcome you to the
Valley Of the Great WesL trusting lha
the warmth Of your reception in Ohio, ii
but an earnes. Of that glowing sympathy
which will spring in your path, should yo,
gn still further westward On your holy mis-
sion..
Gov. Ko,su.h replied as follows:
SIR,--l have higher opinion Of your ag,
than to believe thai honesty and patriotism
could be anything more than plain, simpl,
duty He who has but done what will
sincere conviction he considered to be h
duty, hns no right to claim any npprecIa
t,on which is only due to merit. nu
conscious of having done my duty, but an
not conscious Of any personal merit
Let the. therefore. without any osten,n
sion or false ,nodesty, simply and humbly
decline all the praises which the Genera
Assembly OF the State of Ohio, as we'll a,
you, sir, in the name Of its committee
prompted by that interest which generou:
men ure so inclined to grant TO noble
cause and to unmeri,ed public misfortune
have been pleased personally TO bestow up
on my humble self. :zss
particularly must decline my military
| merit. |. was the duly Of my position, tt
crea'e armies, to nfovide for their necessi
ties and for the sinews Of war, as well a.
to give lhe objeciipa direction tn the s.stiit,
ry operations at Iafge-and that | have
| done. But felt not sufficiently inilialct
INTO the military sciences, often TO TAX,
even the responsibility for mere tnciicn
arrangements upon myself. have no
The holiness to undertake what | feel no
sufficiently to know. This sentimen. o
want Of Sufficient military skill in mysel
wns great misfortune IN one part, because
there is the reason why was lt,rced to en-
trust others with part which they misuse'