Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-31
KOsSuth.

The following, written for the Homestead, we
publish at the request of the writer;
FmBND HINcuMAN: The great Hungarian will
perhaps, before this is in press, be in our midst.
Curiosity is on tiptoc to sec him, especially
among those who are ever ready to waste ;heir
means on foreign projects, while they have
more than their hands full at homo.
II war is just, Kossuths cause is just. But
arc We under existing circumstances morally
bound to aid him; Would Layfayettc have
left his native land, to participate in the rcvolu-
tionary struggle, while three millions of his
countrymen, groancl beneath the lash of pitt
less task master; No, it would have been un-
reasonable Besides we have treaty Of peace
with Austria and live under Government that
boasts Of being n government by the people,
The people nnd most Of the government officers
arc actually assisting with their money or in
hucncc, TO carry on war with Autria; and
every individual donation is in principle one
vote cast for violating government treaty, and
we might as well invade Austria, us to arm and
equip Others to do it. So that even if we evalc
the letter of the treaty, we violate it in princi
pie.
Kossuth is patriot, but not philanthropist.
Liberty for his native land, is his theme. And
if this is right in him, why not in usi We are
not bound as patriots to open cannonadc for
liberty, against the whole world. Tho Repub-
entitled to our assistance as Hungary. And
the Southern Slave, moro than all combined
If Kossuth was true philanthropist, he would
distribute his fund where he could relieve the
most suffering with the least bloodshcd, and the
amount that would wage successful war against
Austria would purchase nearly as many South.
ern bondmen, as would escape tho sword of
battle in Hungary, and without bloodshed on
either side. The oppression of the Slave power
is tenlold greater than that OF Austrian tyranny,
for it robs its victim of the right to call himself
man. Kossuth can listen and reply to the
speeches of Webster and others, and yet remain
practical non interventonists with the doe
trines and principles that they advocate He
can join hands with the stakeholder, and receive
tho proceeds of those peculiar institutions to
carry on a war for freedom and equal rights,
and studiously avoid mcddling with any thing
that is not intended for the interest of his own
cause. His country first, his country last, with
out regard to the means made use of to accom-
plish its deliverance-it is perfectly right for
him to be silent to tho wrongs of our oppressed
and down -troden countrymen. But he teaches
that it is selfish and unchristian like, to treat
the struggles of Hungary for freedom with in
difference. Is it not equally so for him to treat
with indifference our American victimsi Why
if we must attend to the affairs of other nations,
should he not look after ours.
How is iii To do honor to him, will our citizens
protesting peace principles bestow their con-
tributions for the purchase of arms. Our Tenn
perance men for the purchase of Kossuth wine
and our emancipationists to one who refuses
to see or know of the existence ofslavery among