The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-04-08


unable to find place for it before. We hope
to receive other favors from the same source
-EDs. LIT. EcHo.]
Is KOssuth am Advocate Of
Liberty!
l propose to call your attention for
moment to the validity of the claim of
Louis Kossuth upon the sympathy and
cooperation of the impartial friends of
freedom: :so,iha 'ss,i 'tipt5a! 5i i'ii :. :. - =.
You well know that nearly every
American paper has sounded through its
columns the praises of the great Hunga-
rian Patriot. Such has been the cx-
element lin every city which he has
visited, that its effects have been felt
throughout the entire length and breadth
of our land Persons of both sexes, and
all ages, the high and the low, the rich
and the poor, the intelligent and the
Ignorant, are among his devoted admir-
ers; and all these are shouting |" Kos
suth and Liberty! Liberty and Kos
suth !" May l not with propriety in
quire what has been discovered in the
conduct or character of Louis Kossuth,
to render him worthy of such great
honor. .r,,rq 3D.. .r... ..H .tfs -i'f,w
He landed on our shores at timo
when the discussion of all other ques-
tions had given place to consideration
Of the system Of slavery existing within
the United States. lie was informed
before he left Europe that this great
country was one, vast hunting ground
upon which any politicalEaspirant could
prove himself worthy of any Office to
which he aspired by hunting down and
thrusting into slavery his equal brother.
He knew that the wrongs of the Magyar
peasant would shrink into insigniiicancc
when compared with the degradation
and misery Of the American slave.
While this great champion of human
freedom was in England uttering pro-
found political truths, and awakening in
the breasts of his hearers, ycarnings to
help with arms or voice, with life or
death, the cause of his native land, scores
of American Kossuths were there also,
who had graduated from our "pcculiar
institution" with their diplomaAscarcd
indclibly on their backs, who had been
obliged to seek that protection in the den
of the British Lion which was denied
them under the bcak of the American
Eagle. The reputation which preceded
him, and the great anxiety manifested
by our statesmen to have him speak we'll
IF our government and its institutions,
placed it within his power to have ad-
ministered rebuke which would have
done much to hasten the overthrow of
the "pcculiar institution" of our coun-
try, and usher in that day when every
man, being the legal owner cf his per-
son, T" shall sit unmolested under his own
vine and fgtrce." Even his lichtest
word of condemnation would have reused
the slumbering conscience of the North
ern "doughface," and the Southern
tyrant, and made them tremblc for their
future destiny in view of the wrongs
which they have perpetrated upon the
despised and neglected black man.
Now, any man having it in his power
to strike for freedom a blow like this,
and yet for some sinister motive with
holding that blow, is as much more
guilty than he, who, seeing his brother
man in river from which he might
Ieasily rescue him, passes on without
,]rendering any assistance,as the condition
of our slave population is more deplora-
BILE than the condition of him who is
about to sink to the bottom of rNer,
and fall into that :" sleep which knows
} no waking;" or, as moral and spiritual
murder is worse than physical murder.
|. If you examine the multitude Of speech
, es which have been poured fol tn in words
! of surprising eloquence to the crowded
} auditories which have everywhere assem-
blod to listen to the wrongs of down.