The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-05-20
VOL. VI.
K0SSUTH IN MOBILE.

| K0SSUTH IN MOBILE
| The telegraphic dispatches REPORTING .,..
Kossuth had been received in Mobile ALI
ma, with great enthusiasm were pronorr..,
by the Union and InteHigeneer, of this Mo-.
to be false. A friend in Washington has Ma
in our hands for publication the following att
Gle from Mobile paper, confirming the truth
of the dispatches. Our correspondent saws.
"Supposing that the editors of our c;tv 10
pers above referred to would be glad of an an
| portunty to do an act of Justice dine frSI'
them to the people Of Mobile and to Kossuth
| and his great cause, ! showed the article -
them, and requested its publication: but both
declined 1.-THE editor of the Union. not from
any untriendly feeling towards Kossu.b or
his cause, for he is friendly to both, but for
other reasons, satisfactory to himself But the
| senior editor of the Inteihgencer declined il
from downright hostility to the cause of Kos
suth and his manner Of advocating it,"
KossUTHs TOUR.
kossuth arrived at Mobile ON his return
Northward, and addressed the people of that
place at the Amphitheatre on the morning of
the Sd inst, and left for Montgomery the same
| evening. The Mobile Tribune contains his
speech, accompanied by the following remarks
of the editor
The audience was very large, doubtless the
| largest that has ever assembled in Mobile.
we think that there is no exaggeration in saw
ing that there were twenty-five hundred per-
sons present. and from an interior view many
| must have made unsuccessful attempts to pack
themselves within the dense assemblage Con.
sidering the inconyenient hour of the address
ana the wetness of the morning, it is fair to
presume that hardly moiety Of those who
take an interest in Kossuth was present on the
occasion.
"Some two hundred or more ladies graced
the audience
"The address we leave to speak for itself
Whether it is in entire harmony with other
addresses delivered by the same gentleman, is
more than we can determine The inconsis
tencies alleged between some of the first and
the latter of his addresses are more fanciful
than real but giving the broadest of these al
legged inconsistencies full credit for as much as
they prove, the result is not material There
has been no inconsistency in the action of Kos
suth-no inconsistency in the principles he has
enounced These stand on basis as broad as
humanity. They are rs true and as humane
as Christianity itself They are the substance
of the principles of our own Government and
unless man has no humanity, no religion, no
sympathy with our Republican system, we do
not see how he can avoid deep interest in the
subject, not to say a'strong disposition to en-
brace it,
From this abstract merit of the case comes
in the only arbter-namely, expediency Is
it expedient to embrace the Kossuth doctrine
Is it fit for our condition in the relation we
hold towards the rest of the world! Prove the
affirmative of these questions and argument
will cease and duty begin. In some measure
kOssuth's address is an answer to these ques-
tons
I'VE recolect no meeting that passed off in
more happy manner. Daniel Chandler, Esq,
at the appointed hour, in most eloquent brief,
and graceful address introduced the Hunga-
rian to the audience. Kossuth then rose, and,
in calm manner, proceeded to read his dis
course. This was no attempt at oratory, or in
dication of desire to enlist the mere feelings
of the audience. He was frequently interrupt
ed by vehement and general applause; and
once or twice stopped until the calming of some
noise made by persons trying to press through
the crowd. Occasionally his feelings became
interested in his matter, but throughout there
was mainly nothing but an earnest reading of
his discourse.
CAT the close loud cries were made for sew
eral gentlemen, and Judge Gayle, A. B. Meek,
Esq, and Col Perry Walker, responded in brief
and eloquent addresses. They spoke to Kos
suth, and expressed to him their entire approval
of what he had read Afterwards the Rev.
Mr.. Milburn was called, and here was q very
touching and impressive scene. The audience
by this time was deeply interested and rather
excited. The pale and attenuated form of the
eloquent student and preacher contrasted stri-
kingly, in its gravity and seriousness, with the
manner of those who spoke before him The
audience felt the change, and when, in clear,
solemn, and low tone, he proceeded until turn
ing to Kossuth, with hands extended and up
lifted eyes, he blessed the cause and the man,
and invoked the aid of Heaven upon them,
calm fell upon the immense assemblage and
hardly a breath was drawn. The quivering
around the muscles of the mouth of the Hun
garian showed that he felt the earnestness of
the appeal. He rose and grasped the hands of
MIR. Milburn, and wrung them, amidst shouts
which seemed to prove that the hearts of the
audience dwelt in the prayer for the emanci
patton of Hungary and the triumph of truth
and liberty throughout the world.
"Ihis was fitting close of the proceedings,
and then the meeting broke up in shout after
shout which shook the roof of the amphithe-
atre"
MOB IN RICHMOND, VA.-Some two months
ago, young man named Jackson employed
as an overseer in one of the tobacco factories
of Richmond, Va, undertook to fog one of the
colored workmen. A scufile followed the la