Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-01-30
CONGRESSIONAL BANQUET rs KOS
SUTEE.


ers we observe the names of Judge Douglas
General Shields, Dr. Molony, Col. Bissel, Ma
lor Richardson, and Nh Yates, Of Illinois
Hon. w King, President of the Senate presid-
ed, with Kossuth and Speaker Boyd, at his right
ard Webster on The left After the cloth had
been removed, Mr.. King announced the toasts
The lst. vas the President OF the United
States.
Mr.. Webster responded
The and The Judiciary OF the United States
Which was responded to BY Judge Wayne, Of the
Supreme Court
The Navy of the United States Responded
to BY Mr.. Stanton. of Tenn.
The Army of the Unted States Responded
to by Gen. Shields. He said:
He regretted that the iIlusi.ions chief Of the
army was not there to respond, butin the name
of the army he returned thanks for the toast and
the enthusiasm with which it had been received.
The army was worthy of the toast, having bro't
US safely through the wars. The voice of the
cannon in saIutng him, vas the voice of twenty
five millions of freemen.--[AppIause.l
Twas not a salute to KosSuth merely, but 10
tho great principle he advocated of nationality
and human liberty. Applause. As an Irish
man by birth, an American by adoption, he would
feel himself a traitor Of both countries if he did
not sustain downtrodden nationality everywhere
Il Applause.
The army thnt had maintained itself in three
wars against the most powerful nations in the
world, would if the trying time came again,
maintain the same flag the same triumph, the
same victories, in the cause Of liberty. APP
plause.
Mr.. King then announced
HUNGARY REPRESENTED IN THE PERSON OF
\ III
worthy to be free by tho virtue and valor of her
sons, the law of nations, and the dictates Of JUS
tice, alike demand that she shall have fair play
in her struggle for independence. LEathusGss-
ic Cheering.
KossUTH's REILLY.
Governor Kossuth rose in the midst of renew
ed cheers, and pronounced the following speech:
SIR AS once Cyneas, the Epirote, stood
among the senators OF Rome, who with an earn
est word Of self concious majestry, controlled
the condition of the world and arrested mighty
kings in their ambitious march, thus full of ad
miration and of reverence | stand before you,
legislators of the new capitol-that glorious hall
of your peoples collective majesty. The CAPT
to OF the old yet stands, but the spirit has depart
ed from il and come over TO yours, Purified by
the air Of liberty. The old stands mourntuI
yours as a sanctuary of eternal rights. The Old
beamed with the red Insure of conquest, now
darkened by expressions gloomy lght-yours
beams with freedoms bright ray. The old alb
sorbed the world by lis own centralized glory
yours protects your own nation against absorp-
ton even by itself The old was awful with ir-
restricted powor-yours is glorious w.th having
restricted it. At the view of the ordinations
trembled-at the view Of yours, humanity hopes
To the OLD misfortune was only introdu ced with
fettered hands to kneel at the triumphant con-
querer's hees---tO yours, the triumph Of intro
duction is granted TO unfortunate exies, invited
to the honor Of n seat, and where kings and Caes-
ars never would be hailed, for their powers,
might and wealth, there the prosecuted chief Of
a down-trodden nation is welcomed as your
great republics guest precisely because he is
prosecuted, helpless and poor. In the old, the
terrible rictiS was the rule--in your, protec-
ton TO the oppressors, and consolation to the van.
qushed in Just cause. And while out Of the
old conquered world was ruled, you in yours
provide for common confederate interests Of
territory larger than the conquered world of the
old. There sat men boasiing their will to be the
sOvoreigns of the world-here sit men whose
glory is, to acknowledge the laws of Nature and
of Natures God, and to do that their sovereign,
the peoples wills.
Sir, ,hore is history in These parallels His
tory of past ages, and history Of future centuries
may be often recorded in few words The small
particulars to which the passion Of living men
clings with iervent zeal as if the fragile fingers
OF men could arrest the rotation Of destiny's
wheels; these particulars die away. 1t is the is-
sues which make history, and that history is
always logical There is a necessity of conse-
quences where the necessity of position exists
Principles are the Alpha they must finish with
Omega, end they will. Thus history .ray be told
often in few words. Before yet the heroic
struggles Of Greece first engaged your country's
sympathy for the fate Of freedom in Europe, then
SO far distant, and now so near, ChauteGubriaud
happened to be in Athens, and he heard from a
minarct raised upon tho Propyln in ruins, a
Turkish priest in Arabic language announcing
the lapse Of hours 10 the Christians ofMiuerva's
town. Whatimmenso history in the small fact
Of Turkish Imaum crying out, PRAY, man,
the hour RS running fast, and the Jndgeucntdraw
near"
Sir, there IS equally histor; Of future acos
written in the honor bestowed BY you to my
humble self The first Governor ofindependent
Hungary, driven from his native land b. Russian
an exile on Turkish soil, protected by n
Nahommedan Sultan against the blood thirs; Of
Christian tyrants, cast back q prisoner to fair
Asia by diplomacy, rescued from his Asiatic
prison By America crossing the Atlantic, charged
with the hopes of Europe's oppressed nations
pleading, 4 poor exile before the people of this
great Republic, his down-troddon country's
wrongs and liz intimate Connection with the
fate OF the European Continent, and with the
holiness Of inst cause, claiming the principles
of the Christian religion 10 be raised 10 a law of
nations and to see not only the 5oldnces Of the
poor exile forgiven but 70 see him cousoed by
the sympathy Of millions encouraged by indlvid
uals, associations, meeting, cities, and states,
supported by operative aid, and greeted by Con-
gress and 81 the government as the nations
guest, honOred ont Of generosity with that hon
or which'only one man before him Teceiyed-and
that man received them out Of gratitude--viih
honoTed such az no po.enta'e ever can receive, /
and this banquet here, and the toasts which !
have TO thank you for; oh, indeed, sir, there is
history Of future ages in all these facts.
Sir, though have tie noble pT.de d M pin
ciples, and though have the inspiration Of
Just cause, still have also the conscience Of my
personal humility. Never will forget AHA: is
due from me TO the sovereign source Of my pub
lie capacity. This owe 10 my nations dignity,
and therefore, respectfully thanking this highly
assembly, in my country's name, /
have the holiness to say, that Hungary well De.
serves your sympathy Hungary has claim
TO protection, because il has claim to Justice
Butas 10 myself permit me humbly to express
that an we'll aware not 10 have III all these hon.