Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-02-07
PLAQUEMINE. PARISH IBERVILLE FEBRUARY 1875
The Congressional Danques.

7th. in honor of kosSuth, is said to have beel
a magnificent affair. The President gave th
following toast:
"Hungary, represented in the person of GU
honored Guest, having proved herself worthy
to be free by the virtues and va|or of her sons
the law of nations and the dictates of justice
alike demand that she shall have fair play in he
struggle for independence"
In reply, Kossuth made a most magnificent
speech, overtopping all his former oratorical eff
forts, and confirming the estimate formed ofh;s
mental powers, by the universal verdict of all
who can appreciate intellect
The aptitude and fitness Of the metaphors,
| allusons and quotations used by this great rhc-
tofician are truly remarkable. On the present
| occasion he assiniatcs himself to classic
character--Cinneas, a Thessalian, the friend
and minister fPyrrhus, King of Epeirus. The
assimilation betrays some egotism, but it may
be overlooked in the felicity of the aIuson
Cinneas, whose words as Pyrrhus said, had won
him more victories than his own arms, had been
sent on an embassy to Rome with proposals
of peace from Pyrrhus; and the terms offered,
were the liberation and freedom of all the Ital-
ian nations that had been subugated by Rome
Such was the eIo4uence aid persuasyeness of
the ambassador, that he would have succeed
ed in his negotiations, but for the wisdom and
counsel Of old Appius Claudius. Cinneas re-
turned and told the King, that there was no
people like the Romans-that there city aoas a
temple, their Senate an assembly Of kings.
But to KossUTH. He commenced his speech
with the following splendid antthetical paral-
lei of the condition of the old and new world:
GAS once Cyneas the Epirote stood among
the Senators of Rome, who, with an earnest
word OF selfconscious majesty, controlled the
condition of the world, and arrested mighty
kings in their ambitious march-thus, full of
admiration and OF reverence, | stand amongst
you, Legislators of the new capitol, that glori-
Gus hall of your peoples collective majesty
The capitol Of old yet stands but the spirit has
departed from it, and come to yours, purified by
the air of liberty. The old stands mournfu
monument of the fragity Of human things
yours, as a sanctuary Of eternal right The
old beamed with the red lustre of conquest,
now darkened by expressions gloomy night;
yours beams with freedoms bright ray. The
cd absorbed the world by its own centralized
glory; yours protects your own nation against
absorption. even by itself--The old was awful
with irrestricted power; yours, glorious with ha-
wing restricted it. At the view of the old, nations
trembled; at the view of yours, humanity hopes.
To the old, misfortune was only introduced
with fettered hands to kneel at triumphant con-
.querors heels To yours, thetriumph of intro
duction is granted to unfortunate exiles invited
to the honor of seat And where Kings and
Caesars never will be haer for their powers,
might, and wealth, there the prosecuted chief of
downtrodden nation is welcomed as your
great Republics guest precisely because he is
prosecuted. helpless and poor In the old, the
terrible We Wits. was the rule. In yours, pro-
lection to the oppressed, malediction to ambi-
tous oppressors, and consolation to vanquish-
ed just cause. And, while out OF the old con-
quored world was ruled, you in yours provide
for the common federative interest of territory
larger than the conquered world of the old
There sat men boasting their will to be the
sovereign of the world; here sit men whose
glory is to acknowledge the laws of nature
and of natures God, and to do what their So
vereign, the people, wills.
"Sir, there is history in these parallels. His
tory of past ages and history of future centu-
ries may be often recorded in few words. The
small particulars to which the passion of living
men clings with fervent zeal, as if the fragile
fingers ofmen could arrest the rotation Of des-
tiny's wheel, these particulars die away; it is
the issue which makes history, and that issue
is always logical. There is necessity ofcon-
sequences whenever the necessity of position
exists. Principles are the alpha; they must
finish with omega, and they viii. Thus histo-
ry may be told often in few words. 3 ss .a
'Before yet the heroic struggle of Greece
first engaged your country's sympathy for the
fate of freedom in Europe, then SO far distant,
and now SO near, Chateaubriand happened to
be in Athens, and he heard from a minaret rais-
ed upon the Propyeam's ruins a Turkish priest
in Arabic language, announcing the lapse of
hours to the Christians of Minerals town.
What immense history in the small fact of a
Turkish Imaun crying out, "Pray, pray! the
hour is running fast, and the Judgment draws
near" =a ez sta@ g4&9 II ~tg@
The Kossuth Feuer.-A great sensation was
produced in the streets yesterday by the ap-
pearance of an honest broad checked teamster,
who, in lack Of Kossuth feather had stuck