The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-03-23

| own country and the United States as fellows:
"ir was still more call Of distress entrusted
by the voice Of mankind to my care, TO bring
IL over TO America, as to the natural and most
powerful representative of that "Spirit Of Lib
euy.' against which the leagued tyranls are
waging a war Of exiermination, with inexorable
resolution. Yes, il was call OF distress, en-
trusted 10 my devoted, undefatigable care, TO
remind the Young Giant Of America that there
is tie IN the destinies Of nations; and that
those are digging botfomless pit who forsake
the Spirit OF Liberty, when within the bounds
Of common civilization, halfthe world ulters in
agony the call OF universal distress,
THAT is the mission with which | came TO
your shores, and believe me. gentlemen, that
il is the key of that wonderful sympathy with
which the people OF this Republic answer my
humble appeal. There is blood from our
blood in these noble American hearts: there is
the great heart o mankind which pulsa,es 10
the American breast; there is the chord Of lib
eriy which vibrates at my sighs. In that chord
is tue harmony, not my skill; it is the instinct
OF common danger which is reused oy the call
Of mankinds distress.
"Lel ambitious fools, let the pigmes who
live on the scanty TODD or personal envy, VIXEN
the very earth quakes beneath their feet, let
even the honest prudence of ordinary house,
hold times, measuring eternity with that thin
| bic with which they are wont TO measure the
bubbles Of small pairy interest, aud taking the
dreadful roaring Of the ocean for storm in a
water glass; let those who believe The weather
to be calm because they have drawn night,
cap over their ears and burying their heads in
the pillows ofdomestic comfort; dop't hear Sa-
tan sweeping IN a hurricane over The earth: let
envy, ambition, blindness and the pettifoggicg
wisdom OF small times, artistically Investigate
| the question of my official capacity, or the ma
ture Of my public authority; let them scrupu-
louslv discuss the immense problem, If pos
sess yet, or possess no more, the title OF my
once Governorship; let them ask for credentials
discuss the limits OF my commission as
representative of Hungary. | pity all such
frog and mouse fighting. Bdtrdhomeo omachoia,
in the language OF Homer.
| 'I claim no official capacity-Do public an
thoiiry-no repre- senta,iop, boast Of no COM
mission, OF no written and sealed ciedentials-
| am nothing bat what my generous friend the
Senator Of Michigan, has justly styled me, "a
private and banished man." But in that. my
capacity. have a nobler credeniai for my mis-
sion than all the clerks Of the world can wite,
the credential tha, am 'ntan'--the creden-
| ,al that am ''pdtriot''-lhe credenta that
love with all sacrificing devotion my oppressed
| fatherlGnd aud hbertU the credential that
ha fe Iyrdnts and have sworn everlasting hos,il-
ity 10 them the credenta that feel the strength
| to good service to the cause Of lreedom; good
| service as perhaps few men can do, because
have tho iron will, ip this my breast, to serve
faithfully. devotedy, updefaligably, that noble
cause. / have the iron will, which no power
on earth can bend. which, belure no danger,
will shrink.
"Alas! Who in the world, among all who
| live, las more, and more powerful enemies
| than have. who has dared moro boldly 10 pro-
| woke all their fury upon his head. than | have,
! Their raging hostility is my daily food, their
persecution my beverage, and their venonous
craft the pillow Of my short siumbering. And
still here | stand, shouting out 10 heaven and
to earth, Liberty Liberty Liberty! or Death"
And will 60 on shouting. until my untired voice
has aroused the thuoder of heavens and the
roaring Of those caDnons Of Liberty. which |
have stamped with the motto, ''Becare 10 aOrong
Hungary And ill | have fair open field
and musket instead of pen in my hand, and
upon that musket bayonet TO call a terrible
| accounts for my countrys wrongs. And have
the credential that trust TO God in heaven and
| TO Justice on earth that offend no laws, but
cling to the protection Of laws.
sI have the credential of ms peoples unde-
niable confidence and mistaken faith TO my de
| votiop, TO my manlIness, TO my honesty. and TO
my patriolism; which faith | will honestly an
swar without ambition, without interest, faith
fully as ever, but more skillfully, because
schooled by adversiies. And have the ere
DENTAL Of the jnstice Of the cause | plead and
ofthe wonderful sympathy which not my un-
pretending person bat that cause has met and
| meets in two hemispheres.
"These are my credentials. and nothing else.
| To whom this if enough, he will help me, so
| far the law PERMITS and IL is his good pleas.
ure TO DO; to whom these credentials are not
sufficient-well. let him look for better ac-
credited man; l can present no better creden-
| ,:a,.
Il would set like, in a similar d,y. uninter-
esing, but perhaps logical and practicable man
ner, TO say something, not so much about my
own personality, as rather aboutthe line have
taken in my honest, undertaking of my native
land, so as have considered il my honest duly
TO be, openly to declare in Europe. yet on sew
eral occasions. but chiefly also to the Hungar-
ian emigration, my fellow exiles, as well In let
ters from Asia, yet as also personally 10 Eng
land. You would by this get the key TO GER
tain personal attacks from certain Hungarians.
II have too lively sentiment of my own
modest dignity, as ever to condescend TO pol
emics about my own personal merits or abili-
ties. believe my life was public enough to
appertain to the impartial judgement OF history
! for the present. | can quietly rely upon my
peoples warm love and unabated, rather in
creased confidence, the more quietly. because
l know that at least at home, all those who are
either the directors or the tools OF such in
trigues, can do harm TO nobody but themselves,
but il might have perhaps interested you TO
hear how, in ANAL and inconsiderable circle
of the Hungarian emigration the idea was star
ted that must be opposed, because have de-
cared against all compromise with the House
Of Austria, or with royalty, and by declaring
that my direction will be in every case only Re-
publican, make impossible every other arrange
ment, but only by new revolution.
I'll have the written proofs Of IL 10 my hands,
but am so tired that mast delay il Tor some
other occasion. But as il was impossible for
you not to be surprised to see myself precisely
then attacked by some of my countrymen.
| when everythino has shown that am in rood