The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-01-15


ton Of the Ladies by the Hungarian chief at
Metropolitan Hall, the avenues leading 10 that
magnificent saloon were densely crowded by
fashIodabie assemblage, who slowly wound their
way into the beautifully decorated Hall. The
festive occasion being got up essentially for the
purpose of giving the gentler sex an opportunity
OF Judging of the merits of Kossuth it need
hardly be said, that they composed bv far tho
greater part of the company and 70 their credit
we may add that they exhibited the same. if NOT
| greater enthusiasm, than had been displayed
by their leige lords so many former occasions.
Soon, the large Hall was filed to suffocation,
with the exception of the gallery, where good
many more might have found room When the
company were seated the room presented most
brllh ant appearance, partly from the adding Of
many beautiful decorations to those of the pre-
Vlous evening, but principally from the audience
itself, composed it was Of the fairest Of the
land.
At qusrter past two o'clock Gov. Kossuth
! appeared through the middle stage door, accom-
panied By his wife, Count and Countess Pulskv.
and many of his suit. His entrance was the
signal for the whole audience to rise and cheer
in a manner which showed how much they ad-
nired the man who had devoted his life to the
cause of liberty. The Hon. George Bancroft,
the late Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court
of St. James, Mayor Kingsland, Dr. Tyng and
Bellows, Messrs. Richard OGorman and John
B. Dillon, the Irish patriots, and many other
invited guests, occupied q place on the stage
near the great Hungarian.
| Hon. George Bancroft here came forward and
spoke as follows:
LADIES OF New YoRK:-Woman does not
pass beyond the appropriate sphere of her duty
| when she meets TO join in giving welcome to
our illustrious friend, who, SURROUNDED by his
wife and the companions of his exile, honors US
this day with his presence. Humanity knows
no spectacle more touching than that of a great
and good man, toiling for humanity and struck
down by unjust violence. Wherever there is
misfortune to be soothed, wherever there is sor-
row to be assuaged, wherever the struggling
hero is called upon to look upward and to look
l forward, the voice of consolation should rise
from woman. [Applause.l The Hungarian
patriot has toiled in the spirit of truth and JUS
tice, for time honored constitutional liberty; for
rights to which thousands Of years had lent
! their sanction. 1t was because he had been
thus connected with the sacred and imperisha bic
cause of justice, that his faith and hope, ike
the trees of the mountains of his own native
land, sink their roots into the centre of the
earth, that they may be firm, and lift their
boughs and heads that they may catch glimpse
/ Of the 1t was because he sought nothing
( but justice and right, that the sources of his
faith and hope are as inexhaustible as the somce
of his own native Danube. TCheers7 And #
we looked forward TO the future the wisdom
which had marked his career, we need have no
fear from anarchy, icentiousness, or disorder
His mind-calm in adversely and prosperity
contemplates his life in action and in his pris,
! chains in the East. He had declared to US to
the world, in the language of inspired wisdom,
for the future of Europe there is no good hope
but in a republic, and he had shown that he
understood what that meant perfectly well He
has given evidence when he tells us that repub-
lies, to exist, must have vitality in all parts
The suffrage must be extended as among our
selves. There must be no central government,
but municipal liberty. He comes among US
the henored guest of the nation, thrice over
invited thrice, four-nany times over m lde
welcome. The Congress of the United States.
Congress, summoned him from the shores oi
Asia Minor. He has come hither heralded by
the President of the United States, who. in his
most solemn address to the nation, commends
him the rightful chief of Huncary-Tap-
, plause of that nation whose power had beer
Overthrown by violence. He comes among US
and finds himself welcomed by the municipa
nstitutions-welcomed by the unanimous ex
preston of Congress-welcomed by the Presi
: dent-welcomed by the millions of this wild,
E extended land, from the Atlantic all the wa,
e down to the Pacifc-and to this welcome h
1 responds in language like the voice of man,
S waters. lie comes TO US under the sanction
= and advice of Washington-for, never believ
I that Washington-who, at the moment of doub
4 in his own career, wrote to France 10 ask bo
: to stretch out her hand to his own relief daclo
, ring that if relief was not extended he sbo,,,
o perish-never believe that WASHINGTON wo,,,
e have seen nation struck down by the hands ,
: violent men, robbed of its national life .ni 10
5 bleeding on the earth Never believe n.
Washington would have been the pharisee