Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-01-01
Kossnth in New YORK.


The great speeches Of Kossuth at the Corporation
Banquet and the Press Dinner are long for pubes
ton in our paper without excluding every thing else
In these great speeches he asks the aid and the ympa
thy Of this country for his beloved Hungary, but he
avows his determination to violate no law of neutrality
His speeches show him to be most extraordinary
They always suited to the circumstances surround
ing him. He displays wonderful knowledge of our
political and social history well the geographical
position and municipal regulations and laws of each
State In his speech the Press Dinner after showing
that this the only country where the people enjoyed
free and unshacked press, turning to the subject Of
popular education, he says:
DO you know, gentlemen, where consider the most
glorious of your countryl-if it be so as
have read once-t is that fact that when IN the steps
Of your wandering squattes your engineers 60 on to
draw geometrical lines in the territories where the
sound of human step never yet has mixed with the
murmurs by which virginia. nature is adoring the Lord
in evegv place marked to become a township, on every
sixteenth square you place modest wooden pole, with
POPULAR EDUCATION STOCK"
This is your proudest monument.
The speech is repete with historical facts and sound
logic. The following are his concluding remarks:
cannot exhaust this vast topic in speech, 60
the end only state clearly my own and my nations
ruling principle in respect to the claims OF the ma
publican Institutions founded universal suffrage, and
so the majority of the eign people shall rule in
every respect, the village in the city, in the country,
in the Congress and Government-in all and everything.
What to the public Of the Villages OF the city,
of the country, of the CongressbelOngs self govern
ment everywhereand universal suffrage and the rule Of
the majority everywhere. That is our principle for
which we live and ready to die. This is the cause
for which humby request the protecting aid of the peo-
pie of the United States, and chiefly your aid and pro-
lection, genllemen,-you the mighty engineers Of the
public opinion Of your glorious land!
Let me entreat YOU gentlemen TO accord tins protec
ton to the Of my downrodden land; it is the
of oppressed humanity the European Continent
II the of Germany bleeding under the scourge
Of some thirty petty yrans all leaning upon that league
of despots the basis Of which Petersburg 1t is the
of fair but unfortunate Itak, which in many
spects dear to my heart. We have common enemy
brothers in arms for freedom and independence
know how Italy stands, and | dare confidently de-
clare there is no hone for Italy but in that great Repub-
lican party at the head of which Mazzni stands II
has nothing to do with Communicated schemes the
French doctrines of Socialism. But it wills Italy indie
pendent free and Republican. Whittier could Italy look
for freedom and independence If not TO that party which
Mazzini leadsl To the King OF Naples, perhaps. Let
be silent about that execrated man. Or TO the dy
nasty of Sardinia and Piedmont Ii PROCESSES to be
stutiona and captures those poor Hungarian soldiers
who seek um in Piedmont; it captures and de-
vers them to Austria TO be shot-and they are shot,
creasing the number of those ZAP martyrs whom Ra
detsy murdered the scaod during three short years
The house of Savoy became the bloodhound OF Austria
spill Hung blood.
Gentlemen, the generous sympathy of the public opn-
ion oi the United States-God be blessed for ills
strongly aroused to the wrongs and suerngs OF Hunga
Ty. My humble task in that respect is done. Now
look for your generous aid keep that generous sympa
thy alive, that may subside like the passing
ton Of the heart.
look for your generous aid to urge the formation Of
societies 10 collect funds and to create loan
look for your generous aid to urge the public opinion
OF the sovereign people the United States pronounce
r r II 4. IL. IL.
to express the Corporation Banquet of the City OF
New York, until the resolutions OF the people succeed
TO impress the favorte decision to thes policy of the
United States.
in that respect beg leave single remark to make
In speaking of the principle Of nonadmIsson of any In
reference in any countrys domestic concerns took the
liberty express my humble wish Great Britain
invited TO unite in this protective policy The reason Is,
because take the present French Government for one
of the nerered and continues to inter-
ere in Rome But the French nation take for Of the
oppressed. The French nation will do the as Hun
gary Italy and Germany. The alliance Of the French
nation is insured by its necessary principles, if the Re-
public becomes reality. The decisive soneston is
what the neutral powers will do-and these Great
Britain aud the United States.
Let me hope, gentlemen. that however low may have
fallen in your expectations by this humble address,
which, though sketched down, still without elo-
quence, by want Of time elaborate; still, following
the generous impulse of your republican hearts, and con-
sdering the mnert Of my humble self, but merit OF
the which plead, you will accord me that protec-
tive aid Of the Free independent Press upon which rest
for the greater part the hopes OF my nation and those oil
oppressed humanity And il you generously accord me
that protective aid will yet also fulfilled, in my
countrys cause those noble words which you, Sir
ITO the Charman from that height where the genius Of
poetry scars, have told your people. which likes to
listen to the noble Inspirations of its Bryant,
The eternal years God hers;
But Error, wounded, wTithes In pain,
And dies among
Let me add, Sir. ,Sith