Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-02-26
The Kossuth Cause.
Extract from letter by independent" the aNorh
American aud United states Gaxette"l

American aud United States Gazette" y
WASHINGTON, Feb %.
The publication of the correspondence in re-
gard to Kossuth-a part of which Is suppressed
will be apt to produce some reaction in the pub
lie mind, especially in conuexiou with the recent
developments which have been made in other
Quarters. 1t would have been far better had the
iacts been allowed to reach the public before the
demagogues took Kossuth in hand, to use him for
poiucal purposes, and before the demonstrations,
"n'ch cost so much money and with such little
auVanthge, were commenced. 1t may now well
be asked, What is the mission of Kossuth TO end
IN! When he hrst landed on our shores the
people were told, in his burning and brilliant Ian
guage, that events were SO shaping themselves in
Europe that he might be recalled to the scene of
action ut any moment and that the coup d'etat of
Louis Napoleon was but the signal for n popular
uprising, which would be followed by most mo-
nentous consequences. . #r@ H,,ta
AS in the case of the French revolution, which
destroyed the purple of republican king to
erect the throne of o despot, the politicians
| rushed in and seized upon Kossuth as an element
of political capital. They were the first to as
sail those who doubted the result of that revolu-
tion and the last to admit that even their cheap
sympathy had been unjustly expended. These
two lessons of such recent experience should at
least furnish some admonition against the prac-
tice, grown too common, of Unfortunately
adopting every object, individual, and occasion
for popular glorfcation, without considering
whether the cause of human rights is to be pro-
NOTED or prejudiced by such action.
Thus far, the orator has not proved himself q
prophet. His predictions yet remain to be full
filled. And since the fever has comparatively
subsidized, and men have begun to reflect more
calmly upon the tendency of the doctrines with
which Kossuth has endeavored to enlighten the
American mind, the inquiry may not be consid-
cred out of place, if directed to that material
aid'' which was promised with SO much zeal,
when keen partisans supposed the investment
would turn out a source of profitable specula-
ton. The distinguished Hungarian will look in
vain for the patriotic dollars which were to have
| filed the Golfers Of the GLORIOUS cause; !" and
when he and those who conspicuous in
appropriating him to their exclusive benefit, and
| SO forward in denouncing others who dared to
exercise the freeman's privilege of independent
opinion, come to compare notes, they may mu-
tually inquire which of the two has been the
more humbugged?
If this government is to exert moral infu-
ence upon the destinies of Europe, and to fur
nsh an example worthy Of imitation, demonstra-
tons and expressions of sympathy should be
confined to occasions which ght well challenge
the respect of the civilized world, and not be
made common by being offered to every adven-
| turer, and in compliment of every enrute which
may falsely assume the name Of revolution for
liberty.