Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-02-24
KOssUTH-HIs TRADUCERS.

Ever since the glorious Magyar has been a.
mong us the honored guest OF the American
people, he has been barked at by an envious
crew, who secure in their own insigni6cance,
have hitherto found impunity in their miserable
business. Again, the illustrious stranger has
been followed from place to place, by tribe of
hungry eeches, disgracing the country, by the
tenacity with which they hung to his skirts, and
sponged upon his expenses; and their dastardly
conduct has been charged against Kossuth as
indiscriminate extravaganza of expenditure, DC.
The editor Of the Cleveland Plaindealer, who,
as one of committee of citizens, visited Kos
suth at Pittsburgh, made ample enquiries as to
this last scandal, and thus shows up the rascali-
ty and imposition of which the Nations guest
has been too much the victim:
"You have already been posted with regard
to the outrageous manner Kossuth and suite
have been imposed upon by set of American
loafers, who play the Jackal about this Lion,
and feast upon his bounties, charging the ex-
pense to his extravaganza. Even the legislative
iackeys from Harrisburg followed Kossuth to
Hollydaysburgh, and drank and smoked bill of
some two or three hundred dollars, all charged
TO Hungarian extravaganza. But the citizens
of Pittsburgh put stop to this nefarious plum
der, by choking off the laSaroni in pursuit, and
frankly told the thousand and one Committees,
Letter writer's, &C., &C., that they must pay their
own bills The consequence has been that the
entire bill for extras of Kossuth and suite at the
st. Charles, up to last night was $3.50, and
this mostly for Stationery. Kossuth drinks no
wine, and eats comparatively little. His attend
ant drink occasionally, more to oblige pretend
ed friends than themselves. Much has been
said about the Governors retinue. 1t consists
of his wife, two children, nurse and tutor, all
indispensable when we consider that they are an
exiled family, and have no home but in the
hearts of the people. He has an Englich private
Secretary and Hungarian private Secretary
both necessary to attend to correspondence writ
ten in some dozen different languages, from the
old and new world His table groans with
heaps of unanswered letters. The last steamer,
the Asia, brought him one hundred and forty let
tiers. This is his foreign correspondence, and
add to this his American correspondence, his
American attendance to introductions, private
and public, his addresses, written and oral, and
you have before you the work of tDenty ordi-
nary men. Still, he employs but .fre, but they
work almost necessarily, and that without wa
ges.
There is doctor along who is Swede, but
he pays his own expenses and serves Kossuth
Of exiles whom sundry of the papers and letter
writers represent as wine bibbers, debauchees,
and needlessly putting the country to great
expense by employing too large retinue!-
Bah? Is not the charge, stripped of its false
hood, most contemptibly outrageous! Ought
not the slanderers to be banished or publicly
bastinadoed? Kossuth knew nothing of this
rascality until he reached Pittsburgh. He has
not seen bill ofexpense rendered since he land
ed on our shores, and he says he has no time to
read papers The real friends here saw that his
cause was suffering by this foul SANDER and
they made known to him the facts. He and his
suite have determined to publish card stating
the case as it is, which will effectually silence
such paid Austrian croakers as "Otsego," and
the whole Galphin crew, from James Watson
Webb down to that penny whistle, the Cleveland
Herald"