Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-02-27


Kossuth's Thanks to the Government.
The following COMMUNICATIONS from NJ Kossuth
were laid before the United States Senate the 18th
inst by the Hon. William R. King, President of that
body:
CINCINNATI, Ohio. Feb IA, 1852
SIR: Before left Washington, felt myself bound
by gratitude to return my warmest thanks to the
Government and the Congress of the United States
for the generous patronagethey had so kindly grant
ed to me as the humble representative of my coun-
try from the time when they had sent steam fri
gate to ASIA in order to restore me to liberty and ac
tiyity, to the moment when the august Senate and
House. and the President. bade me welcome in the
Capitol and in the White House.
Not initiated into the diplomatic forms of the Uni
ted States respectfully directed my farewell to his
Excellency the President and requested him to COM
munieate my assurance of everlasting gratitude to
the Senate and House of Representatives.
The Secretary of State had since the great kind
ness to inform me- though his letter has reached me
but recently that my request in respect to the
munication would have been gladly complied with,
if it were consistent with the accepted FORMS and he
suggested it to me as more appropriate way 10 send
copies of my address to the Presidents of the Senate
and of the House.
1t is upon this suggestion of the Secretary of State
that have the great honor to enclose the fee
bic expression of my everlasting gratitude and hope,
with the request to have 1T communicated to the
Mr.. President of the Senate, your most humble
and obedient servant, l.. kOSSUTH.
TO the Hon. VIM R. King President of the Senate
Mr.. Downs called for the reading of the commu-
nication which was read follows:
WASHINGTON, Jan. II, 1852
President: The most generous invitation contain
ed in the act of the Congress of the United States
approved and officially transmitted to me by your
Excellency, having afforded the disting uished
honor of being acceptably presented by the llusri
nfth RI Ma Of
the Republic.
| Having been, upon subsequent resolutions of Con-
gress received with almost unprecedented honors by
the Senate and House ofRepresentatives
Having been entertained with unsurpassed kind
ness by the Senators and Representatives of the U.
States, obliged with courtesies far exceling my
piration by the heads of the various departments of
the Executive Government. and favored by marks of
kind attention and sympathy by the honorable men,
bers of Congress in numbers which almost equalled
the aggregate of the two ilustrious Legislative bod
les of this great Republic the time has come when
the ext gences of my countrys affairs require me to
depart from the city of Washington, and fulfil the
| agreeable duty of acknowledging personally that
protective sympathy which many towns, cities and
States of this glorious Confederation continue to
manifest in favor of the just cause of my countrys
down -trodden Independence and the freedom of the
European continent intimately connected with it.
| This my departure becoming more urgent, as. &C
cording to the present condition Of Europe, every
moments accident may call on me to answer those
duties which, in obedient compliance with my ma
tons sovereign will, assumed when, as unanimous
| ly elected Governor of the State of Hungary took
oath to God and the people to maintain that nation
al independence which my nation had asserted SO
herocally and had declared so legitimately, it is
matter of deep regret to me not to be able lndivIdu
ally to express my everlasting gratitude.
But though my mind be mournfully impressed
with nconsoiabe grief at the melancholy intelligence
connected with the last Of my staying here
that the heart of my beloved and venerable mother
has broken under the renewed cruel persecution in
ficted upon my family by the House of Austria, still
| cannot take my departure from the capitol with
out leaving formal but sincere acknowledgement
of all those memorable favors generously bestow-
ed upon
Conscious as am that these honors were neither
deserved by nor intended to personally, who, an
humble exile, could consent to see myself ag
grandized while my country lies in ruins and in
chains have then all the more thankfully received
manifestations of the respect for everlasting prn
ciples of national law, and of the lively sympathy
which this great and generous country enterains for
my beloved and never for moment to be forgotten
fatherland, now temporary victim of the violation
of those principles.
The oppressed nations of the European continent,
so highly interested in those principles, will look
with consolation at those memorable favors | was
honored with. practical proof that the Chief Ma
gstrate of this great republic indeed true in
terpreter of its peoples sentiments and met with the
cordial concurrence of the enlightened Legislature of
his glorious country, when he officially declared that
& the United States cannot remain Indifferent in a
case in which the strong arm of foreign power is
invoked to stihe public sentiment and to Cypress the
spirit of freedom in any country"
! This magnanimous declaration, followed by such
generous manifestations, will be recorded in history
protestaton behalf of the everlasting prnci-
pies of the law of nations against their nfracton by
violence And the millions of my people will revive
with hope and confidence when they shall come to
know what favors bestowed upon their e1iled
chief by the great Republic of the West in acknowl-
edgment of the Justice of Hungary's cause.
! In her name, and her representative, have re-
ceived them, and they have sunk into the very heart
of my heart. In her name and her representative
| feel the duty of expressing my thanks for them,
and desire your Excellency we'll the Executive
officers, the Senate, and the House of Representa-
tives. collectively and Individually. to receive the
surances of my and my countrys eternal gratitude
Sad and solemn is the hour of parting from pres
ence so eonsolng and august but | carry with
me, in my further wanderings, the hope that the
United States will continue kindly to remember al
ways my unhappy but most we'll deserving father
land.
Neither the pangs of exile, nor the egotism of my
patriotic feelings, the interests of all those
tons whose common rights and wrongs plead be-
fore the mighty tribunal of publicity will ever in
duce to desire that the United States should for
our sake put in jeopardy the welfare and prosperity
of this glorious home of liberty but as the present
condition of Europe and the coming events on that
continent. which cast already their shadows before
them cannot fail to attract the attention and invite
the consideration of such Power on earth as the
United States are, cannot forbear to hope that the
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