Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-21
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1852.
IN SENATE.

ting compliance with resolution of the Senate OF the
oath February 1851, list of the stockholders of the
owned by each and other information relating to the sub
ect; which read and referred to the Committee on
| Roads and Canals.
Also the following letter from L. Kossuth, which
read:
! CMoINNArI ONO FEBRUARY a. 1852.
SIR: Before left Washington felt myself bound by
gratitude return my warmest thanks to the Govern
Congress of the United States the generous
patronage they had so kindly granted to me as the
humble representative of my country from the time when
they had steam figate Asia, in order to restore
liberty and activity to the moment when the august
Senate and House, and the President babe welcome
| in the Capitol and in the White House
Not initiated into the diplomatic forms Of the United
States respectfully directed my farewell to his Excel
leney the President and requested him to communicate
my of everlasting gratitude to the Senate and
! the House of Representatives.
The Secretary of State had since the great kindness to
inform me- though his letter has reached but recently
that my request respect to the communication would
have been gladly complied with if it consistent with
the accepted FORMS and he suggested it to
appropriate way send copies Of address to the Pres
dents of the Senate and of the House
1t is upon this suggestion Of the Secretary of State that
now the great honor to enclose the feeble
of my everlasting gratitude and hope with the request
have communicated to the august body of which you
the President.
Mr. President of the Senate, your most humble and
obedent servant, L. KOSSUTH.
To the Hon. W. R. KING, President of the Senate.
ton which was read by the SECRETARY, follows:
WASHINGTON, JANUARY IL, 1852
PRESIDENT The most generous invitation contained in
act of the Congress of the United States approved and
officially transmitted to by your Excellency, having
afforded the distinguished honor of being acceptaby
presented by the usou Secretary of State the Chief
Magistrate of the Republics
Having BEEN upon subsequent resolutions of Congress-
received with almost unprecedented honors by the Senate
and by the House of Representatives
Having been entertained with unsurpassed kindness by
the Senators and Representatives of the United States
Obliged with coresies far excelling my aspiration by
the heads of the various Departments of the Executive
Government and favored by marks of kind attention and
sympathy by the honorable members of Congress in
bers which almost equaed the aggregate of the two IL
lustrious Legislative bodies of this great Republic the
time has when the exigences of my country affairs
require depart from the city of Washington and full
FL the agreeable duty of acknowledging personally that
protective sympathy which many towns cities and States
of this glorious Confederation continue to manifest favor
of the just of counrys downrodden indepen
dence and the freedom of the European continent in
tmately connected with it.
This my departure becoming urgent as accord
ing the present condition of Europe every moments
accident may call on me to those duties which,
in obedent compliance with my nations sovereign will
assumed when, unanimously elected Governor of the
State of Hungary, took oath God and the people to
maintain that national independence which my nation had
asserted SO herocay and had declared legitmatey
it is matter of deep regret be able ndvid
ually to express my everlasting warm gratitude
But, though my mind be mournfuy impressed with in
grief tSlanch0y lntclngence connected
with the last of staying here that the heart
beloved and venerable mother has broken under the
renewed cruel persecution inflicted upon my family by the
House of AUSTRIA still take my departure from
the capital without leaving formal but sincere acknow
ledgmen of all those memorable favors generously be-
slowed upon me-
Conscious as am that these honors we're neither de-
served by nor intended to personally, who humble
exile could consent myself aggrandized while
my country lies in ruin and in chains have then all the
thankfully received manifestations of the respect
-
y sympathy which this great and generous country
tains for my beloved and for moment to be for
gotten fatherand temporary victim Of the viola
ton Of those principles.
The oppressed nations Of the European continent so
highly interested in those principles will look with con-
ISOLATION those memorable fayors was honored with as
to practical proof that the Chief Magistrate of this
great Republic indeed true interpreter ofits peoples
sentiments and met with the cordial Of the
enlightened Legislature of his glorious country when he
officially declared that the United States cannot remain
Indifferent in q in which the strong Of foreign
Power is invoked se public sentiment and to Cypress
the spirit of freedom in any country"
This magnanimous declaration followed by such gene
rous manifestations will be recorded in history pro-
testaton behalf of the everlasting principles of the law
Of nations against their nracton by violence And the
millions Of my people win revive with hope and confidence
when they shall to know what favors bestowed
upon their exed chief by the great Republic of the West
in acknowledgment Of the justice Of Hungarys
In her name and MS her representative have received
them and they have sunk into the very heart of heart
Il
expressing my thanks for them, and desire your Excel
ency well the Executive officers the Senate and
the House Of Representatives, collectively and ndvidu
ally receive the Of my and my countrys
eternal gratitude.
Sad and solemn is the hour Of parting from presence
so consong and august; but | carry with me- In my
further wanderngs the hope that the United States will
continue kindly remember always my unhappy most
well-deserying fatherland
Neither the pangs Of exile, the egotism Of my pa
rotc feelings, the interests Of oil those nations whose
common rights and wrongs plead before the mighty
bunal Of publicity, will induce to desire that the
United States should for sake put in jeopardy the
welfare and prosperity Of this glorious home Of lib
ert but the present condition Of Europe and the
ing events that continent which already their
dows before them cannot fail to attract the
invite the consideration Of such Power as the
United States cannot orbear TO hope that the very
consciousness Of that security which the United States en-
JOY while the greatest part Of Europe quakes will
more impress upon their true republican generosity the
sentiments OF supreme urgency to in respect to
the law Of nations and international duties and rights
also IN respect to the undsturbed safety Of commercial
intercourse IN favor Of such principles which founded
upon the law Of nature and Nature God equally
sstent win the fundamental principles Of this great Re-
pubnc ana indispensable TO peace and contentmen
earth
humanity would hail such pronunciation from such
place win inexpressble JOY and il the violation
OF those principles by armed foreign interference
gary which opened the door system Of overwhelming
desposm on the European continent the very fact that
Hungary forced by the treacherous oppression eve,
seen IN the history Of mankind has in declaring its indie
pendence but exercised that right and followed that pr
clpe upon which stands so glorously the very potic
o. 'he United States, and the fact that this T.
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