The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-22
THE DEMOCRATS.
Kossuth,s Address for his Mother.

Last evening Kossuth delivered address at the Ia
bernaclc for the purpose of raising funds for the support
Of his mother sisters and othersreatives The building
was well ned-thc majority of the audience consisting Of
ladies and the anti slavery party that rallied around him
in this city from the beginning There arrange
ments whatever for reporting the proceedings, No
able-no chairs Kossuth read his address from manu-
script though his Secretary stated yesterday in reply
application from Of reporters for copy Of It,
that he did not and would not write it, that in fact 1t
impossible for him to do How true this was may
his two organs.e 5,ae and 1esSefmorJt . IN ths hhe Qaf e.
and copy refused after being at first promised
the Tribune office. Our reporter, however has notes Of
it. could publish at full length it were worth
upon other occasions, But it is the same everlasting
riemarole that he has talked here for six hundred
times and our readers are a. weary of IL "a we
are ouiseyee. sketch will, therefore, be sufficient
lilo laid DOWN the principle that by the laws Of Christi
anity nations as well as individuals were bound to take
interest Ia the welfare Of their neghbors this con-
nection be said the word idiot derived from the
Greek and meant selfish and devoted to own inte-
rests in opposition to the public good-a principle that
stgmatzed by heathens. He said wealth pros
perty and even property guarantee of the
by Of the nstitu,lous Of the country Prosperity
dangerous for 1t made men careless of the future other
nations were prosperous and free but they fell The Ko
mans were happy and prosperous and Industrious
Americans. hey covered the with their ships and
the land with men, and Iuxurs from every cline
poured into their laps and their power extended the
world; yet they fell Thus prosperity no guarantee
but perhaps freedom H. IL hi becomes one to nvest
gate whether there Is not :" something rotten in the
state OF Denmark" daughter on the part Of the
abohtionists) but rejecting in the mirror Of the
past he Nw therein warming that th. prosperity
and freedom might not se permanent Freedom the
tairest gift Of God but IL wasno security Of itself Re.
public not word. 1t old as Gre-ce. Re-
publcs had all perished-the small ones by foreign
power and the large ones by domestic violence. In
this country the Fix Indian nations n republic
But the fathers of the audience he addressed had
the last of the Hohawks There Of them
alive. The American republic would do well to aks
warming from this. As for himself aud his nation he
never SPARED. What he relied was q rock that
could not sil--t was the religion Of Christ Voice
Nhphcr m lie AL he truth nu1h /
might offend and he would speak IL with the faith Of
martyr. II was thisthe law Of Saviour rhe reli-
gion Of Christ alone could happy future Nei-
tler this nation any other yet Christian Tndi
vduals in this nation but not the nasn itself and
when Christianity came then would be the future Of
ttons No@herc did Christianity rule the world On the
contrary in the Of Christian fields had been de-
lused with blood cities wrapped Ia hanes and Virgins
rayished Did Christianity teach this Quite the re
verse. lie then went TO urge that Christian virtue
was not merely negat vc--t was positive IL was not
sufficient bo wrong. it necessary to do good
and in the Of the eternal God, he called them
say whether there any rcal distinction between the
private and public love Christianity They extended
their charity 20 his aged, homeless mother his aged
sister AID his nephews because tney their neigh
bors in the scripture sense But this did not ,a.fy bis
heart Tor uugaIy ts the neghb0r of the United
States
(The audience did not TO feel the force OF this
remark. and did not cheer IL
Ana, o my God Re continued to make a distinc-
ton between public and private duties Chu anity
applied only to email relations and not great ones
Gould their views be divided about the law Of Christian
love to % unto other would they should do
us? u ihce be no ono whatever may be his platform
who will disclaiIn that principle hal he tkosutb)
not right 10 demand the application o. IL, IL
their politics did not agree with the law Of Cbr then
they Christian but they did agree with it he
eUlo not cause any division Again nc warned them that
other nations industrious aud 'spercu5
and powerful and they had vanished like bubble so
might the United states God visited tho sias OF the
fathers upon the children. Nothing could saye thus
country but the law OF Christianity. Much was given
them and much would be required
After endeayorpg TO show that hts foreign pnlicy or IN
eryention IN the affairs u Europe was the law OF Chris
anity he concluded his by touching appea 10
the pous clergy and the tender hearts Of the ladies'
After he concluded there vas tremendous rush among
the ladies shake hanos with hin but by rapid
nov, ment he disappointed them and ysnshed IN tho
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