Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-31
THE HUNGARIAN INRoAD.

opens as follows:
Towards the close of the reign of Charles the
: Second some Wings who had been deeply implicat-
ed in the plot SO fatal to their party and who knew
themselves to be marked out for destruction, had
sought an asylum in the Low Countries, These
refugees were in general men of fiery temper and
: weak judgment. They were also under the infu-
ence OF that peculiar illusion which seems to belong
to their situation. politician driven into Danish
'ment by hostile faction generally the society
: which he has quilted through false medium
Every object is distorted and dscolored by his re-
grets, his longngs and his resentments Every
little discomfort appears to him to portend
luton Every riot is a rebellion. He cannot be
convinced that his country does not pine for him
as much as he pines for his country. He imagnes
that all his old associates, who still dwell at their
homes and enjoy their estates, are tormented by
: the same feelings which make life burden to
himself The longer his repatriation, the greater
does this hallucinaton become. The lapse Of time
which oools the ardor of the friends whom he has
{ left behind, infames his. Every month his impa-
thence to revisit his native land increases and every
month his native land remembers and misses him
LESS This deiusion becomes almost a madness
when many exiles who suffer in the same cause herd
together on a foreign shore Their chief employ
Inent is talk of what they once were, sr
what they may yet be; to goad each other into
animosty against the common enemy to feed each
other with extravagant hopes of victory and re-
yenge Thus they become ripe for enterprises
which would at once be pronounced hopeless by any
man whose passions had not deprived him of the
power of calculating chances"
We shall, we presume, do no injustice to M. Kos
suTH in exile in considering this passage as being
remarkably applicable to the position of himself and
his companions, after their flight from Hungary,
with the difference only of their being captives as
well as exiles; and as being yet more applicable to
him now that he is freed from captivity.
Perhaps our readers will, in comparing this scrap
of history with the course of M. KossUTH from the
moment of his disenthralment from captivity, agree
with us in discovering clue to some incidents
in it which would be otherwise wholly Incompetent
sible In the leading features of the portrait, we
certainly perceive likeness which grows upon us
the more we look upon the picture.
In article in this paper under date of the 18th
of last month, we adverted briefly to the circum-
stances of the overture made by the Government of
the United States to the Sultan of Turkey for the
lease of these captives, and the conveyance of them
to the United States. We recur to them now for
the purpose of bringing them more freshly to the
minds of our readers
Mr. Secretary WEBSTER, it will be recollected, in
his Letter to Mr.. MARSH, our Minister at Constan-
tnople instructng him to nterpose his good offices
with the Sultan to permit M. Kossuth to be set at
liberty, uses in regard to these captives the follow
ing carefully worded language
{" Their chief associates are like themselves in exile
or they have persisted the field on the scaffod or
by military execution; their estates conscaed their
families dispersed and every CASTLE fortress and city of
Hungary is in the possession of the forces of Austria
They themselves by their desire far from
the of their late conflict declare that hy entertain
no hope thought Of other similar attempts and wish only
to be permitted widrd,c themselves altogether from all
European association and seek homes the interior Of
he United States"
1t is to be presumed that Mr.. MARSH, in his
correspondence or personal interviews with the com
petent authorities of the Government of Turkey did
not venture to amplify Mr.. Webster's language
and that the Sultan, in yielding to the request of
the United States considered that the Amer-
terms employed in this interposition Nor is it
to be for moment supposed that the terms of this
correspondence were unknown to NJ Kossuth the
very party in whose behalf it was initiated and its
object brought to successful issues M. KossUTH
has shown himself to be a man of too much intelli-
gence for it to be presumed that he would be so
deeply concerned in negotiation, and yet ignorant
of the whole ground it covered BY accepting the
of the American Government, there
fore, he endorsed every word of the language in
which this interposition couched, and thereby
bound himself to comply with its terms If he
could not do so-if, as we have since learned, he
thought he had mission to fulfP'-was it gene
rous IN him to accept proffered kindness offered
under mistaken apprehension Was he not bound
to disclam to Mr. Marsh any intention to retire into
the vast interior of the United States, far removed
from the Of the late struggle and to agoo that
he had mission to fulfil" never to be abandoned
so long as he had life; which was to perseyere in
endeavoring to lberate Hungary and to assist her in
taking her position among the Powers of the earth
Had the Government of the United States been
aware of such being his sentiments and that as
soon as he should be in position to make such
efforts available he would not consent to be peace
ful tier of American soil, rescued refugee from
the jaws of death, but an active originator and
promoter OF the effort to involve the Government in
European wars, would it not have declined any in
terpostion in his behalf on such terms? Charity
begins at home Would it not have insisted upon