New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-13

dom. Not sublimer is the faith OF mar
tyr who once for all comforts death and Is
done with it, than that of him %.ho stands
erect before the more bitter burnings OF
calumny, of scorn, and of partisan MALICE
knowing no scruple and no bounds
But Kossuth has been faithful under ex-
IRENE discouragements, and when disaster
crowning disaster left scarce a ray of hope.
The usurpation of Louis Napoleon seemed
to many observers to enchain all Europe
for an indefinite period, and despair of the
popular cause was the order of the day
even for tried patriots. But not so with
Kossuth. When scarce another voice was
heard bidding the enslaved peoples look for
the better day, the accents of this confident
apostle of freedom still rang clear and
CHEEKY through the gloom. Relying on
the Justice of God, and on that love of lib
erty which springs native and undying in
the human soul, his mind pierced through
the web of despotic illusions and showed
what q tottering sham it was which
they concealed. He showed that only
justice and freedom could give Sc
curity to a State, and that mountains
of cannon and bayonets could never
stand against the popular earthquake
when at last it breaks loose. Thus he
indicated against all the appearances and
opinions of the moment the truth taught
by history as well as by the spontaneous
suggestions of reason and still plea led the
cause of the European peoples, when
other advocates were silent and hopeless.
Honor to him, then, for this prophetic
frmness of heart and mind, that even the
last stroke of calamity, speeding home the
poignant shafts of political hatred, could
not make to waver from his judgment and
his faith.
We do not doubt that the pecuniary sue
cess of Kossuth's labors would have been
very much greater, but for the Napoleonic
usurpation, suppressing all belief in an i'm
mediate revolution in Europe. Had it
clearly appeared to our people that their
money was now wanted, and that the issue
of freedom or bondage for Europe hung
upon their gifts, we esteem them too much
not to believe that they would have been
worthy of the occasion and ofthe Republic.
Certainly no pitiful offering of ninety thou
sand dollars would have followed upon
such enthusiastic and lavish promises as
only millions could adequately fulfill no
such niggard meanness in acts would have
been the commentary on such boundless
generosity in words.
But while in pecuniary point of view
Kossuth has decidedly failed, they are
hasty and superficial who judge that he
has failed altogether. As far as principles
are concerned, failure was impossible. APP
pealing to the young, the true-hearted, the
generous, to those who are not stiff with
the mildew of poor and false cOnserva-
tism, and who have given no hostages to
the baseness of narrow and selfish interests,
addressing the higher sentiments of justice,
of national honor, and of the universal
brotherhood of man, his words were fraught
with vital energy that could not die with
their echo. For each was an idea, and
ideas are deathless. They have fallen like
seed into good ground and will bear fruit
hundred fold in the day of the harvest.
1t is of no account that both the great po-
.litical parties are on the record as not
| friendly TO Kossuth's doctrines of interna-
| tional law. 1t is of no account that the
mass of wealthy men and the so-called re-
spsetability Of the country are bitterly 3D.
posed 70 thoro TI.~-~ - rr~s~... -.
sion to have it otherwise. But let such an
occasion arise; let q war break out in
Europe, and let struggling nations appeal
to us in that extremity, and then we shall
see what Kossuth has accomplished, and
how deeply and permanently he has
touched the American heart. Then wealth
and respectability will themselves catch
! the generous infection, and the hand of the
United States, armed and unshrinking,
will be laid heavily into the scale where
are decided the destinies of nations.
Think for moment of the greatness of
the task which Kossuth undertook in COM
ing here. He proposed nothing less than
to change ideas of foreign policy inherited
from the founders of the Republic, and
confirmed by long habit and the stringent
suggestions of supposed interest. Let them
who will accuse him of arrogance for con-