Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-04-26
KOSS THIS
FIRST SPEECH
AT sPRINGFIELD.
IN MAssACHUsETT
TReported for the Worcester Daly Spv.l

Saa
chusetts at DR. Osgood's Church, at Springfield,
on Saturday morning, April oath, at nine o'clock.
lie was welcomed by Hon, w. B. Calhoun, who
said,
The people of Massachusetts, welcomed him
cordially. They were known to be lovers of lib
erty, and in him they recognizeda mana distin-
guished man-who was the representative in one
sense, the embodiment of Liberty. { Cheers
He was on the soil of Massachusetts-old Massa-
chusetts, consecrated to liberty and from which
liberty never could be driven-but the people of
Massachusetts desired to see liberty spread there
fore they sympathis ed with Hungary They
wondered that any people stood on any other ba-
SIS, and they knew the time would come when
there would be no people on any other basis. He
would not stand between him and the people who
wished to do homage to the advocate of lib
erty, and who wished to hear him speak. Again
he would welcome him to the homes and hearts
of the people of New England
In response Kossuth said.
Gentlemen:-Here | am at last in Massachu-
sets; that old Commonwealth, bright with the
glory of former days, as we'll as with present pros
perity, and let me add, bright with the glory of
reporting the sad but otimes true reproach to hui
manity, that prosperity hardens the hearts of men
and makes them less susceptible to foreign dis
tress.
thank you for your noble and spontaneous
sympathy. There is character of true christian
brotherly love, in this, your sympathy, and there
is also political Importance in it. Honor to all
to whom honor is due, and happy the land where
many can claim the right of competing to be
amongst the first in patriotism. But no portion
of this great Republic can feel offended, when
taking the platform of impartial history. | SIX
where is the man entitled to bear prouder brow
than the Massachusetts man, when the freedom
and glory of the United States is spoken of? And
therefore, say there is political importance in
the bright ray of sympathy you cast upon me.
Massachusetts must have its weight in the poll
cy of the U. s.. and it is the public spirit of the
citizens of Massachusetts, and not any accidental
favor of nature whims which makes Massachu-
sets what she is
But as divine Providence may call me vet to
benefit my downtrodden country, not only with
my sword, but also with the gleanings of my ex-
perience, | thank you particularly for the joyful
instruction which New England is about to i'm
part to my heart, that national prosperity does
not harden nations heart, if that prosperity be
founded upon institutions and intellect connect
ed with morality. To know peoples character
must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to
the humber abodes, where that portion of the
people dwells which makes the broad basis of the
national pyramid
England, in the house of working man, who
labors hard at the wages of two dollars day.
and he found in the modest but neat and comfort
able house, besides the Bible and newspapers,
translation of some Roman classics, Bentham and
Patricks history of the United States.
Now, gentlemen, where the working men
draw spiritual life from Divine Revelation by pri
waite judgment, and converse daily with Roman
classics, those ever fresh sources of generous
timents, and are familiar with Benthams analy
sis of deep philosophical utiltaranism, and draw
daily inspiration of philanthropy out of their
country's history, there easily can understand
how the heart of man remains generous IN COM
mon national prosperity and wraps itself not up
in the seihshnesS of undeserved happiness.
With you, citizens of Massachusetts, the love
of liberty is more than affection; it is principle
rooted in the very soil with the recollections of
glorious history but with recOlections not lulling
in idle reliance upon the past, ut warming your
hearts with the aspirations of proving to be true,
| that it is no smaller virtue to develope, and to
conserve, than to get, and not less meritorous to
secure freedom by proving worthy of being free,
| than to acquire freedom.
Let me hail you with cordial congratulations
brave and intelligent people of Massachusetts,
! the very frontier Of your prosperous and memo
/ rable Commonwealth Let me praise my good
! luck that the sympathy of the New England
States will be the final impression upon my heart,
| which take with me when leave America, to
act the part which Divine Providence calls me to
act. That impression will strengthen noble res
olutions in oppressed Europe, because you, citi-
zens of New England, give me one mighty seeuri-
ty more that the people of the United States will
not blindy rely upon authorities, but Judge by its
own enlightened intellect, and then, letting pass
the thoughts of its conviction, through the warm
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ofloye, what it considerably conceiyes.
1t is a beautiful word of distinguished son of
! Massachusetts, Mr. Webster, which l like to re-
! spect-that every nation has precisely the same
interest in international law, that private indi-
vidual has IN the laws of his country, and your
enlightened intellect is aware of it, that if the
United States remain silently looking when the
despotic powers arbitrarily alter, modify, and in
terpolate these international laws then the Uni
ted States have ceased to hold the position of a
S1Noa Io,r &c
of the great family of nations, being thus decided
without your vote, you either not taken to be
lawfully independent nation, or you are consid-
cred so weak and powerless not to dare yet to
claim the position of being of lawful age.
And indeed there are many incidents out of
which it is very evident that either you yourself
acknowledge not to be entitled to the position of
power earth, daring to assert its principle
everywhere, or that the absolUtistical powers are
only too much inclined not to consider you
power on earth. Look at the instructions of your
navy in the Mediterranean Sea, recently publish
ed, forbidding American officers even to speak in
conversation of politics in Europe. Look at the
correspondence of your commanders and con-
suls frightened to their very souls, that an exile
on board an American ship is cheered by the peo-
pie in Italy and IN France, and charging him fol
| the immense crime of having met sympathy, thai
he is possessed of devil, and compromises the
flag of America Look at the often expressed
establishment of European writers, and Of Euro
| pean statesmen, even Of such as Lord Brougham
that Americans when in Europe seldom dare b.
Republicans Leok how French Napoleonis
papers frowned indignantly at the idea that thu
Congress of the United States dared to honor m!
humble SELF declaring these honors to be not on
ly offensive to Austria, but to all the European
powers. Look how they sneeringly declared i
to be presumptuous arrogance, nay almost al
insult, that AN American minister, true to hi
own and to his country's fundamental principles
| dared to pronounce his Judgment upon the per
nicious policy which seine European powers pur
sue. Look how even such small power a
Greece, so highly indebted to the people of Amer
lea, but depending from Russia, and turning ODE
dent moOn-ike around the Czar-look hoV
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