The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-07
KossUT HAMA.
The Hungarian Exilc In Boston.

I've Movements and Speeches of Kossuth IN Modern
Athens
Thorc is good deal of morriment in Boston at
Kossuth making the Bunker Hill monument pro-
phet and getting it to sing to him ''more sweetly
than the harmony Of an angels song" 1t is
corded in the Bible that !" q dumb spako and
buked tho madness of the prophet;" but it is tho
first time that have ever heard of stone and mortar
singing. II the monument sung or said anything,
kossuth alone heard it; and if il did sing or say any
thing il must have been somewhat in the tone Of
Balaam's donkey, and rcbuked the madness of the
Hungarian prophet. Shakespeare says there are
"sermons in stones y if So there is not stone in
Bunker Hill monument that does not preach against
the Intervention visions of Kossuth. The consum-
nation which that monument commemorates, was
brought about by practical, steady men, not nero
roetical dreamers and abstract phiosophers-m
who did not run away in despair, but resolved in
their devotion to liberty, that the SHOWS on which
thcrbase and bloody feet trod should be their wind
ing sheets rather than surrender themselves or their
aims to their tyrants. Such men could not be con-
quered. Very different, indeed, these mon from
the Hungarian armies, who, when 100000 strong,
went over en- massc to the enemy. Tho rovO-
lutionary army of America never numbered
10000 men. And very different was Wash
ington and the leaders Of the American army
from kossuth and the other Hungarian leaders ay,
and from many of the present American feather bed
generals and coloncls and majors and captains, who
tnAly Kossuth, and boast to be the worthy sons of
Lhtionary sires, but who entertained as great an
Son to the smell Of gunpowder as the colonel in
Newark, whom kossuth alluded to in his banquet
speech, in that city. Docs not Bunker Hill monu
ment rebuKe Kossuth that he did not cut of
Gorgeys head, and that he rereated from the posi-
| ton he had assumed and fed to Turkey. Mon who
begin revolutions fomcnt them by their declama-
ton and agitation, ought to "ride upon the whirl-
wind and direct the storm How differently did
Washington deal with the trcachery of Arnold
and his, too, was the iron wll' of which Kossuth
talks so much as his own attribute He said little,
but did much Deeds, not words, were his and no
encouragement could break him down. He per-
severed with unAinching heroism till by his wis
dom and vaor he drove tho British to their ships
and left a heritage Of freedom to these United
States, such as the world has never seen. 1t is
enough to make the blood of every true American
boil with Indignation to see the name of Washington
placed level with that Of Kossuth by the repre-
sentatives of the Bay Stato-the State in which
Bunker Hill is situate. It arguesa sad degcneracy
and want OF appreciation of the glorious cha
racter Of Washington, who stands alone in the page
of historya star before whose brightness the light
OF men like kossuth grows so pale and dim to be
scarcely visible. To compare tho Magyar with Pat
rick Henry might be borne, but to reduce the giant
| Proportions of George Washington to the stature of
Lewis Kossuth is insult Of the grossest kind and
one, it is to be hoped that the Independent and pa
triot citizens of this State will know how to re-
| sent, Nnen tnc proper TIME comes
Those who, like moths, which caught by the
glare OF candle plunge right into it, in costa
cics with K0ssuth, for everything is particularly
tckled with his illusions to local and local
history, and they conclude he is an admirable
Crichton," who knows everything. Why, the
whole mystery is very plain. Pulzsky and others
procure all the books they relating to the history
OF any particular place to which Kossuth is going.
They read and ''stuf'' him for the OCCASION or if
he has leisure, he reads the books himself. The
untLinkng crowd imagine he had made their local
history his particular study in Hungary far Asia.
Such is the claptmp and stage trick with which
| too many are humbugged
OF the inaccuracy recklessness of Kossuth in his
oments in relation to newspapers, the report of his
banquet speech published three days after in the Com
menutahh, extending to four columns in length is
remarkable instance ltook notes of that speech and
| the memory of every person present will tell him,
that kossuth said an article had been published in
the London Times, on the very morning of his arrival
in England ridiculing the idea Of his going about
the country, under the guidance of Lord Dudley
| Stuart making bad speeches. being OF course unable
tospeak the English language In the report cor
ioc'ed by himself in his organ, the COMMUNICABLE,
the -Augs6mg Gazette is substituted for the Times.
| be never mentioned the augsburg Gazette Mt the
banquet, and this reminds Of the charge he
made against "a certain paper in New York. (the
Courier q En2puG,) in his first great speech in
Your city at the press banquet, /. c. he had the
charge written, aud 1T was printed at thesofice
Of his organ, the Times which furnished slips to So
veral papers, and it actually appeared in Of those
passage out Of the manuscript, all the reporters
know and did not deliver it. The charge being that
tie editorial article written in the cabinet of
Vienia and that he had seen copy of it before it
| appeared, being furnished to him by a spy he had
| IN that cabinet. Colonel Webb wrote kossuth
note on the subject, and kossuth backed down. 1t
was untrue. The revised report in the Com
DlonHtdHb shows it was equally untrue that the
| IpHts had said what he alledged at the Faneul
Hall banquet He has now given up the practice
OF charging the newspapers, opposed to his inter-
venton scheme, with being under Russian and Aus
trlan influence; being doubt advised by his
friends, that he would make himself very ridiculous
by such assertions. when every body knew the reverse
There are now too many papers and too many peo
PIE OIL osed to him, to permit the charge to have
| the slightest sembiance of probability; and, there
torene Is now reduced to gencsal insnuations about
| Russian and Austrian intrigue, without telling with
whom. how. whore, or when Whenever anything
goes wrong with kossuh he sets il down to the in.
fnenee of Austria and Russia. Whenever the course
ct Lola Monies does not run smooth as she de-
sires. she attributes it to the influence and the bril-
berry of the Jcsuts
Bosros. Nav ). 1852
kossuth. as mentioned, visited Cambridge yes
terday. At Harvard College. the President said -
Young gentlemen of the University. and ladies
who have hcnored the occasion with your presence.
permit me to introduce to you Louis kossuth, Co.
vernon of Hungary. CHEERS
kossuth said -
Sui did not expect to be called upon to add the
concluding words to this interesting occasion / am
confident the young gentlemen whom you, sir. con-
duct in the paths of learning, will prove, through
Their future life, true to freedom and to liberty.
The welfare security and happiness of country is
the intelligence Of its citizens. Education is the
greatest benefit country bcsow. The only
gratitude that humanity and the country will ask of
these young men. is, that they will ever conserve
a warm sentiment of liberty. and will never employ
their efforts i'll any other direction than will pro-
mote their eountry's welfare and the rights of hui
nanity. will ever preserve pleasant recollection
that during my short stay in this vicinity. ] have
seen that place where the minds Of young men re-
ceive that stamp Of intelligence which so dis
iinguishes the people OF Massachusetts,. (Tremen-
dous cheerDg)