The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-09
The Banquet of the jackson Democratic
Association.
THE LATEST SPEECH OF KcssUTH.

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Association.
THE LATEST SPEECH OF KcssUTH.
WASHINGTON, January 8, 1852.
The banquet Of the jackson Democratic Association
came OF night In fine style About Eve hundred per.
sops were present, amongst whom were Messrs Cass
Houston Ritchie, Blair and large number Of diStn-
gushed members Of Congress great many ladies
likewise present.
Kossuth and all his suite were present.
After the cloth was removed the greatest enthusiasm
was manifested.
The FIRST toast xas-a Washington
The second" The President Of the United States.r
The third" Andrew Jackson
Francis D. BLAIR then read an address to Kossuth
concluding with the sentiment The Exes Of Europe
Liberty and Louis Kossuth."
KossUTH's spERcR
KossurH responded as follows
Gentlemen-I feel sincerely gratied with the honor
Of being invited to be present this solemn occasion
dedicated to the memory Of glorious well highly
responsible fact in your history There is high political
wisdom in the custom yearly to revive the memory Of
civic virtue and national glory in the mind of the living
ation because nothing efficient to keep alive
the spirit of patriotism Of powerful genius which like
the angel of scripture, guards with flaming sword tbs
Paradise-nberty and independence Happy the land
where the history Of the past Is the history Of the peo
pie and not attery to kings; and, doubly happy
the land where the records of the past frightened
by present glory-happy, where the noble deeds of
the dead. instead Of being mournful monument OF
arquished greatness, which but saddens the heart
though i ennobles the mind lasting Of
toua welfare to the age and to poserity But where
in this your happy land history constituted to be
the elementary basis of education-where the very
schoclboy is better acquainted with the history Of
has country than professors. almost, in monsrchies-
,rIna ha h.,f
ridiculous parsding of vanity for stranger to
dwell upon facts which every child is acquainted with
better than he can be- Allow me, therefore gentlemen,
rather briefly to expouDd what the practical philosophy
of that great victory which you assembled to cele
braewhat the moral Of the strain 1t present, l.
selft the scrutator's mind Just has to pass
through several periods Of age, each of them marked
with its eeculiarties before he to settled po
tion in life, a nation has first to be born-then
to grow then has to its passive vitality by
dergoing trial of life afterwards it has to its
tive force in and during a,cendency in its immediate
horizon at last it must take its competent seat amongst
the nations Of the world power earth Every
Of these periods Of national life must be gone through
There Is no help against it. 1t is necessary process OF
life and every Of tbese life periods has its nation.
al condition which must be accepted as necessity even
if We should not be pleased with it. there jumping
in natue Equally there Is no stop to it man must
been youth before he becomes Bot then If it
oe ridiculous to desire from the child to act YOUTH
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the youth to be still child for the not to become
man. He must because he is; and if, being man. he
does not act rs becomes to act well then he loses
the position of 1t is quite he with nations
Geutemen, having passed the ordeal Of earnest life
with the view before eyes to have yetta steer through
hand the helm of my tempest tossed bark look with
calm attention to the compass Of history to guide by
its philosophy through the oaming waves. And here Is
history more instructive than yours. because you
have concentrated within the OF few
that natural process of national life which elsewhere has
through
ratens starting from false point or fase principle
wsvcrd In tnef progress like the magnetic needle
rounded by iron bars you, starting from true point
conscious Of aim advanced in strength to that aim
and there you arrived in short time where other
the strength of manhood in making their way and
growing old before they got to the settled position the
man 1t would be mistake-anda mistake not without
danssrto believe that your nation is still in its youth
because it has lived but seventy.fve years The ns
by those periods of the process Of life which have had
the ooner to mention alreadyand there is no nation on
earth IN whose history those periods % distinctly
marked as in yours At first you had to be born-here
is the period of your glorious struggle for independence
Eternal glory to those who conducted it You were
baptized with blood it to be the destiny of
nations but it the Genius of Freedom which stood
gcdfather at your baptism and gave to you lasting
character BY giving you the Christian name Of Republic
Then you had grow and ndet you have grown with
the luxurant rapidy Of the virgin nature OF the Ame
ricsn soil Washington knew the nature of this soil fer
of your iberty-he knew 1t when he told your ia
theIs that you wanted but twenty years Of peaceful
20 dey Whatever power, cause nave
grown through three twenty and wisely avoided to
endapger your growth by undertaking tool not becom
ing 70 Jour growing age; and there you stood about
another twenty years looking resoutey but unpreend
ngy around If there anybody question that
you were really nation on earth The question put
IL 1872 and decided by the glorious victory the annver
sary Of which you celebrate to-day That yictory has
deeper meaning in your history than merely that Of
reprlsed invasion: it marks a period in your national
e-the period OF unspeaksble security Of
your national existence-it the confirmation Of
Declaration Of Independence You have proved by it
thaf ed Sfaaa
having the power that independent national
.isustien which your fathers have established by the
terry of New Orleans by which you took your seat
amongst the independent nations Of the world never to
independent only when it proves BY fact to make good
the words OF the poet Come the three of the
world in arms. and We will shock them" The victory
| Of New Orleans was a proof-it was the period OF
demonstrative, passive vitality; aud the process
ef life went on. The next natural period was to
demonstrate your active vitality--that was demon
stFa,ed by the against Mexico. If the battle
| Of New Orleans was the period demonstrating
the security your national existence, the victorious
against Mexico the period demonstrating not
only that nobody dare attack your existence but
that also your natural interests must be respected
nobody dare to oppose them The period of active
vitality Is accomplished now One period there remains
yet to eeheyethat to take your seat not among the
nations OF the earth because that you have since the
day Of New Orleans, but amongst the powers on earth
What IS the meaning Of that word power on earth The
meaning ot il to have not only the power to give your
particular interest, but aso TO have vote in the
regulation Of the common interest Of humanity Of which
yeu au independent member. In word 20 become
tribunal controlling the maintenance Of the law OF
nation' precisely your Supreme Court controls the
maintenance Of your own constitution and laws and
inds al logic Of statesmanship all philosophy OF his
\ tory. would be vain If mistaken that your
great nation has arrived OF this unavoidable period
natural process natural process OF your natural life
| The sympathy which meet with in your glorious
\ iapd-th very toast you are pleased to honor me
wtk-the principles you expressed highly sisni.
fcapt demonstration of the truth OF this statement OF
mine II Iced 3entlemcn what is the explanatory key to
this rapid progress Of the manifestation Of public opinion
plead awkwardy perhaps but certainly with sincerity
L. II my bad Epsli,h stammerng, which am indeed
ashamed Of and must feel happy II am not laughed at
orit Is this miserable frame marked with the sad
stamp ot misfortune and toll, Is it, then the justice
and The mfoi tune Of my native land, the more desery
ing the sympathy of generous hearts 1t Is in intimate
relation with the future destines Of Europe' Oh
gentlemen all this have contributed as an opporu
nifty to the manifestation Of an existing fact but 1t nei.
her has created the fact nor the explanatory Key OF