New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-24
KOSSUTH. AT ST. LOUIS.
SPEECH ON FRIDAY, MARCH u.
The Jesui.s-Amersca and Despssism-
Hungarian Liberty and the Ca'hs
lie Church-xreiaAd.

JENTLEMEN my pAiIt
in your hospitabe city, | have so much
heard about petty local matters add petty
party politics Intervening their spider
webs with the cable of the great cause of the
Christian world, which | hunbly plead, and |
have so much heard about he hypocntcil tao
tics of men imported from Austria to advance
the noble cause OF Russo Austrian despotlsm In
America, and chiefly in your city here, that in
deed became longing for the pure air where the
merry sunehlfe as well as the melancholy drop
of the rain, the roaring Of the thunder storm, and
the sigh OF the gentle breeze tells to the o2-
pressors and their tools, well as the oppressed
that there is God in Heaven who rules the
Universe by eternal laws the Almighty father oil
Humanity-omnlpoten 10 his MISUNDERSTANDING
in his omnipotence-lust IN his judgment ana
eternal ia his love the Lord who gave strength 10
the bow David against Goliah-who often makes out
of humble individuals efficient lnstrunentahties TO
push forward the condition OF mankind toward tnas
destiny which bis merciful will has assigned TO IL
his WILL against which neither the proud ambition OF
arrogant despots nor the artificial skill OF their Oh.
sequious tools can prevail In him put my uuss
and 60 cheeYfuliy on TO my duties. Stli NAV De
excused for the slight weakness, that when pent up
and then into the close air OF obsolete politics,
my breast heayes with sorrow and my heart becomes
sad but when have before me the people with its
open heart, its conquered soul and its generous
instinct then feel again that all Is well, and that
God is with me.
Gentlemen you have been pleased to bestsw that
consolation to my sad heart thank you for it, gen.
tleaen. have seen many a storm Adversities
have never bent the resolution OF my heart Often
tumbled upon the rocks " ieh impious vice threw
int my way, but the Almighty raised me with In
creased strength from every fall and here 1 stand,
though tempest-torn and persecuted, and homeless
and hated and prosecuted by their satellites in my
very exile. Ga, thank thee, my God. for tAis
hatred, this persecution, and this fear! They show
too clearly that the cause / plead is not dead
causehat there is le in its present and success IN
its future, and that sm in the right way to benefit
the cause, noble and just and great, to which de-
voted my life. Else If there we're no success in
what am engaged, they would neither fear, nor
hate, nor persecute me.
thank them for that persecution itimparts more
hope 10 my breast than all the kindness OF my friends
could Go, and give you my word, that If nave the
consciousness of having well merited in my past the
haired and the fear OF tyrsnts and their instruments
so may God bless me, as will do all mortal man
90 to merit that hatred and that fear still more.
Why am not standing on the bank of the Mis-
sissippj, cheeEed, welcomed, and supported as
warmly and heartily when stepped first upon
your glorious shores Distance, and the history of
what suffered and what did, had cast some halo
OF expectation around my name-the halo OF dis
tanee ard expectation vanished like dream. and
| 60 wanc ering from city to city plain, common
man, repusiDg rather than attracting affection by
| the gloom which is cast by tolls and sufferings
| around my brow and STAN ID ering my bad English
with strange accentuation bad as you seldom hear,
| and opposition, hostility and venomous calumny and
| impOus malignity have exhausted every means 10
check that sympathy of the people which to the
position OF public opinion, the more powerful the
more it is opposed and has that sympathy sub.
need Has it abated Is IT checked. No. it
rolls on, swelling as progress Here have again
an improving evidence before my eyes, here In st.
Louis, my namesake city-where SO much, and that
30 peTseveIently was done to prevent this evidence.
Yes, rolls on, swelling Iprogress in my mission,
and 1t will roll on swelling i'll It will finally SUBJ
merge all endeavors to mstead the natural inclina-
tons OF reemen to fetteT the energies OF the nation,
to stfe Its spirits and to check the growing aspra
tons Of the peoples strong, noble heart
Well, SO much dare to take for sure that when
a frat nj lhAn he
announcing to America that the great battle is en-
gagged which has 70 decide what pr ncipes shall vue
the world Liberty or Desrotasm there is no power,
no presumed wisdom OF stationary policy on earth
capable to compel the people OF this mighty Repuo
lie to remain an idle and Indifferent spectator OF t1a.
great shugge where s own future also Is to be de-
cided; because in the scale Of that approaching
strugele the destinee Of the Christian world are to
So much dare take for sure and, indeed, it can.
net otherwise come, because that is an Dperlous
cessity Of your counsTy's position and the crcum-
stances of the world.
Let me briefly tell how matters stand When the
En peror OF Austria beaten down in his sacrilegous
attack by our victorious armies prostra, ed himself
at the feet Of the Gar mendIcatng his assistance,
the Gar about to commit the immense crime OF v0
iating the laws OF nations by his invasion on Hun
gary, issued proclamation, in which he told the
world that all the POtentates must league against
Liberty, and they must all consider the rule of
limited aosolutiem as common cause that he
would help the young rrant Of Austria In the hour
Of his need, but under the condition, that after
Hungary had been crushed, upon the ruins OF our
national existence, the allied despots must 60 to
crush the spirit of freedom every where and not only
not make any CONCESSION. .:,s to revolutionary move
every Constitutional Government is abolished, and
Liberty blOtted out entirely from the earth.
That war against liberty 10 now going on, and il
il that internal work OF oppression sgaiast which
not only Hungary. but all the oppressed nations
tie European Continent, are about TO rise.
Well, can America remain an Indifferent spectator
OF this struggle, in which America is slmos. equally
Interested at it was in its domestic war for IN
dependence Yes, gentlemen, make this compar-
This independence than il We, to acquire il
And 1t 10 automatically sure that IL all Europe
becomes Cossack because ruled BY the protectorste
OF the Ger, America cannot republican
institutions, its union and itsindepenaence.
am told your country is invunerabe. But say
quite the contrary that country 10 the most vulnera-
Bile which can be approached at thousands and thous
an0s OF points nom the sea slnee the steam engine
works the ocean is not barrier-it high way II
10 door. You are vulnerable in your great mari
time cities these great market places of your agr
culture, POUR industry, your commerce. You are
Vulnerable in your mercantile navy-you are NOR
tauy Vulnerable BY q more prohibitive custom sys-
tenn, excluding you from the markets OF Europe
sdG vuineisose oy seeing your domestic discords
are Vulnerable by seeing monarchies esssbhshed In
your neis hooihocd on the Continent of America
You are vulnerable BY seeing made out Of the leland
OF Cuba battery against the mouth of the Missis.
spp' ana New-Orlesns-youa are, in q word vulner.
able IN athousand ways precisely because you have
Vulnerable points It has) and because your material
interests make you BY their very diversity dependent
upon the condition of the outward world
But again, l am told: Well, If We are vulnerable.
tue more We are vulnerable the more We must keen
quiet, and not mix with foreign matters because,
not entanshng ourselves with foreign matters, We
VIII quietly gov We will have IN hundred years
population OF hundred millions and then We
will be strong enough not only DEFY the hostiitv
Of all the despots Of the world but also 10 dictate
our laws to the world, and will rule the earth
On yes, II The despots of the world had no brains
N tnsn heads, and permitted you to nanouillv
gov to such power on earth But there is the i'm.
neIse there 1: the dang erous fsllacy Do you think
maj the unholy alliance OF the despots does not
Know that you would grow to such an immense
power not CHECKED IN time And do you take