The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-03
kOSSUTH.

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The London Times justi6es the scarf" y
Kossuth,s house, as we presume II Does '''''
the new employment to which the Lonoo" ~
lice has of late devoted ITSELF tha'' n''"''
furnishing information to the despo.'o
=, 81. .on,;nsnt. TO guide them IN the arrests
imprisouments and murders 'ne' a ~
making. Th. Vienna correspondent u '''e
rr.nkfor, Post Gazette writes :" ~ ho"
ns,,,ed that the Prussian police were most
m.;,,,, assisted in the late political arrests
,po,I;, and elsewhere, by repeated comm
-. from the police Of London, without
- many of their discoveries might not
..,o been made. In this We see proof of the
Good faith of the British Government, when,
,brough Lord Westmoreland, it assured the
Cabinet of Vienna that il would watch over the
conduct of the refugees. We learn from 9TH
ar sources, that the London police has for
some time kept lists Of all The fugitires resi-
ding there, and watches over their communi.
cations with the continent"
This is the boasted land of freedom and, as
as DIR. McNeill has it, of christianity. This is
the land which we are called upon to bow
down to and worship, as the only one. in Eu-
rope, in which an exile can find refuge from
the vindictive fury of his tyrants. This is the
land from W hich we receive, about four times
n month, ship-sads of reproofs for our short
comings. To call a country in which such
practices can be countenanced by the highest
authority in the land, free country, Is TO
make a singular perversion OF the term A
man is free-he can go from house TO house,
from street to street, and even from one town
TO another. But he must have spy everlast-
insly at his heels. If he wish TO enjoy the
boosted freedom of glorious England" he
must no more hope to get rid of this encum-
brance than of his own shadow. His slightest
movements are watched-his most insignif-
cant acts recorded-his least meaning words
reported. Every suspicious look, every unin-
telligible gesture, may bring the head OF a
friend or relative, in the country from which
he has fed, to the scaffold. His correspon'
dence is at all times liable to be overhauled,
and he dare not communicate the secret
thoughts of his bosom, lest he be the means of
destroying some near and dear friend.
What situation SO deplorable as that of the
continental exile in England can be imagined
Mocked by the shadow of freedom, he dare no,
exercise the dearest functions of a man. He
is told to rejoice that he is on the shores OF a
country where the foot of slave never trod ;
and yet the government of that country is all
the time pandering TO the appetite for blood,
which seems Unsuitable at Vienna and Berlin,
by betraying his secrets to the destruction OF
his friends. With those friends he dare not
communicate, lest the agents of the govern.
ment betray him. Such is free, happy, glori-
Gus England, the country in whose cause GER
tain of our politicians would have US fight
against the despotism of the continent. Hap
by, free Eng land, where Secretary of State S
warrant can authoiise any mans house to be
searched upon the barest suspicion that he
may by possibility have there something con-
cealed, which may strike terror into the courts
of Vienna or Berlin. We devoutly hope we
may never see such freedom on this side OF
the Atlantic.
As for Kossuth himself we cannot but think
he might have been indllged in his fancy fol
bomb shells and cannon-shot with as perfect
safety as it is possible to conceive. The only
danger TO be apprehended from these missiles
we take it, comes from their being set in mo
ton. When that is to be done, the Secretary
of State might have felt assured that Kossuth
would not be in the neighborhood. His shells
and shot, we venture TO say, are the most
harmless shells and shot that were ever nailed
up in cases, or piled up in pyramids. They
will never hurt human being, if he is to have
the management of them. The warrant OF
the Secretary of State has impaired to him a
degree of importance which is not justified by
any thing connected with his history.