Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-01-20
The Wife of Kossuth.

and adventures in the land of tyranny. Ed.
| THE WIFE OF KossUTH.
Such wife is worthy of SO ustrious a hus.
band and such husband OF SO noble wife.
In his Address to the people Of the United States
written while an exile in Turkey, he thus speaks
of her -" At the moment when hardly hoped
for further consolation on earth, behold the
God of Mercy freed my wife, and enabled her,
thro' thousand dangers, to reach me in my
place of exile. Like hunted deer, she could
not for five months fnd in herlowr.native land,
place of rest The executioners of the heart
less Nero placed reward nIgn her head, but
she has escaped the syrants stN was to me,
and to my exiled counuymen, like to rainbow Of
Noah; for she brought intelligence of hope in
the mistaken souls Of the Hungarians people,
and in the affsctionate sympathy Of the neigh
boring nations who had fought against us.
They had aided the wife of the much sla nder-
ed governor of Hungary"
At the present time, for many reasons, the
following
AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE
of her escape will be read with great interest.
1t is taken from the pen Of writer in Chambers
Edinburg Journal.
During the month of August 1913, the Pres
dent Governor Of Hungary, Louis. Kossuth with
the principal officers OF his provisional gov ern-
ment, were in the fortified town of Arad on the
river Maroseh. Between that place and The
town of Zagadin, on the Tisch. in the vicinity
of Arad, Georgy with the Hungarian troops
under his command lay encamped while be.
hind him, towards the Tisch was the Russian
army Of reserve, under Paskewi'ch. Denbnki,
with his men, besieged Temswar, and he had
already carried its third wall. Between him
and the Tisch lay the united Auslro Russian
forces. The army of BEN had been defeated at
Hernanstandt by the Russian General Lupers,
and he had fled with small band of faithful
followers towards Temiewar.
With this position Of The combattants, the
plan oil Denbinski was to unite with Georgy
near Aired, and then attack the Russian force.
Before this was effected news reached him of
the captulation OF Georgey and that the Cover
nor, N. Kossuth, had been compelled TO forsake
Arad, and retire to t &c townof Villages. Before
leaving Arad, the Governor separated from his
wife and children, and lhlir pasung seems III
said to have been one Of the most touching
nature. Under the circumnsgses of the moment,
| it was a subject Of more essl than doubt wheth-
er they would ever again meet on earth. 1t was
only when young Hungarian noblemon, named
Ashbot, now in exile in Kutaych with M. Kos
su,h. soemnly swore to his wife that he would
never leave her husband, that Madame Kossuth
,nsented to be separated from him, and seek
safety in flight. The children were confled to
the care of private secretary OF the Governor,
and this individual delivered them up to the
tender mercies Of Haynau, for the pourpose OF
securing his own pardon and safety. The chill
dren sci out before their mother, and the latter,
in her flight, endeavored to keep at least so near
to them as to hear now and tn OF their safe,
ty.
Madame Kossn,h sought on; brother of hers
residing in the town of Vllagos, aud he is now
imprisoned in the ortress of Comorn, with many
others of the unfortunate Hungarian patriots,
for eighteen years, ON account Of the succor
which he then gave to his sister, Leaving him,
she next went IN search of her children, and
wandered to pestd, or farmhouse, of Boeksak,
belonging to relative. There she fell i'll of
typhns fever which nearly ended her lite and
when so far recovered as to be able again to
travel, she continued her journey in search OF
her children. she soon learned that they had
been given up by their protector to the Aus
trian General Haynau, and taken to Pesih.
Her own safety depended wholly upon the lidel'
ty of the Hungarian peasants, and on their at
tachnent to her husband.
Now, having no other object in view than her
own safely, without friends better off than her,
self, she soon became reduced to state OF
complete destitution. In disguise she wandered
over the most miserable part OF Hungary. She
even MS means Of safety, as well as support,
sought for service as servant and by telling
that she was poor woman who had just been
discharged from public hospital-whlch, indeed
she very much resembed-was so fortunate as
10 find employment in the family of humble
carpenter, in the town of Crash Haya, who lit
tie thought she was served by the lady of Louis
Kossu,h, the late Governor of Hungary Every
' where notices were exposed in the streets offer
ing forty thousand forms for her capture. and
proclaimlng death as the punishment Of the per
son who should dare to harbor or coRceal he
y from the authorities.
: Among the persons who fled with NJ. Kossutf
before the overwhelming numbers of his enc
mics, was an elderly lady, whom it is necessary
"a DESIGNATE as Madame r., and who
from being unable to ride as fast and Or long al
those who were stronger and younger than her
self soon became exhausted, and was left be
hind. She had son, major in the Hun
y parian army, near the person of the Cover
: nor and both the son and the mother were mucl
v attached to his interests. Madmae l.
;, when unable to proceed longer with the fugtives
V in order to reach place of safety in the domln
> ions of the Sultan of Turkey, determined to re
main in Hungary, devote herself to the ind'n'
y of Madame Kossuih, aud restoring her TO he
"a husband.
: For this benevolent purpose Madame L.
- d;scuised herself as beggar; and after lon
. and weary journey, eflener on foot than in an
;, conveyance, she crossed the vast sandy plains
" : southern Hungary, aud at length reached tn
nlaee in which Kossuth's children were, bu
- could hear nothing Of their mother.
- She learned that the children had been sen
soon after their mother had lost sight OF them