The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-12-27
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IA 49, OAS1
Kossuth made one of his extraordinary
addresses. We have rezlit with a mix
ture of establishment and admiration /;
astonishment for It's wonderful research
and profound insight into the future
admiration for its beauties of express.
ion and elevation ~ofthought. It breathes
a sad but a lofty tone. It is full of love
for his Hungary. It arragns with most
searching inquisition, the policy Of the
Allies, which by neglecting Poland and
the nations, has sought an alliance with
the ~peridious thrones of Austria and
Prussia. We propose brief analysis,
with some extracts from this address,
1t opens with q tribute to Lord Dudley
Stuart, the iberalist, recently deceased;
a gentleman whose sympathy with the
exilss of freedom was never repressed
by the friggid and contumelious beha-
vior of the titled aristocrats of England
toward them.
He then asks this question, which is
the burden Of his speech
"Since the laundering roar of cannon
from around Sebastopol continues to
roEse an echo OF mourning grief from
thousands of British homesteads, is there
one British heart all along these isles,
the recesses of which had not thrilled
with the inquiry, whether the policy
which presides over this war be a wise
one whether those glorious dead, whom
the world admires and Great Britain be-
walls, have fallen q sanguinary tribute
to dire necessity; or have they fallen
hut a wanton sacrifice Can the aged
mother, proud In her maternal Joy yes
terday and childless to-day; can the
fatherless orphan, standing like a broken
reed can the widow, cast upon public
charity, land eleven thousand already
they are can the nation, manned by.
the loss of the bravest of her sons /; can
they comfort themselves with repeating
the words PAULUs HMILUs spoke, whom
from the funeral abode Of his sons he
rode up in triumph to the capitol-can
they, say say, 81 feel the RUN OF ma
hoaeSted cousoled 6y the good 6rAsac of
the Commonwealth 2" Is there one
man all along these isles, in the breast
of whom the question has not risen,
whether there will be no better course
for carrying OF this war ?"
In referring to the day they meet to
commemorate, aud to- the Polish exiles
not yet in despair for their country,
he calls Poland ga living statue, with
the unquenchable life-fame of patriot
ism still streaming through its petrifed
limbs" and only wanting an occasion
against her oppressor to change the liv-
ing statue into a fighting hero. After
an eloquent and hopeful appeal to the
refugees, he turns to England, aud pays
this eloquent tribute to the braves of
of Alma aud Inkermann, while he ar
raigns the policy which has evoked such
a reckless and useless effusion of blood:
Sir, I can tell something of what is
heroism. The unnamed demigods of
Hungary, who fought the gigantic strug-
gle of 1649, may well claim a place of
immortal renown in the ranks of the
bravest of the brave. And /, who have
witnessed this, l say history must go
back for centuries to find out a battle
like that of Inkermann, where IA, 900
men resisted VIGOROUSLY the valorous
attack of 60, 900 welLdeciplined troops,
and where almost every man who fought
on your side laid low one of the enemy.
The battle of Alma, defective as it was
in dispositions and therefore barren in
its results, has been glorious in exccu-
ton and covered with a lustre of i'm
mortality the renewn of the British and
French soldiery, but the battle of mixer
mann, from the first in rank to the last,
was q prodigy of valor, scarcely inferi-
or to the miracle of Agineourt. The
history of 1854, whatever may be its
records about the states-wisdom Of those
who rule, will hand down with imperish-
BILE renown, to the admiration of poster
ity, the i~mpetuous ardor of the French
rank the stern and impossible courage of
the Britons, who fought in the crimea.-
However, they fight on a battlefield
richer in glory than in possible results,
and richest in death. One more such
victory as that of Inkermann, and the
army is lest. It is a sad consolation to
know that the tembs ofthe glorious dead
around Sebastopol can say, like those of
Thermopylae, "Wanderer, tell England
thou hast seen US lain obedient to our
country's laws"
The English public have been told of
late that there never was a position of
more pressing necessity, that deman-
ded SO imperiously a mind that can fore
stall instead of writing on events, and
can avert evils which it may be possible
to repair, than the present position
That is perfectly just, though somewhat
of an afterfact wisdom, come out too late.
But if it be just, then there is no good
service to England in lulling public
opinion to sleep by advising it to let by
cones be bygones. A forestalling mind
must look to the past for Instruction
The great lesson ofeeeeaflishad fact is
that England's policy in reference to
the present war has been wrong in its di-
r~ection, and inefficient unsuccessful, and
disastrousIin details. Let US analyze
the situation. Your gigantic armada in
the Baltic is nearly without a laurel to
~restits head upon. To do something eff
fectfve there, the cooperation of Sweden
was. a matter of prime necessity. En-
gland did not get it, because Englapd's
policy was wrong. I told England six
months ago that the cooperation of
Sweden is to be got only by calling Po-
land to arms. And that was the answer
which, three months later, King Oscar
gave to general paraguay DHillers.-
You have taken Bomarsund-a small
matter forsooth-Yet when the time