New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-01
The London Times en- M. Kossuth,s late
Speech at Sheffield.
From the London Times Of Jug


We are not sorry that NJ Kossuth shouldhave
taken the present opportunity in public affairs
to display his oratory TO a provincial audience,
and, at the same time, to exhibit to the world
the identity of the interests of the revolutionary
party in Europe with those of Russia, The OH
ject hf the united Governments of Central Eu-
rope, represented at the Conference of Vienna,
has been to combine their political influence,
and eventually their armies. in defense of the
great principles which have so long preserved
the peace of the world.
The object of the Court of St. Petersburg has
been, above all things, to dissolve this formida-
he coalition, which has originated in a aense of
common danger and of common duty. In this
work it seems that, all other agents and ennis
saries having failed. the Emperor of Russia is to
have the benefit of NJ. kossuth's eloquenee; and
this gentleman has actually undertaken the
unpromising task of persuading the people of
England that, as they have entered upon for
midable contest, it is to be desired rnat the
forces of Germany should be against us than on
our side, and that we should trust to no allies
but the revolutionary bands who infested the
continent of Europe few years back
For, if NJ kossuth were as candid as he is
eloquent, he would allow that every reproach
addressed by him to the Government of Austria
is equally applicable to the present Government
of France, and that in both Empires revolutions
have of late been suppressed by the strong hand
of power. 1t is not on the internal policy Of
those Governments that our present connection
| with them rests, but on their firm adherence to
| the public interests of Europe, which they are
| defending in common with ourselves. Who but
the Emperor of Russia could be the gamer if the
| magnificent army of Austria, amounting to
about 350, 900 men, now ready to take the field.
| were prepared to side, not with US. but against
us
| Yet this is the charitable desire expressed by
Mr. Kossuth for the country which has given
| him an asylum; and, whereas the events of the
past year have happily restored that good un-
derstanding between England and Austria which
| has repeatedly been the safeguard of both those
| States at time of great danger to Europe, Mr..
Kossuth steps in to injure, as far as he Is able
| that alliance, which, more than any other cause,
| holds in check the whole power of Russia. His
speech at Sheffield is an open diversion in favor
of the enemy at the very moment when Austria
| has dispatched her summons to st. Petersburg.
and he is authorized by the Porte to assist IN
the defence of its territories.
The feelings of Mr.. Ledru Rolln or Mr.. Victor
Hugo towards the Emperor Louis Napoleon are
probably not dssimiar from those entertained
hy Mr. kossuth or Mr.. Mazzinl towards the
Emperor of Austria, but the French political
refugees have at least the sense TO abstain from
public appeals against an allied Sovereign.
which can only assist the chief antagonist of
liberal opinions throughout Europe.
If we, on the contrary, take a more enlarged
:, and Just view of the changes which have lately
occurred in the political relations of Europe,
there is no one fact more satisfactory than that
Austria has gradually been detached from the
Russian alliance. On every account, the sepa-
ration of the policy of Austria from that of Rus
sia is one of the most considerable events which
a | have taken place for 40 years. and one of the
e most favorable to the cause of temperate free
o dom and national Independence Those very
wrongs of which Mr.. kossuth complains so nn
iustly-the partition of Poland and the suhju-
ton of Hungary-are mainly attributable u
,reponderanoe of Russian eounsels over th'
ga terests of the Austrian Empire
lhel artision of Poland was forced upor
zeal in. resa and Prince Kattnitz BY Cath
The P .-ederick the suppression of tht
haria The. rreetion by foreign army. in
rine and Fl >romise, was due partly to th,
hungarian insu e of Kossuth himself, an,
tead of by q CONF ring police of Nicholas
xtrayagant violenc, ~ch into the heart of I
artly to the oyerbea to be told by vic
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