The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-11-14
Kossuth and the War.

AS Kossuth while in this country pre-
dietod very correctly the commencement
of the War, and now watches its success
with all the interest of a 6eposed mon
arch, we publish so much of his last
letter tothis country brought by the last
Steamer, as relates tothe present aspect
of affairs:
You will have seen by this time that
| have been right in saying that the fall
of Sebastopel s by far lot the end of
the Crimean campaigp. The defeat of
the Russians at Kars is a brilliant reve-
lation of the vitality of the Turkis1 ma
ton. Heaven grantthey may get reused
to a proper sense of national dignity
because it is really heart-revolting to
see to what condition of absolute nonen-
tity they are reduced in their own house,
by those who style themselves their al
lies, but act as the most insoieat mas
tiers. Strange complications will yet
need arise from that contempt of justice
and want OF regard.
The most remarkable fact in foreign
politics. fact " dark as Erebus sis
the concordat of Francis Joseph of Aus
tria with the Pope. The imbecile re-
signed cowardly all those rights of in
dependence to which all his ancestors,
whatever else their crimes may have
been, adhered with uurenitting tenaoity.
The fact proves clearly how that man
himself may despair of his tomorrow,
when with such a staff be should try to
prop his faltering existence. 1t will
not save him, to be sure quite the re-
verse; but could it even save him, is it
not sheer madness? "Propter vitam,
vivenGi perdere causes ?" However,
the matter is too important not require
to be treated rr pr9fesso another time,
here or elsewhere.
Bread and everything in consequence,
is rising in price alarmingly, and it is
only October yet. The people begin to
assume an almost threatening aspect, for
next Sunday a monster demonstration is
spoken of at Hyde P-rk. Money scarce
and dear. The bank of England raised
the discount to 6 and 7. In France mat
tiers look still gloomier. Scarcity of
bread, a financial crisis is imminent, aud,
no money. You remember what a fuss
has been made about the brilliant fnan-
cial condition of France at the raising of
the last loan. Seven hundred and fifty
millions wanted, and nearly 4 millions
subscribed! Very we'll now the first
iBstallment had to DO paid in, |
IA trihe of Is millions of dollars, nothing
more, and the money is not forthcoming
; not one half of it. 1t was
mere mco ,shine and Bourse gambling.
is in u dreadful fix. AS
drowning men cling to a straw, he re-
last year to desperate measures
for keeping down the price of bread
Nov the scarcity is greater yet, and
stop his carriage and shout
= bread" He must proceed on his own
pr~ecedents; and has no money a loan
IS evidently impossible. They talk of
/. large emission of Bank of France
notes; but FOR this the aid of the Bank
IF England is thought necessary. A
combined measure of the suspension of
payment in cash is talked of. "F'nan-
tiers break their heads in devising
trick, but the necessity is urgent, !.
no prospect of peace, and every day
s a Moloch crying to be fed with mil
ions; and the b-bble of artificial pros
'erity is bursting. Recollect 1889 = /,
The likeness is striking, only the dimen- :
ions are larger. 1t is boiling, boiling!
I'd, ask your travellers ; they will tell
on how people are talking 'FRepablic "
t Paris, openly.
Is nobody in America to reflect with a
be care of a statesman, and with the t
of a friend, on a certain mani
,sto, addressed to " The Republicans" o
Iobody? Well, it is as it is destiny y
cers the accounts, with unfaltering /
and; and. men will remember, and, in 8
,ite of indifference. neglect, contempt,
r even cnmity, the wheel of events !
.,ntinucss and will continue to pro- a
rcss. 3kOSSUTH. +