The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-22
REMOVAL.

r.r n,sparcH office is removed from its
=. ,nc.,;on on Governor street, TO the corn
or OF Main and 18th streets. ass 80
xosurs IRON CupA.-4The letter No. Of
l.. Kossuth, TO an American citizen, on the
.pol;cv Of the United States in regard to
the annexation of Cuba," and which is puo'
,;.hed in the New York Times, OF MONDAY
Last il decidedly the coolest piece OF impn-
dapce we have ever seen If there had been |
anv doubt an to the real character OF TINS
man--sny question of the fact that ne IS the
most corrupt and double dealing demagogue
On the face of the earth, the most ungrateful |
and the most audacious of all the imported
humbugs who have polluted American soil
with their footsteps--this letter would estab-
Gsh the fact, to the entire satisfaction of the
most sceptical, and the perfect conviction OF
the most charitable.
When Kossuth first visited this country,
he was welcomed with bdrst of enthusiasm,
that echoed from the Lakes to the Gulf,
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
enthusiasm, was, in general, honest, for he
was believed to be true hero and patriot
q Hungarian Washington. But it was over
strained, excessive, and too ostentatious and
theatrical in its manifestations, to be alto
gether genuine. Our couatrymen have a.
passion for lionizing foreign celebrities, and
every ass that comes over here from the old
world, wearing lions skin, can easily i'm.
pose upon them. Even the brayiDg of the
long eared impostor does not always unde-
ceive them. Hence. we have. no sort of SYM
pathy with them, when the swine, before
whom they so iavishly east the pearls of their
admiration and hospitality, turn again and
rend them. When Kossuth landed in New
York. they made a little God of him. Even
the grand luminary Of Washington's fame,
in the murky atmosphere of mob enthusiasm,
became for q moment sborn of its lustre, and
seemed to grow pale as this fiery Eastern
comet blazed athwart the sky. No wonder
that the head OF Kossuth was Immediately
turned; that he looked down with contempt
upon men who licked his feet like spaDiels;
upon Americans who could forget Washing
ton, and even pronounce him an old fogy, in
comparison with this new light from Hunga.
ry-aman whom they had never seen before,
and who had never once shown his face in
the battle field of his country, and had for
saken her, like an migrate, in the very mo-
meut of her utmost need. No wonder that
kossuth began to dictate the proper policy
for this great country to pursue, and even
dared, with sacre)igious tongue to disparage
and underrate the wisdom of our Washing
ton! No wonder that he presumed to shape
our foreign policy for US, and in the most i'm
pertinent and officious manner to insist that
we ought, at once, to involve ourselves in a
European war, and send material aid to re-
volutionists in Europe No wonder that, dis
appointed in his cunning attempt to throw
dust in the bright penetrating eyes of Brother
Jonathan, who, however he may like lions
and asses in lions skins, has sense enough
never to allow them 10 run away with any
thing but his admiration, and perchance now
and then some of his private funds. No won
der that thus disappointed, Kossuth returned,
sore and growing, to England, where he has
consoled himself by giving lectures to the
British Government, and handling the loose
cOppers which he collected here for Hunga.
ny; but which, like Mrs. Stoves subsequent
collections in England, for her cOlored breth-
rem and sisters, seem never to have reached
their original destination.
Whilst Kossuth remained in the United
States, he carefully avoided in any way min
Cling himself with the question of slavery,
and thereby induced many persons to believe
that he had no hostility to slave Institutions.
His letter On Cuba, however, shows plainly
enough that this was but device to propi-
tiate the South, which from the first had ex.
hibited but little enthusiasm towards the
Hungarian exile. Not that the South was
Indifferent to the Hungarian cause, for no.
where was there deeper admiration Of. the
splendid valor and noble self-sacrifices of the
heroic Hungarians than in the Southern
States. But the South is not given to man
worship, and perhaps KOssuth, if he did not
like her as well, respected her the more for
it. AT all events, he was particularly eau
tious to avoid all reference to slavery. and
\ never uttered a remark that we know of in
this country which would at all compromise
him with the most ultra OF Southern men,
In his Cuban letter, however, he hesitates
not to pray Heaven that we may abolish
slavery, and declares that we never can get
Cuba until we "get peaceably rid of that
Damocles sword hanging over the Union
These are no doubt his real sentiments. and
he speaks them now for the first time he.
cause he has no longer any motive for con.
cealment.
The letter occupies two columns and half
of the N Y. Times. He contends that the
United States cannot obtain Cuba either nv
Spain giving Cuba her independence and
Cuba applying for admission TO the Union,
nor by sale of Cuba, nor by war. A war
with Spain on account of Cuba, he savs
would be at the same time war with Cub.
her black population freed with England,
France. Hayti, Mexico, &c Whilst Anar;'