New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-24


Germans eyen-from mahiug themselves the cats
paws Of the Imperial QuasimOdo. In word
be re,choed Mazzni's views, wn,:h the latter
again proclaimed in his Manifesto Of the 10th oil
May, which he chung to during the BonaPsrte
crusade, ard repeated vicsOriously st the end OF
the war in another manifesto reprinted BY IHE
TRIBUNE.
Kos.uth then. in January, 1859, not only saw
through the Bopapartist sham, but did all in his
power to lay it bare before the world. He goaded
the liberal press" into that direction after
ward wondered 8. by Bonaparte's tools as
"a sudden outbreak of - anti-Napoleonic
rage" and stigmatized by them As symp-
tom of morbid sympathy for Austria" But,
in the interval, between January, 1859, and
May, 1859, q strange revolution occurred in the
feelings and IDEAS of the grand improrisatore. He
who, to warn the British against Bonapartes
atrocious designs, had made lecturing tour
through Scotland in the Autumn of 1875, set
out in the month Of May, 1889, on another lectur-
ing tour, from the London Mansion House to the
Free-Trade Hall at Manchester, to preach conf
dence in the Man Of December, and, under the
false pretense Of standing up for neutrality,
invege the British to the side OF the Imperial
blsclleg His own neutrality be soon after evinced
in q manner not TO be misunderstood.
Now, these recOllectiOns, which l might multi
ply - pleasure, ought to raise some msgivinssi III
the u.i.Js of Kossuths homes. admirers-such men
as are neither blind worshipers of name, nor
bound to the democratic grandee BY sordd interest
At all events, they will not deny that the facts l
am now about to relate appear by no means incom-
pstible with the past OF the presumed hero OF
liberty There were three Hungarian leaders 81
Pari,. paying court 10 the illustriOus Plon Plon,
alias the Prince Rouge the scion of the Bonapartist
family upon whom has fallen the lot Of coquettlng
with revolution, in the same way that his bigger
cousin dahes with "religion order, and property
Those three men were Col. Kiss, Count Teleky
and Gen. Kspks. Plon Plon, be it said, en- pdsssnf
is q Heliogabalus as to morals, an Ivan Ill. for
personal cowardice, real BOnaparte for falsehood;
but. with all that, an homme Gespra, IS the
French say. These three gentlemen prevailed
upon Plon- Plon, who, probably, was not at oil
taken by surprise, to enter into negotiations with
Kossuth, TO summon him to Paris, and even TO
hold out the promise Of presenting the Ex-Governor
of Hungary to the insidiOus ruler of the Tuieres
Accordingly, Mr.. Kossuth, having been provided
with an English passport wherein he was designated
as Mr.. Brown, left London for Paris in the begin
ming of May At Paris he had at first long inter.
view with PlOn-Plon, to whom he exposed his
views about insurgiDg Hungary by landing 10000
Frenchmen, to be backed by corps of Magyar
refugees, on the coast of Fiume, and point that
seemed uppermOst in his patriotic mind, of form
ing, if only for appearance sake, provisional Gov
eminent with Mr.. Kossuth at its head. In the
evening Of May 3, Plon-PlOn, in his own carriage,
conducted Mr.. Kossuth to the Tuleres there to
introduce him to the Man Of December. During
this interview with Louis Bonsparte, Mr. KOssuth
for once refrained from using his great rhetorical
powers and allowed PlOn,PlOn t. act as his spOkes-
man. He afterwsrd paid gracious compliment
to the almost literal fidelity with which the Prince
had reproduced bis views.
Having attentively listened to the exposition of
his cousin, Louis Bonaparte declared that there
was one great obstruction to the acceptance on bis
part of Mr.. Kossuth's projects, viz, the latters
Republican principles and Republican connections.
It was then that Mr.. Kossuth most solemnly
aIjwed the Republican faith, declaring that he
neither was nor ever had been Republican, and
that political necessities only and strange com
bination of circumstances had compelled him to
side for while with tho Republican part Of the
European emigration. simultaneously, in proof of
bis anti Republicanism, he, in the name Of his cOun
try offered the Hungarian crown to Prince PlOn-
Pon 1t is true that the crown he thus disposed Of
had not yet become vacant, while his power of at
terney to barter it away was altogether wanting;
but whoever has carefully watched Mr.. Kossuth's
proceedings in foreign countries, must have become
aware that he has long been used to speak Of
Z" dear Hungary" somewhat in the way in which
8 country gentleman speaks Of his estates.
As to Mr. Kossuth's reputation Of Republican
ism, consider it to have been sincere civil list
of 300, 600 forms, which be claimed at Pesth for
keeping up the splendor Of the Executive; the pat
ronage of the hospitals, transferred from an Aus
tran Archducbess to bis own sister; the attempt to
give his name to some regiments his desire to sur
round himself with camarilla; the tensety with
which, when on foreign soil, be chung to the
title of Governor although resigned by him at the
epoch of the Hungarian catastrophe; the airs as
sumed by him Of pretender, rather than an exile
all this points to tendencies the reverse of Repub
licsnism. However that may be, positively az
firm that Louis Kossuth abjured Repuicanism be-
fore the French usurper and in the presence Of the
Man of December offered the Hungarian crown to
Plon. PoD, the Bonspartist Sardsnapalus. Some