Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-11-01

ism with fidelity to an alien monarch;
ut,when the immeasurable perhdy OF
the House of Hapsburg compelled
the choice, he did not hesitates to
peril all for liberty and right. Great
mobiles proved recreant to the memory
of illustrious ancestors, and veteran
soldiers covered before the gather
ing might of Eastern Europe. Yet
Kossuth quailed not, faltered not, out
arousing Hungary by his burning elo-
quence, hunted the Austria and the
Croat from her soil, and made head
against the innumerable hosts of Rus
sia and Austria combined, until ruin.
ed by the Infamous treatment of Cor
gey, when he sought in foreign lands
the liberty and justice denied in his
own.
Seventeen years of wandering ex-
ile-during which death has over
taken his beloved wife, with most of
his subordinate leaders in the heroic,
bloody struggle for Hungary's indie
pendence-have brought many muta-
tions. Russia, attacked by France,
Great Britain, and Turkey combined
has found Austria as ungrateful to
her as she was perfdious in her foray
on the liberties Of Hungary, and
been obliged to succumb. Louis Ma
poleon still rules France; but with
power diminished and prestige Sorely
shaken by his luckleSS raid on Mex
leo, and by the reconstruction Of
Germany. Austria, routed on the
field of Sadowa, has been expelled
not only from Italy, but from all
Germany outside of her own heredi-
tary domains, obliged to renouncc,
by treaty, all pretension to be long
considered leading German power.
Prussia is to-day the foremost Euro
pean State, if we consider Russia es-
sentially Asiatic; Italy, almost unit,
takes rank next after Great Britain,
and far above Spain or Sweden !;
while the Austrian Emperor, beaten
and humbled to the dust, not daring
to invoke again the sword of the Rus
sian Gar, throwing himself on the
protection of France, is constrained
to fall back upon that Hungary so
long abused and insulted, take upon
his soul that constitutional oath of
/ idelity to her chartered rights which
he had so long refused to pronounce,
and proclaim a general amnesty for
her exiled patriots, guilty Of main
tanning those historic liberties which
he and his house had treacherously
subyerted. OF this eventful drama
the election of kossuth to the Hun
garian Diet is "the beginning Of the
end"
Is he right in accepting the trust?
Doubtless, kossuth believes to-day
as he has long openly held, that the
House of Hapsburg is incurably false
and faithless toward Hungary-that
the coronation VOWS renewed under
constraint will be shamelessly broken
at the first temptation-that the late
reconciliation is but truce, and pro
badly brief one-that the libertie;
of his country have no real security
but in the hearts and the arms Of hel
sons. Doubtless, he will take the
oath of fealty to Francis Joseph il
perfect consciousness that they two
will be at open war, should the lives
of both be Spared ten years longer
Doubtless, narrow and verbal con
sistency would dictate that the grea
Magyar should reject that seat, rejec
the oath, and remain till death al
exile from his native land.
Yet there is a higher and noble
consistancy-that of a patriot VIII,
lives faithful to his high purpose to dc
under whatever external conditions
his very best for his country and 70
, Humanity. Our circumstances ar
, created for US, not by US !; we have bu
the choice to accept them and worI
r in and through them, or to live in a.
ideal world of our own making, a
{ act only on those rare occasions whe
: the hard, real, actual world happen
to be a reflex of this | would no
! disparage the brave and true abstra(
3 tionists; but | place Louis Kossut
: above them as a patriot and states
man, and I rejoice that he is soon t
= reappear in that hall which was tn
e arena of his early services and Libel
ty, with force and effect which h
: could not have exerted in persisten
@ exile.
We shall never again see him i
;. America-never be thrilled with hi
: burning periods, nor catch the gleal
|. Of his eye; yet we may rejoice in th
conviction that his remaining year
Il will be usefully, gloriously spent
: the service of his county and his rae
and his last look of earth linger lo'
ingly on that native land which h
has loved so passionately and serve
with such absorbing devotion, sue
transcendent ability. Patriot her
of the far East the heart Of th
West still throbs at recollection 0
the brief, bright hour wherein you
: eloquence made her forget the barrie
IL of space and obstacle that separat
D Hungary from America, in the e.
T. nobling consciousness of that mutu;
J. sympathy and common interest whit
ST blend and bind all generous souls
$ one fervent aspiration for the perfe
9 and abiding reign of Liberty an
7 Justice in every quarter of the globe
: A young wife being asked VIII
~ she should do in case her husban
should fail, replied: "Live on arm
: TO he sure 7 have two and he h: