Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-09-25

from Italy, but from all Germany outside
Of her own hereditary domains, obliged
to renounce, by treaty all pretensions to
be long considered leading German pow
er. Prussia is to day the foremost Euro
pean State, ii we consider Russia essenti-
ally Asiatic; Italy, almost a unit, takes
rank next after Great Britain, and far
above Soain or Sweden while the Aus.
trian Emperor, beaten and humbled to the
dust. not daring to invoke again the
sword Of the Russian Car, throwing
himself on the protection of France, is
constrained to fall dack upon that Hun.
gary SO long abused and insulted, take
upon his soul that constitutional oath Of
fidelity to her chartered rights which he
had so long refused to pronounce, and
proclaim general amnesty for her exilcd
patriots, guilty of maintaining those his
torc liberties which he and his house had
treacherously subverted. Of this event
full drama the election of Kossuth to the
Hungarian Diet is 'the beginning of the
end"
Is he rightin accepting the trust (?
Doubtless, Kossuth believes to day, as he
has long openly held, that the House Of
Hapsburg is iucurably false and faithlest
toward Hungary-that the coronation vows
renewed under constraint will be shame
less)y broken at the drst temptation thai
the late reconciliation is but truce, and
probaly a brief one--that the liberties oI
his country have no real security but il
tho hearts and the arms Of her sons
Doubtless. he will take the oath Of fealty
to Francis Joseph in perfect conciousnes'
that they two will be at open war, should
the lives of both be spared ten years lon
ger. Doubtless, Il narrow and verbal con
sistency would dictate that the grca
Magyar should reject that scat, reject thu
oath, and remain till death an exile from
his native land.
Yet there is higher aud noblcr con
sistapcy-that of patriot who live
faithful to his high purpose to do, unde
whatever external conditions, his very
best for his country aud for Humanity
Our circumstances arc created for us. no
by VS. we have but the choice to accep
them and work in and through them, o
to live in an ideal world Of our own max
ing, an ast only on those rare OCCASION
when the hard, real, actual world hap
pens to be reflex of this | would no
ldisparage the brave and true abstraction
lists; but | place Louis Kossuth abov
them as a patriot and statesman, and
rejoice that be is soon to reappear in tina
hall which was the arena of his early ser
vices and Liberty, with force and effcc
whict he could not have exorted III persis
tent exile.
We shall never again see him in Amer
ica-nevor be thrilled with his burning
periods, nor catch the CLEAN Of his eye
yet we may rejoice in the conviction tba
his remaining years will be usefully, glo
riously spent in the service Of his countr,
and his race, and his last look Of eartl
linger lovingly on that native land whicl
he has loved SO passionatcly and serve,
with such absorbing devotion, such tran
scendent ability. Patriot hero Of the ia
East ! the hart Of the West still throbs a
recollection of the brief, bright hou
wherein your eloqucnce made her forge
the barries Of space and obstacls tha
separate Hungary from America, in tn
ennobling consciousness of that mutua
sympathy and common interest whic
blend and bind all generous souls in on
fervent aspiration forthe perfect and abid
ing reign Of Liberty and Justice in ever.
quarter of the globe