The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-07

Louis Kossuth, ex Governor of Hungary was
born Sept. 16, 1902. at MOnOk, in the county of
Zemplin, where his father was small owner, of
the noble class. Louis educated at the
Protestant college of Scharasehpataek, where
he qualified himself for the profession of an adj
vocate, obtained his diploma in 1926, and in
1880 became agent to the Countess Szapa-y, and
as such. sat in the Comital Assembly. At the
age of twenty-seven he took his seat in the Ma
tlonal Diet of Presburg, representative of a
magnate. He published reports of the proceed
ings OF this assembly on autographed sheets I'M
til they were suppressed by the government
and afterwards in manuscript circulars. The gov
ernment, which determined not to allow reports
Hungary, prosecuted him for high treason,
and in 1889 he was sentenced TO
four years imprisonment. After about year
and half of confinement, he was liberated
under an act of amnesty. In January, 1S41,
he became chief editor of the Hirlan, a news
paper published at Pesth. His influence with
his countrymen steadily increased until, in
March, 1S4S, he entered Vienna with deputa-
tOn to urge the claims of his country upon the
government, and returned to Presburg Min
lister of Finance, Under his influence the inter-
nal reforms which he had advocated were car
red out, the last remains of the oppressive sys-
TEN were swept away, and the peasants were
declared free from all signorial claims, the coun
try undertaking to indemnify the landlords
The Diet was dissolved, and new Diet sum-
mOned for July 2, by which Kossuth was created
Governor of Hungary, and he held that post
during the civil war of l948-49 After the efforts
of the Hungarians had been crushed mainly by
the aid of Russian armed intervention Kossuth
was compelled to retire to Turkey. he
feaCueu ocuuunld Will DEM, OenDln5hi, fefCZel
Guyon and 5000 men, and was appointed a
residence in Widdin. Austria and Russia wished
the refugees to be given up. in which case they
would probably have been executed. Through
the intervention of England and France the de-
mand was refused. The late Sultan behaved
with great humanity and Observation-Disclosures on
the occasion. The refugees were removed to
Kutahia, in Asia Minor, where they remained
prisoners until Aug. %, 1851. Kossuth left
Kutahia on Sept 1, and after touching at SpeZ-
zIa. called at Marseilles, but was refused per-
mission to travel through France. Having been
Hospitality received at Gibraltar ana at Lisbon,
he reached Southampton on Oct. %, sailed for
the United States on Nov. 81, and made d tour
of this country. He soon returned TO England,
where he resided for years, occupying
himself chiefly in writing for the newspapers
| and delivering lectures against the
house of Hapsburg. One of the last oc-
casions on which his name brought
prominently before the public was in 1860, when
| the Austrian government instituted a successful
| graphing several millions of bank notes for cir
| eulation in Hungary, signed by Kossuth as Gov
| ernor of that country. In November, 1861, he
published in the Perseverance,, an Italian jour
| nal long letter setting forth the situation in
| Hungary, and urging the Italians to commence
| war against Austria, with the view OF enabling
the Hungarians to develop their strength against
| that power; issued inaammatory address to
| the Hungarians on June 6, 1866, and after the
| close of the war OF that year advised the Hun
| garians to reject the concessions offered by
Francis Joseph. He elected deputy for
Waltzen on Aug. l, 1867, but he declined to &C
cept the office. NJ. Kossuth lives in an UMPIRE
tending dwelling in Turin, where he has resided
for twenty years in the strictest privacy. Lat
terly he has devoted much of his time to science,
and he published paper on the "Farbenveran-
derung der Sterne' in 1871.