The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18
OBITUARY.
Death of Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian
Patriot and Statesman.
LONDON, Dec. lit is reported that Louis
Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is dead.

LONDON Zee. ll.-lG Is reported llldl LOUIS
kOssuth, the hungarian patriot, is dead.
Lajos (Louis) Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot,
was born at Monok, county of Zemplen, April
81, 1902. His father, a lawyer, gave his chill
dIen a liberal education. Laios, the only son.,
received his first classical instruction in the
gymnasium of the Pianists at Ujhely. studied
at Eperies, and passed through a legal and
philosophical course at the college of Patak.
The spirit which minated this last institution
has almost always been one OF op-
position to the rule of Austria.
Kossuth was well read in history,
and spoke with almost equal fuency Magyar,
Slavak, German, French and Latin, the last of
which was still in part the legal language of his
country; in 1880 became agent to the Countess
Szapary, and as such sat in the Genital Assem-
bly,. AT the age of twenty seven he took his seat
in the National Diet at Presburg, as represent
alive of a magnate. He published reports of the
proceedings of this assembly on autographed
sheets until they were suppressed by the gov
eminent, and afterward in manuscript circulars.
The government, which determined not to allow
reports of parliamentary debates to become cur
rent in Hungary, prosecuted him for high
treason, and in 1887 he was sentenced to four
years Imprisonment. After about a year and a
half of confinement he was liberated under an
act of amnesty. In 1S41 he became editor of
the Pest Hirlap (Pesth Journal), starting with
fewer than 100 subscribers, but in a month they
were numbered by thousands. Count Stephen
Szecheny, in a book, denounced Kossuth as a
dangerous a~grarian and demagogue. Szecheny
was ready to bestow freedom on the people as a
gift; Kossuth demanded it as a right, and threat
ened to extor5 it. Public opinion was de-
cidedly in favor of Kossuth, and his paper
became the organ of the opposition. His
connection with that paper was severed in 1874.
Hungary was exhausted by a tariff against it,
and this system formed one of the chief griev-
ances of the nation. Kossuth formed a protect
i've union, whose members, men and women,
bound themselves for five years to use exclu-
sively homemade productions. Other societies.
agricultural, industrial and commercial, were to
assist the union, and hundreds of thousands
were enrolled. In the elections of 1S47 Kossuth
was elected for PeSth, and soon became the
recognized leader of the House. His influence
with his countrymen steadily increasing until in
March, 1S4S, he entered Vienna with a deputa-
ton to urge the claims of his country upon the
government, and returned to Presburg as Min
lister OF FINANCE. Onder MS lnGuence the inter-
nal reforms which he had advocated were car
ried out, the last remains of the oppressive
system 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 a 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 l84SI49. Fore
seeing the coming struggle, Kossuth devoted
all his energies. as the leading spirit
of fhn now OOUapnmpnt To fha OpOanizatIOp and
consideration of its powers. He created a treas
ury, organized a militia, formed new battallions
of national soldiery, established armies and
aroused the spirit of the nation by proclama-
tions, speeches, and articles in his new organ, at
the same time neglecting no means of bringing
about a peaceful solution of the difficulties. At
last, overwhelmed by force of numbers, he fed
to Turkey. He reached Schumla with Bein,
Dembinski, Perczel, Guyon and 200 men. and
was appointed a residence in Widen. Austria
and Russia wished the refugees to be given up,
in which case they would probably have been eX-
ecuted. Through the Intervention of England
and France the demand was refused, and finally,
at the intervention of the United States and
England, he was allowed to depart with his
family and friends. On Sept. l, 1851, he was
liberated and set our to embark on the
war steamer Mississippi, which had been dis
patched by the United States government, in &C
cordance with a resolution OF the Senate, to con
vey him to America as a nation'sq quest. He had
applied himself so studiously while in Turkey
that on his way hither he was able to address
the people of Italy and England in French, Ger
man, English and Italian. He was received in
Italy, Spain and England with great enthusiasm.
and reached New York, Dec. ., 1851. accompan-
led by his wife and Mr.. and Mrs. Pulsky. He
made a tour Of the country, speaking in behalf
of his people. At Washington he was received
with distinctions which had never been bestowed
on any foreigner except Lafayette. He returned
to Europe in July. 1852. The uprising of 1853
was cut short by the execution of Jubal, Naszlo-
pi, and others in Hungary, and the Punishment
of Kossuth's mother and sisters. He made sew
eral Intellectual attempts to deliver Hungary,
through hostile complications between the
greater powers, but never succeeded, and finally,
in 1862. he removed 20 Turin, where he has since
resided. In November. 1861, he published in
the Perseveranz, an Italian journal, a long let
ter setting forth the situation in Hungary, and
urging the Italians to war against
Austria, with the view of enabling the Hun
garians to develop their strength against that
power; issued an i~ntammatory address to the
Hungarians on June 6, 1866. and after the close
of the war of that year advised the Hungarians
to reject the concessions offered by Francis
Joseph. He was elected deputy for Waltzen on
Aug. |, 1867, but he declined to accept the office.
Turin, where he has resided for twenty years in
the ~strictest privacy. Latterly he has devoted
much of mis- time to science, and he published a
paper on the "Farbenveranderung der Sterne"
in 1871.
Rev. u. b. Fuller.
HAMILTON, Ont, Dec. 1z.-Rev. 2. B. Fuller,
Bishop of Niagara, died this morning. Several
days ago he accidentally run a three cornered
file into his hand. A first the wound did not
give much trouble, but a day or two after it fes-
tered and gangrened, and blood poisoning set in,
from the effects of which he died.
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