Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-22
KOSSUTH IN EXILE.
4 Man without Country-Pathctic Ac-
count of His Old Age.
rBy Mrs. Marion V. Dudley ia the Evening Wis
rCusiu.l


rBy Mrs. Marion V. Dudley ia the Evening Wis
consinl
Back 10 Marseilles. along the famous
fashionable Biyiere 70 Genoa, the home II
Columbus. North 10 Milan. and finally
Turin. modern North-ItalIan city, noisy
bevond description whore its hotels are 10
Gated. but full of statues. broad piaZZas,
parks. and scenery from the snOw-crOWned
Alps-hut essentially and ntere- tingly the
nome of the eXiled Hungarian patriot,
Louis kOssuth, now lightweight years Of
AGE, and most remarkably vital and yalua-
blein an that wonderful intellectual energy
which set the world cfame forty or fifty
wears ago. In the mans life and history IS
a splendid epic poem which he has lived.
and m his conversation Is poetic, uncOn-
scious energy direct from Olympus. Sa-
tirical In the nicely of an infection on oc-
casion: pathetic from the incrained fibre
OF his experience: appreclatlve M rare
dominance If spirit self-a-s.rung 20 In
yaders. but childlike as Homer or the face
of nature at sunset. The acquaintance Of
kings, he was their superior, and to-day
the throne of Austria, which eXlled and
would have killed him Tor giving To Hun
cary the measure of freedom It now pos
sesses, trembles as in the fierce pathos of
his uncouuuered patriotism he cries:
" Hungary for the Hungarlans. and neyera
knee the House of Hapsburg." All, bend
ing the knee to kossutn, to-day IN therlpeu-
ed wisdom of mis- experience. the world
could learn lessons for the welfare OF hui
mainly not TO be obtained elsewhere. IL
seems 20 mo that elOquence. bursting forth,
ms it ever does, from unquenchable subter-
ranoan fires of poesy. the lmpassloned
bloom of centuries of effort, does command
the highest homage. And | wonder OF
what Hungary Is thinking to-day, that IN
her unquestiOned love for her highest eiliu-
ence Of humanity-the one soul she has pro-
duced great enough 10 kindle the world
with mis- name-that her Parliament, which
he created, giving 10 millions OF people
their liberties only to have his own taken
from him. that she still permits him TO be
an exile from her shores earning his own
support and caring for his sister, who was
also exiled from home and country with
her brother
his STRONG INDEPENDENCE.
Kossuth. with that strong independence
ever characteristic of him, today with
his pen, maintains his home IN Turin
while a king regns over Hungary IN the
luxury he has never earned and TO which
he Is 10y no moral or intellectual right en-
ttled-slnce all the Hungarian exiles who
returned 10 the country have been bounti-
fully rewarded, notably the Count An
drassv. who, l think, was burned
in efiigy with kossuth and Colonel
Figyelmesy- exile. who has never
returned, but cast hIs fortunes IN the
United states army. married cultivated
Pennsylvania lady OF fine family, and with
her is now in Europe spending most of his
time with his old friend at Turin. Since
all the returned eXiles have been rewarded
generously, 70 Is strange inconsistency
that the leader Of the whole revolution,
the very soul OF the present independence
of his nation, should have been offered
nothing more substantial than homage by
his native land. Whether be would re-
ceiye II or not, Hungary cannot afford 20 do
herself the injustice Of Withholding.
Kossuth has golden medal from a New
York agricultural society. given as n testi-
monial of the great services ne had render
ed agriculture IN Hungary. where pre-
yious 10 his day, the farmer was scarcely
more than a slave. He improved too the
railway system Of the country. and would
have. at that time even. improved the
monetary system had he not been over
thrown by Austria. In the elegant box Of
wrought steel containing earth from ms
nome garden, brought To him bv his
friends. is fine sentiment. but he dasaryes
M the hands Of those who ENJOY the fruit
of his sacrifice measure Of appreciatiou
higher than that, not from individuals, but
from the Government Of Hungary.
ABOVE COUNTRY.
That indescribable manner of Kossuth,
so rare at any time, and especially In ex,
r. tpeme age. Daniel Webster spoke Of adm.
rinely: and IT is, of the same spirit "a his
elo eS which made that Of Webster
himself appear heavy and commonnlaee.
Had , t in The inspiration , ~ hhs; nee
w WOW lecture upon the life ' Of sp'i Kos
MI and beginning with the Rritisb
Isles would teach them frst its vet
nnfn,flled gospel; then in America there
sbnnid be no peace until every hamlet
had learned the lesson he has lived and
toiled and suffered sreas e teach Stealing
rSUs die upon the altar until the world