The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-31

infection on occasion; pathetic from the
ingrained fiber of his experience; apprecia-
tive in rare dominance OF spirit: SELL
asserting to invaders. but chlldlike 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 exiled and would have killed him
for giving to Hungary the measure OF free
dom it now possesses, trembles as In the
fierce pathos of his uncOnquered patriotism
he cries: Hungary for the Hungarans,
and never knee to the House OF Haps-
burg" All, bending the knee to kossuth
to-day in the ripened wisdom OF his eXpe-
rience, the world could learn lessons for the
welfare of humanity not to be obtained
elsewhere. 1t seems to me that elo-
Quence, bursting forth, as it ever does from
upquenchable subterraDean fires OF poeSy,
the impassioned 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 effiuence of humanity-the one
soul she has produced great enough TO
kndle the world with his name-that her
Parliament, which he created, giving to
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.
KossUTH,
With that strong independence ever char
acteristic of him, to-day. with his pen,
maintains his home in Turin, while king
reigns over Hungary in the luxury he has
never earned and to which he is, by no
moral or intellectual right, entitled-since
all the Hungarian exles who have returned
to the country have been beautifully re-
warded, notably tie Count Andrassy, who,
think was burned in effigy with Kossuth
and Colonel Figyelmesy-another exile who
has never returned, but cast his fortunes in
the United States army, married cultl-
waited Pennsylvania lady of fine family,
and with her is now III Europe, spending
most of his time with his old friend at
Turin. Since all the returned exiles have
been rewarded generously, it is a strange
inconsistency that the leader of the whole
revolution, the very soul of the independ-
ence of his nation, should have been offered
nothing more substantial than homage by
his native land. Whether he would re-
ceive it or not, Hungary cannot afford to do
herself the injustice OF withholding.
Kossuth has golden medal from New
York agricultural society, given as a testi-
monial Of the great services he lad rem
dered agriculture in Hungary, where, pre-
vious to 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 his
home garden, brought to him by his friends,
is fine sentiment, but he deserves, at the
hands of those who enjoy the fruit of his
sacrifice, a measure of appreciation higher
than that, not from individuals, but from
the Government of Hungary.
That indescribable manner of Kossuth,
so rare at any time and especially in ex-
treme age,
DANIEL WEBSTER
Spoke of admiringly, and it is of the same
spirit as his eloquence, which made that Of
Webster himself appear heavy and COM
monplace. Had | tie physical strength
necessary would, in the inspiration of his
society, write lecture upon the life of
kossuth. and beginning with the British
Isles would teach them first its yet unful-
filled gospel; then in America there should
be no peace until every hamlet had learned
the lesson lie has lived and t0ied and suf-
fered to leach. Stealing from him the
Promethean fire, it should never die upon
the altar until the world had learned to do
homage to the immortal gods, and thereby
save itself. The only man in the world TO-
day without a country" he is also the
only man in the world above q country.
His blue eye is undlmmed. and he read,