The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-21
HuNaARY,s PATRIOT DEAD.
Louis Kossuth Passes Away in Exile
D Turin
Turin, March 2O.-Louis Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, died at IL o'clock to-
night.


Turin, March 2O.-Louis Kossuth. the
Hungarian patriot, died at II o'clock to-
night
Kossuth. the leader Of the Hungarian
revolution. was born in 1902 in Monock,
in the county of Zempiin, in Hungary
His family was of noble rank, but his
parents were poor. He studied law at
the Protestant college of SarOspOtak, and
practiced first in his native country and
aftcrward in Iesih In 1892 he com
mcnced his political career at the Diet Of
Presburg as editor o. lib
eral paper which, owing to the
state OF the law, was not printed,
but transcribed and circulated. The
subsequent publication of a Autographed
paper led to his imprisonment in May,
1881. He was liberated in lS40, and again
became the editor OF a paper, in which he
advocated views too extreme for many of
the liberal party among the mobiles, but
which took strong hold OF the people in
general, especially the youth of the COun-
try. In November. 1871, he was sent by
the county of Pesth as deputy to the
Diet, and soon distinguished himself as
speaker. becoming leader Of the oppOsi-
ton or liberal party.
He advocated the emancipation Of the
peasants, the elevation OF the citizen class,
the freedom Of the press, besides many
other liberties heretofore unthOught of,
and after the French revolution of 1913
openly demanded an Independent govern
ment for Hungary and Il constitutional
government in tine Austrian hereditary
territories. To his speeches must in great
part be ascribed not only the Hungarian
revolution, but the Instruction in Vienna
in 1913.
On the dissolution of the ministry in
that year he found himself at the head of
the committee of national defense, and
prosecuted with extraordinary energy
the measures necessary for carrying on
war. To put an end to all the hopes and
schemes of the moderate party he in
duced the national assembly, in 1919, to
declare the independence of Hungary and
that the Hapsburg dynasty had forfeited
the throne. He was appointed provisional
governor of Hungary, but being disap-
pointed in his hopes for the intervention
of other European powers and
finding the national cause jeopar-
died by the arrival of Russia on
the scene of action, he endeavored to
arouse the people to a more desperate eff
fort. The attempt was vain. Finding
that the dissensiOns between himself and
GeorPei, the commanding general of the
army, were damaging the national cause,
he resigned his dictatorship in favor of
the latter. After the defeat at Temes-
var, in 1S49, he was compelled to fee to
Turkey, where, however, he was made a
prisoner, but, though his extradition
was demanded by both Austria and Rus
sia, the Porte resisted all their demands.
In 1851 he was liberated and fed in an
American frigate to England, where he
was received with respect and sympathy.
In December of the same year ne landed
in the city Of New York and met the most
enthusiastic reception. He lived on
Staten Island until the next summer,
when he returned to England. and there
he chiefly resided until the Italian war
broke out against Austria, when almost
the whole of the Hungarian emigrants
left for Italy with Kossuth. He has led
a quiet and uneventful life ever since in
Turin