Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-29
KOSSUTH Is NO MORE.
The Last Hours Of the AGED Hun
garian Patriot.
a Sketcn OF His Career-His Remains. To-
Sether With Those of His Wife and
Daughter, tn be Removed
to Hungary.
kOssuth'S Last Hours.

were constantly arriving from all parts
OF Europe inquiring as to his condi-
ton and friends, especially from Hun
gary, came on every train. Yesterday
the number of kilograms expressing
sorrow and coincidence had increased
enormously and the number of news
paper correspondents and others seek
ing admission to the house of the dead
patriot was very great.
The dying man suffered very much
in his last hours. Though he was in
an almost complete state of prostra-
ton. he experienced terrible pains and
breathed with difficulty He appeared
to retain his mental faculties to the
last. From the time he entered the
death agony, about IL o'clock, until he
died, at 1855 p. m, his intense suffer
ing was heartrending to those who
stood by his bedside. His respiration
became so labored about o'clock that
two bags of oxygen were brought into
his room to facilitate his breathing.
From this time he sank gradually, I'M
til an occasional gasp was all that in
dictated life. In this state he lay for
nearly an hour. and at 1885 the sick
man gave one final gasp and passed
away, after eleven hours of agony.
Those present at the bedside were
francesca and Louis Kossuth, his sons;
his cousin, Mrs. Ambrosovich and her
husband; two sons and a nephew, Col.
Figy-Elmesy, formerly aide-de-camp
to Kossuth; Deputies Karolyi. Lukies
and Etvoies. Count Benyovsuy and Mr..
Peyrot, an Evangelical pastor.
\, 1aff IN,
real estate. In consequence of his
losses through Italian banks he was
some time ago compelled to sell his
great library for 10000 forms. This
and the personal property in his house
is believed to have comprised all his
possessions.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Louis Kossuth was born in Monol1 Hungary.
April 81 1902. The precocity of his boyish
mind attracted Baron VCcsey. who caused him
to be carefully educated. He studied law and
soon became known as an opponent of the des-
potic pretentionS of the Austrian government.
In 1882 he entered the Presburg parliament as
the representative of one OF the great mag
mates, who were at that time allowed to appear
in the chamber by proxy. The press was under
strict censorship, but KosSuth started man.
uscript journal to report the debates in the
diet, and it at once obtained a wide circulation.
For refusing to stop its circulation kossuth
was condemned to four years Imprisonment.
Released in 1910. he entered the national
cause with redOubled energy, becoming in 1871
editor of the newly-founded Pesth Journal. In
1874 he founded great national league, nom-
inally to promote industry and commerce, but
in reality to form center of opposition to the
Viennese government He was returned to
parliament in 1877. His ability and his sur
passing eloquence made him leader of the as
Sembly and leader of the reforming party. He
induced the government to form a Hungarian
ministry, in which Kossuth was minister of
finance. Its first acts were to carry through
the series of liberal reforms which had been
inaugurated.
Equality of civil rights and liability to taxa
ton for all classes were decreed. and the
bles renounced their privileges. The land sys-
tenn was transformed and the franchises
widely extended; Kossuth meanwhile had
effected useful reforms in the financial sys
tenn. But these labors were interrupted by
the insurrection of the Croats and Serbs. Sc
cretly supported by the Vienna government.
In a great speech in parliament on July II he
called upon the Magyars to defend them
selves and demanded on the part of the govern
ment credit for 42OOO,0O) forms and 10000
men.
The Austrian government revoked the grant
of a responsible ministry to Hungary and
fused to recognize the new laws. kossuth was
then made president of the committee of ma
tional safety. In October revolution broke out
in Vienna Kossuth determined to support the
insurgents. ordering march on Vienna, but
the MagyarS were beaten and Obliged to fall
back behind the Danube.
On the abdcation of Ferdinand the Hun
garians refused to recognize Francis Joseph,
and KosSuth conveyed the crown of St.
Stephen to DebreZin from which town, and
afterward from Scegedin. he carried the
government. In the spring OF 1919 the Hun
garian forces beat the Austrians in so many
battles that the latter sought help from Rus
STA The HungarianS responded by decreeing
the deposition of the house OF Hapsburg and
nominating KoSsuth dictator. The i'm
perial armies began closing in on all sides.
Discussions broke out in the Hungarian army
and on August IL, 1919, kossuth resigned his
everywhere by the allied armies of Russia and
Austria, and kossuth fed to Turkey.
Doubtless the exiled patriot, in response to
the demands and threats OF Austria and Rus
STA would have been surrendered by Turkey to
he nut to death. But England and America
interviewed in his behalf, and his safety was
thus secured. And presently the United
States government sent its steam frlSate
Mississippi TO bring him to America as the ma
TONS guest.
1t was on September 1. 1851, that Kossuth and
his comrades in exile set out on horSeback
from Kutalah, Turkey on their way to the land
OF liberty. On the 10th they reached the shore
OF the Dardanelles, and they were received on
board the Mississippi with all the honorS due
n nations guest. Next day they weighed
anchor and started for the west amid the
salutes OF the surrounding Turkish fleet. At
Smyrna, syria. Spezzia and other ports marked
honors were paid to them.
On arriving at MarseilleS Kossuth asked to
20 through France as the most rapid mode of
travel would take him. The request was sent
10 Paris. and q fiat refusal was sent back
Everybody was surprised The people were
greatly excited; they surrounded the frigate
as she lay in the harbor IN myriads, singing the
.Marseillaise' and other republican songs,
cheering the United States, bearing the Stars
and Stripes surrounded by q wreath Of i'm
mortelles and in every way testifying their
low that the exiles were under the protection
of a nation that was in fact as well as in name
a repIbric.
AS the prince-president. Louis Napoleon,
who was even then planning the coup d'etat.
feared to let the champion Of liberty pass
through France the journey was continued by
water to Gibraltar. Thence he went to En-
gland in an English steamer and made tour
of that country being received with great pop
ular enthusiasm everywhere.
Finally on December he reached New YORK
on the steamer Humboldt. and was welcomed
with inuosing demonstratS No >.-;tor save
LAFAYETTE has ever been greeted as this
famous leader of the Magyars.
Kossuth's tour through the United States
was an almost amending triumphal march
State We'd with state, city with city, man with
man, to do him honor.
In Washington he was received by President
Fillmore and his cabinet At the first public
dinner rendered him in that city Senator king,
the president of the senate, presided. with
kossuth and the speaker of the house on his
right hand and Daniel Webster on his left.
During his stag Kossuth met nearly all the
eminent men in this country.
Kossuth hats-Soft felt. broad brimmed
chapeaus-took the place OF pretty nearly all