Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-05-23
KossuTRs GOOD WORK,
The Cause He Labored For Is Now
Substantially Achieved. az
Some Of tho Striking Incidents 81 the
Hungarian Patriots Trouhlous
CarOer-Ht Death In Vol
.'" untafy Exile.

The news of Kossuth's death has
brought back to us memories of what
is now almost hazy past. Those
among us whose hair is gray still re-
member the appearance on these
shores of the man who, to our magma
ton, was the hero of a grand romance.
And romantic hero, he was, indeed,
says Harper's Weekly, the most roman
tic by far of all those made famous by
the revolutionary movements which
shook the European continent in the
years of 184S and 1849. Nothing seemed
to Withstand his marvellous eloquence,
adorned with the luxuriance of almost
oriental imagery and inspired by
high aims. But these aims were also
essentially romantic. He sought to
raise the Hungarians-a remnant,
comparatively small in numbers, of
Asiatic migration that had flooded
Europe'in the dark ages-to the posi-
ton of an entirely independent power
"a conception the realization of which
could appear probable only at a. time
when the imagination of men was
heated by the revolutionary upheavals
of 1s4S, which brought forth events so
unexpected and seemed to expunge the
word "impossible'' from the diction-
airy.
1t was not the conception of calm
ly calculating statesman, but rather
that of an ardent patriot who was at
the same time poet. And Kossuth's
nature was essentially poetic.
Paradoxical as it may sound, his
cause would have bee" l15t even if it
had won in the heroic 5trp Fgle of 1S49.
Talleyrand is credited with the. oracu-
lar saying that if the hva.salian en-
pire did not exist it world nave to be
invented. Old cynic as ':H vas he had
shrewd political ideas and frequently
told the truth. The Austri.:n empire
as a conglomeration of different ma
tionalities which are rot only not
friendly, but in a great L!casure hos
tile to one another, appears like mon
strous continuance. 1t seems almost
always on the point of flying to pieces
and dissolving itself into it's constitu-
ent elements, but look at the map
will convince any thinking man that
the nationalities living under the Aus
trian crown in the great valley Of the
Danube and it's tributaries have enough
interests in common to make their
union under one general government
| desirable, if not necessary
After bloody vengeance taken for the
instruction, and an attempt Mt severe
| ly centralized rule, the Austrian gov
eminent found it wise to restore to
Hungary such n measure of indepen-
| dent administration as would befit a
member of confedcracy, and a COM
| punion of Kossuth in the revolutionary
war, Count Andrassy, was for many
years the leading minister of the Aus
| TRAN empire.
Had Kossuth succeeded in making
Hungary an independent nation as he
conceived it, it would in spite Of the
brightness, generosity and heroism OF
the Magyar race, have been a weak lit
tic state, torn by internal race conflicts
insignificant in the councils of nations
aud con stantly threatened by it's neigh.
bors. The Independent Hungary he
rejected is a substantially self-govern,
ing and most influential part of one OF
the great powers of the world. But
his stubborn consistency fitted the TO
nance of his life.
1t has not infrequently happened in
the history Of the world that the
champions of great objects died as dis
appointed men. because those objects
although accomplished in substance
were not accomplished in the manner
the original champions had designed
Mazziri had lived for the unifcatior
of Italy, and he died in gloom and de
spondcncy because Italy was united
under a king of the house of Savoy
The German revolutionists of 1S4
fought for o united Germany, and the!
lived to see Germany united under tht
same men against whom they hat
fought in 1849. And now Kossuth ba
died in voluntary exile, refusing t
, recognize his independent Hungar.
because it's Independent government
~ecoEnized a Hapsburg as it's king
l G, VII, he is and deseruas IN no revere,