The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-21

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oi man wao IS not IN psrsec. health, aEG hss
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against .ac exhsusser % the eody. ns was
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two OF three nigaSs H8 manner In speaking
is as once iacomparxbiy digasaea aad grace
fat Gestures more ad esrao>s ana enecs1ss.
sive sad magnetic. we rs1semosr Ii No
osaer public speskef. he stan = quite erect.
aad Does nos bend .urHsrt ike so-ae orators 70
give emphasis % = seztsace. Has posture ana
appearance IN repose 10 imposing rotoaly from
their essential grace sGe Signify, oIt rom
ssase ct power they im1ress UPON the oeho.aer
Thls sense Of unused power. fHs certainty fsat
he 10 not making an esfarg and doing his utmost.
hus beasEd al this st-sagta OF fascination
there are ether treasures OF ssreagsa, oiAes
stores OF ao.sixy not sroagEt into uss-2ossibly
never hronga. Into use--.s perhaps what con-
srtutes tee supreme charm OF his orafo-y lie
speaks IS If vita little preparation ana Win faas
peculiar Tres hness which belongs To sxsesaTte
raneous snsskirg: here 10 DO sEo,s about {
and TIE wonderful com pactness aad ass OF his
Argument are not let until yoa r.
feet upon IL aftsxard. His movement 10
perfectly easy and he gessieulates agood eea.,
equally vel with either arm Beyond doaDs
re - the greatest OF orators now living. and sc
ahxli NOT easily believe ,has In that capacity ne
has ever been excalled.'
He wa. said to be superior in oratory 20
Daniel Webster. who was heavy and
slow in comparison. A volume might be
written Of Kossuth's tour through the
United States and Of the attention he re-
ceived. State WED with state. city with
city, man with man, to do him honor. At
a banquet given him by the editors OF
New York at the Aston house few even
ings after his arrival William Cullen Bry-
ant presided, and among the speakers and
guests were George Bancroft. Horace
Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher.. Henry ].
Raymond, Charles A. Dana. Parke God
win, Moses n. Grinnell, Charles Loring
Brace. Simeon Draper. Freeman Hunt and
many other eminent men. At Washing
ton City, too, public banquet was given
him, at which Senator KING, the piesi-
dent Of the senate. presided. with Kos
suih and the speaker of the house at his
right hand and Daniel Webster at his
left. No foreigner except Lafayette was
ever 50 honored by America
Kossuth returned to Europe in 1s52,
lecturing and working in various ways
for the Hungarian cause. In 1859 he
hoped to get France to fight Aus
tria, and thus give Hungary
chance to rise again, but in
this he was disappointed. As late as 1866.
when Austria and Prussia we're at war, he
strove to persuade the Hungarians to re-
which Deak had effected. but in vain.
Then he settled down at Turin, Italy, to
spend the remainder of his life in exile.
He never would return to Hungary,
though often invited to do so, and even
elected several times to seat in the Hun
garian parliament. In 1850, when pressed
by poverty. he began to publish part Of
his memoirs" and he continued for some
years in writing the story of his life. Thus
it was that an old man who had once been
the dictator of wealthy people and the
dread of empires gained his daily bread.
Lately he had been compelled to sell his
library. At Turin he devoted himself TO
the study of botany and until too feeble to
climb the Alps he gathered plants in
the mountains, making collection
of 1900 plants. which he dried and
arranged. Until recently he was able to
go about on foot, and was . remarkably
vigorous man, considering his age. On his
90th birthday there was great celebration
at his home in Turin. The members OF
the Independents party, in Hungarian
National costume, drove from the station
direct to the house. which was decorated
with exotics and dollhouse flowers. When
NJ. Koloman Thaly presented an album
with 1900 signatures n. kossuth. an
that Hungary was waking up to great
things, and that the present demonstra-
ton was proof of it. TelegraE.s were
received from all over the world. Every
American who won't to Turin called Oh
kossuth, and Americans were always
welcome. Recently the Austrian govern
ment, alarmed by the disaffection of Hum
gary, enGeavorcd TO make peace with Kos
suth. but in vain. Hungary is today
conquered province, waiting for o new
kossuth to lead her sons to battle.