The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-16
THE HEART OF Kosc1UsKo.

should so soon forget those who helped
TO esta blish liberty in this land? Here
is little telegram in the corner of a
newspaper. so little and so apparently
unimportant that the reader skips it in
looking for the greater events that are
daily transpiring:
Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 1.-THE
heart of Kosciusko. the Polish patriot
was inferred today in the special maus-
oleum Of Castle Rappenwyl, on Lake
Zurich. The ceremony was performed
by a requiem mass which was at
tended by $50 Polish patriots.
That is all there is in the telegram
Perhaps one reader will ask: Who is
KoSciuflzo, and what did he do? Per
haps 4ncther viii say it is rather a
queer Proceeding to bury the heart of d
Polish patriot in Switzerland-why not
in Polfnd? Perhaps a third, unmind-
full thai the chase for wealth and the
chase for bread are equally destructive
of those impulses of the human heart
which fhrobs for fellow man and coun-
try. Will put to himself this question:
Kosciufko fought for the liberties of the
American people He fought for the
libertief of his own people, but his por-
ton Wis defeat and exile. His heart
was thf heart of America in 1776. Why
should bot that heart find its last rest
among kAmericans now?
How bany Americans in this day of
greed 4nd gelhghness, in this day of
| forgetftlness of patriotic sacrifices, in
this d3y of trusts and oppression of
labor, 3nsWer a question like this one?
The History Of Poland is q story of
glory 3nd a song of lanentation To
Polish ivalor do the Christian nations
of Eurdpe owe all that saved them from
Moslenf invasion and dominion for it
was Jdhn Sobieslll that stopped the
conqueiing Turk with the great Soil
man a4 the very gates of Vienna And
| the gratitude of nations, like the graf
itude Of man, finds example in the dis
membel-ment of the nation that saved
EUROPE from the rule of the crescent
But it fent to America a Polish patriot
and to General Washington a valuable
soldier.l
Thaddeus Kosciusko descended from a
noble lithuanian family, and was born
in 1746} When he came to America in
I776. helbore with him letters from Ben
janin Franklin When he took these
letters ito Washington the general in
quired What he could do. II come to
/ fight al volunteer for American indie
pendente," answered Ko5ciusko. What
| can you do?" asked Washington. Try
me. VI as the reply. So Washington
gave him a commission as colonel of
engineegs and he repaired to his post
with the troops under General Gates,
who defcribed him as an able engineer
and selected him for the northern SER
vice, differing him, after he had made
himself thoroughly acquainted with the
works, 10 point out where and in what
manner the best Improvements and ad-
ditions could be made thereto. Kosciu-
sko theIefore planned the encampinent
and pott of Gates army at Bemis
Heights near Saratoga, from which, af-
/ ter twol wen fought actions, Burgoyne
| found Il impossible TO dislodge the
Americans. Kosciusko was subse-
auentlys the principal engineer in exc
cutting the works at West Point He
becameIone of Washingtons adjutants
and aid5ed General Nathaniel Greene in
! the un3uccessful siege of Ninety Six,
receiving for his services the thanks of
congress- ana the brevet of prigadier
general in 1873. One of Washington's
latest alts was 70 intereede With con-
gross fdr the bestowal Of these honors.
He wal also made member of the
| Society fof Cincinnati.
This all he did and could do for
Americans. as our independence was
achieved and Kosciusko crossed the
sea TO bis native land. III the revolt
Of the Poles against the Russians in
supporter their constitution, he fought
under Prince Poniatowski. He was in
! the babies Of zielence, June Is, 179t,
and in that Of Dubienka. July II, 1922,
/ where, with only 4,000 men he kept
$1,000 Russians at bay for six hours.
| makingfhis retreat without great loss.
! But md patriots we're overwhelmed by
number, and when King StanIslaus
! subnaitfad to the second partition 81
PolandI Kogeiusko resigned his com
nissionf and retired to Leipsic, where
he received from the national assem-
bly, thef citizenship Of France.
But 9osciusko determined TO make o
second Effort for Poland. and a rising
Of hi3 country1nen was secretly
/ planned Kosciusl1o was elected dicta-
tor andEgeneral in chief On March "a
1894, hd suddenly appeared in Cracow