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KOSSUTH IN AMERICA. Kossuth's speech at ...
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The Anglo-American Alliance. The Necessi...
be strong , sooner or later , against the serried armies of the Asiatic policy . If on the one side the soul comes up to the battle with an imperfect and ill-defended body , on the other , the body is wholly without a soul , and must , in the end , fall to pieces . The best part of the mind of Western Europe will make itself a body by dint of action , and the pressure which must bring out its forces ; and it may be doubted whether it could become duly embodied in any other way . What forms of society may arise as features of this new growth neither you nor I can say .
" "We can only ask each other whether , witnessing as we do the spread of Communist ideas in every , free nation in Europe , and the admission by some of the most cautious and old-fashioned observers of social movements that we in England cannot now stop short of a " modified communism , " the result is not likely to be a wholly new social state , if not a yet undreamed-of social idea . u England and France are awake and watchful , and so many men ofevery country are astir that we may rely upon it that , not only are territorial alliances giving way before
political affinities , but national ties will give way almost as readily , if the principles of social liberty should demand the disintegration of nations . Let us not ^ say , even to ourselves , whether we regard such an issue ¦ with hope or fear . It is a possibility too vast to be regarded but with simple faith and patience . In this spirit let us contemplate what is proceeding , and what is coming , doing the little we can by a constant assertion of the principles of social liberty , and a perpetual watch for opportunities to stimulate human progress . "
Writing on the subject of the Prometheus squabble , the Morning Chronicle incidentally lets slip the folllowing : — " The ' War Correspondent' of a New York paper may threaten the British race with extermination—but we are accustomed to receive this sort of menace without the slightest ill feeling , because we believe in the free institutions of the Republic , and because we know that , in spite of all commercial rivalry , the Americans , as a nation , woutdprefer uniting themselves with the Anglo-Saxon champions of European liberty to forming a dishonourable alliance with the despots of Eastern Europe . " Another recognition of the Anglo-American Alliance .
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Kossuth In America. Kossuth's Speech At ...
KOSSUTH IN AMERICA . Kossuth ' s speech at the Castle-garden on the 6 th , in reply to the address from the Mayor and Corporation of New York , contains some noble passages .
kossuth's position . The m otive , said Kossuth , which led me to your shoves , the generous act of my liberation , was the manifestation of a resolution on the part of the United States to throw their weight into the balance wherein the fate of Europe is to be weighed : — " You have raised the conviction throughout the world , that by my liberation you were willing to say— - ' Ye oppressed nations of old Europe ' s continent , be of good cheer ; the young giant of America stretches his powerful arm over the waves , ready to give a brother ' s hand to your future . ' So is your act interpreted throughout the world . You , in your proud security , can scarcely imagine how beneficial this conviction has already proved
to the suffering nations of the European continent . You can scarcely imagine what self-confidence you have added to the resolution of the oppressed . You have knit the tie of solidarity in the destinies of nations . I can ' t doubt that you know how I was received by the public opinion in every country which I touched since I am free , and what feelings my liberation has elicited in those countries which it was not my lot to touch . You know how I , a plain , poor , penniless exile , have almost become a centre of hope and confidence to the most different nations , not united but by the tie of common sufferings . What is the source of this apparition , unparalleled in mankind ' s history ? The source of it is , that , your generous act of my liberation is taken
by the world for the revelation of the fact that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity . It is hence that my liberation was cheered , from Sweden down to Portugal as a ray of hope . It ia hence that even those nations which most ; desire my presence in Europe , now have unanimously told me , ' Hasten on , hasten on , to the great free , rich , and powerful people of the United States , and bring over its brotherly aid to the cause of your country , bo intimately connected with European liberty ; ' and here I stand to plead the cause of the solidarity of human rights before the threat . Republic of the United States Humble as I am , ( Jod the Almighty lias selected
me to represent the cause of humanity before you . My warrant to this capacity is written in the sympathy and confidence of all who arc oppressed , and of all who , as your elder brother , the people of Kritain , sympathize with the oppressed— -my warrant to thin capacity is written in the hopes and expectations you have entitled the world to entertain , by liberating me out of my prison , and by restoring me to activity . Hut it . hus pleased the Almighty to make out of my humble self yet another opportunity for a thing which may prove ; u . happy turning-point in the destinies of the world . tins le of
1 bring y <>>» a brotherly greeting from peop Great Hritain . 1 speak not in an oflicial character , imparted by diplomacy , whose secrecy in the cuine . ol the world ; but 1 am the harbinger of tin * public spirit of the people , which has the right to impart a direction to its Government , and which I witneHsed pronouncing itself in the most decided manner , openly—that , tho people of Knglnnri , united to you with enlightened brotherly love , as it . is united in blood , conscious of your Htrength as it is conscious of its own , him for ever abandoned every sentiment of irritation and rivalry , and deblrca the brotherly alliance of the United Statea to wocuro
to every nation the sovereign right to dispose of itself , and to protect the sovereign right of nations against the encroaching arrogance of despots , and leagued to you against the league of despots , to stand together with you godfather to the approaching baptism of European liberty . "
HIS RULES OP CONDUCT . " 1 , That I take it to be duty of honour and principle not to meddle with whatever party question of your own domestic affairs . I claim for my country the right to dispose of itself , so I am resolved and must be resolved , to respect the same principle here and everywhere . May others delight in the part of knights errant for theories . It is not my case . I am the man of the great principle of the sovereignty of every people to dispose of its own domestic concerns ; and I most solemnly deny to every foreigner , as to every foreign power , the right to oppose the sovereign faculty . 2 . I profess highly and openly my admiration for the glorious principle of union , on which stands the mighty pyramid of
your greatness , and upon the basis of which you have grown in the short period of seventy-five years to a prodigious giant , the living wonder of the world . I have the most warm wish that the star-spangled banner of the United States may for ever be floating , united and one , the proud ensign of mankind ' s Divine origin ; and taking my ground on this principle of union , which I find lawfully existing , an established constitutional fact , it is not . to a party , but to the united people of the United States that I confidently will address my humble requests for aid and protection to oppressed humanity . I will conscientiously respect your laws , but within the limits of your laws I will use every honest exertion to
gain your operative sympathy and your financial , material , and political aid for my country ' s freedom and independence , and entreat the realization of these hopes which your generosity has raised in me and my people ' s breasts , and also in the breasts of Europe ' s oppressed nations . And , therefore , 3 rdly , I beg leave frankly to state that my aim is to restore my fatherland to the full enjoyment of that act of declaration of independence , which being the only rightful existing public law of my nation , can nothing have lost of its rightfulness by the violent invasion of foreign Russian arms , and which , therefore , is fully entitled to be recognized by the people of the United States , whose very resistance is founded upon a similar declaration of independence . "
EXHORTATIONS TO ENLIST IN THE DEMOCRATIC CAUSE . " La Fayette had great claims to your love and sympathy , but I have none . I came a humble petitioner , with no other claims than those which the oppressed have to the sympathy of free men , who have the power to help—with the claim which the unfortunate has to the happy , and the down-trodden has to the protection of eternal justice and of human rights . In a word , I have no other claims than those which the oppressed principle of freedom has to the aid of victorious liberty . Then I would humbly ask , are these claims sufficient to insure you generous protectors , not to myself , but to the cause of my native land—not to my native land only , but the principle of freedom in Europe ' s continent , of which the
independence of Hungary is the indispensable keystone ? If you consider these claims not sufficient to your active and operative sympathy , then let me know at once that the hopes have failed with Europe ' s oppressed nations have looked to your great , mighty , and glorious ltepublic—let me know at once the failure of our hopes , that I may hasten back and tell Europe ' s oppressed nations , Let us fight , forsaken and singlehanded , the battle of Leonidas ; let us trust to God , to our right , and to our good sword ; there is no other help for the oppressed nations on earth . ' But if your generous Republican hearts are animated by the high principle of freedom and of the solidarity in the destinies of humanity —if you have the will , as to be sure you have the power ,
to support the cause of freedom against the sacrilegious league of despotism—then give me some days of calm reflection , to become acquainted with the ground upon which 1 stand ; let me take the kind advice of gome active friends on the most practical course I have to adopt ; let me see if there be any preparatory steps taken in favour of that cause which I have the honour to represent ; and then let me have a new opportunity to expound before you my humble requests in a practical way . 1 confidently hope ,. Mr . Mayor , the corporation and citizens of the Empire City will grant me the second opportunity . If this be your generous will , then let me take this for a boon of happier days , and ¦
Jet me add with a sigh of thanksgiving to the Almighty God , that it is in your glorious country which Providence has selected to be ; the pillar of freedom , as it is already the unylnm to oppressed humanity . I am told that I will have the high honour to review your patriotic militia . O ( iod ! how my heart , throbs at the idea to see this gallant , army enlisted on tin : side of freedom against despotism ; the ; world would b « free , and you the Hiiviouru of humanity . And why not ? The gallant men take part in the mighty demonstration of the day , proving that I wan ri ^ ht when 1 said that , now a day : s even the bayonelu think . Citizens of New York , it i « under your protection that I place the niicrcd cause of freedom and independence of lluntrary . "
Tiik Jtkkorivt Campaign : Rmimjlkk. Last...
TIIK JtKKORIVt CAMPAIGN : RMIMJLKK . Last , week Lord John Russell returned a cool and supercilious refusal to the application by M r . Milncr Gibson for an interview on behalf of the deputation appointed at the late Conference at Manchester . Of Conine , Manchester could not quietly Hiihmit to this ; and accordingly the gentlemen of tho ( Jonference met on Tuemlay , under the pretmlenco of Mr . George Wilson , to murk their hoiihc of the affront . Mr . Wilson thought Lord John would " exceedingly regret" what lie had done , us it would not " contribute ia the alighted degree , to the maintenance of
the proper spirit of communication " betw ^ TiVT Chester and Downing-street . He furthw JS ^ f *" Lord John had -done wrong" £ n not receS ' tf the deputation , composed as it was of the ci > u * tit , * of members of Parliament , whose only fa ult \ vat £ they had too uniformly supported the Premier Mr . Bright , M . P ., considered the reason Ln \ , the Premier as " evasive and unsatisfactory / ' y " He had formed a very improper notion of the dutW of a Prime Minister in a constitutional and reDres ^ l tive country , if the conduct of Lord John Russell * ££ be approved , { Hear , hear . ) If his lordship had in tended to bring forward a measure of reform such would meet the views of that large party in the conll aavocatea retorm at all
wno naa , it appeared to him (\ t Bright ) that , instead of confining himself to the littl circle of his own party connections , or contenting himRpif with the meagre information which any individual sen I of his might pick up in various parts of the count ™ it should have been precisely what his lordship wished that a dozen or twenty gentlemen of education and in fluence and great knowledge of their respective locality should meet him in Downing-street , and have a free con versation with him on the subject . Hear , hear ) What was the good of men going to see Sir Charles Wood-, and he confessed there was not very much good in it ( ' hear , hear , ' and laughter ^—but what was the good of any deputation going to see the Chancellor of the Ex chequer previous to the introduction of the budget ' Wh *
did they go from Manchester and Liverpool about the tea duties , and from the metropolis about the window duties ? Merely because they happened to have a stronger sense of the injustice perpetrated , and were , therefore the people the soonest and the loudest to complain . If Lord John Russell had any wish to ascertain the opinion of people such as the recent deputation was composed of and unless he was better acquainted with the feelings and wishes of the country than he ( Mr . Bright ) supposed he was , he had lost a good deal by his conduct . ( Hear
hear . ) Probably Lord John thought that if he admitted this deputation , he might soon have another from Birmingham { hear , hear ) , and perhaps he might . But he ( Mr . Bright ) did not know what a Prime Minister was for , unless it was to endeavour to conduct the Government in accordance with the principles of the constitution and the wishes of the people . ( Hear , hear . ) If his lordship meant to shut himself inWoburn-abbey , or some other aristocractic seclusion , and to take only the opinion of his own immediate party—if a dozen or so members of
a clique were to draw out what was to be the Government of the country for some fifty years to come we were really in no better position than some of the nations abroad that we had been pitying so much of late . { 'Hear , hear , ' and applause . ) Lord John Russell might have a better reason than he had chosen to give ; all he ( Mr . Bright ) would say was , that the reason given was wholly unsatisfactory , and what was more , he was bound to tell his lordship , that he did not think it was the true one . ( Hear , hear . )
Mr . Bright moved the following resolution : — " That this meeting regrets extremely that Lord John Russell has declined to receive the deputation appointed at the late Conference , and cannot but regard the reason assigned as evasive and unsatiafactory . That on a question of an improved representation , the opinions of a deputation appointed at a Conference , representing to a large exter . t the feelings of the population of the two most populous counties in the United Kingdom , cannot be without influence , and have a strong claim on the respectful consideration of the Government ; and this meeting expresses its apprehension that the course taken by the Minister is not calculated to increase the confidence of the Reformers of the United Kingdom in his intention to bring forward a substantial measure of Parliamentary Reform . "
Mr . Kershaw , M . P ., seconded the resolution , and concurred . „ Mr . G . Hadfiekl suggested that the word " evasive be struck out of the resolution , as it seemed to him almost ungentle-manly , although he would not say it was untrue . After some conversation it v / as agreed that the words " moat unsatisfactory" should be substituted . Mr . Henry Ash worth said , that if the . . t __ i i _~ .. -. 1 , ^ ... * - Unv ^ fil 'l mrrmcQi ( "ill . 1101 had b about Papal aggression noi
deputation een one , a word would have been said against it . [ A Voice Or about bishop-making . ] ( " Hear , " and laughter . ) The resolution was unanimously adopted , bu > - sequontly , Mr . Bright ( suggested that money would be required ; and the meeting agreed to a resolution stating that it was the duty of tho . se who are in favour of Parliamentary Reform to pay the expenses ot notation . Mr . Bright and Mr . ( J . Iladfleld promised fifty pounds each . That is the sum of the meeting .
Tirk Coming Tstllikk At Manc1ikstku. It ...
TirK COMING tSTllIKK AT MANC 1 IKSTKU . It iti rumoured that tho operatives at Manchester are L'ointr to strike work to obtain certain set <> " . l (! ' » - They are urged on , it in asserted , by the Iracij-s Union . Tho objeets are thus stated m a letter to u Times , signed Amiens , evidently with a atrong «»¦>» uguinut the men : — " The Union demands : -- nvrr" 1 . That the system of working extra hours <> ° vo time I ,., abolished , excepting in ohh «« . ol breakdow ii , a that when « uch overtime i » worked it , shall bo paid loi double rate . , , , ., nt \ rolv " ' 2 . That the fiyntem of piece or taflk work bo c . ntnuy discontinued . .,. _„„„ ,. «( . " 3 . That the masters at once , and without rcHtrv , discharge the oIuhh of pernou * emruged in and H « J trained to tho working of »« lf-u « UnK m ™ Mne » . ** employ in their atcad mechanic * , mombcra ot tho Uiuoi
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1851, page 1228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_27121851/page/8/
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