The man to whom probably more eyes are occupied him about a fortnight. This was in turned at this time than any other, is Louis 1837; and how well he now understands the KOSSUTH. This extraordinary individual was language is shown by his speeches. born on the 27th of April, 1802, and will

When the Diet again met in 1847, Kossuth therefore, be just fifty years old in April, of was chosen to represent the county of Pesth, this year. His parents were Protestants, and soon became distinguished by his eloand he was educated at the college of Patak. quence, as the most popular man in the Diet. He first became publicly known during the This year, he made his famous speech in which prevalence of the Cholera in 1831. By his hu- he said "The ruler of Hungary was a monmane efforts and his eloquence, he succeeded arch who served in two capacities. At Viin dispelling a delusion of the Slovack peas- enna he was an absolute emperor; at Presburgh ants, that the Jews, the clergy and the upper a limited King-it was impossible to unite two classes had poisoned the wa'ers, in conse- such incongruous characters in the one perquence of which they had killed many of the son. Hungary must either renounce her libpeople. erties, or the other States of the Austrian He was a member of the Hungarian Diet, empire must become free." The results of first in 1832, and by publishing a journal of that speech are before the world. The war the Debates, and the part he took on the ques- of Hungary followed; and though it termination concerning the abolition of serfdom, he ted unsuccessfully, and the hero of it is an exsoon brought upon himself the vengeance of ile from his country; yet seedhas been sown on the Austrian government. In 1837 he was Hungarian soil, and watered, with blood, thrown into prison, where he remained three which, we doubt not, is destined yet to spring years, during which time he studied the En-up, and produce a harvest. Kossuth was not glish language, little knowing then, what use born for nothing. He has not had his hard he was to have for it afterward It is said struggles for nothing We can scarcely rethat the Austrian Government gave him "the frain from thinking that he is yet to head the choice of one book for his amusement, provi- nations of Europe in their efforts to throw off ded that it was not political. He replied that the chains of oppression. if, instead of one, they gave him three, they In point of eloquence, it is supposed Kosshould not be political; he selected the English suth has not a superior now living. We have Grammar, Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary, seen extracts from his speeches which we have and Shakespeare. Having obtained these certainly never seen excelled in the English books, he commenced the study of the lan-language. The London Leader says: guage, beginning with the "Tempest," which "He has stamped himself as by far the great

B

est orator of our day. The practical, far- a victim of Russian interference with the laws sighted Peel, the noble Mazzini, the unadorn-of Nature and of Nature's God:

ed Cobden, the accomplished Macaulay, the cunning Thiers, the astute Webster, the poetic Victor Hugo, the statesmanlike Henry Clay, all lack, severally, many qualities which Kossuth, as an orator, combines. He is a man to speak to nations"

"Protected in exile by the government of the United States, supporting the Sultan of Turkey in his noble resolution to undergo the very danger of a war, rather than leave unprotected the rights of humanity against Rus30-Austrian despotism:

"Restored by the United States to life be

We give two or three specimens of his eloquence as worthy of being preserved in the cause restored to freedom, and by freedom to Casket. At Manchester, England, in a pub-activity in behalf of those duties which, by lic speech which he made, he thus condenses my nation's unanimous confidence and soverin a burning paragraph, the wrong. of Europe: eign will, devolved upon me :

"Raised in the eyes of many oppressed na"Europe contented? With what? With options to the standing of a harbinger of hope, pression and servitude? France contented, with its constitution subverted? Germany contented with being but a fold of sheep pent up to be shorn by some thirty petty tyrants?

Switzerland contented with the threatened ambition of encroaching despots? Italy contented with the king of Naples, or with the priestly government of Rome, the worst of human inventions? Austria, Rome, Prussia, Russia, Dalmatia contented with having been deceived, plundered, oppressed, and laughed

at as fools? Poland contented with being murdered? Hungary, my poor Hungary, contented with being more than murdered-buried alive?- -FOR IT IS ALIVE. Vienna contented? Lombardy, Pesth, Milan, Venice, Prague contented contented with having been ignominiously branded, burned, plundered, sacked, and

its population butchered? Half the European

continent contented with the scaffold, with the

hangman,, with the prison, with having no political rights at all, but having to pay innumerable millions for the highly beneficial purpose of being kept in a state of serfdom? That is the condition of the continent of Europe, and is it not ridiculous and absurd in meu to prate about individuals disturbing the peace and tranquility of Europe?"

When Kossuth was introduced to President Fillmore, he commenced his address with the following remarks:

because the star-spangled banner was seen the world that there is a nation, alike powercasting protection around me, announcing to ful as free, ready to protect the laws of nations, even in distant parts of the earth, and in the person of a poor exile:

"Cheered by your people's sympathy, so as freeman cheer-not a man whatever, but a principle:

"I now bow before you sir, in the proud position of your great nation's guest, generously welcomed by a resolution of the Congress of the United States, with equal generosity approved and executed by your Excellency:

"I beg leave to express my fervent thanks, in my name, and in the name of my associates, who, after having shared my misfortunes, have now the reward to share the honor and

the benefit which the great Republic of the United States was pleased to bestow upon Hungary by bestowing it upon its freely chosen chief when he became a persecuted victim of despotic violence.

"I beg leave to express my fervent thanks in my country's name also, which, amidst the sorrows of its desolation, feels cheered by your country's generosity, and looks with resolution to the impending future, because it is confident that the-time draws near when the eternal code of the law of nations will become a reality.

"President! I stand before your Excellency a living protestation against the violence of foreign interference oppressing the sovereign right of nations to regulate their own domes

"Mr. President: Enlightened by the spirit of your country's institutions, when we succeeded to consolidate our natural and historical State's right of self-government, by pla. cing it upon the broad foundation of democrat-tic concerns. ic liberty:

"Inspired by your history when we had to fight for independence against annihilation by centralized absolutism:

"I stand before your Excellency a living protestation against centralization oppressing the State right of self-government.

"May I be allowed to take it fot an augury "Consoled by your people's sympathy when of better times that, in landing on the happy

lows:

shores of this glorious Republic, I landed in a members of Congress, in which he draws a free and powerful country, whose honored parallel between the Republics of ancient Chief Magistrate proclaims to the world that Rome, and the United States. It is as folthis country cannot remain indifferent when the strong arm of a foreign power is invoked "Sir, as once Cyneas, the Epirote, stood to stifle public sentiment, and repress the sen- among the Senators of Rome, who, with an timent of freedom in any country? earnest word of self-conscious majesty, con"I thank God that He deemed me not un- trolled the condition of the world, and arworthy to act and to suffer for my father-rested mighty kings in their ambitious march, land. thus full of admiration and of reverence, I

"I thank God that the fate of my country, stand amongst you, legislators of the new Capbecame so intimately connected with the fate | itol, that glorious hall of your people's collecof liberty and independence of nations in Eu- majesty. The Capitol of old yet stands rope, as formerly it was intimately connected with the security of Christendom.

"I thank God that my country's unmerited woe and my personal sufferings, became an opportunity to seek a manifestation of the spirit and principles of your Republic.

but the spirit has departed from it, and come over to yours, purified by the air of liberty.The old stands a mournful monument of the fragility of human things; yours as a sanctuary of eternal rights. The old beamed with the red lustre of conquest, now darkened by "May God the Almighty bless you with a oppression's gloomy night, yours beams with long life, that you may long enjoy the happi- freedom's bright ray. The old absorbed the ness to see your country great, glorious, and world by its own centralized glory; yours profree, the cornerstone of international justice, tects your own nation against absorption, even and the column of freedom to the oppressed. by itself. "Sir, I pledge to your country the everlast-ed power; ing gratitude of Hungary."

Kos

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The old was awful, with unrestrictyours is glorious with having restricted it. At the view of the old, nations trembled; at the view of yours, humanity The President replied briefly to M. hopes. To the old, misfortune was only insuth's address, in substance as follows: troduced with fettered hands to kneel at tri"I am happy, Governor Kossuth, to umphant conqueror's heels; to yours the tricome you to this land of freedom; and it gives umph of introduction is granted to unfortume pleasure to congratulate you upon your nate exiles invited to the honor of a seat. And release from a long confinement in Turkey, where kings and Caesa s will never be hailed and your safe arrival here. As an individual for their power, might, and wealth, there the I sympathize deeply with you in your brave persecuted chief of a down-trodden nation is struggle for the independence and freedom of welcomed as your great Republic's guest, preyour native land. The American people can cisely because he is persecuted, helpless and never be indifferent to such a contest, but our poor. In the old, the terrible vae victis! was policy as a nation in this respect has been uni- the rule. In yours protection to the oppressform from the commencement of our govern-ed, malediction to ambitious oppressors, and ment; and my own views, as the Chief Exe-consolation to a vanquished just cause. And cutive Magistrate of this nation, are fully and while out of the old a conquered world was freely expressed in my recent message to Con- ruled, you in yours provide for the common gress, to which you have been pleased to al- tederative interests of a territory larger than lude. They are the same, whether speaking the old. There sat men bcasting their will to to Congress here or to the nations of Europe. be the sovereign of the world; here sit men "Should your country be restored to inde- whose glory is to acknowledge the laws of napendence and freedom, I should then wish you ture and of nature's God, and to do what their -as the greatest blessing you could enjoy-a sovereign, the people, wills. restoration to your native land; but, should that never happen, I can only repeat my welcome to you and your companions here, and pray that God's blessing may rest upon you wherever your lot may be cast."

"Sir, there is history in these parallels; history of past ages, and history of future centuries, may be often recorded in few words.— The small particulars to which the passion of living men clings with fervent zeal as if the We cannot withhold another eloquent pass-fragile fingers of men could arrest the rotation age, in a speech at the dinner given him by the of destiny's wheel-these particulars die

away; it is the issue which makes history, man, and because religious, as well as an and that issue is always logical. There is a enemy to superstition, intolerance and fanatinecessity of consequences wherever the necessity of position exists. Principles are the alpha; they must finish with omega, and they will."

cism, as on the other hand, the friend of freedom, I readily confess that it is from this great book that I have learned the principle of loving my neighbor as myself, and strength and Kossuth is a protestant and a christian, and courage to act in the great cause which has this fact should endear him to the hearts of the always been the guide of my life. Judge free and christian people of America. The from this how I prize this gift to me presented truth of this statement is sustained by abundance of proof. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce says:

on the part of some ladies, and of which a copy was also presented by an honorable working-man to my wife at Winchester.— This, sir, will remain as the choicest gift I have received."

"Had Kossuth only been known for one act of his life, it would have been sufficient to immortalize him. Just after he had crossed The only paragraph which we have seen the Turkish frontier with his followers-when respecting the personal appearance of Koshis three children were prisoners in an Aus-suth, says:

trian dungeon, and his wife a fugitive dis- "M. Kossuth stands about five feet eight guised as a peasant, a reward being offered inches in height, has a slight and apparently for her, and all persons forbid harboring her, not strongly knit frame, and is a little round on pain of being condemned by a court mar-shouldered. His face is rather oval; a pair tial—we say, at this critical juncture, when of bluish gray eyes, which somewhat remindthe swords of Russia and Austria were sus-ed me of O'Connell's in expression, well set pended over his head, and without assurances beneath a full and arched brow, give an aniof protection from any quarter in this world, mated and intelligent look to his countenance. Russia and Austria having demanded his sur- His forehead, high and broad, is deeply wrinrender from the Sultan, "a message was at kled, and time has just began to grizzle a head once sent to the Hungarians that their only of straight dark hair, and to leave a bald spot safety lay in their becoming Mahommedans behind. He has not got the true Hungarian and subjects of the Turkish Empire. Bem nose, but it is a fair, well formed feature, and Kemelty adopted the condition, Kossuth|such as a French passport would describe as answering that he preferred death to the abjura-moyeau; a thick mustache nearly covers his tion of his faith." His letter to Lord Pal-mouth, except when he talks or smiles, and merston, describing his wretched condition, unites with beard and whiskers in a full lock and his heroic resolution to die rather than of dark hair falling down from the chin.abjure Christianity, is one of the most touch- Altogether he gives the idea of a man of ing and splendid compositions in the English thought, rather than a man of action; there is language. The spirit displayed by the noble a speculative air in his face, mingled with Magyar on that occasion, was the same that some degree of melancholy.” animated Latimer, Rogers and Cranmer, who were burnt at the stake for conscience."

We know not yet for what the Providence of God has raised up this wonderful man.Another incontestible proof of his Chris- There is a restlessness in Europe, a sort of tianity is furnished by his own lips. When volcanic under-healing of the nations, that presented by a lady with a Bible, in London, seems fearfully ominous. he made in reply the following just observa- "On the anniversary of the execution of tions: Robert Blum, at Vienna, black-edged placards "I take it for no merit of my life that I am were found pasted on the street corners of a religious man, not for any merit of mine, but Dresden, containing the words, Robert Bium because it is a necessity to every honest and lives! The police have endeavored in vain to thinking man, and because it is the most rich discover those who put them up. In Frankand fruitful source of those sentiments and fort-on-the- Maine, on the same day, two those feelings which lead to happiness in this black flags were found erected on an island world and bliss in the world to come. I shall of the river, containing the inscription: Blum value it because I take religion to be the rich lives—Kossuth lifts the cover from his tomb— source of that consolation which I have so the day for unity and freedom's fight is dawnften wanted in my life. Being a religious ing!"

We conclude this sketch with the following noble poem, written by an English poet, and addressed to another originally; but our readers can see how well and truly the lines may be applied to Kossuth.

TO LOUIS KOSSUTH.

On, on, mighty warrior! on in thy course,
Whilst manhood endows thee with power;
Though malice assails thee, MIND's vast

resource

Supports through adversity's hour.

Oh, speed the glad time,

When rising sublime,

WORLDLY PLEASURES.

BY THE EDITOR.

Car

To love the world in perfection is to breathe the atmosphere of a theatre, or of a ball-room, and to find it congenial to our nature. nal and spiritual things cannot be made to harmonize. "For the carnal mind is enmity against God;" and "if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." How then could a spiritually-minded person, or a true christian, find the atmosphere of a ballroom or a theatre congenial to the temper of his soul? The pleasures which such places can afford, are only pleasures of sense.

Phenix-like, from the ashes of tyr- of the ball-room are more fascinating and dan

To the young heart, perhaps, the attractions

anny's pyre;

The fair dove of peace shall mount
higher and higher,

gerous than those of the theatre; for the reason chiefly, that, in the ball-room they are real actors, while in the theatre, they are but

Till love's royal law melts the conquer-spectators. It is a law of our being, that our

or's ire.

Whilst the rills of thy eloquence shall find a spring,

Whilst thine high-soaring fancy doth hold on its wing,

Let them still fill the purpose of robing in beauty

Those truths which engirdle the pathway of
duty.

Then on, mighty warrior, on in thy strife,
Till liberty lives as the heir-loom of life.

On, on, mighty warrior, on in thy might,
Till reform hath established her sway,
Till the bright orb of progress, emerging
from night,

Fills the earth with one glorious day.

'Tis no meteor ray
That illumes thy way,
But those beams are the firstlings of
day.

For all thou hast wrought in thy youth's deep
devotion,

thoughts and feelings will ever be more intensely interested with those matters which are mixed up with our life and being, and are a part of our business, than with those which we only contemplate at a distance.

Can it be, that a christian thinks he is faiththe giddy mazes of the dance? Look in on fully following his Saviour, while he threads things are calculated to strike the senses most the company assembled in a ball-room-all favorably. How exhilarating to the young heart is the dance itself, especially where the influence of the wine-cup is called in, to lend spirit and enchantment to the occasion. Beauty appears in all her charms, and puts on all her adornments to please and dazzle the eye. The ear is delighted with the soft and dulcet sounds of music. Every sense is charmed. And as the dancers trip up and down the splendidly lighted halls, and whirl away in the waltz or the cotillion set, how does the touch of a fair hand, a look, a motion, like an electric spark, kindle fires within.

My heart shall e'er bless thee till death Every passion finds its element and is nourished

stops its motion,

in the ball-room. Look in upon such a scene
there they dance, and are forgetful of God
and eternity. There they dance away, while
death may be even at the door.
And can a
christian visit such a place, or have a love for
such amusements?

The following anecdote on the subject of dancing is so interesting that we incorporate it in this article. It was related by a blind preacher.