Select Speeches of Kossuth by Kossuth
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truth, not his own race only--not the Magyars only, but every
nationality of Hungary, all the fifteen or twenty millions within its limits--all cried out that he was the representative of their convictions--that he was the man of their affections, that he was the utterer of truths on which they relied. Our guest crosses the Atlantic, and he is received; and what is the great fact that constitutes his reception? He finds there the military arranged to do him honour. And among those who, on that day, bore arms, were men of every tongue that is spoken between the steppes of Tartary, eastward, towards the Pacific ocean. The great truth that was pronounced on that occasion--I do not fear to utter it--was, let who will cavil, _la solidarité des peuples_--the sublime truth that all men are brothers--that all nations, too, are brethren, and are responsible for one another. The chairman also spoke eloquently in introducing the third toast, which was briefly, LOUIS KOSSUTH. As Mr. Bryant pronounced his name, Kossuth rose, and was received with multifarious demonstrations of enthusiasm. At last he proceeded as follows:-- Gentlemen.--I know that in your hands the Independent Republican Press is a weapon to defend truth and justice, a torch lit at the fire of immortality, a spark of which glisters in every man's soul and proves its divine origin: and as the cause of my country is just and true, and wants nothing but light to secure support from every friend of freedom, every noble-minded man,--for this reason I address you with joy, gentlemen. Though it is sorrowful to see how Austrian intrigues, distorting plain |
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