LOUIS KOSSUTH.
Louis. hgjs . puHlisb-ed .'.' Tbv Memoiries pf ; his Exile.-" Air'that He%as' ; wr r itten ; bel6ngs he- -says, to the past. The Hungarian nation has decided differently from bis expectations and- .ardent des|Eeß^.: Hjs\ struggle was in vain. "^ " Itiiaa' "BiJokeh theisiiaft-cf, the standard, which we carried so bifljh on .the... rugged roads of exile. I, with my aons and. a few faith-, fill ' frienda^ stand - alone— forsaken, solitary wanderers in the- desert... To me; the old wanderer, who has arived at .the ■ verge of his grave, _who has no hope' in the f utuce^aad in^ wfiose^past- there is no. consolation,* Efie conviction of my heart says, th'*t- ; a% I was right" oiicVin the controversyf with: ,9*s 'enemies of my ; country, soam.lnov^ aji^th^.. diversity of opinion" ''with my_ q.wn nation, I am right.- -The . Judge ojE the world-j -w^ decided. 1 doTiot ack'n : bwledg& the' present state of.Hting'a'ty''tbse? legitimate, because it clashes with the .inalienable right of existence of the Hungarian nation. I'-G&hldtlftib&tetdre,' become 'the member of^^ a country^ I . sho]jl4 thereby incur oSligario'ns '"as~ a subject which are opposed to my national feeling of justice. \ I* not becpme- an apostate; therefore I,; as /well as my children, will belong to" the outcasts. Along with some Hungarians we are the •only mea all overlie world who are not members of any nation. We are the pariahs of the. wprld."^ /'lt? is impossible," he ; says in one bf his letters to his wife, " that there should not be in store for us what alone our souls long for — a rest in the evening of our lives refl arded by the lo and assured prospeets.iof dur : good chil4ren,, yre may smilingty look back' upon the storm| through which we have had to pass in order to reach the safe port. . . . You see knowing the sincerity of your angelic love, I wish to be selfish enough to remind you that | stand in need of your strength — that, joining hands with you, I may be able to bear the weight of cares that rest upon my shoulders."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1123, 16 September 1880, Page 2
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347LOUIS KOSSUTH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1123, 16 September 1880, Page 2
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