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HU? (GARY'S HERO. The Stoz ot Louis Kossuth. His Freedom— His Romanti Struggle: of the Lite and Works tutional monarchy with the close of } “ri te miet he said the Crimean war. it might i jt world was in th t of { revolution and disconte Engianc was crus e@ arebellion in Ireland, | France had drive Phiiiy | from the th A Re Death te orm | I Lot nager generation Leour Kossuth os remembered only a ics Pras 2X _ Piast Washin.:t Gana ms and the membere¢ h surprise tha ” is yet al To the older genera Italians were beginning a war s yet a the olde tion the case 1s differet, for there » does not rememt pot ne Kossuth of forty vears ago, and same thrill will pass over them a the mere mention of his name days. did in’ the Kossuth, tt er case than younger vorld would have sate this, but in any oth the cr: Eu his cause was that of the whole fame was made stitutional freedom in eral world and his praises will sung rather than bis failure moninec To sketch the lite of Kossuth will be townte the bri 1 darkest Pages of the bh Uy ence. s Kossuth wa veo! M t 1806. At an carly k the school of Sarost res ay Wa api pupil, and va ina tention to law, where, stood at he of the the head of | of Zer e the session of the Hungarian diet o enews an one of is 1825 he removed to Pesth, the capi nost eloqu a address to tol. and was furnished with proxies t nperor as reforms which to represent different members of the | vas adopted unanimously and by: diet during their absence. At the | clamation by assembly, It de dissolution of the diet Kossuth re nauded a reduction ot the teuda turned to his native ¢ ty m 1832 burdens and an equalization of taxes, | to represent itsn the dict, and in 1836 | the lowest born He garian made held a seat in the chamber of depu- eligable to the highest offices and ties. It was then he fitst took part | honors o! the state, reprecenftaiian to | in the affairs of his country. In 1825 | be more equitnotes and ts secure he was merely schooled in parlia these, and whatever might be mentary laws, but in 1836 he became An actiye partisan, acting with the liberals. He shortly after left. the chamber of deputies and became all the more active in publishing a pe- riodical entitled ‘*Reports of the Diet’. But he was going faster than his time. His utterances were too liberal for the Austrrans, who at . and after where, he He thousands first confiscated his pre wards cast him into prison, atter a long confinement, was brought torth for trial. before the bar where *Reports’’ gathered betore him. He managed came ot the readers of his had his own case and met his accusations at every point and roused the peopk to tury by his cloquence. that ‘*Never,’’ *thad says a writer ot time, Hungary witnessed a more magnifi cent struggle for hfe and hberty."’ But Austrian despoti proot against appeals of ti He was sentenced to a long 2 solitary imprisonment. As his friends left him at the ; weil, and teuching his prison he bade them tare- breast said with much emotion: ‘There 1s sOmething here which cannot be tspoken."’ But the time was fast coming when those words would be spoken. In the eyes of his followers Re became a martyr of Ihberty, and after three years of agitation o part was released from captiv A ROMANTIC MARRIA While in pnsen a young woman, Teresa Mezey:, who had heard” his eloquent pleading in court, fell in tove with him and kept him supplied with the literature ot the As soon as his freedom came he married her, and, as after events proved, he never regretted his choice. Upon his release he entered the newspaper field again and advocat the Kbera! cause with all the vigor of four years before. In 1545 he Reeame a candidate for the diet from Pesth but was defeated. Apain in 1897 he was a candidate, but this time successful. day. Avthis time Europe was io the 8 of revolution. The great s le between constitutional and te erg infa triumph for consti+ fe monmarchy had but begun, | Russia was massing tr Austria. Ops on ber western frontier, and Poland | was growing bnpatient unde Russian yolk of tyranny. own country was fighting picking the old quarrel of sectior strug ism. and ripening for the great gle of ten years after, Ger:nany Austria were not unmoved lands. starting oriliiant revolution of France was tremen- dous. The peor up everv— wh and demand re reforms. Phes desired, they asked fer a responsible native ministry. A committee was appointed with Kossuth at to present the address to the emperar and obtain his consent to their de- mands, The committee reached the capitol on the same day otf the ris: of the people ot Vienna, Kos: | was born along over the heads ot the people to the palace. The em- ave him audie perorf nce, and, in op- posit yn to his ministers. granted all that was askec Hungary his path stre wn with flow- ers. A new assembly was immedi ately called, and a new min fe d with Kossuth as m of finance. The retorms asked fc were tu sembly. nia, and Servia wer Jalism abo! 500,0c0 one government; ed, by which more than peasant families were invested with the absolute ownershin ot from thirty to fifty acres of land ea en, nal propr the Nobles, agreem eir sh to to it, receiv be compensated lossess, agreed in whatever way To emperor gave the royal assent Ay might award. rr, 1848. But how soon he brak his promise. KOSSU M Ferdinand had been toree into granting the Uberal easures, and his active was eager to gra no unprincipled mind p at any pretense, matter new small, for interterence. centralize by forming a nas tional diet. Austria was the reverse and Ferdinand was wise enough to see the vast difference, decidedly in favor of the Prussian form. ‘Lhe Creats began to complain the abchtion of long established customs, and the precedence given te Hu Prussia had begun to sort of et their plaining grew into a quarrel. Fer- dinand saw his chence for interfer- ence, Lhis first step toward c tralzation Was made. His first act was to appoint a gov- ernor of Cratis, dss work Was to nflame ple awuinst the H gaman: rs ‘ s < head Kossuth returned to | the origi-: government? these acts the. ganan forms, and the com- | cree! way to cre rover au t } t away the libe plot s eeded. 154 lecree s 18S { t dissolving the © a > tk AW % r narty ie = go é 4 ph Hung 1 s ‘ i l wher air i they cel <> shat those Mt ha thlessly snatched rose ore streng by Kosst } nemt r whol before the mem > of their country. eX } alternative, } b! necks for and jlegitimate defense. 3 co to se ras: i 4 1 t \ rd rentlemen, { mily, ss j my en i hadows ot eur martyrs, ‘ se names I see here, pass betore 'ymay eyes and I hear the millions of nation once more si n or death!” ”’ it of Kossuth rose as \ {pens became greater, und he went ' down to the plain of Hung and there preached the war in defense of Thousands fle hoys men past sixty, armed v } 'seythes and hatchet hh ae unotlice 2n [the least knowledge of | the elloquence of Rossuth | the were cage for {The Austrians ered Hung ' from Crotia w ~cbo Croats.well farmed and off ans. | by 13.00 cepted, and hrs first act was ts ‘su | render the Hngarian at to tre ! tof siren Russiar His vilhany wee com- |} Magid blared peri pelt esti conress an Perce \ ; Jt hard to place history | ; iehere he justly belongs. He sai i surrender was to «ave further | od, spare t Hun- pa ere, pone aw Gadisputed In BROAD CLAIM of belng th ) and routed gin all | rections. Yof them | i with his the 5th of the - in Vienna was orde: peror to march against the Hungari- The soldiers refuse ans. crying, ‘**The Hungari brothers, not our fé to crowds assembled ! advance blood The people tr i 1 and the emperor fled from the c | Kossuth immediately advance ‘, but {was too late, as Vienna was again! j under control, and an army under {Windischgratz advanced to meet pbim. His army was not halt «s jlarge and he was defeated. The ! Austrians immedtate!y advanced and fon January 5 the capital, Pesth, wes i taken. Anether body of troops {Were pat in mation from Gallicia band Servia and the submissioa of the country within a months But che case L confidently predicted. was to be far different. GORGEY'S 1GNOBLE SURRENDER. The tlungenans withdrew te the there ewery @ wea The cre uG? paper gienes had Aled ie cteats sowed was! sThetd officers. the Austr ¥ it ev A weries were s ess in the seeretiy negot hossuth be ng this fact. it some ac com * surrender tron. Let usd tor Gorgey. mea a little 2 Austrians sultan pri Austria refuses 2 sonea ates naval His visit to the memo: peeches on casions at public me honor stand to-day steame his | dition of the Liver, Comecrpartos, BL essen, some of the most eloquent ever de- | Jaundice, , Kbeemation tc It reguiates } Py a : } Che bewels, Diced, and strengthens fhe syetam. livered, And alithis happened in ; 4 MEDICINE, Thoasacds of Testimon- En = ¢ ee tae bay dreccis: wil ell you it repetstian 1848 to 1S51-—pearly halt a ago. And what of Hunga: } i aaa aoa Hear one ot =A SoS H or rine, a 1 | O1.6,W FITZPATRICK ma toes Hungary has at ‘ast been preified ; oUs tes § on the sliver, os di ie jenied liberty granted he PILLS have noequal. Their and long denied liberty granted hez, ' K. ineysand Akin is also but not from lave of her conquerors. | nal Spence pid tr! nese The natural tendency of things that {hand digesty regular is liberating #1) peopies from the, thralls of tyranny has done the work. ¢ The -evolution of 1848 helped: } Kossuth's work added to it, and the! lessons these revolutions teught finished it. Poor Kossa rewarded? Wit him, he has ted @ p } Collegno, Italy, and to use his i Me | ie i King Peta Z id net] 1 n he : Were ' aS 5 miheereict Sultc by cl thie 'j . . j arian least : ; Rae ry iOS i ’ 1 ' 1 wa a { would | and ‘Purkey this Gme a his children abou? -E, Walton & Eh ah . new HOME & DOMESTI ated and no YERY BEST OPERATING, QUICKEST SELLING, HANDSOMEST AD MOST PERPECT COORG STON Ever offered to the Public. MADE ONLY BY THE EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO Nos. 612, 614, 616 &618 M. Main St, ST. LOUIS, MO. sOL.D "Yr their treatment was too hornble their tamed over 46 tevoe arden y winger th 4p fe fels w T@ WAVE NEALTi4 TH LIVER MUST BE KEPT 18 ORDER. CRSANFORD'S 1 F3 1s deliverance ol o¢ NVYIGOR 8 cure for Mer Complats ts and Uls cansed by & Terpid com- ATOR A ee iin his I a var Biss bye Timaten af fae UTE. nia by Has he been illy recarious harms Wet | words, in 1879, “‘has arrived at the ee = e eon = a ‘verge of his qrav in whose pas! ‘ ere is no Cor a. the ce ou ot my heart savs Tam + : a? History j eady erected to him a u ' i than warbie, at H can adie 9 nn = “ . °