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1104 gE tn a,ia&gy* ^^ [Saturdat,
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8HAKESPEARE AND KOSSVTH. The following i...
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" I shall be here until Parliament meets...
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1104 Ge Tn A,Ia&Gy* ^^ [Saturdat,
1104 gE tn a , ia & gy * ^^ [ Saturdat ,
8hakespeare And Kossvth. The Following I...
8 HAKESPEARE AND KOSSVTH . The following interesting letter we find in the Daily News of Tuesday : — " Weat Lodge , Putney-common , November 17 . " Sir , —It is written in the brief history made known to us of Kossuth , that in an Austrian prison he was taught English by the words of the teacher Shakespeare . An Englishman ' s blood glows with the thought that , from the quiver of the immortal baxon Kossuth has furnished himself with those arrowy words that kindle as they fly—words that are weapons , as Austria will know . tribute to the genius
•• Would it not be a graceful of the man who has stirred our nation ' s heart , to present to him a copy of Shakespeare ? To do this , I would propose a penny subscription . The large amount of money obtained by these means , the cost of the work itself being small , might be expended on the binding of the volumes , and on a casket to contain them . " There are hundreds of thousands of Englishmen who would rejoice thus to endeavour to manifest their gratitude to Kossuth for the glorious words he has uttered among us-words that have been as pulses to the nation . ' I remain , your obedient servant , " Douglas Jerromj . " The idea has been eagerly responded to . Mr . Jerrold writes that he is inundated with letters of approval . LETTER FROM MR . HUME , M . r . The Mayor of Southampton has received the following letter from that venerable reformer , Joseph Hume . For many reasons , personal and political , it will be read with interest : — " Burnley-hall , Great Yarmouth , November 14 , 1851 . " Mt dear Sir , — I thank you for the reception you gave to the ' man of the people' of Hungary , and am confident that the proceedings at Southampton , and everywhere else that L . Koasutn . has visited , will be productive of great good to the cause of popular and responsible government in this and in every other country . I am sorry that I had not the satisfaction of seeing and congratulating him on his escape from the hands of the oppressor , and , further , of expressing my sincere desire that success may attend his efforts in the cause of good irnvpmment . His cause is our cause , and I admire the
talent manifested by him in the several an swers to addresses and at public meetings . It will be a difficult task for any man claiming to be an Englishman to deny the tjuth of his statements , and I hope his advice may receive more attention from the aristocracy of this country than they have shown to his person . The state of my health has prevented my paying my respects to him , but I hope a future opportunity may offer . I have two objects in addressing you besides the expression of my thanks for your conduct towards him viz ., 1 st , to suggest that Mr . Capel or Gilpin , or some person connected with the press , should collect all the addresses to Kossuth , and the best reports of his in
answers , verbal and written , and have them printed a good type , and at the lowest possible price , as I anticipate for them circulation in this and other countries , and more benefit to the popular cause ( the cause of responsible government ) than from any other means I know . You can see to this being done , and we will ask Lord Palmerston to send copies of the collection to all the courts in Europe , as he did of Mr . Gladstone ' s letter . 2 nd . To apply to the Attorney-General , to whom I have written , to give us hia best assistance to have the cauee of ' tlie Stamp-office v . Dickens' decided ; and further , to secure his cooperation and aid to remove the shackles on knowledge , which the stamps impose .
" I Shall Be Here Until Parliament Meets...
" I shall be here until Parliament meets , to recover strength for the labours of the BCBsion . * ' I remain , yours sincerely , Joskph Hume . •*• 11 . Andrews , Esq ., Southampton . " Mil . noiniKT owen ' b adduusb to his exceuenoy LOUIS tOBSUTH , EX-OOYISUNOK OF IIUKGAKV . London , Jcrmyn-Btreot , November 10 , 1 H 51 . Exoeixbnt Sin , —Your goou intentions , and extraordinary exertions and sufferings for the oauac of the oppressed and with the view to benefit all , no one who has read your history and studied your addresses delivered to various audiences in Great Britain can doubt . Your actioiiB , and Bpeech , and popularity , declare you to possess powers seldom given to one individual , and that these powers have been given to you b y nature , to constitute you an important ugent to aid in effecting great changes in the condition of' humanity . In fact , you and Mazzini ( another spirit with high aspirations , who has made hiimelf a self-devoted victim to the cause of Italy , us you have to that of Hungary ) have been evidently destined by nature , with other prominent men now active in society , to effect , unknowingly , the speedy destruction of the present wretchedly ignorant and moat irrational system of society . Well-calculated , as leading minds , for the task , are vou and Muzaini , and the 1 ' ope , aided materially by the Emperors of . Russia and of Aimtria , to open the path to the speedy downf » llof despotism , aristocracy , democracy , and superatition , over the world . . These parties are admirably gifted to bring prominently before the public the evils inflicted upon the human race by despotism , aristocracy , and superstition and , also , how utterly incompetent demooracv or republicanism are to remedy tluse evils without inflicting others equally opposed to human nature and to common sense . Granted tu you * nd Maezini , to their full extent , the erroneous and Wt-roudiiiK uttlictions produced by the Government of St . Petersburg , Vienna , JJertiB , Homo , and Naples , ami by uudler . ueppoUo power * .
To produce this extent of misery these Government * have been stimulated by being ignorantly opposed by a , crude growing knowledge of an ill-informed population , which has felt the evils and perceived the errors of despotism and aristocracy ; but a population -which has not advanced so far as to become conscious of the errors and evils of democracy and republicanism , or to discover the permanent remedy . The aristocratic power , unconscious of the extent of its own despotic errors and evils , sees forcibly the errors and evils of democracy and of ^ Republican Governments . Aristocracy and democracy are , therefore , natural antagonists—each opposes the errors of the other without being over ready to discover its own .
Both parties having had their characters formed for them on the same erroneous fundamental principle , and both being in consequence sadly misinformed , they know of no other principle or practice by which mankind can be governed than by the despotism of aristocracy or by democracy . . The aristocracy , therefore , for aid against the numbers that otherwise would be always opposed to it , calls to its support superstition , in the form of state religions , to enable it by force and fraud to keep the masses in ignorant subjection to its laws and rule .
Democracy and republicanism must be supported by numbers , and they are governed , for the objects of the governors , through laws $ nd institutions calcu lated to give wealth and power to the mentally strong and to deprive the weak of their just rights ; and by this error , under continual irritation , by endless unjust and antagonistic proceedings , they prevent all obtaining the far greater advantages which , without contest , might be secured in peace and most beneficially for all through every succeeding generation . there
Despotism , Aristocracy , and Democracy , are , - fore , maintained by force , fear , falsehood , and fraudare based on principles of repulsion and individual contending interests . They are obliged , on account of their fundamental errors , to be supported by human-made laws and institutions , directly opposed to the laws of humanity and of nature generally . . , . * These laws and institutions , owing to the ignorance of Despotism , Aristocracy , and Democracy ^ respecting the laws of nature , which never change , are always changing , because , as soon as they have been made , and as their effects have been experienced , they are always found to produce vice , crime , and misery ; to favour the rich and oppress the poor ; to enormously increase the expenditure of society , not only uselessly , but most mischievou sly ; and to perpetuate a system of falsehood and deception through all the grades which this irrational
system creates . You and M azzini and your compeers are now endeavouring to move heaven and earth to assist you in destroying , root and branch , despotism and aristocracy , on account of their now glaring defects and absurdities ; hat you may establish democracy , equally erroneous in principle and practice ; for , compared to the government of a well-intentioned despot with ability , democracy is an inferior mode of governing . But both are now ascertained to be insane systems for the government of mankind . The advancing development of the human faculties , the progress of science in chemistry , mechanism , and the arts of life generally , have numbered the days of both .
Physical force must now give place to mental energy ; the weapons of war and fraud , or force and superstition , by which alone aristocracy and democracy know how to govern—no , not to govern , but to coerce mankind—are becoming powerless . Public opinion , based on unchanging truths , and formed to be consistent throughout its entire combinations , will soon baffle the old powers of force aud fraud , of fear and falsehood . A knowledge of such truth as will eternally benefit mankind is rapidly becoming public opinion , and henceforth , by the aid of the free press , of sieam , and of electricitypublic opinion will govern the world .
, You and Maszini and your noble band of self-aacnncera for the intended good of humanity , know not how better to govern the world than it has been governed , except by an European republic , to bo attained through the blood of thousands , perhaps millions , of the finest human beings now living . . And for what will this sacrifice and universal demoralization be made ? To substitute one insane system of ignorant selfishness , for another , leas refined generally , and equally selfish and antagonistic to human happiness . _ _ . „ „ , ^ followers do not
Hut you and Mazzini and your say you know the new ideas—you do not understand unity of mind and action—you do not comprehend a solidarity of interests , founded on the laws of humanity , based on a profound knowledge of society through all its ramifications , and opening a new science to the world , through the aid of which roan shall bo united to man and nations with nations ; cordially united by a justly and well devised federation , that will give , for ever , one well denned interest to man ; and thenceforward there will be no contests , no petty interests , no aristocracy , no democracy , no superstition , no national armies , and , after a short interval ( to pass from a state of gross irrationality , to one of order , peace , and happiness ) , there will bo no ignorance , poverty , disunion , crime , or misery .
And to attain these results will be a scientific process , plain for practice , oaay to bo understood , and for which all the materials are now in great superfluity . Will your republic , based on the old worn-out notions of 1 gnorant selfishness , give these results to the human race ? No ; republics , a » well an aristocracies and Buperstitionu , are pests to nooioty , of repulsion , hypoorlsy , and selflHhncsB , based on ignoranoc of humanity , and of the lftwfl of nature or of God .
You , and Mazzini , and your compeers are far ton . v I in your aspiration , for the happiness Vf ' your M oi to become permanently advocates ^ npSS ^ fS ^ ignorance of the laws of nature , and devoid ofSij ledge of the science of society . n ' « now-Xou must no longer be grovelling in the darlc •» fieihg your health , and wasting invaluable faculties bv advocating an ignorant , selfish system of W frau 7 fear , and falsehood , because it is called demooracv nr ' republic . * a i ^ uite me new i
* v » u wuo , uuw a aeag , because thev a ™ everlasting truths—truths ever consistent with trW selves , and in accordance with all facts—truths wS change not for man , but which point to the direct path to high excellence and perpetual advance and enjoyment You were made to be leaders of your fellows ; naturP has thrown you upon the surface , and placed you on hi * h that you may learn her ways , and do her work not ac cording to your first mistaken taught notions , but in obedience to her more matured teaching .
Adopt the new ideas , because they are true and godlike . Godlike , because they will insure the eternal progress of mankind in all excellence and perpetually increasing happiness . ° Adopt these divine truths ( for all truths are divine ) and by your eloquence and influence carry them through Europe , and into the New World , from which they will soon naturally spread over the remainder of the Old World ; or you will sink into oblivion after having aDpeared like Will-o ' -the Wisps . 6 F You cannot understand Communism or Socialism , because you have not studied the true or Rational Socialism .
Rational Socialism is a system in perfect and undeviating accordance with the laws of Nature or of God . It directs to measures in practice that will well-train , well-educate , well-employ , well-govern , unite , and wellplace all of the human race ; will do strict justice to each , upon principles of enlightened equality , according to age ; and will fill all with the pure spirit of charity and love , and with moral courage always to speak the language of simple truth ; and will cause all to have their character and circumstances so scientifically formed , that no motive shall exist among men to express a falsehood in look , word , or action . Your friend , Robert Owen .
DEPARTURE OP KOSSUTH FOR AMERICA . Kossuth , with his party , arrived at Southampton by railway , at half-past eleven o ' clock on Thursday . He was met at the station- by the mayor , aldermen , and town council , and by a large concourse of spectators , who greeted him most heartily . A line of procession was formed from the railway station to the house of the American Consul , where the
illustrious Magyar was hospitably entertained . From the residence of the Consul the party embarked , under a salute of twenty-one from the Town battery , on board the Jupiter , which steamed to Cowea Roads , when a dejeuner was served on board , a numerous and highly respectable company being present . The Mayor of Southampton presided , and proposed the chief toast— " The health of Kossuth , ' to which the noble exile replied ; and for upwards of an hour
addressed the company in a speech in which ne expressed hia helief that England was the country which would have after all to decide the destinies o Europe . France was republican { and Russia must know , let it please her or not , that she »«* acwpj the necessity of fighting France on the field ot Republicanism against Absolutism ; hut Russia must also learn that she would have to . ^ "f . land and the force of her public opinion in oppos tion to despotism . H . would not uy tha B ^ 3 uw would do so by going to war ; but that she woum ™ ercise an influence of this kind by declaring . her opinion again * any interference » gt ^ i * , affairs of nations froro foreign powers . J ^^^ d i _ K .. * « n ) f / . nvarnmPIlt 88 Opp UDV ^ b v i
inoepenaenco w « r « u ™ " v ' m , ; this . to centralization . He wished them to ^^^ then they would nee that the cauae of Hungary { their cause too . His last request was , dc notl ^ poor Hungary . On whatever question they rne . ^ Englishmen , in their addresses ^ the House o mons , in their petitions , wd mthw publw ' tions , remember the cause of Hungary as mvo ^ their own interests . In the course of his * pe e begged of them not to forget to »«" ;; ; nl ( ? macy secret diplomacy . It had been said that diplom j should be kept secret , just as a ^^ Uhcd ; keep his negotiations secret till they yvei ho but what merchant would allow *™™ c »* { whteh transacted in Mb counting-house the nature he did not know , In this ™ °° * lC ?^»» masters , and they should not allow" « " >? » e nOt be conducted with the details of which they ^ * tho fully acquainted . M Kosaut ^ shanked tl jem ^ hospitality with whioh thov had ™ ceivt concluded * by proposing tne 1 ^ ° o ^ d « Th « who returned thanks lhen , *™ ow ^ ««« o of Poland and Hungary , to wi uhuoi 1
,,. " » - ^ 'vua ^ ntnrtainmtf " - " Dudley Stuart responded . * « e " jj pulzsky *"" over , M . KoBButh , Madame KoMUth , M . * , B Madnm * Pul ,. kv , and * 'JJ ™ J ?^ L them small steamer that was in siting to conTey tJi ^ x ^^ h ^^ 3 S W ' -Siff & re t ^* — the Atlantic .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111851/page/4/
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