Select Speeches of Kossuth

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Lajos Kossuth. Select Speeches of Kossuth

Select Speeches of Kossuth

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO KOSSUTH'S SPEECHES

APPENDICES. KOSSUTH'S SPEECHES

I.—SECRECY OF DIPLOMACY

II.—MONARCHY AND REPUBLICANISM

III.—COMMUNISM AND THE SIBYLLINE BOOKS

IV.—LEGITIMACY OF HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENCE

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY THE HUNGARIAN NATION

V.—STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES AND AIMS

VI.—REPLY TO THE BALTIMORE ADDRESS

IN CITY COUNCIL

VII.—HEREDITARY POLICY OF AMERICA

KOSSUTH'S SPEECH

VIII.—ON NATIONALITIES

IX.—ON MILITARY INSTITUTIONS

X.—CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL FOR DEMOCRACY AND PEACE

XI.—HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA IN RELIGIOUS CONTRAST

XII.—PUBLIC PIRACY OF RUSSIA

XIII.—CLAIMS OF HUNGARY ON THE FEMALE SEX

XIV.—RESULTS OF THE OVERTHROW OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

XV.—INTEREST OF AMERICA IN HUNGARIAN LIBERTY

XVI.—NOVELTIES IN AMERICAN REPUBLICANISM

XVIII.—ASPECTS OF AMERICA TOWARD ENGLAND

XIX.—MEANING OF RECOGNIZING

XX.—CONTRAST OF THE AMERICAN TO THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS

XXI.—THANKS FOR HIS GREAT SUCCESS

XXIII.—AGENCIES OF RUSSIAN ASCENDANCY AND SUPREMACY

XXIV.—REPLY TO THE PITTSBURG CLERGY

XXV.—HUNGARIAN LOAN

ADDRESS TO KOSSUTH FROM THE STATE COMMITTEE OF OHIO

XXVI.—PANEGYRIC OF OHIO

XXVII.—DEMOCRACY THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE

KOSSUTH'S REPLY

XXVIII.—THE MISERIES AND THE STRENGTH OF HUNGARY

XXIX.—OHIO AND FRANCE CONTRASTED AS REPUBLICS

XXX.—WAR A PROVIDENTIAL NECESSITY AGAINST OPPRESSION

XXXI.—ON WASHINGTON'S POLICY

XXXII.—KOSSUTH'S CREDENTIALS

XXXIII.—HARMONY OF THE EXECUTIVE AND OF THE PEOPLE IN AMERICA

XXXV.—CATHOLICISM VERSUS JESUITISM

XXXVI.—THE IDES OF MARCH

XXXVII.—HISTORY OF KOSSUTH'S LIBERATION

XXXVIII.—PRONOUNCEMENT OF THE SOUTH

XXXIX.—KOSSUTH'S DEFENCE AGAINST CERTAIN MEAN IMPUTATIONS

XL.—THE BROTHERHOOD OF NATIONS

XLI.—THE HISTORY AND HEART OF MASSACHUSETTS

XLII.—PANEGYRIC OF MASSACHUSETTS

XLIII.—SELF-GOVERNMENT OF HUNGARY

XLIV.—RUSSIA THE ANTAGONIST OF THE U.S

XLV.—THE MARTYRS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

XLVI.—CONDITION OF EUROPE

XLVII.—PRONOUNCEMENT OF ALL THE STATES

XLVIII.—SOUND AND UNSOUND COMMERCE

XLIX.—RUSSIA AND THE BALANCE OF POWER

L.—RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

LI.—THE TRIPLE BOND

LII.—THE FUTURE OF NATIONS

APPENDICES TO KOSSUTH'S SPEECHES

S. VUKOVICS,

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Lajos Kossuth

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It was in vain that the Hungarian nation shed its blood for the deliverance of Austria whenever it was in danger; vain were all the sacrifices which it made to serve the interests of the reigning house; in vain did it, on the renewal of the royal promises, forget the wounds which the past had inflicted; vain was the fidelity cherished by the Hungarians for their king, and which, in moments of danger, assumed a character of devotion; they were in vain, since the history of the government of that dynasty in Hungary presents but an unbroken series of perjured deeds from generation to generation.

In spite of such treatment, the Hungarian nation has all along respected the tie by which it was united to this dynasty; and in now decreeing its expulsion from the throne, it acts under the natural law of self-preservation, being driven to pronounce this sentence by the full conviction that the house of Lorraine-Hapsburg is compassing the destruction of Hungary as an independent State: so that this dynasty has been the first to tear the bands by which it was united to the Hungarian nation, and to confess that it had torn them in the face of Europe. For many causes a nation is justified, before God and man, in expelling a reigning dynasty. Among such are the following:

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