y years of age. At the banquet in Faneuil
Hall he made a ten minutes' speech that glowed with the fire of youth.
Its spirit can be exhibited in a quotation of two short sentences:
"Age chills the feelings, and renders the heart cold; but I have still
feeling enough left to say to the hero of the Old World, Welcome to the
liberty of the New! I can say to the hero of Hungarian liberty,
Welcome to the peace and happiness of our western home." At the
commencement of his speech Kossuth said: "Before all, let me express a
word of veneration and thanks to that venerable gentleman" (pointing to
Mr. Quincy). "Sir, I believe when you spoke of age cooling the hearts
of men, you spoke the truth in respect to ordinary men, but you did
yourself injustice. The common excitement and warm blood of youth
pass away; but the heart of the wise man, the older it grows the
warmer it feels." It is difficult to imagine a more graceful impromptu
recognition of words of praise.

Kossuth's speech at Bunker Hill, more than his other speeches in New
England, bears marks of its Oriental origin. Pointing to the monument
he said: "My voice shrinks from the task to mingle with the awful
pathos of that majestic orator. Silent like the grave, and yet
melodious like the song of immortality upon the lips of cherubim, . . .
and thus it speaks: 'The day I commemorate is the rod with which the
hand of the Lord has opened the well of liberty. Its waters will flow;
every new drop of martyr blood will increase the tide; it will overflow
or break through. Bow, and adore, and hope.'" In the course of his
remarks he mentioned Gridley, Pollard, Knowlton and Warren, but he
appears not to have heard of Putnam and Prescott.

At Lexington he said he was inclined to smile at the controversy with
Concord, declaring that it was immaterial whether the fire of the
British was first returned at Lexington or Concord; that its was
immaterial whether those who fell at Lexington were "butchered martyrs,
or victims of a battle-field."

Kossuth was presented to Amariah Preston, aged ninety-four years, and
to Abijah Harrington, aged ninety-one years, veterans of the
Revolutionary war, and to Jonathan Harrington, then ninety-four years
of age, and the only survivor in Lexington of the action of April 19,
1775.

At Concord, Emerson said to the exile: "There is nothing accidental in
your attitude. We have seen that you are organically in that cause you
plead. The m