man compacts of 1815 to the profit of that Austria?"

With the treaty of Villafranca, July 11, 1859, Kossuth abandoned all
hope of the independence of Hungary. There can be no doubt that, from
the first, Napoleon intended to abandon Kossuth and his cause when he
had made use of his influence in England and in Italy for his own
purposes. The armistice and the peace with Austria were inaugurated by
Napoleon; and when, at the last moment, Emperor Francis Joseph raised
difficulties upon some points in the treaty, Prince Napoleon, who was
a party to the conference, threatened him with a revolution in Italy
and in Hungary. As to Kossuth, his only solace was in the reflection
that he had stayed the tendency to revolution on the soil of Hungary,
and thus his countrymen had been saved from new calamities.

Thenceforward Kossuth had before him only a life of exile; but he
reserved for his children the right, and he set before them the duty,
of returning to their native land.

I am giving large space to the visit of Kossuth in the belief that the
country is moving away from the doctrines of self-government as a
common right of mankind, as they were taught by him and as they were
accepted generally until we approached the end of the nineteenth
century.

In Faneuil Hall Kossuth made these striking remarks. Addressing
himself to America, he said: "You have prodigiously grown by your
freedom of seventy-five years; but what are seventy-five years to take
for a charter of immortality! No, no, my humble tongue tells the
record of eternal truth. A privilege never can be lasting. Liberty
restricted to one nation never can be sure. You may say 'we are the
prophets of God,' but you shall not say, 'God is only our God.' The
Jews have said so and the pride of Jerusalem lies in the dust! Our
Saviour taught all humanity to say _'Our Father in Heaven,'_ and his
Jerusalem is 'lasting to the end of days.'"

His style was that of a scholar who had mastered the English language
by the aid of books. His idiomatic expressions were few. In one of
his speeches when urging his audience to demand active intervention in
behalf of Hungary he attempted to use the phrase, "You should take time
by the forelock." At the last word he came to a dead pause and
substituted a twist of his own forelock with his right hand. He thus
commanded the hearty cheers of his hearers. It is probable that the
expedient was forced upon Kossuth, but the art of