a skilled orator
might have suggested such a device.

Kossuth was small in stature, not more than five feet seven inches in
height, and weighing not more than one hundred and forty pounds. His
eyes and hair were black, his complexion dark, giving the impression
that he did not belong to the Caucasian race. His career was a
meteoric display in political oratory, such as the world does not often
witness. His integrity cannot be questioned, and for more than a third
of a century he submitted to a life of exile rather than accept a home
under a government which he thought was a usurpation. He gave to the
country new ideas, and his name and fame will be traditional for a long
period of time.

When Kossuth was in America he looked upon General Gorgey as a traitor
and he was so regarded by the friends of Hungary generally. In the
year 1885, however, a testimonial was presented to General Gorgey by
about thirty of the survivors of the contest of 1848, in which they
exonerated him from that charge. General Klapka was among the signers,
but the name of Kossuth did not appear upon the memorial.

At the end of the nineteenth century neither Massachusetts nor any
other State could or would accord to an exile for liberty the reception
that was given to Kossuth in 1852.

The expenses of his reception in Massachusetts, and of the
entertainment of his suite were paid by an appropriation from the
public treasury. He was given a public reception by the Governor of
the State, and a like reception was given to him by each House of the
Legislature in suspended session.

He was further honored by a review on Boston Common of a fourth part of
the organized militia of the commonwealth. The assemblages of citizens
were as large in proportion to the population of the State as were ever
gathered upon any other occasion.

Kossuth visited fifteen of the principal cities and towns of the State
and in each of them he delivered one address or more. His theme was
always the same, but his variety of argument and illustration seemed
inexhaustible. At Cambridge he urged the students to so use their
powers as to "promote their country's welfare and the rights of
humanity."

The Legislature adopted a series of resolutions of sympathy and in
condemnation of Austria and Russia. The opening resolution was in
these words: "Resolved, That every nation has the right to adopt such
form of government as may seem to it best calculated to advance