stand it, is to know the secret not only of reaching
the heart, but frequently of convincing the understanding
of man.

Kossuth made a great many speeches, sometimes five or six
in a day. He could have had no preparation but the few minutes
which he could snatch while waiting for dinner at some house
where he was a guest, or late at night, after a hard day's
work. But his speeches were gems. They were beautiful in
substance and in manner. He was ready for every occasion.
When the speaker who welcomed him at Roxbury told him that
Roxbury contained no historic spot that would interest a stranger,
Kossuth at once answered, "You forget that it is the birthplace
of Warren." When old Josiah Quincy, then past eighty, said
at a Legislative banquet that he had come to the time--"when
the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men
shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they
are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
and they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears
shall be in the way," Kossuth interrupted him, "Ah! but that
was of ordinary men."

I was a member of the Legislature when Kossuth visited Boston.
I heard his address to the House and to the Senate, his reply
to the Governor's welcome. I heard him again at the Legislative
banquet in Faneuil Hall, and twice in Worcester--on the Common
in the afternoon, and at the City Hall in the evening. I
shook hands with him and perhaps exchanged a word or two,
but of that I have no memory. Afterward I visited him with
my wife at Turin in 1892, when he was a few months past ninety.
He received me with great cordiality. I spent two hours with
him and his sister, Madam Ruttkay. They both expressed great
pleasure with the visit, and Madam Ruttkay kissed Mrs. Hoar
affectionately when we took leave. Kossuth's beautiful English
periods were as beautiful as they were forty years before,
at the time of his famous pilgrimage through the United States.
His whole conversation related to the destiny of his beloved
Hungary. He spoke with great dignity of his own share in
the public events which affected his country. There was nothing
of arrogance or vanity in his claim for himself, yet in speaking
of Francis Joseph, he assumed unconsciously the tone of a
superior. He maintained that constitutional liberty could
never be permanent where two countries with separate legislatures
were under one sovereign. He said the sovereign w