nterest
and in duty, to protest against it. He conceded fully that if such a
protest should be made, and treated with contempt, the United States would
be bound in honor to enforce it by war. At the same time he declared his
conviction that there was not the slightest danger of war, and entered
into some historical details to show that Russia would never interfere in
Hungarian affairs, until she was assured that England and the United
States would not resist her.--At the dinner, speeches were made by several
prominent members of the bar. Judge Duer, after a long and very eloquent
eulogy of Kossuth and his cause, was going on to reply to his argument in
favor of the interference of this country for the protection of
international law, but the company refused to allow him to proceed.--On the
20th, in the afternoon, Kossuth addressed a large company of ladies
assembled to meet him, in a speech of exquisite beauty and touching
eloquence. He also delivered an address at the church of the Rev. H. W.
Beecher, in Brooklyn, in which he spoke of the question of religious
liberty, as it is involved in the Hungarian struggle.--During his stay in
New York he was waited on by a great number of deputations from different
sections of the country, and from different classes of the community, who
all made formal addresses to him which were answered with wonderful
pertinence and tact.

On the 23d he left for Philadelphia, and had a public reception the next
day in the old Hall where independence was declared in 1776. His speech
was merely one of thanks. He was entertained at a public dinner in the
evening, and at another on the evening of Friday, the 26th. His speech on
the latter occasion was devoted mainly to the usurpation of Louis
Napoleon, which he regarded as having been dictated by the absolute powers
of Europe, and as certain to end in his destruction. The struggle in
Europe between the principles of freedom and despotism would only be
hastened by this act, and he appealed earnestly to the United States for a
decision, as to whether they would protest against Russian intervention in
Hungarian affairs.

On the 27th he went to Baltimore, where he was most enthusiastically
received. In the evening he made a speech of an hour and a half to the
citizens at the hall of the Maryland Institute, in which he set forth the
connection between Hungary and the rest of Europe, and the reasons why the
United States could not remain indifferent t