The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852Various
History
The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852
Various
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Science -- History -- Periodicals
Kossuth has continued his career of triumph in the west, and besides the
ovations of the people, has received a large amount of the material aid,
which he especially seeks. Wherever he goes, he receives contributions
of money and offerings of arms. A good deal of attention has been
excited by a letter from Mr. Bartholomew Szemere, one of Kossuth's
former friends, and even a minister in the Hungarian revolutionary
cabinet, charging him with cowardice, weakness, and a fatally irresolute
and vacillating policy in the administration of affairs. Szemere also
denies that Kossuth has any just right to call himself the Governor of
Hungary, or even the leader of the Hungarian people. On the other hand,
Mr. Vukovitch, who was also a minister in the same cabinet, who is now
in Paris, has published a letter on Kossuth's side. To Szemere's letter
Mr. Pulszky has replied from Cincinnati, repelling the charge of
cowardice against Kossuth, and showing that Szemere himself had fled
from Hungary some months before the termination of the war, and when
there was still reason to hope that it might be brought to a favorable
issue; and Count Bethlen, another of Kossuth's suite, also states that
Szemere is a man of exceeding vanity, an intriguer against every body
that is above him, and that no man is more unpopular in Hungary than he.
Therefore, it is argued, his opinion is valueless, and he is utterly in
the wrong when he says that Kossuth is no longer beloved and accepted by
the Hungarians as their chosen leader.
The revolutionary disturbances in Northern Mexico have been renewed, the
government having unwisely returned to the old tariff of import duties,
which was the pretext for the first outbreak. Accordingly, Caravajal has
got his men together again and has resumed operations, of course with
considerable assistance from the Texan side of the line. Mexico is
generally in great trouble, not only from insurrections in this and
other parts of the republic, but from the fact that the entire political
organization is in a state of decay approaching dissolution. The revenue
is insufficient for the ordinary wants of the government, which is
unable to pay its civil officers or the army with the exception of the
troops in the field, to whom something has had to be paid, though not
all they have been entitled to. The deficit for the last year, exceeds a
million of dollars, exclusive of the interest on the debt. Congress met
on the first of January, when President Arista addressed the two Houses
in a speech, exposing the dangers of their situation, and calling on
them to come up to the sublime task of saving the country from the
destruction which menaces it.
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