Commemorative addresses Author:Parke Godwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOUIS KOSSUTH Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Hungarian And Other Societies: The life and death of Louis Kossuth were events seemingly so far apart in time tha... more »t it is difficult to bring them together in thought. His active career belonged to the first half and middle of the Nineteenth Century, and his death took place at the close of it, after an interval of more than forty years. The scenes in which he figured conspicuously had long since passed from the stage when he died, so that many of those who had seen him at the height of his glory had preceded him to the tomb. His departure, indeed, was to a large number of us, who were rather his successors than his contemporaries, somewhat of a surprise, and it became known tous, like the fall of a majestic and solitary oak which has survived its fellows, by the echoes it aroused in all the surrounding hills. This address was delivered in part at a great commemorative meeting of Hungarian and other societies, held in the Cooper Institute of New York on the 4th of April, 1894. It was afterwards given in full at the Century Association on the zyth of April, and a week or two later repeated before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, New Haven. I am one of the few persons whose lives covering this gap arc able to speak of him from immediate knowledge. With thousands of others, I saw him the day he landed upon our shores below the old quarantine ground on Staten Island, and we were struck at first sight by the pictur- esquencss of his appearance in a semi-military coat and a soft Hungarian hat whose plumes were waving in the breeze. I heard the marvellous address in which he poured forth his gratitude as an exile for liberty's sake from the despotisms of the Old World to the young Republic of the New World, which had been h...« less