Jánossy Dénes: A Kossuth-emigráció Angliában és Amerikában 1851-1852, I. kötet (Budapest, 1940)

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specified on the constitution and laws of the land, and, as your case is not embraced within their range, he could take no measures to aid you from the national treasury; but that the President and heads of departments, with other friends of your sacred cause and of Kossuth, appreciating your claims upon the American people, were anxious that some substantial evidence should be given of the national hospitality. Fortunately their anxiety was relieved by the seasonable action of a munificent citizen of Washington, Mr. W. W. Corcoran, a gentleman of great wealth and no less liberality. The,subject having been brought to his notice, he cheerfully offered to pay all expenses of transporting to the colony you and the one hundred and twenty-eight exiles whose names are on the roll annexed to the letter you addressed to us. It was submitted to this noble friend of your cause that the passage and board could not exceed fifteen or seventeen dollars per head, if an arrangement could be made for the transportation of the whole company at once, by the same line and conveyance. Mr. Corcoran, therefore, has determined to go to New York on Tuesday. There he will make a contract with the directors of the line of railroads and steamboats running between New York and Iowa; and he requested me to inform you that if the directors shall transport you for less than seventeen dollars per head, he will hand to you the reside thus saved, for the purpose of purchasing agricultural implements, which you should procure in New York. It was submitted further to your benefactor and friend, Mr. Corcoran, that the residue saved on this way will not probably be sufficient for the purchase of all agricultural implements you need; and that the colony of New Buda, consisting at present of only about thirty of your countrymen, you would find among them sufficient amount of provision to support you during the winter until the new crop. Mr. Corcoran at once fully appreciated this difficulty, and kindly promised to lay it before his friends in New York so as to raise among them an additional fund for the purpose of supplying your necessities in this respect.