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

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stincts of the French heart, which are the inexhaustible source of the nobleness of your nation, has honored me by a manifestation of its republican sentiments — a manifestation honourable for its motives, manly for its resolution, peaceable in its ardor and as majestic in its calmness as nature, the grand image of God, before the tempest. I have heard my name blended with the hymn of the Marseillaise and with the shouts of Vive la Republique — a cry is the only legal one in France; the • only one whose legitimacy has been won by the blood of the martyrs of liberty. It is so natural to love freedom. It is eo light to suffer for it. It is almost less than a mere duty but there is indeed a supreme glory in the thought of being identified with the principle of liberty in the mind of the French people. I have to desire for glory — but this glory I accept in order to merit it. I accept it as a pledge of common interests [solidarité] and I accept it as a testimony of the fraternity of the French nation with all nations. I accept it as a sign of salvation for my beloved country. To you, Frenchmen, Republicans as the honor of that salvation, to us, poor Hungarians is the duty of meriting it. We shall merit it. My nation will understand the appeal of your fraternity. It will be proud of and bravely respond to it, as those ought to do who are honored in being called „brothers" by the French people. These are the only thanks worthy of the people of Marseilles, worthy of that manifestation with which they have honored me, yet not me, but my nation, — and in my nation the past less than the future. Permit me not to speak anymore of the refusal of the Government of the French Republic to grant mé a passage through its territory. I know that the French people are not responsible for and are not identified with its acts. I knowthat neither Mr. L. N. Bonaparte nor Mr. Faucher are the French nation. I knew and I know that the executive power is delegated to them, but that the honor of the French nation is not in their keeping. I shall no longer bear in mind their refusal and I desire that humanity shall not remember it, if by any chance those who have been already in exile and who to all appearance have forgotten it, should again be so. Last