Jánossy Dénes: A Kossuth-emigráció Angliában és Amerikában 1851-1852, I. kötet (Budapest, 1940)
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away peaceably aside without the consolation of a single acknowledged sign from the Mississippi. These. »Are the incidents of our staying in the bay of Marseilles. And yet, Sir, you were pleased to judge convenient to send me word to-day (and that, also, not directly, but by a letter written by Captain Long) that „your position and the flag of the United States had been compromised by these incidents." This is a heavy charge, Sir, deeply wounding my honor and my sentiments of deepest respect to your glorious land. It cannot be passed in silence. I feel bound in honor to bring the matter before the people of the United States and your government, and entreat their verdict about it. But having the firm conviction that wherever I meet a free, spontaneous, lawful, and honorable expression of whatever people's sympathy, I am bound in honor and conscience to respect it with esteem, and not to refuse it, but thankfully to accept-on the other side, you being here, the organ of your government which I am revering Avith high veneration, it is my duty to deliver the Mississippi of the presence of myself, who by his position seems, in your opinion, to be a man who compromises the glorious flag of the United States. Therefore, though in the most solemn manner protesting against the imputation you charge me with, I have the honor to tranquilize you, Sir, by declaring that I will not longer embarrass you, but, with everlasting gratitude to your country and your Government, I will leave the Mississippi at the first place it will stop, which is, I suppose, at Gibraltar. Mr. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has driven me away from France. You, Sir, by your (I dare confidently state, unjust) imputation, are forcing me to consider myself driven away from the Mississippi, because the people of Marseilles had shown some kindness to me. I will go by some private conveyance to the United States, will make my excuses for not having further profited of the hospitality of your Government's vessel by the publication of
