Jánossy Dénes: A Kossuth-emigráció Angliában és Amerikában 1851-1852, I. kötet (Budapest, 1940)
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62. United States Frigate Mississippi, nyilt tengeren, 1851 október 3. Henry Ettingnek, a Mississippi élelmezési tisztjének levele Kossuthoz, melyben iránta való tiszteletét fejezi ki és tanúságot tesz arról, hogy a Kossuth elleni vád, mely szerint az amerikai színeket megsértette volna, alaptalan. Nyomtatvány. The New York Daily Times, 1852 január 24. Permit me to express to you the sincere regret we feel at the prospect of so soon parting from you. The "resolution of Congress" by which a ship of war was put at your disposal, and sent to concey you and your companions to the United States, will at once convince you of the deep concern taking in you, and of the sympathies of the people of the United States. They have already heard with infinite pleasure, Sir, of your release from Kutahia, and of your embarkation on board the Mississippi at the Dardanelles. Her arrival at New York, without your presence on board, will, in the highest degree, disappoint the expectations of the people of the United States, who now, let me assure you, are anxiously awaiting to greet you and to do you honor. But if the determination on your part to leave this ship at Gibraltar, not again to return to her, is made in consequence (as I have the best reasons to believe), of the grave charge> against you of having, "on two occasions" compromised the flag of the United States, and of having restraint, so repugnant to your feelings, imposed upon your actions on board this ship, then, indeed, will mortification be added to the disappointment of the American people, and sorrow most sincere be felt by myself and by many of my companions here present. Since I have had the honor of a personal acquaintance with you, I certainly have seen nothing, Sir, which has been done by you, have heard of nothing which has been done, or which has been said by you, that, in my opinion, is, in the remotest degree, derogatory to the high position you hold, or which has, in the least, changed the good opinion, the good
