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

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agents abroad, should have been such, no matter how inadvertantly, as to drive a national guest from their doors. I trust you will not view this voluntary expression of * sentiment as an impertinence. It is not intended as such; but is rather from the sincere desire that you will do justice to your well-wishers on board, and not depart from us under the unpleasant and unjust conviction that any act on your part has occasioned the least displeasure. With sentiments of great, esteem for yourself, personally, sir, and a warm sympathy for the cause you sustain, I am [stb.]. 64. United States Ship Mississippi, nyilt tengeren, 1851 október 4. J. Van Ness Philip, a Mississippi tisztje sajnálatát fejezi ki Kossuth előtt, hogy a hajót Gibraltárnál el akarta hagyni és menteni igyekszik Long kapitányt, aki meggondolatlanul tette magáévá Hodge konzulnak Kossuth ellen emelt vádjait. Nyomtatvány. The New York Daily Times, 1852 január 24. I cannot allow you to leave the Mississippi, imder the present circumstances, without expressing to you the pain and mortification I feel at the occurrences which have induced you to adopt this resolution. I cannot hope, Sir, that this expression of my personal feelings, together with those of a similar nature which I know you will receive from other officers, will produce a change in your determination. It would be folly in me, Sir, to endeavour to alleviate the accusation which has been made against you; an accusation which, although I may disprove of and consider unfounded, still remains. You have not to do with the sentiments or opinions of myself or my brother officers. You cannot receive from us a refutation of charges which have been made by the only agents of the government with whom you have to deal. You have been charged by them of having compromised the flag which offered you protection. You, sir, while a guest of the national ship placed at your