Jánossy Dénes: A Kossuth-emigráció Angliában és Amerikában 1851-1852, I. kötet (Budapest, 1940)
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panied by the increased sufferings of all who are on board the Mississippi and chiefly of the officers and crew who all treated me in the most friendly kind and loyal manner on board —I felt and still feel that it would have been a dishonorable act to disregard the consideration of this increased sufferings. Besides to me, also under the present condition of Europe (the preauciousness of which scarcely can be overrated) time is extemely dear, valuable and important-going directly from Liverpool to New York I may have the honor to land there on the 18 th of November; whereas returning to the Mississippi I could but to Gibraltar be returned on that very day and so loose the new 25—30 days of the passage thence to New York and this too at so late a season that I would have had almost no other choice then to deprive my poor wife of the accomplishment of her fondest desire viz,, to go with me to the; U. S. and to leave her behind as her delicate health could not permit to expose her to such sufferings. Such were the considerations which connected with the untoward and unlooked for emergencies deprived me of the high honor to proceed on the board the Mississippi Frigate to the U. S. and forced me to entreat Captain Long to prosecute his voyage with the greatest part of my associates while myself will hasten directly from Liverpool to New York where I hope almost so soon to arrive as he himself and so give the evidence how warmly I wish to present my humble thanks to the people and Government of the U. S. and particularly to Your Excellency for the highminded protection I was honored with and to witness as soon as possible the wonderful greatness of your glorious land. I confidently hope Your Excellency will kindly appreciate my motives and approve the course I was obliged to adopt and neither Your Excellency nor the people and Government of the TJ. S. will withdraw from me their generous sentiments which I consider the chief glory and most valuable treasure of my life to be.
