Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-08-01 / 8. szám

F RATERN I TY

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA

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“ . . 4 MAN WORTHY OF THE NAME . . ”

Remarks of Rt. Rev. George E. K. Borshy, Chairman of the Board, American Hungarian Federation, Washington, D. C., at the unveiling of Prof. Victor Jeney's full-size oil painting of Major Charles Zágonyi during the Wilson’s Creek Centennial Commemoration Banquet, on August 9, 1961, at Springfield, Missouri.

★ ★ ★

I have come a long way to be together with you, while you are celebrating a centennial. And the reason 1 have come is because you are about to honor one who has come even a longer way than I have, just to be of service to you and your cause. He came at a time, a hundred years ago, when travel involved some risks. As a matter of fact, he volunteered for a cause, your cause and our cause, risking his life.

Your prosperous, progressive city was but a hamlet at the time, yet few other geographic locations, no matter how important strategically, nor how large numerically, have received more newspaper coverage or greater accolade than did Springfield in the autumn of 1861. Naturally, I am gratefid to you for honoring the one mainly responsible for this, and naturally you are proud of that man rvho demonstrated superior courage, indomitable spirit, and once he had skilfully achieved his aim, has shown deep compassion for the wounded and proved himself to be a man worthy of the name.

I am speaking of someone who hailed from the same Old Sod I came from — Major Charles Tjágonyi. A young man who distinguished himself on the battlefields of Transylvania, when in 1848-49 Hungary was in a life-and-death struggle against its oppressors, the Habsburgs, the latter being aided by imperial Russia. Zágonyi came here with prophetical Louis Kossuth who