Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

It is worth noting that the court attorney in charge of the arrest was none other than the father of the later writer and minister of culture, József Eötvös. Father and son were diametrically opposed to each other in their politics, however. The writer lived on the family’s Sály estate in Borsod County until 1840, when he moved to Buda in order to join the ranks of parliamentary opposition. In any event, Kossuth was now a political prisoner indicted for sedition eventually to be sentenced, together with Wesselényi, to four years' imprisonment.

Characteristic of the age is a report made in 1837 informing the authorities that "the opposition, and Kossuth’s blind followers, those very corrupt young men in particular, felt bitter and desperate about the arrest of their idol. These men proceeded to make provisions for the well-being of Kossuth's parents, sisters and brothers, for whom Kossuth was the sole supporter. These details shed light on the corruption now spread to the young of the lower classes,

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