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

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this delay also, Mississippi could but on the second half of December, reach New York. Now, sir, you having requested me to take into consideration that any longer delay here would render my associates, as well as the officers and crew of this ship, liable, on approaching your coast at a late season, to endure excessively severe and uncomfortable cold and stormy weather: I consider it, in honor and conscience, my duty to be not to embarrass you in your honorable cares for the comfort of all you have on board; and not even to make any request, the compliance to which would, of course, very much increase the sufferings, not only of my associates, but also the officers and crew of the ship; which, indeed, would be from me a very regardless course, and very bad appreciation of the friendly, kind, and hospitable manner, you, your officers, and the whole crew, have treated me all the time I had the high honor to be on board this ship. With these convictions, and to enable you to prosecute your voyage without delay, I feel bound in honor and conscience on leaving England so soon as possible to take a packet ship for the United States, where I hope to arrive almost as soon as you, and prove to the people and Government of the United States how warmly I wished to hasten to your generous, hospitable shores. I am confident that the people and the Government of the United States will apreciate my motives, and approve the course I must adopt. I hope they will be pleased to consider (as it really is) this course as the emanation of my lively sentiment and careful solicitude not to misuse their generosity, by disregarding the important considerations to those sufferings which could not fail to follow out of a longer delay; and I hope these circumstances (which nobody can regret more than I do) will not alter those sympathies of your people, which I take, and will forever hold, for the chief honor, glory, and inestimable treasure of my life. So I have but one favor yet to claim; and that is, that you may be pleased to accept, for yourself as well as for the officers and crew of this ship, the most sincere expression of my warmest thanks, for the noble, kind and generous affection