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

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ings, by having to endure excessively severe cold and stormy weather. So considering, on the one side, that the most sacred duties force me not to leave Europe for some time, before providing for my affairs in England, and considering, on the other side, that only staying eight or ten days in England, it were entirely impossible to join again the Mississippi here before the 18

th of November, so that of course we could only arrive in the second half of December on your hospitable shores, it became absolutely a duty of honour to me not to cause any augmentation to the hardships and sufferings to the officers and crew of this ship, and not to embarrass them in their public service, as also to alleviate my own associates in their passage to the United States. These are the motives, Sir, which deprive me of the honour to be conducted to your glorious shores on board the Mississippi frigate; but I feel consoled at the idea that in adopting such a course I not only have relieved those who are on board the Mississippi from some sufferings, but myself also will have the high satisfaction an entire month sooner to enjoy the happiness of landing at New York, as I am decided to leave England on board that steamer which leaves Liverpool on the ?th November for New York. Having had the inestimable pleasure to read reported in the public papers that the city of New York resolved to honour, with a generous reception and hospitality, in my undeserving person, the cause and principles I represent, I regard it to be my duty respectfully to inform you, Sir, and by your kind interference, the generous city of New York, about these accidents, and about my intention to leave Liverpool for your city on the 7th of November. I confidently hope that the people and Government of the United States will appreciate my motives, and approve the course I was bound to adopt. Let me hope, also, Sir, that I might nothing have lost by the imperious necessity of this course from you and your people's sympathies which, though conscious not to have merited, I consider the greatest honour of my life, the highest reward