Hajnal István: A Kossuth-emigráció Törökországban, I. kötet (Budapest, 1927)
IRATOK
24. Viddin, 1849 szeptember 20. 1 Kossuth Palmerstonhog a renegálás ügyében. Sk. fogaim. N. M. Mylord! Your Excellency will be already informed about tbe falling of my fatberland, — the unhappy Hungary, — if justice might assure a happy sort, worthy of a better fate. It was not the spirit of disordre, not the ambitious views of a party faction, neither a revolutionary inclination, which provoked my nation, to the mortal struggle, so gloriously supported, but forced by unholy means to so an unlucky end. Hungary has merited from her kings, the historical epithet of the most generous nation, for she never left herself surpass in loyalty and faithfull adherence to her sovereigns by any nation of the world. Only the most revolting treachery, the most tyrannical oppression and cruelties unheard of in the records of history and the infernal doom of annihilation of her national existence under so many adversities conserved through a thousand years, were able to rouse her to oppose to the mortal stroke aimed to the very life of hers, to beat back the most tyranical assail of the ingrate full Habsburgs, and to accept the forced struggle for liberty, honour and life. And she has fought the saint battle nobly and with the aid of the almighty God victoriously against Austria. We have crushed her down to the earth and even when attaked by the Russian giant we stood fast, by the feeling of the justice of our cause, and in our hope to God and to the generous feelings of yours Mylord and of your great and glorious nation, the natural supporter of justice and humanity on the world. But it is done. What tyranny began, treason achieved. Abandonned by all, my poor native land has fallen, not under the overwhelming power of two united great empires, but by the faults, — y may say treason, — of her own sons. I pray to God that my nation may be the only sacrifice of this untoward events and never might the true interests of peace, freedom and civilisation partake in the consequences of our deplorable fate. Mr. Francis Pulszky, our diplomatic agent at London, has received full informations upon the causes of this sudden and unlooked for changes in the Hungarian war 2 and is ordered to 1 Az irat elől szeptember 20-ikáról, hátlapján 21-ikéről van keltezve. 2 A viddini levélben.
