Pro patria. Tanulmányok - A Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Levéltár Kiadványai III. Tanulmányok 12. (Nyíregyháza, 2004)

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injured. The county election of officials or election of deputies diversified with scandals was not a unique incident in Hungary in the Reform era. In April 1843 in Zala county Ferenc Deák's county-house in Kehida was attacked by the disappointed down at-heel noblemen on the way home from the election of deputies. Ferenc Deák was one of the leaders of the national opposition who did not accept parliamentary mission. The raging drunk people quarrelled with the people of Kehida using their agricultural tools (hoe and scythe) and at the end of this fight two people died. Similarly, the events of an election of deputies caused a memorable scandal on 18 October in 1847 in Vas county while in 1843 there were riots on the election of officials in Békés county. JÁNOS BENE: His work entitled The correspondence of Lajos Kossuth and Szabolcs county in 1848-49 recalls the significant days with the help of the correspondence among the county, government commissioners and Lajos Kossuth through the twelve months of the revolution and war of independence. Among the letters there are some county superscriptions, there are some official ordinance from the Minister of Finance but most of them are letters about the military actions that began from December 1848. These letters were written by Lajos Kossuth as the president of the National Defence Committee and Szabolcs county. These letters contained invitations for organizing moving troops, they described the county's political situation and informed of the insurrection ordered for saving of the country and county written replies as well. The correspondence really came to life at the end of December in 1848 when the government decided to place its residence to Debrecen hereby the part and importance of the eastern region of the country particularly grew up. From the following year's spring this correspondence actually narrowed down to Kossuth's written letters to Sámuel Bonis commissary. These letters were written to the public of the county for the rightful complaints of the people of the village, for the prevention of the military abuse they called the attention to the reparation of damages and they informed the local authorities about the announcement of the Declaration of Independence. The author dedicates his study to the memory of Géza László (archivist, died recently) who published the sources of Szabolcs in 1848-49. ISTVÁN CZÖVEK: His study entitled Kossuth, the Politician and the Russian Public Opinion besides the analysis of the Hungarian foreign politics in 1848-49 it illuminates the role of Kossuth and Hungary from a little-known aspect from the Russian politicising public opinion's point of view. At the time of the war of independence the Hungarian government could not develop wide-ranging foreign