The reception of Kossuth in the United States of America
has, in point of popular display, been as cordial as it was in England. But his welcome by the "constituted authorities" has been rather cool. After sending a steam-frigate to convey him to their shores, they seem at a loss how to behave to him now that they have got him. The President tries to delegate to the Senate the exercise of national hospitality, and the Senate appears to have more than half a mind to return the task on the President's hands. At this Kossuth naturally feels considerably disappointed : to his ad- mirers in Philadelphia he has frankly declared, that if he had looked for such a reception from the Government, he would not have gone to America. Party rivalries may have something to do with this cooling of enthusiasm in high quarters. The interchange of amenities between Kossuth and Mr. Walker at Southampton may .he suppesetl likely to inflame* the results of the Presidential elerthin.
Previous page
