New Orleans LA . Lafayette Square. March 30 1852.
Welcomed by E.W.Moise in the name of the city’s general council:”..champion of a great cause..a leader..defeated butunsubdued…advocate of human rights.”

Kossuth: “(as a) ..guest of the Crescent City..I am..convinced that the..principles I advocate are not only wellfounded..but.. necessary to the..United States as well…The foulplay of misrepresentation..by.. enemies continue to misleadpublic opinion. ..The honor of good and great citizens is noparty question..In Washington I had the honor to see Sir HenryClay..in the interview, he…advanced some views with which I donot agree; but ..I would not cause him..injury. My logic..: ifyour country remains..indifferent of the violation of the laws ofnations..then it has consented that..interference become..into..international law…they will speak to you(that)..your..republican doctrines are destructive. …Thismighty Union will be shaken by..foreign interference.

Somebody…writes..by telegraph that “I insulted”Mr. Clay. . the trick of a telegraphic dispatch.. did not tellthe truth. When I was about to leave..for the UnitedStates..some..prognosticated..that I would be opposed by theSouthern States..(but).. I stand upon the very groundwhich is ..the platform of the Southern States..The SouthernStates will support me ..if they are not willing to abandon theground upon which they stand.. And yet..I meet..more oppositionin the South than..in other parts; my enemies, unable to upset myarguments, resort.. to falsification. How is this to be explained? I am..for the principle of non-intervention. My down-troddencountry..will fight..by our own hands..all we desire.. is”fair play”. And yet- more than four hundred speechesreported by hundreds of newspapers..resolutions passed by nearlya thousand public meetings..State legislatures, debates of theUnited States Senate.. could not secure me from being chargedwith loving what I hate, advocating what I oppose. It issorrowful..I claim for my nation the right to regulate my owninstitutions; I therefore must.. respect ..the same right inothers…What have I to do with abolitionism or anti-abolitionism? Nothing .. Is not every man in the United States a republicanto whatever party he may belong ! If the Government of Russiashould interfere with your..institutions will you not opposethem, only because also the abolitionists will oppose them !Every nation has a right..to choose its own form ofgovernment..You have a thousand ways..to protest withoutresorting to war..you can recognize every government defacto..which toward Hungary you failed to do. You can add weightto..protest my declaring..your commerce with foreign nations tobe protected. ..I know that..two great political parties exist.The Democratic party..pronounced in favor of my principle..as tothe Whig party, Mr.Fillmore has declared “the United Statesare forbidden to remain indifferent whenever ..a foreign power isinvoked to repress..freedom in any country”. Gentlemen, westand on Lafayette Square-…remember that name and look back tohistory.. I am sure you will not forsake (this)…poor exile..whobegs leave to say: .nothing for me, gentlemen, but..give yoursympathy to the cause I plead.

Mobile AL, April 3, 1852.
Like a (…) .disease the violation of the principle ofself-government will spread (…) . until it is destroyedeverywhere. Despots (…) know that this principle is thestrongest stronghold of freedom (…) therefore hated by alldespots and by those who have sold their soul to despotism (…)Nations (that) (…) abandoned their real liberty, the municipalinstitutions, instead of clinging to the principle ofself-government (…) exchanged the real liberty ofself-government for the fascinating phantom of parliamentaryomnipotence (…) making the elected (…) the masters (…). Thepeople which, if it is really to be free, can not have anymaster, but God.

Alexandria VA April 13, 1852. (Mount Vernon) As “a slave at Washington’s grave” he called on the attending Presbyterian clergymen to “take better care of the grave of this great man”. (A “Mount Vernon ladies’ Association” was formed in response to Kossuth’s appeal.)

Jersey City NJ April 20, 1852. (Presbyterian church)
When (…) in private life, I despised to become rich (…)sacrificed thousands to the public and often saw my own familyembarrassed by domestic cares (…) I refused indemnifications, and lived poor. When raised to the highestplace in my country (…) I still lived in my old modest way. Ihad millions at my disposal, yet I went into exile penniless.

Newark NJ April 22, 1852.
I pray (…) that He may preserve your people from being absorbed in materialism. The proud results of egotism vanish in the following generation like the fancy of a dream, but the smallest real benefit bestowed ..is lasting like eternity. People of America ! Thy energy is wonderful, but for thy own sake, beware, for thy future’s sake, for all humanity’s sake, beware ! Oh, beware from measuring good and evil by the arguments of materialists.