New York NY Tammany Hall Dec. 17, 1851.
(…) It is glorious to stand at the top of the pyramid ofhumanity (…) mankind looks to your country with hope andconfidence. I have sat upon ruins of ancient greatness (…) hasseen the living ruins of (…) ancient times. The decline andfall of nations impresses the mark of degradation (…). Buthowever dark be the impression of such ruins of vanishedgreatness (…) there are bright spots yet on earth (…) wherepresent prosperity strengthens the faith in the future (…).

New York NY Bar of New York Dec. 19, 1851.
A gentleman (from) (…) Cincinnati (…) designated as piracythe interference of foreign violence in the domestic concerns ofa nation (…) is there no (…) outcry (…) against (…)pirates (…) who board, not (…) small cutters, but the belovedhome of nations, (…) who murder whole peoples ? Who shed blood,not by drops, but by torrents (…) who rob (…) freedom,independence (…) the very existence of nations ? But (..) there is hope(..) for there is a powerful, free, mighty people here (in) America, ready to protect the laws of man and of heaven against the execrated pirates(…)

New York NY Ladies of New York Dec. 21, 1851.
(…) in ancient Rome, after the battle of Cannae (…) won byHannibal, the Senate called on the people (…) to sacrifice alltheir wealth on the altar of the fatherland. Every jewel (…)ornament was brought forth, but still the tribune judged itnecessary to pass a law prohibiting the ladies of Rome to wearmore than half an ounce of gold (…) in Hungary we wanted nosuch law. The women (…) brought all that they had. I never meta (…) mother who would have withheld her son from (…)battles. But I have met many who ordered (…) their children tofight for their fatherland (…) many brides who urged (…)their bridegroom to delay (…) happiness (…) till victorious.Thus acted the ladies of Hungary. One word remains to be said(…) of deep sorrow …”Farewell, New York” (…) thatword will forever make (…) my heart (…) thrill (…). I amworse off than a wandering bird. He may return to his summerhome, but I have no home on earth. Here I felt almost at home. Ipart with the hope that the sympathy which I have met here (…)will bring me yet back to my beloved home (…). We in Hungaryhave gained from the west (…) civilization for our women (…)but preserved for them the regard and reverence of our Orientalcharacter. With us, the widow remains the head of the family(…) mistress of (…) property. Under the old constitution(…) the widow of a lord had the right to send herrepresentative to (…) parliament, and in the county elections(…) widows had the right to vote. Perhaps this (…) maysomewhat commend my mission