KOSSUTH'S PRESENCE OF MIND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3191, 12 May 1879, Page 1

KOSSUTH'S PRESENCE OF MIND.

„'A TfritLer iv Scri^ner's^Magaziue says: _li remember an incident" that happened fimring the great Hungarian's progress through this country. In .Madison, Indiana, he, spoke itt the church of which my step-father was the .pastor. After his address in, English the Americans were all turned'out to make 1 room for the, Germans, but I climbed, boy-like, fi'oin'the parsonage yard through tho | church window got a place on tho ' steps of the high, old-fashioned pulpit, whei'e, hanging over the balusters, I saw, .-rather than ' understood, the 'wonderful-oratory* of ' JKoaauth. The Germans were wrought into a frenzy of "excitement, but jusfc ag .the speaker,

depicting the coming liberty of Germany, had reached the summit of hii tremendous declamation, and while the throng of dermahs crowding every inch Jof floor and galleries was swayed to and fro iv excitement as by a wind, a child held in the arms of a woman in the very middle of the church took fright at the applause, and began to fifcream so frantically as' to rentier' any further speaking impossible. It took some minutes to get the mother and child out of the jam; the break was depressing, and I felt very sure the speech was spoiled. As the child s voice at length went out into the open air, the disappointed and novr depressed-audience turned to the orator, who swept his hand through the air and said vehemently in German : ■ "He may cry now for .Germany, but when he is old he will laugh!" The lost ground was recovered by this single dash, and the audience was at white heat again. .-''