| Unit 13: Age of Nationalism / Revolution |
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| Kossuth's Appeal to Hungarian Nationalists |
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| From Kossuth, Lajos. As reproduced in The Life of Louis Kossuth, ed. P.C. Headley (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, 1852), 113. |
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| . . . Let us--Hungarians be resolved, and stones will suffice to destroy our enemy. This done, it will be time to speak of what further shall befall.
But every Hungarian would be unworthy the sun's light if his first morning thought, and his last thought at eve, did not recall the perjury and treason with which his very banishment from the realms of the living had been plotted. Thus the Hungarian people has two duties to fulfil. The first, to rise in masses, and crush the foe invading her paternal soil. The second, to remember! If the Hungarian should neglect these duties, he will prove himself dastardly and base. His name will be synonymous with shame and wickedness. . . . To arms! Every man to arms; and let the women dig a deep grave . . . in which to bury either the name, fame, and nationality of Hungary, or our enemy. |
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