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 LO UIS KOSSUTH 161 national life and a separate Constitution, and is not to . be governed as an Austrian province, whether such provinces be governed well or ill, despoticaily or con­ stitutionally, but is to be governed in accordance with her own Constitutien and her own laws. This was our right with respect tq the Austrian House and Empire, and was the duty of the Austrian House towards us. We had to safeguard this right and enforce the fulfil­ ment of this duty. We had to take care that in every department of state life H ungary should be governed independently and be free from all foreign inter­ ference. " After the catastrophe of Világos, Kossuth went into exile. England, which had shown such magnanimaus sympathy with those who carried on Hungary's war for freedom, gave him an enthusiastic welcome. He spoke with great effect on his country's behalf both in England and in the United States, and his speeches in 1859 were Jargely instrumental in bringing about the resignation of the Tory Govern ment which desired to put a stop to the Austro-Italian war by EngJand's intervention. Kossuth did not approve of the reconciJiation with Austria in 1 867, achieved by Deák. He never saw his country again after 1849, and died far from her borders, in Turin, . on March 20, x 894. When his body was carried home, indescribable scenes occurred everywhere a]ong the route, alJ showing how the people idolised bim, the hero of their struggles for liberty. Thousands of people travelled long distances to the railway line al ong which the body was to pass, and waited there kneeling. Bnt it was not only in Hungary that Kossuth was admired. Once when a Hungarian gentleman visited a family in Edinburgh, directly his nationality was known, L