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in Hungary, on the
30th of January,
1818. Fortunately
he is still alive,
having lived down
hatred and obloquy;
and now he is an
object of universal
esteem and venera-
tion in his native land.
Such change of public
opinion was doubtless
owing to the discus-
sion of the events ot
1849 ; it was due also
to a solemn " Declara-
tion by the Soldiers
of the Hungarian
Army of 1848-49,"
which was presented
in 1884 to General
Gorgey, signed by
Honved * generals
and superior officers,

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approving of his con-
duct in 1849. Never-

by Mr. Laszl6, ot General Arthur Gorgey, the theless the step which served to establish the in-
Hungarian patriot and commander-in-chief of his controvertible historical truth was the publication of
country's army against the combined forces of Russia a letter of the late Governor Kossuth, addressed to
and Austria in 1849. The life-history of General his friend in exile, Nicholas Kiss de Nemesken
Arthur Gorgey is instructive in many ways, and This letter subsequently appeared in the fifth volume
not less so at the present day. During the progress of Louis Kossuth's memoirs, edited by his son
of the Hungarian War of Independence he was Francis Kossuth, now member of the Hungarian
idolised by his soldiers as the greatest military Parliament. In that letter Governor Kossuth states:
leader in his country's cause. After he surrendered " A traitor Arthur Gorgey was not; but he was not
at Vilagos, the late Governor Louis Kossuth, who
had just crossed the frontier into Turkey, pro-
claimed Gorgey
a traitor be-
cause of the
surrender; and
the infamous
libel was ac-
cepted by public
opinion, render-
ing the name
of Gorgey the
most hated and
vilified in Hun-
gary for more
than a genera-
tion. Arthur
Gorgey was

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* Honved sxmy—is the national Hungarian army—in contradistinction
to the Imperial Austrian army.