Excerpt from Sketch of the Life of Louis Kossuth, Governor of Hungary: Together With the Declaration of Hungarian Independence; Kossuth's Address to the People of the United States; All His Great Speeches in England; And the Letter of Daniel Webster to Chevalier Hulsemann The effect was felt. Austrian manufacturers, 'to preserve their trade, had to trans planttheir factories to Hungary. 1to repress this new-bow spirit the-court at Vienna fell upon the device of appointing paid Imperial commissioners at the'vh'ead of'the counties, instead _of' the lord-lieutenants, who were the old constitutional heads. This the more stirred agitation. The reform leaders from every quarter of the king dom met at Pesth, during the quarterly fairs of 1846 and 1847, to which the people from all, parts came, the nee'dful measures of reform were publicly discussed one by one, and in every detail determined; Atxthe head 'of this movementpas chairman of the meetings, was the late Count Louis Batthyani. Kossuth made able speeches, and rose in popularity; he was not merely eloquent, but practical. Batthyani/ felt his im portance, and exerted himself to, the utmost to 'secure his election to the Diet for the county of Pesth. The Diet met in November, 1847. Previously, the project of re form of the Liberals had 'be)en' published, and, immediately the Diet met, .the law abolishing the 'feudal service of the tenants and - the immunity of the nobles from tax artion passed the Lower House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.