[Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge]@TWC D-Link bookDaniel Webster CHAPTER X 5/54
Mr. Huelsemann became very mild, but he soon lost his temper again.
Kossuth and the refugees in Turkey were brought to this country in a United States frigate.
The Hungarian hero was received with a burst of enthusiasm that induced him to hope for substantial aid, which was, of course, wholly visionary.
The popular excitement made it difficult for Mr.Webster to steer a proper course, but he succeeded, by great tact, in showing his own sympathy, and, so far as possible, that of the government, for the cause of Hungarian independence and for its leader, without going too far or committing any indiscretion which could justify a breach of international relations with Austria.
Mr.Webster's course, including a speech at a dinner in Boston, in which he made an eloquent allusion to Hungary and Kossuth, although carefully guarded, aroused the ire of Mr.Huelsemann, who left the country, after writing a letter of indignant farewell to the Secretary of State.
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