Republican Vindicator

A PRAYER BY KOSSUTH.—The following prayer offered by Kossuth will be interesting to our readers. It was offered by him kneeling amid the multitude, at the grave of the Magyar heroes who fell in the battle of Nagyszalonta, and was originally published in the Opposition a journal of Pesth:

Almighty Lord! God of the warriors of Arpad! Look down from thy starry throne upon thy imploring servants, from whose lips the prayer of millions ascends to thy Heaven, praising the unsearchable power of thine Omnipotence.

O God, over me shines thy sun and beneath me repose the relics of my fallen heroic brethren; above my head the sky is blue and under my feet the earth is dyed red with the blood of the children of our ancestors. Let the animating beams of thy sun fall here that flowers may spring up from the blood, so that these hulls of departed beings may not moulder unadorned.

God of our fathers and God of the nations! hear and bless the voice of our warriors, and which the arm and the soul of brave nations thunder to break the iron hand of tyranny as it forges its chains. As a free man I kneel on these fresh graves, by the remains of my brothers. By such sacrifices as theirs Thy Earth would be consecrated were it all stained with sin. God! on this holy soil above these graves no race of slaves can live. O Father! Father of our fathers!—Mighty over myriads! Almighty God of the Heaven, the Earth and the Seas! From these bones spring a glory whose radiance is on the brow of my people.—Hallow their dust with Thy grace that the ashes of my fallen heroic brethren may rest in peace! Leave us not, Great God of battles! In the holy name of the nations, praised be Thy Omnipotence. Amen.