...declare, in the first moments of my arrival, that it is my mission to plead the independence of Hungary and the liberty of the European continent, before...meddle with any domestic concerns of the United States, and that I expect it from all the friends of my cause not to do anything in respect to myself that...

...shape and regulate its own concerns, Unquestioned, unrebuked, by foreign tongues " ! * * "My principle is, that every nation has the sovereign right to dispose...domestic affairs, without any foreign interference. I, therefore, shall not meddle with any domestic concerns of the United States.'' — [Kossuth's Address...