...Thompson did not fail to improve, in repelling censure of his apostleship of human rights in the United States. Kossuth, meanwhile, had surrendered to Turkey and been interned, and had implored Palmerston 's intervention—for his country against Austrian subjugation; for himself against the dreaded extradition to Russia. On March 3, 1851, President Fillmore, with the same hand that had signed t...