...h Father Mathew, in an article on Patriotism and Christianity—Kossuth and Jesus, he wrote, in the summer of 1849: He [Kossuth] is strictly local, territorial, national. The independence of Hungary , alone, absorbs his thoughts and inspires his efforts; and, to obtain it, he feels justified [i. e., by the laws of war] in disregarding the claims of humanity, and suspending all the obligations of ...