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 ^ TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Speech on "England and Taxation," delivered in London, June IStli, 
 1862, taking the affirmative side of the question, "Is Taxation 
 without Representation Robbery?" 21 
 
 Speech on the " American Navj," its Present and Future Influence on 
 the Commerce of the World. — America must be the First Naval 
 Power in the World 25 
 
 Speech delivered on " England's Neutrality and General Butler's Procla- 
 mation." 26 
 
 Speech on the question " Was President Lincoln justified in refusing 
 permission to the London Times' Correspondent to embark with the 
 Federal Army," in which Mr. Train most unmercifully handles " Bull 
 Run Russell." 28 
 
 Lecture on " Temperance and Moral Reform," in which the wholesale 
 debaucheries of the Derby day is shown up with terrible accuracy, 
 and "Lord Brougham" receives one of the most scorching rebukes 
 on record 33 
 
 Great speech on " Mexico," in which he ably treats of the following sub- 
 jects : — The Monroe Doctrine. — The Secret Treaty. — The Conven- 
 tion and the Quarrel. — England a Fillibuster. — America's Four 
 Cardinal Virtues. — Texas and the Mexican War. — Mexico before 
 the Republic 3T 
 
 Speech on Intervention ! American! and Yankee Pluck 44 
 
 Speech on the American Navy,* the Monitor, Statesmen, Bankruptcy, 
 
 Insolvency and Taxation..... 4t 
 
 Speech of Mr. Train in which he stands before the English people as a 
 
 "Convicted Felon.''^ His able defence before the Masses .51 
 
 Speech on the Federal Army of the United States, which has been 
 termed his " Live Speech," delivered before the " London Society 
 of Cogers," on March 22, 1862 54 
 
 George Francis Train's Popularity in America. Flattering notices of 
 his speeches on the American War, published by T. B. Peterson & 
 Brothers, Philadelphia, and also extracts from the Press generally, 
 showing that at the present time Mr. Train is one of the most popu- 
 lar men in the United States 51 
 
20 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 George rrancis Train and the Merchants of Boston. — Letter from ninety- 
 five of the leading citizens of Boston, and State Senators and Mem- 
 bers of the Legislature of Massachusetts, to Mr. Train, and his reply 
 to them 59 
 
 Speech at the Anniversary Dinner of the Roy^l Asylum of St. Anne's 
 Society. On this occasion the conduct of the Right Hon. Lord 
 Campbell toward Mr. Train, was severely criticised, and formed a 
 striking contrast between the English Nobleman and the American 
 Citizen 61 
 
 Letter from Mr. Train to the "Commercial Bulletin," Boston, Mass. 
 In which Mr. Train sets forth a few facts for Boston, and gives 
 them advice 62 
 
 Mr. Train is unanimously elected an Honorary Governor of the Lambeth 
 
 Pension Society, and his reply 64 
 
 Mr. Train's Lecture at the Whittingham Club, for the benefit of the 
 
 "Metropolitan Church Schoolmasters' Association." 65 
 
 Train's Speech on " Slavery and Universal Emancipation," a masterly 
 disposition of the question — "Is American Slavery to the Negro a 
 stepping-stone from African barbarism to Christian Civilization?".. 66 
 
 Concluding Speech of Mr. Train on the above subject TO 
 
 Train's Speech on the " Pardoning of Traitors," in the debate on the 
 question "Would Civilization be advanced by the South gaining 
 their Independence?" 77 
 
 George Francis Train on arming Canada, and the Militia Bill. — " Canada 
 
 cares as little for England as America does for Canada." 80 
 
 George Francis Train's Defence of Ireland and the Irish 81 
 
 George Francis Train's Reply to the Reverend Baptist Noel's Letter.... 83 
 
 George Francis Train and the Irish .•. 84 
 
 Celebration of the Fourth of July, 1862. Being the Eighty-Sixth Anni- 
 versary of American Independence 85 
 
TRAIN^S UNION SPEECHES. 
 
 ^'SECOND SERIES." 
 
 A YANKEE BULL H AN ENGLISH CHINA SHOP. 
 
 IS TAXATION WITHOUT EEPRESENTATION" ROBBERY? 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON ENGLAND AND TAXATION. 
 [^From the London American of June 25th) 1862. J 
 
 If we may judge from the energy of some 
 of Mr. Train's late speeches — and he has 
 been at it every night for months— the 
 lawyers and the judges have not crushed all 
 the life out of him. If Mr. Train talks too 
 plainly, and uses metaphors and unwished- 
 for truths, the debaters in the discussion 
 halls should reply to his arguments point by 
 point. If they do not, he will be entitled 
 to the champion's belt — for all admit that 
 in his case the ropes were cut. Ilis adver- 
 saries admit that they cannot butadmire his 
 pluck, even though they may condemn his 
 zeal. We continue to report Mr. Train's 
 speeches, because many have subscribed for 
 the " London American" in order to get 
 them — and as these speeches are copied 
 throughout the North and West, we feel 
 justified in catering to the wishes of our 
 readers. His speech on Mr. Russell ap- 
 peared entire in many of the leading Ameri- 
 can journals. His speech in defence of 
 Ireland and the Irish appeared in nearly all 
 the Irish journals, and we make our acknow- 
 ledgments for copying from our columns. 
 
 The following speech made on Wednesday 
 night, shows no loss of vigor or resources : — 
 
 Mr. Train (who arrived late, and was 
 loudly cheered,) asked, Is Taxation ivith out 
 Eepreaentation Robbery ? 1 believe it is. 
 (Hear.) And I intend to prove that the 
 epigram was coined originally for England. 
 Its application is perfect — Lord Camden 
 was its authoi" — America put it into practice 
 ■ — Englishmen adopted it — George the Third 
 was forced to admit it — and for generations 
 the phrase has laid fallow — and generally 
 applied to America. So many Englishmen 
 have been cutting-up America, inch by inch 
 — (oh, and hear) — so many English writers 
 
 have been engaged to show up the Ameri- 
 cans — I take much pleasure in volunteering 
 my services to examine a little into English 
 life and actions. (Cheers.) To do it well 
 you must give me full swing — keep your 
 temper — (laughter) — remember that 1 am 
 invited to speak—that I never allow any 
 one to muzzle me — that if I am wrong the 
 house is full of clever debaters anxious to 
 put me right. (Hear, and cheers.) There- 
 fore you must not flinch under the argument 
 that I shall make, in order to prove that 
 England has taxation, but no representation 
 — hence the robbery, (Hear.) I may also 
 mention that in future, Americans intend to 
 send their Diekeuses, and Marryats, and 
 Trollopes to England, and rip up all the 
 old vices they can find — (oh) — in return for 
 England's kindness during the last half-a- 
 hundred years, in caricaturing Americans 
 and predicting the bursting of the Republi- 
 can bubble. (Hear.) Thank God, America 
 is emancipated from England, and intends 
 now to turn the tables and patronize Eng- 
 land as England formerly patronized 
 America. (Cheers and laughter.) Now, 
 gentlemen, are you prepared for some start- 
 ling truths about England? (Yes, and 
 hear.) What are the qualifications for 
 electors ? — A ten-pound rating ; if less, you 
 can only vote for municipal affairs. Hence 
 the qualification for a vote is not morality — 
 not intellect — not industry — not mind — but 
 the difference between ten pounds and five. 
 You maybe a schoolmaster — a clergyman — 
 a professor at Oxford — but unless you are a 
 ten-pounder you are classed with the Mob. 
 And is it true that these ten-pounders are 
 bought and sold at the hustings? (Xo, and 
 Yes, and some confusion.) Can it be possi* 
 
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 ble that there are only one million of Elec- 
 tors out of seven million able-bodied men in 
 the empire? If true, then you must admit 
 that you are burdened with taxes not levied 
 by yourselves. Hence Taxation xoithout 
 Representation is Robbery. (Cheers and 
 dissent.) Those six millions of men repre- 
 sent twenty-four millions of people, who have 
 no repieseutation whatever in the Lords or 
 the Commons. (Oh ! and hear.) Again, 
 two-thirds of the House of Commons is 
 actually the House of Lords. (Hear.) The 
 members are uncles, or brothers, or nephews, 
 or sons, or connected by marriage with the 
 Peers — (hear, hear) — and there are so many 
 members connected with the Army and 
 Navy, that when they vote supplies they 
 actually vote their own salaries. (Hear and 
 laughter.) " I spoke to fifteen hundred 
 people last night in Spurgeon's old chapel," 
 I remarked to one of the Governing classes, 
 " and they were all cheering for the people's 
 carriage." " Ah, yes, Mr. Train," he replied 
 " but you forget that you are in England — 
 not in America. Here the people have no 
 power ; you have made a gieat mistake in 
 joining them." " But," I replied, " my audi- 
 ence was most respectable." " True, but 
 the Mob is powerless," he continued. Again 
 1 pleaded your cause, and again he answered 
 with a sneer. " You are going all wrong ; 
 you mistake if you think the Mob has any 
 power to assist you." This is a fair speci- 
 men of the language that grates upon my 
 ear in the higher walks of life. An audience 
 like this, or even five thousand properly- 
 behaved men at the Free Trade Hall, Man- 
 chester, are called the Mob. The T ivies 
 usually remarks, when speaking of his 
 speeches, that Mr. Bright addressed the 
 Mob at Birmingham— or Mr. So-and-So the 
 mob at Manchester. Now, who compose 
 this Mub ? Go into the theatre and notice 
 the two rows 'of stalls and the boxes, whei'e 
 the Lord's annointed sit in their opera cos- 
 tume — perhaps two hundred persons. The 
 balance— the pit, the gallery, tier above tier, 
 some two thousand, is called the Moh I (No, 
 and hear.) Did you ever see an opera-glass 
 from the dress-circle pointed at the pit or 
 gallery? (No.) The governing classes are 
 too much occupied at gazing at their own 
 order to think of the people. The politeness 
 of the guard is addressed to the first-class 
 passengers, not to the second or the third. 
 He has no courtesies for the Moh. The ser- 
 vant hears the word so often repeated he 
 learns it by heart, and is the loudest in 
 shouting against the Mob — and he, too, will 
 tell you that the people are nobody. Toady- 
 ism in England is the rule — in America the 
 exception. (Hear, hear.) What are your 
 taxes ? I asked the other night, when 
 lecturing to the Lambeth working-men. 
 Seventy millions ! How much for the 
 national debt ? Twenty-eight millions. Have 
 
 you any consols, sir? No. Have you in 
 the gallery? No. Have you, sir, any 
 interest in the national debt? No. How 
 very odd. Do you know any working-men 
 who have ? No. Then why do you pay the 
 interest on this incubus that weighs yoii 
 down, when those few who receive it call 
 you the Mob ? (True, and hear.) Do you 
 know how few receive this £28,000,000 ? 
 Not three hundred thousand persons. 
 This interest, which you help to pay, allows 
 the class above you to block all the gates of 
 justice against you — allows them to drive 
 elegant carriages, and live in palatial clubs, 
 and call you the Mob. (No, and hear.) The 
 people they tell me are nobody. Thoy all 
 run at the appearance of a policeman, and 
 one soldier will frighten ten thousand of the 
 Moh. The people, they say, are the first to 
 sell each other. I am telling you these 
 things in confidence. (Laughter.) If true, 
 Taxation xoithout Representation destroys 
 Liberty. (Hear.) There was more freedom 
 in the feudal times than now. Then the 
 feudal barons armed their retainers at their 
 own expense. Now the feudal lords lay 
 the burden upon the back of the people. 
 (Hear.) Then the feudal barons waged 
 short wars for want of resources — now, by a 
 paper system based on a national debt, they 
 can squeeze the interest out of the people's 
 gains. ('I'hat's so.) Then they pawned the 
 Crown jewels and the Crown lands for 
 money to carry on the war — now they pawn 
 the liberties of the working classes, and their 
 success has stupified the mind of man. Gold 
 became scarce — paper plenty — the national 
 debt was turned mto a gold mine. (Hear.) 
 Lamp-black — white paper and a minister's 
 signature — and lo ! Eight hundred millions 
 of debt ! The annual interest extracted 
 out of the British people amounts to one- 
 fourth of the entire American debt. And 
 yet you are always saying that we shall burst 
 up next mail. (Laughter.) 
 
 "Great men have always pcorned great recompences, 
 
 Epaniinondas saved his Thebes and died, 
 Not leaving even his funeral expeueeg; 
 
 Geoifie AV'a^llillgIon had thanks and nought beside, 
 Excepi the allcloudless glory (which all men's is). 
 
 To tree his couniry ; Pitt, too, Lad his pride. 
 And H8 a high-souled Minister ofState, is 
 
 Renowned for ruining Great Britain gratis !" 
 
 The security of this debt is based on the 
 Revenue of the State — that failing the bonds 
 are worthless. This year the Customs 
 Revenue alone will fall oft" some millions in 
 tobacco — (hear) — and the Income Revenue 
 many more in cotton. The debt is good so 
 long as the people pay the taxes. That 
 failing the bonds are worthless and their 
 owners ruined. Hence the people — the 
 working classes — keep the governing classes 
 afloat by continuing to pay interest on a 
 debt that only the firmer tends to bind the 
 manacles about the necks of the people. 
 (Oh.) The working classes pay and seem 
 
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 contented by being called the Moh by those 
 they support. This cannot last. The times 
 are cliavging I and look out that the people 
 don't discover that Taxation without Rep- 
 resentation is Robbery. (Hear.) Is Eng- 
 land only a pasturage for the aristocracy ,? 
 Have the people really no voice in the Privy 
 Council ? Are there no other statesmen in 
 England capable of the management of 
 affairs but Earl Russell, or Lord Palmerston, 
 or Lord Derby ? Do these leaders, repre- 
 sentinsf different parties, conspire together 
 against the sacred rights of the working 
 classes ? These classes have helped to pay 
 one hundred millions in one hundred years 
 for one family. The aristocracy disbursed 
 the money — was any of it paid to promote 
 emigration ? to benefit the poor? Was any 
 of it voted to promote the education of the 
 working classes ? or give them moral or re- 
 ligious-advice ? The Crown enjoys privacy 
 — the Minister holds the keys of the treas- 
 ury, and all these lords and ladies are paid 
 out of the Civil List. The Peerage and the 
 Church are the life arteries of the monarchy. 
 The Civil List is the bank where the work- 
 ing classes deposit their hard-earned gains 
 in order that the aristocracy may cheque 
 upon it without limit. We still live in feudal 
 times. The curfew still rings to the death- 
 knell of the people. Kings cannot live with- 
 out a priesthood and a great aristocratic 
 class to assist them in keeping down the 
 * Mob. Debts and taxes and pauperism are 
 the legitimate heirs of kings and nobles and 
 priests. The Republican bubble, you say, 
 has burst. When will the monarchical 
 bubble break up ? Wheu the working 
 classes discover that Taxation without Rep- 
 resentation is Robbery ! Your monarchical 
 Crown and Court and Cabinet cost you six 
 hundred thousand pounds a year. Our un- 
 ostentatious President and ministers cost 
 twenty thousand pounds ! Would you like 
 to know what this pomp and horse-guard 
 show has cost England since George the 
 Third put on the crown till now ? Don't 
 start when I tell you that it is over one 
 hundred viillions sterling — more than a 
 million a year? and this for only one family, 
 and a family not allowed to marry in Eng- 
 ■ land ! Does much of this great sum go to 
 push up the little thrones of the thousand 
 German princes who marry the royal heir- 
 esses of England ? (Hisses.) Approve or 
 disapprove as-you will — I take the affirmative 
 — others the negative, (Applause.) It is 
 only a debate in which we use statistics, 
 intellect, and pluck. (Laughter and cheers.) 
 The aristocracy and shopocracy live upon 
 the people. The working classes of England 
 9 have made her what she is. (Cheers.) They 
 pay the bills — they do the labor — they bear 
 the burden— and in return for doing all this, 
 the governing classes wave the English flag 
 before their joyful eyes — point to the British 
 
 lion, and raise more taxes to pay contracts 
 for their own order, and send soldiers to 
 fight against the Americans, who are noth- 
 ing more than Englishmen who fought and 
 obtained the rigkt of governing themselves. 
 (Cheers.) In return for the worship and 
 admiration the working men bestow upon 
 their masters, the aristocracy give them the 
 great boon of organizing themselves into a 
 Great Union workhouse for the support of 
 the upper Ten Thousand. The working 
 classes bear the burden, and, in payment for 
 their services, are called the Moh. Butler 
 was an English poet. How well he tells the 
 terrible truth 
 
 'Tis they maintain the Church and State, employ the 
 
 priest and magi.«"trate. 
 Bear all the ibarge of GoTernment, and pay the pnblic 
 
 fines and rent; 
 Defray all taxes and excises, and impositions of nil prices; 
 Bear all the expense of peace and w^r, and pay the pulpit 
 
 and the bar; 
 Maintain all churches and religions, and give their 
 
 pastor's Exhibitions ! 
 
 (Laughter and cheers). Yes, you pay the 
 interest, and they hold the bonds. Has the 
 debt done anything for the working men ? 
 This debt is used to break your love of 
 liberty; and generations of oppression have 
 made you forgetful of the rights of man. 
 Only think of it — not three hundred thous- 
 and people hold all the Consols and Funded 
 Debt of England ! and none of these belong 
 to the working classes, who are made to pay 
 the interest on that which never benefited 
 them. This debt furnishes the means to 
 pay soldier^ to shoot you down, if you dare 
 to say you are not the Mob — or demand 
 your rights ! A friend of mine — an English- 
 man — sings a song called Happy Land, 
 wherein he shows thai Brito7is never will be 
 slaves. (Applause). If they submit to 
 taxation without representation, they never 
 will be anything else. (Hear.) What have 
 you to do with the wars of the Georges? — 
 or the Tudors ? — or the Plantagenets ? 
 This incubus of debt that bears' you down 
 you did not incur — nor your fathers. The 
 debt was raised by the fathers of the class 
 that call you the Mob — as their fathers called 
 your fathers the Mob before, and their sons 
 will call your sons the Mob, unless you find 
 out that Taxation ivithout Representation 
 is Bobbery. (Cheers, mingled with dis- 
 sent.) You dissent. Let me ask. How 
 much do you pay for the army and navy this 
 year? Thirty millions. Have you any 
 friends in the service? No. Have you, Mr. 
 Chairman? No. Have you, there, below 
 the gangway ? No. Are you sure that 
 none of the working men hSrVe any of the 
 contracts ? No. Then why do you pay the 
 bills? Why submit? Thirty millions, and 
 twenty-eight more on the debt, make fifty- 
 eight millions of the seventy. This leaves 
 out the civil service. How much is that ? 
 One thousand placemen receiving one thous 
 
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 and pounds each ? There are some thirty 
 thousand more placemen in England, and 
 you contribute some four millions sterling 
 to their support. No wonder they call you 
 the Mob ! Are any of your friends em- 
 ployed ? No, indeed. Are you aware that 
 you have paid four hundred millions for the 
 army and navy during the last twenty 
 years? Did you know that the estimates 
 have doubled during the last ten years ? 
 You must then acknowledge that Taxation 
 without Representation is Robbery. It is 
 generous in you not to complain. English- 
 men never grumble. (Laughter.) The wild 
 deer herd together at the approach of the 
 huntsman. The sheep gather in flocks when 
 the wolves howl. Why, should not the 
 ■working classes follow the instincts of the 
 lower animals, and stand side by side wben 
 their rulers combine against their liberties. 
 The conspiracy is general and gigantic. 
 The aristocracy use the shopocracy as the 
 weapon with which they destroy the indi- 
 viduality and independence of the millions. 
 It is cleverly done : you manage these things 
 well. (Applause.) The middle classes are 
 ever ready to join the robles, and call the 
 people the Mob I Talk with any so-called 
 gentleman, retired tradesman, or manufac- 
 turer, and he will tell you the people are no- 
 body — never heed the Mob. (Dissent.) 
 Taxation toitliout Representation is Rob- 
 bery. Working men are not all the fools 
 you would make them. I asked a working 
 man the other day what he thought of 
 national glory. Here is his apostrophe 
 England ! — " Thou who professest to be the 
 rose of Hharon and the lily of the valley ; 
 who vaunteth thy piety and humanity at the 
 corners of the streets, and sendeth forth thy 
 armies to murder and plunder unarmed 
 thousands, rendering thy daughters widows 
 and thy children fatherless, and laying waste 
 that which the Almighty Provider has given 
 thee!" (Hear, hisses, and cheers.) Eng- 
 land ! Mighty England ! Thou who pro- 
 fessest to be the prince of honesty and the 
 balance of equity ; who, by force of arms 
 and deception, robbed the Hindoo of his 
 domains, the New Zealander of his pos- 
 sessions, and sown the seeds of rancour and 
 hate and envy among thy people against thy 
 blood-relations in America ! (No, and 
 "That's so.") And with thy hypocrisy 
 would rivet the shackles on the negro, and 
 rob the slave of his birthright. Thy policy 
 is before Him that judgeth righteously, who 
 will weigh thee in the balance and find thee 
 wanting in humanity, in honesty, in justice, 
 and equity, and for thy iniquity will spue 
 thee out of His mouth, and make it more 
 horrible for thee on the last day than those 
 of Sodom and Gomorrah ! (Oh, and 
 laughter.) And so long as we, the working 
 classes, continue to remain the jackals of 
 
 this rampant lion and find the means to pay 
 the interest on that great debt that has 
 never added to our prosperity, and each 
 year treads us the deeper into the slough of 
 Ignorance and Despondency, so long shall 
 we be considered nobody in the land — hold- 
 ing no power — spit upon, sneered at, de- 
 spised, and called the Mob. (Cheers from 
 working men- — and hisses from the middle 
 classes.) The governing classes so far have 
 played their cards well. "VVe have in America 
 three hundred and fifty thousand slave-owners 
 who have ground down millions of Africans. 
 You have three hundred thousand owners 
 of the national debt that also have crushed 
 the liberty out of millions of Europeans, 
 (Oh, and a hiss.) You may hiss, but let 
 me tell you the distance between the work- 
 ing classes and the aristocracy is far greater 
 than between the African slave and the 
 American" slave-owner. (Applause, and no.) 
 This arises from the curse of your national 
 debt and making Taxation without Rep- 
 resentation Robbery . When an individual 
 becomes insolvent, a bank fails, or a firm is 
 bankrupt, a compromise is made with the 
 creditors — if only a shilling, a settlement is 
 made. Why not apply the rule to the 
 national debt ? You who have a kvf crown 
 jewels and crown lands which would realize, 
 perhaps, a sixpence in the pound. (Laughter 
 and oh). Why not wipe off the debt? The 
 nation has been bankrupt for years. (Oh, 
 and dissent.) iSo much accommodation has 
 been resorted to to keep up the nation's 
 credit, I am told, that it has raised the price 
 uf paper. (Oh, and laughter. — A voice : 
 better than repudiating.) Mr. Tyas says, 
 better than repudiating. Exactly — and I 
 am glad to remind him that there is but one 
 nation on the earth's surface that ever was 
 honest enough to pay off its national debt 
 — and that nation was America ! (l<oud 
 shouts of derisive laughter.) Gentlemen, I 
 challenge you to deny that our people did 
 not, three years ago, redeem the last of our 
 national debt at the enormous premium of 
 116. (Loud cheers and signs of assent.) 
 To-day our one hundred millions for this war 
 stands at Six premium, while your funds re- 
 main at Six discount. (Applause.) Let 
 Napoleon give one sneeze, and Consols will 
 drop to Forty. (Oh, and laughter.) The 
 only way England has kept up appearances 
 in her credit is by quietly consenting to be- 
 come a province of France — (No, and dis- 
 sent) — and by sending her ships all over the 
 world, as Holloway does his pills. (Laughter.) 
 No wonder the dark-colored natives are 
 taken-in — no wonder they magnify Eng- 
 land's greatness. When they see your great 
 ships on their shores, what a wonderful 
 power, they say, must that be that can 
 aflbrd to spend so many millions in adver- 
 tising 1 (Loud laughter and cheers.) 
 
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 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON THE AMERICAN NAYY. 
 
 [Fom the London American, of June 25, 1862. 
 
 We believe the time has arrived in the 
 history of nations for America to demand 
 her proper position in the world ; and we 
 cordially agree with Mr. Train that the 
 shortest way to arrive at that independent 
 position is again to copy England, and have 
 the largest navy afloat for the forthcoming 
 struggle for the mastery of the seas. 
 
 Mr. Train : America must he the only 
 First-class Poiver in the World. Our Par- 
 rot guns are superior to those of Napoleon. 
 Hurrah for Parrot ! Our Dahlgren guns 
 beat Armstrong, and throw Blakely into the 
 shade. Hurrah for Dahlgren! James's 
 projectiles and Sharp's rifles are both 
 American institutions. Hurrah for the 
 American navy — hurrah ! The navy of Eu- 
 rope is an ark. The Monitor and the Ste- 
 ven's Battery could destroy it in less than 
 forty days. (Oh, and laughter.) Whi/ have 
 we not been a first-rate poiver? Because 
 we had no navy. But the times are chang- 
 ing — a year since our navy was a ghost — 
 now it is a well-organised skeleton. Let 
 Citizen Lincoln hurry up its iron flesh, its 
 steel sinews, and put life into it in the shape 
 of steam. (Cheers.) We must have a navy 
 larger than England, larger than France, 
 never mind the expense. We, the feople, 
 pay the bills. (Hear.) Nations are power- 
 ful in proportion to their navies. (Hear.) 
 Peter the Great was a ship builder, his 
 power was based upon his navy. Genoa was 
 prosperous with a navy, so was Venice, Hol- 
 land, and Portugal. They lost their power 
 when they lost their navies. Who once 
 owned South America, Mexico, Louisiana, 
 Florida, and Gibraltar? — Spain. The 
 Spanish Armada was sunk, and Spain lost 
 her colonies when she lost her navy ! Na- 
 poleon sighed for a navy — France wanted 
 ships, commerce, and colonies and organ- 
 ized armies. England had ships, colonies, 
 commerce and organized navies. Nelson 
 won the Nile's battle and Napoleon lost 
 Egypt. Napoleon lost Trafalgar and Wel- 
 lington gained Waterloo. The Third Na- 
 poleon saw his uncle's mistake, and slowly 
 and surely has built a monster navy. 
 
 America must he the First Naval Power 
 in the World. England has become inso- 
 lent, arrogant, and cowardly insulting 
 through her navy. (No.) She has con- 
 trolled the world's commerce. How? By 
 her navy. England has no army of import- 
 ance, but has domineered over all nations 
 with her navy. A few months ago she sent 
 her squadrons to destroy our empire. 
 
 (Shame.) Americans luill never forget it. 
 (Hear.) England's bulwark was her navy, 
 her tower her men of war. Cromv.'eirs 
 Navigation Laws have always been cherished 
 by England's monarchs — the Stuarts, the 
 Tudors, the Georges, and the Tictorias. 
 (Cheers.) If History is Philosophy teaching 
 by example, Americans are philosophers. 
 The irrepressible conflict is close at hand — 
 the battle prize is the dominion of the uni- 
 versal ocean. Our Drakes, Duncans, Jer- 
 vises, CoUingwoods and Nelsons are all still 
 alive. Yours are dead. Monuments never 
 fight. Live men compose our navy. Our 
 Duponts, and Porters, and AVordens, and 
 Farraguttare worthy successors of our De- 
 caturs, Paul Jones, Bainbridges, Lawrences, 
 Perrys and Porters. (Cheers.) Hurrah for 
 the American navy. A change is on the 
 world — America has toadied England long 
 enough — our people, thank God, at last are 
 emancipated. England can no longer irri- 
 tate us. Hail to our gallant navy ! Our 
 people must pass a law compelling every 
 merchant ship to take from five to ten ap- 
 prentices. Let them wear the navy buttons, 
 the captain must be i-esponsible and the 
 shipowner must pay the bills. We want a 
 militia of the seas. (Cheers.) Our sailors 
 must be on the ocean what our volunteers 
 are on the land. We must have a navy. 
 Our improvised gunboats have earned, in 
 co-operation with the army of the Constitu- 
 tion, immortal fame. Who won laurels at 
 Fort Henry? — the Gunboats. Who at 
 Fort Donelson? — the Gunboats. Who cap- 
 tured the islands on the Great River ? — our 
 Gunboats ? Who gave victory to our arms 
 at Pittsburg Landing ? — our gallant Gun- 
 boats. (Cheers.) Who captured 31acon, 
 Roanoke, Pulaski?- — our Gunboats, And 
 who, pray, took New Orleans? — I answer, 
 our unconquerable Gunboats. Vicksburg 
 fell, Natchez capitulated, and Memphis sur- 
 rendered to our navy ! Our sailors are as 
 brave as our soldiers are bold. Our gun- 
 boats are manned by regiments of Casibian- 
 cas ! Long ere this our gunboats have bat- 
 tered down treason in Mobile, Savannah, and 
 Charleston. (Cheers.) America is eman- 
 cipated. England is not our mother, 
 America has passed out of leading strings. 
 Cut the connecting link of the gunboat 
 canal through from the Atlantic to the 
 Mississippi. Make a passage along the 
 Lakes, and do it at once. The people pay 
 the hills. Cut another canal to connect the 
 rivers with New Orleans via Carolina, and 
 
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 let our gunboats have a race course inside 
 our empire. (Cheers.) The people of 
 America never call each other the mob. 
 (Cheers.) It is not aUoived. Some day 
 the people here will not permit the London 
 Times to call them the mob. (Shame, and 
 hear.) We want two hundred more Galenas, 
 Naugatucks, Ironsides, and Monitors. We 
 have now fifty, and must now have one hun- 
 dred thousand sailors to compose onr militt'a 
 of the seas. Englishmen you have lost a 
 great opportunity. We proffered friendship. 
 You declined. You thought we were on 
 our deatlibed, and you crept into our room 
 in the dark ; but the dagger was withheld — 
 when the rebels were given up. lago was a 
 contemptible character. We are well now 
 — we look you in the face — and you are 
 ashamed. Your abolition sentiments were 
 too base to be called by the more Christian 
 name of hypocrisy. You preached abolition 
 because you thought that was the bone of 
 contention that would ruin our Republic. 
 (Oh, and hisses.) We have discovered how 
 dishonest has been your action. You have 
 played a deep game, but we have caught 
 you packing the cards. (Oh,) You knew 
 the dice were loaded. You put the poison 
 into the cup, and administered with your 
 own hands the dose. (No.) We saw you 
 in the glass when your back was turned. 
 (Applause.) But our constitution was more 
 than equal to the shock. 
 
 America must have a navy. We have 
 scores of admirals, and fisherman are grand 
 material for sailors. (Hear.) Already our 
 aravy, our little six months' improvised navy, 
 has accomplished wonders. The cotton 
 /lords will now admit that our blockade has 
 •been effectual. The British ministers do not 
 ■call it now a paper blockade. Ask the 
 Joint-stock Buccaneering firm of Prieleau, 
 Treason and England, if the blockade was 
 effectuaL Our action has been short, sharp, 
 
 and surprising. Our gallant navy has lately 
 taken one hundred and sixty -seven pirates. 
 (Oh, and doubted.) The gentleman doubts it. 
 I have the statement : — 12 steamers, 9 ships, 
 10 propellers, 13 barks, 11 sloops, and 112 
 schooners, (cheers,) valued at some fifteen 
 millions of dollars. The pirate firm must be 
 bankrupt since the capture of the steam- 
 ships Fatras, Circassian, Bermuda, Nassau, 
 Cambria, and Stettin. (Applause.) Those 
 steamers have changed hands. The battle 
 of the seas must be fought over ; we have 
 already had too many words ; we must come 
 to blows. (Hear.) We have toadied you 
 long enough, you must now follow our ex- 
 ample. Earl Kussel says we are fighting for 
 empire. He is right — the empire of the 
 seas ! Once you kept us always in a fever, 
 now we intend to make you sleep restless. 
 Once you were our superiors, now we are 
 yours. (Oh, and cheers.) Once we thought 
 you were great, fair, honest- — now we see 
 through your disguise. Providence smiles 
 lovingly upon its chosen people, but frowns 
 upon other lands. I see no sunshine to-day 
 in this hemisphere. England is short of 
 corn, short of cotton, and there is a famine 
 of liberty in the land. (Hear.) All looks 
 dark and gloomy in Europe, all looks happy 
 and joyous in America. How Russia shakes 
 with the upheaving masses whose liberation 
 has startled the nobles from their slumbers ! 
 How Italy trembles under the cries of sub- 
 dued revolution ! How (5ermany quivers 
 with the underground swell of Democracy ! 
 (Hear.) And France, too, and China, with 
 Tartars waging war with Taepings, and 
 Turks measuring arms with Montenegrins, 
 while America cheers lustily for liberty, self- 
 confident that she possesses the largest head 
 and the best quality of brain in the Phre- 
 nology of nations. (Loud cheers and ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON ENGLAND'S NEUTRALITY! 
 AND GENERAL BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. 
 
 [From the London American of June 18, 1862.] 
 
 ENGLISH NEUTRALITY. 
 
 Mr. Train— Neutrality signifies weakness. 
 All small minds hesitate. Lack of decision 
 shows lack of power. Generals who win 
 battles are not neutral men. Neutrality on 
 the American rebellion is taking sides in 
 disguise. The man who is sott on the 
 American question is soft on all questions. 
 
 I despise soft Americans as well as soft 
 Englishmen. It is impossible for an honest 
 man to be neutral. (Cheers.) He who is 
 not for me is against me. The Indian Thug 
 is remarkable for his neutrality until his 
 garotte is round your neck. The Camanche 
 chief is a neutral to your face, while his 
 
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 scalping' knife sleeps in his belt. Dnniol- 
 lard, the French murderer, was a neutral 
 before he destroyed his victims. There is 
 no halfway between a patriot and a traitor. 
 The woman who permits the least familia- 
 rity has already lost the foundation of her 
 virtue. (Loud applause.) — Let her remain 
 neutral in the presence of the libertine and 
 she is lost. The young man counting his 
 employer's money must not be a neutral — if 
 he does not wish to end his life upon the 
 gallows. The coat I have made fits exactly 
 the neutral bankers and leading Americans 
 abroad — who are waiting for victories be- 
 fore hoisting Secession or Union Flags. 
 (Shame.) The garment is not out of place 
 on England's back. Neutrality in England 
 is treachery. (Oh.) Americans say, Eng- 
 land, with all thy faults, we love thee still ! 
 . — Englishmen say, America, with all thy 
 virtues, we continue to hate thee. (No, and 
 bear, hear.) Strong men choose sides — 
 
 weak men are always neutral ; once an idir.t 
 — always an idiot. (Laughter.) The world 
 is packed with fools. (Oh, and laughter.) 
 Neutrality is imbecility. No man can serve 
 two masters. He must either love the one 
 and hate the other, or hate the one and love 
 the other. Our Saviour was not a neutral. 
 England for three generations has been un- 
 just to America, lie that is unjust in little 
 is unjust in much. The maxim comes from 
 an ancient and respectable authority. (Hear, 
 hear.) Unjust in small matters for half a 
 century, England was just ripe for being 
 unjust in great matters during our revolu- 
 tion. Neutrality is disguise — assassins are 
 neutral before they use the poignard. The 
 tiger in the jungle is a neutral before he- 
 plunges on his victim. When you wish to 
 destroy an enemy, you first conceal your 
 plan. Error and injustice are neutral before 
 becoming arrogant and impudent. (Hear.) 
 
 GENERAL BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. 
 
 A love of fault-finding is no proof of wis- 
 dom. Your criticisms on General Butler's 
 proclamation are as just as your pretended 
 love for America is honest. Critics, says 
 Wycherley, are like thieves who, condemned 
 to execution, choose the business of execu- 
 tioners rather than be hung. (Oh I and 
 hear.) Your distortion of the New Orleans 
 proclamation is worthy of the people that 
 were abolitionists when they thought, by 
 preaching that doctrine, they could break 
 up our Republic — and pro-slavery advocates 
 when they believed that we should preserve 
 the Union. (No.) The proclamation you 
 have dishonestly translated. Do you mean 
 to say that you believe General Butler 
 issued the order for immoral purposes? (No, 
 and Yes.) Do you really understand its 
 wording to signify that unbridled licence was 
 given to the Federal army ? The very idea 
 is contrary to the instincts of our nature — 
 (hear) — insulting to the American people, 
 and outraging the senses of our race. (Ap- 
 plause.) You give the order a meaning 
 never intended. It was unfortunately 
 worded, but the spirit of the order was a 
 proper one. (Oh.) Ladies hold the remedy. 
 Let them remain in doors — let them behave 
 like women, not like human tigresses. The 
 terrible slaughter of our soldiers will some 
 day lay heavy upon their consciences. 
 Women who go out of their way to insult 
 Federal oflScers who have treated them 
 with every courtesy, by pouring hot water 
 out of their windows when they pass, or 
 throwing vitriol in their face on the pave — 
 (oh !) — or so far unsexing themselves as to 
 strike an officer, ought not to object, when 
 martial law is ordered, to proclamations that 
 enforce civility where rudeness was so 
 
 marked. The municipal law permits no dis- 
 order in the street. Women breaking it are 
 sent to the Calaboose. That is the terrible 
 order, nothing more — nothing less — that 
 arouses England and provokes this debate. 
 Lord Palmerston takes advantage of it to 
 have another fling at the Americans, and 
 Gregory and Walsh are mad with delight. 
 Lord Carnarvon also brings out Earl Rus- 
 sell, and all the newspapers clap their hands 
 in joy — and you, gentlemen, echo the senti- 
 ment of the land. Do you remember a pic- 
 ture in the Illustrated News during the 
 Sepoy revolution ? I do — and three features 
 were prominent — cannon — English oflncers, 
 and Sepoy messengers bearing a flag of 
 truce. (Hear.) The picture has another 
 side — the ofiBcers consult — the Sepoys are 
 bound on to the muzzle of the guns — and, 
 with their flag of truce tied around, they 
 were blown towardsj,the camp from whence 
 they came. (Horrible — shame.) Did Mr. 
 Seward get up in his place in the Senate 
 Chamber, and protest against it in the name 
 of humanity? The atrocities of your soldiers 
 in India were only equalled in their brutality 
 by Nena Sahib himself. (Oh.) When a 
 British officer enters a Sepoy village and 
 gives the order to his regiment to ravish the 
 Sepoy women, and then level their houses 
 to the earth, humanity shudders for civiliza- 
 tion. Compared with such fiends, General 
 Butler is a scholar, a gentleman and a 
 Christian. How forgetful of the rights of 
 civilization, for our statesmen to remain 
 silent without recording their indignation at 
 such brutal acts ! (Dissent.) England must 
 feel proud of those Christian officers, and 
 no wonder she is indignant at Butler. 
 (Hear.) Have you forgotten the Siege of 
 
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 Limerick? Is it true that Englishmen rav- 
 ished the women before butchering the gar- 
 rison and burning the town ? Do you 
 remember the cold-blooded slaughter of the 
 Macdonalds of (jlencoe, under the same 
 dynasty ? Yerily, what a man was Lord 
 Byron : — 
 
 You are the best of cTitthroats! Do not start? 
 The jihrHfe is Shakspenre's, and not misapplied: 
 War's a brwin Ppaiterins' — windpipc-?litling art, 
 Unless lier cause by right be sanctified. 
 Jf you have acted once a generous part, 
 The world, and not the wurld's masters, will decide; 
 And I shall be delightf d to learn who. 
 Save you and yours, have gained by Waterloo ? 
 
 (Loud cheers ) Davoust in Hamburg — 
 Junot in Lisbon — MalakofF in the Algerian 
 •caves — were guilty of acts — and Wellington 
 at St. Sebastian — worthy of Russia in Po- 
 land or Haynau in Austria. (Oh ! and 
 applause.) 13utler's offence is words — Eng- 
 land's offence was acts. Was Butler's 
 motive good or bad ? It is the motive, not 
 the act, that blackens the crime. (Hear, 
 and cheers.) England is not the land to 
 give America examples as to the treatment 
 of women. (Applause.) America is a 
 country where its youth are taught not to 
 insult an old man or a woman, and a woman 
 can go through the entire country without 
 being insulted. America is the land where 
 education and religion gives tone to the 
 morals of our people. How careful J^ngland 
 is to find fault with our Federal army. 
 (Hear.) Have you seen any questions on the 
 Parliamentary paper asking if the reports 
 are true regarding atrocities of the Con- 
 federate army ? Has the Federal power no 
 
 friend at Court to ask these questions of 
 Lord Palmerston ? Is it true that savages, 
 led on by Confederates, scalped our wounded 
 ofiBcers at Pea Ridge ? (Hear.) Is it true 
 that Governor Sprague found some of hia 
 aides, who were killed at Bull Run, buried 
 with their faces downward? Is it true that 
 Federal wounded on the ground at the bat- 
 tle of Winchester were bayoneted by Con- 
 federate soldiers ? (Hear.) Is it true ihdut 
 the ladies of a certain town in Virginia in- 
 vited one hundred Federals to their houses 
 to tea, and their brothers, who were in am- 
 bush, rushed in and put all to the sword ? 
 Surely America ought to have one friend 
 bold enough in Parliament, when Gregory 
 and the Premier are hurling their invectives 
 against America, to inquire if it is true that 
 the skull of a Federal officer is a bon-bon 
 for a rebel lady! — (oh) — that Madame 
 Beauregard, who was treated with so much 
 politeness by General Butler, wears a cameo 
 cut from the bone of a Federal colonel ! — 
 that rebel ladies wear rings and broochea 
 made out of the skulls of our brave officers ! 
 — that the proper thing for the rebel gentle- 
 men at Richmond is to have a spittoon 
 made out of a human head ! (Oh, and hear.) 
 In conclusion, let me ask if England controls 
 America's action ? If England pays our 
 Federal officers ? If England must first be 
 consulted before we declare martial law ? 
 (Cheers.) I was not aware that Abraham 
 Lincoln was elected President of the power- 
 ful American Republic by the bankrupt 
 monarchies of Europe. (Cheers and ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S COMPLETE CASTIGATION OF 
 ''BULL RUN RUSSELL." 
 
 THE AMERICAN CHAMPION AND THE ENGLISH LIBELEE. 
 
 MR. TRAIN CUTTING UP THE " TIMES " CORRESPONDENT 
 INCH BY INCH. ^ 
 
 \From the London American of April 30, 1862.] 
 
 The notorious correspondent of the Lon- 
 don Times is receiving, as might be ex- 
 pected, the sympathy of all good Secession- 
 ists in England. Secession writers, taking 
 their cue from the Secession article on his 
 expulsion from the Federal Army, in the 
 Thunderer, mourn over his exit, and Seces- 
 sion speakers are so strong in the London 
 discussion halls, it is difficult to find any one 
 to take up the weapons against him. Mr. 
 Train, however, who is generally present at 
 
 these debates of the people, vigorously sup- 
 ports the Union side of all questions on 
 American affairs, and is always ready to 
 reply to any speaker or any number of 
 speakers, with facts, figures and arguments, 
 in patriotic defense of his country and her 
 institutions. 
 
 The attack of Russell on onr President 
 and Secretary of War. made in the Times 
 on his return to England, is one of the 
 weakest of his many slanders against onr 
 
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 people, and it will be seen by the following 
 speech, recently delivered at one of the 
 Loudon discussion halls, that Mr. Train has 
 most effectually used the scalping-knife in 
 showing up this miserable reviler of our 
 institutions. The question under discussion 
 was, " Was President Lincoln justified 
 in refusing permission to the Times' cor- 
 respondent to embark tuith the Federal 
 Army .?" After a severe attack upon the 
 President and the Administration, the au- 
 dience seemed to look upon Mr. Train for a 
 reply in defence of the Federal policy, and 
 most effectually he did his duty in acting as 
 the European nioutlipiece of the American 
 people. Two or three other speakers being 
 on their feet, Mr. Train begged that they 
 might be heard first, but the audience 
 insisted upon his occupying the floor. From 
 the London American we take the follow- 
 ing report of Mr. Train's address : 
 
 Mr. Train. — Mr. Chairman and gentle- 
 men : No debate can show vigor unless 
 there are two sides. (Hear.) To-night, 
 thus far, there has been but one. Russell is 
 the pet of the English people, and the 
 rebuke he has received at Washington has 
 offended you ; hence comments have been 
 made to-night, too sweeping in their cen- 
 sure, too severe in their application, for me 
 to let them pass unnoticed. (Hear, hear.) 
 It is a delicate thing for a foreigner to 
 attack the household gods of any nation ; 
 but those who know me are aware that 1 
 generally express my thoughts regardless of 
 the consequences to myself. I shall look at 
 this question entirely through my own eyes, 
 hear it through my own ears, scent it with 
 my own nasal organ — (laughter) — taste it 
 ■with my own tongue, and feel it with my 
 own hands. (Applause.) A corporation, 
 it is said, '' has no soul to save, or no bottom 
 to kick." (Loud laughter.) I do not ex- 
 pect to find the former in the Times' corres- 
 pondent, but I will leave it to you to say, 
 when I have concluded, whether I have not 
 discovered some secession spot as a resting 
 place for the f(%t of a Union man. (Oh ! 
 laughter and applause.) The Times, for 
 half a century, as the paid organ of the 
 governing classes — (Oh !) — has consistently 
 abused and misrepresented everything 
 American. (Hear, hear.) Its policy hjs 
 been to search the criminal calendar for the 
 most obscene and revolting cases of crime, 
 in order to portray them iu its columns as 
 the leading characteristics of the American 
 people. (That's so.) Out of a hundred 
 leaders in the American papers, on com- 
 merce, education, or politics, there might 
 have been one article on crime ; that article 
 was at once seized upon by the Times to 
 prove to Europe from our own mouths how 
 demoralized we had become. Vice was 
 always inserted in leaded type : Virtue was 
 
 not a characteristic of Republics. By 
 constant repetitions of these slanders, every 
 thing that was vile in the history of man 
 was stamped upon the American. (Oh ! and 
 hear, hear.) Americans are generous as 
 well as just, and you can imagine how mor- 
 tified they must have been, after the warm- 
 hearted shake of the hand they gave your 
 future King, to see the Times preach day 
 after day against the Union and the law. 
 (Hear, hear.) At the commencement of the 
 war Mr. Russell was sent out to describe 
 the vicissitudes of the strife. We knew him, 
 as we know all your writers, and are first 
 to discover their talents. Thackeray was 
 known in every village, and returned to 
 England with money in his pocket to be 
 told when he was defeated at Cambridge 
 that there were only three men on the 
 electoral list who had ever heard of him. 
 (Laughter.) Russell reigned supreme as 
 the king of the correspondents, and his 
 graphic descriptions of Crimean and Indian 
 warfare were familiar to us all. So many 
 errors have been committed to-night by the 
 speakers who have preceded me, you had 
 better let me give a hasty glance at his 
 career ; first stating three distinct negatives. 
 Russell is an Irishman, not an Englishman. 
 (Hear, hear.) Russell was not the Times' 
 correspondent in Italy, and you ought to 
 know as well as I, that it was poor Bowlby 
 and not Russell who succeeded Cook in 
 China. (Hear, hear.) Nobody seems to 
 know whether Russell was born in 181G, or 
 1821 ; but, graduating at Trinity, he com- 
 menced writing for the Times in 1843. 
 Living at a Sensation time, when O'Counell 
 was the Sensation leader, Russell became 
 the Sensation letter-writer, and, with the 
 exception of the short period from 1845 to 
 1847, when he was on the Chronicle, he has 
 been chief of the Times' staff. In 1850 he 
 became a barrister, the literary dodge often 
 practised to open the door to good society. 
 (Oh!) The gentleman says oh; but it is 
 notorious that he never held a brief, wore a 
 wig, or gave a legal opinion. (Hear, hear.) 
 He did what Carter Hall and Make-Peace 
 Thackeray did before him — paid tiie hundred 
 pound barrister-license, to obtain the locus 
 standi oi t\iQ West End. In 1854 and 1855 
 he was the tyrant of the army at the Crimea, 
 and, so unfairly did he use the means at his 
 command, there are many officers now iu the 
 British army who treat him with the scorn 
 which he deserves. (Cries of no.) His 
 attack upon the Commissary Department 
 did more to prolong the contest than is gen- 
 erally known. I was told, when at St. 
 Petersburg after the war, that the Emperor 
 received telegraphic dispatches from London 
 as to the wretched conditions of the allied 
 forces, as described by " our own corres- 
 pondent," which made the Russians more 
 vindictive and more determined, more obsti- 
 
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 nate. and stimulated them to make greater 
 exertions to pour down troops to the Crimea. 
 (Hear, hear, and True.) England may 
 thank Russell for the additions to many a 
 Crimean graveyard, and many a noble home 
 in England has been made sad by this reck- 
 less trader in human reputation, who yester- 
 day came sniveling like a whipped schoolboy 
 before the British people, in a three-column 
 attack upon the American Government, 
 simply because that Government has en- 
 forced its orders, not against Mr. Russell 
 only, but against all the correspondents of 
 the world, American as well as European. 
 (Loud cheers.) France, he forgets to men- 
 tion, was the dear ally of England in the 
 Russian war, yet he was refused permission 
 to enter the French camps, although the 
 allied generals were acting in concert. 
 (Applause.) The Emperor sent a special 
 order prohibiting his entrance inside the 
 ranks. It was enough to see the Times 
 play into the hands of Russia, by slandering 
 the English army, without Iroelling the 
 French as well. President Lincoln has 
 followed the action of some other distin- 
 guished names. Did not Sir Charles Napier 
 refuse to take a correspondent with him to 
 the Baltic ? (Yes.) Did not the Duke of 
 Wellington prohibit correspondents follow- 
 ing the army in the Peninsula? (Hear, and 
 "i'es.) Did he not say that correspondents 
 ought all to be hanged who would comment 
 upon a general's military plans ? Do you 
 think that the British Government would 
 allow any newspaper correspondent, in the 
 employ of any other Government, to criticise 
 any of the movements of the army on the 
 field of battle? (No.) How strange that 
 this same Russell should ask a favor of the 
 President whom, a short time ago, he 
 accused of manslaughter in hanging the 
 slave-trader Gordon. But, to continue — in 
 18.t6 he was sent to Moscow to paint the 
 picture of Alexander's coronation, and 1 
 will do him the justice to say that he painted 
 it well. (Cheers.) That year his college 
 dubbed him LL.I). The next year he was 
 in India, and, in 1858, established that 
 lamentable failure, the Army and Navy 
 Gazette. And now we come more directly 
 to the question in debate, Was the President 
 justified in his expulsion? (Hear, hear.) 
 To answer it, let me ask, are the American 
 people justified in passing any laws that 
 they may think proper, without consulting 
 the London Times? (Hear, hear, and 
 laughter.) Having passed an order cutting 
 ofif all our own correspondents, I cannot 
 understand upon what ground Mr. Russell 
 should be an exception — (hear, hear, and a 
 voice, " You allow the American corres- 
 pondents to be there.") I tell you it is not 
 true, unless you mean that every officer is a 
 correspondent, and every soldier a letter- 
 writer, proving that education ia America 
 
 is on the flood-tide of civilization. (Cheers.) 
 In order to show you the contemptible part 
 this wolf in sheep's clothing has played 
 (dissent) let me trace his vulpecular course 
 since he landed. Received at New York 
 with open arms, introduced at our clubs, and 
 in our families, he writes his first letter, and 
 prints his first libel, declaring that there 
 was no Union feeling, no Union sentiment, 
 no Union army, in the North ; predicting 
 the entire collapse of our Republic. He 
 went to Washington, where doors opened 
 wide again to give him welcome, and again 
 he replied with another sneer against the 
 Federal resources. He passed on to Char- 
 leston, and there it was that he found 
 the gentleman, the chivalrous ofBcer, the 
 anointed Carolinian ; and abolition Russell 
 fell violently in luve with Negro Slavery, 
 and Southern brandy. (Oh ! and hear, hear.) 
 From this point he wrote that republicanism 
 was dead in the South — the Confederacy 
 wanted a king — and the Prince of Wales 
 was suggested. (Hear, hear.) That noble 
 Prince, who a few months before had been 
 insulted in Richmond, the only place where 
 he was not well received in the Western 
 world ! Acting on these letters and his 
 confederate conspirator, Mr. Bunch, the 
 Secession British consul at Charleston, Lord 
 John Russell made his first false step in 
 acknowledging the rebels as belligerants, 
 and it is not the fault of these British spies 
 that the Foreign Secretary did not acknowl- 
 edge the Confederacy. (Hear.) Under the 
 sacred cover of diplomatic letters, it is fair 
 to presume that at this time he made his 
 plans to furnish through the British despatch 
 bags to the rebel generals the entire plans 
 of the Northern army; (Oh! and where's 
 your proof?) as well as to keep Yancey and 
 the British Government thoroughly posted, 
 through the despatches of Lord Lyons to 
 the Foreign Office ; acting the double part 
 of a British informer and a rebel spy. (Dis- 
 sent, and proof, proof.) You ask for proof 
 —I refer you to the diplomatic correspond- 
 ence, in the month of October, between Mr. , 
 Seward, Mr. Adams, and^Lord Lyons — 
 demanding the recall of Mr, Bunch, for 
 sending rebel papers from the Southern 
 leaders to their Commissioners here, through 
 Lord Lyons' despatch bag and the Foreign 
 Office. Mr. Seward having tripped up the 
 British Government in this equivocal piece 
 of diplomacy — (oh ! and hear, hear) — Lord 
 John Russell afterwards sent his special 
 messenger by every steamer to Washington, 
 and it is a singular fact that Yancey was 
 the first to obtain every mfoi-mation on 
 both sides of the line, the moment this 
 arrangement was made; — (hear, hear) — 
 but, to go on, Russell was next at Fort 
 Pickens, which he falsely predicted would 
 soon be occupied by General Bragg ; but 
 recent events have proved that although 
 
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 General Bragg may be a good dog, General 
 Holdfast is a better. (Laughter and cheers.) 
 At New Orleans he commenced to be dis- 
 gusted with the South, and, believing that 
 he could reach the North before his letters 
 returned, he began abusing those who had 
 entertained him, and ridiculed the riff-raff 
 that composed the Southern army. His 
 picture, however, of the poverty of the Eng- 
 lish wives and daughters, whose husbands 
 and fathers had been impressed into the 
 Confederate army, together with the several 
 British subjects who were imprisoned at 
 New Orleans, created no such horror in 
 England as the arrest of one British subject 
 would have done in the North — (hear, hear) 
 — but let me hurry on. At Cairo he thanks 
 his God that he had left the land of ruffians 
 and gamblers, and was again under the Stars 
 and Stripes. (Hear, hear.) His letters 
 having come baclv to America he accused 
 the Southern post office of having tampered 
 with his correspondence, forgetting that his 
 employers in Frinting-House Square are 
 ever ready to cut a truth out of any letter, 
 and insert a lie, when it answers their pur- 
 pose. (Oh, shame.) Not entirely corrupt, 
 still respecting the lessons of the Pilgrims, 
 we still observe one of the good old Puritan 
 customs of keeping the Sabbath holy. 
 What must, then, be the disgust of the good 
 people of Illinois to find this model Church- 
 man out in the prairie with his dogs and 
 gun, disturbing the peaceful services in the 
 little village church on its border with the 
 report of fire-arms. (Shame.) An ever- 
 lasting disgrace upon the English people, as 
 well as an insult to our own. (Hear, hear.) 
 He was summoned to the police court, and 
 out of respect to the church-going nation he 
 represented, and as well as disgusted with 
 his ignorance of our religious customs, he 
 was discharged. (Hear, hear.) He returned 
 to Washington in time to describe — as an 
 eye-witness — the battle from which he ac- 
 knowledges that he was six miles distant. 
 (Laughter.) It has come to pass that he 
 arrived in Washington some hours in ad- 
 vance of the disorganized volunteers whom 
 he ridicules, and carved his facts out of his 
 imagination. He is a word-painter, and can 
 paint a truth as well as a lie ; but his taste 
 runs in the latter vein. (Oh !) Conse- 
 quently, he sinks the truth whenever he can, 
 so" that he may the more effectually float the 
 lie with which he caters to the willing appe- 
 tite of English Secession. (Where's your 
 proof?) Mark some of his prophecies, and 
 the proof shall be ample. Did he not say 
 that Burnside's expedition would be a 
 failure? (Hear, hear, and yes.) You know 
 that it was a perfect success. (Applause.) 
 Did he not say that we had no power of 
 raising an army out of our volunteers? 
 You know how false has been the assertion. 
 (Hear, hear.) Did he not say that we had 
 
 no rifles, no artillery, no officers, no gen- 
 erals ? You know, gentlemen, that never 
 before was an army so thoroughly equipped. 
 (Hear, hear.) Did he not say that it was 
 impossible to save the Border States? and 
 yet Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and 
 Maryland are all back again, while Virginia 
 and North Carolina are knocking at the 
 Union door. Did he not say that the rebel 
 army would make a terrible fight at Man- 
 assas? And yet, how rapidly they fled at 
 the advance of McClellau ! (Hear, hear.) 
 Do you want more proof, gentlemen, of this 
 miserable slanderer's libels ? Take Island 
 No. 10. Did he not say that there would 
 be no rebel resistance there? And yet, the 
 cannon have been roaring there for weeks 
 in front, while we cut a twelve-mile canal up 
 to their back door, and bagged their entire 
 army of six thousand men. Did he not say 
 that the American people would not take up 
 the first loan, and the second, and the third ? 
 (Hear, hear.) Did he not say that our 
 people were bankrupt, our Government 
 insolvent, our Treasury empty ? Did he 
 not say that Americans would not allow 
 themselves to be taxed ? And yet, gentle- 
 men, time has shown that he is not only a 
 false prophet, but a systematic liar. (Dis- 
 sent.) Gentlemen, you must excuse my bad 
 French — (loud laughter) — while I continue 
 my dissection of this libellous charletan ! — 
 the paid agent to misrepresent everything 
 American. (A gentleman arose to say that 
 Mr. Train's language was unparliamentary, 
 and while the debate was quite free, the 
 epithets used and bitterness displayed by 
 Mr. Train were quite uncalled for.) Mr. 
 Train continued, much excited : You know, 
 gentlemen, that I usually express my own 
 thoughts — not yours. My words are per- 
 cussion caps, not flint locks; and I told you 
 on the start that I should bring revolvers to 
 bear against Mr. Russell and the speakers 
 who defend him, if they put any more fire- 
 crackers in my breeches. (Loud laughter, 
 and hear, hear.) To continue: as Mr. 
 Russell's letters returned to America, our 
 independent press soon discovered, instead 
 of an able-bodied, healthy argument, noth- 
 ing but false hair, false teeth, dyed whiskers, 
 a glass eye, and a wooden leg ; in other 
 words, a stereotyped sham instead of a fine 
 specimen of English honesty. It will be 
 remembered that, some time ago, corres- 
 pondents were prohibited from following the 
 army; this was followed up by the Govern- 
 ment seizure of the telegraph offices. Here 
 was discovered a fine nest of traitors, and who 
 do you suppose was the chief robber in the 
 band? Why, William Howard Russell, the 
 reliable correspondent of the Loudon Times! 
 (Hear, hear, and Oh !) The mystery was at 
 last solved, the secret came out, and the 
 hostility of the 2Vmes— the Secession spirit 
 of the Government — was explained ; and the 
 
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 gigantic plot discovered, which already has 
 filled many a Western graveyard, and has 
 ruined, is ruining, and will continue to ruin, 
 thousands in England ! The time has 
 arrived for the world to understand that 
 the whole action of the Times, through its 
 leaders and its correspondents, has been to 
 weigh golden sovereigns in the scale against 
 human life and human misery. Somebody 
 has made millions — rumor points to Roths- 
 child and some distinguished names in 
 political life, as the accomplices of the 
 Times, in this nefarious plot to involve the 
 English and Americans in an inhuman war, 
 that they might make a few more hundred 
 thousands in the Stock Exchange. (Shame, 
 and a voice, "You have no right to make 
 such a statement without proof." Cries of 
 order.) Unfortunately, I have too much 
 proof. Among the despatches seized by 
 the Government, this one was discovered : 
 
 " Washington, Dec. 27th, half-past two, 
 P. M.— From AV. H. Russell to Samuel 
 Ward, New York Hotel. Act on this tele- 
 gram as though you heard good news for 
 you and me." (Hear, hear.) 
 
 This, you remember, was the crisis of the 
 Trent affair. Russell had just obtained the 
 important scent from Lord Lyons, that the 
 rebel commissioners would be given up, and 
 sent his orders to purchase, right and left, 
 all kind of stocks in the New York market, 
 (shame,) and to make the speculation sure, 
 he wrote a letter to the Times that night, to 
 go by the next day's steamer, saying that he 
 knew Mason and Slidell not only would not 
 be given up, (shame,) but that there was 
 every prospect of immediate war. (Shame.) 
 Now, I maintain that such acts are sufficient 
 to condemn him at the tribunal of English 
 public opinion, and to fasten upon the Times 
 the entire responsibility of the terrible dis- 
 tress that now exists in the manufacturing 
 districts, (hear, hear,) and now agitates the 
 mind of the London laborer and the London 
 poor. It is well known that important dis- 
 patches were suppressed by your govern- 
 ment for three weeks, and that important 
 operations took place upon the stock ex- 
 change through Rothschilds' broker. Read 
 the weak reply of the Morning Post to the 
 Morning Star. It is also rumored that 
 Mr. Peabody made, during these memorable 
 three weeks, by purchasing American secu- 
 rities, twice as much as he has recently paid 
 for a leader in the Times. Mr. Peabody 
 has, however, done one act, I understand, 
 for which I forgive him in part, for being so 
 bad a Union man and so good a Secession- 
 ist. Some years ago, he was black-balled 
 at the Reform Club ; as it is notorious in 
 this country that you can get any thing by 
 paying for it, no one was surprised to hear, 
 since his munificent donation, that the Re- 
 form Club had made him aa honorary mem- 
 
 ber. It is also stated that, in this case, Mr. 
 Peabody has proved himself too much of an 
 American to accept it. (Hear.) In con- 
 clusion, I may mention the meanest and the 
 last act of Mr. Russell's contemptible course 
 in America. 
 
 Well knowing the order of the Depart- 
 ment prohibiting all correspondents from 
 following the army, he sneaked on board the 
 Government transport under the quasi pro- 
 tection of his American friend. General 
 McClellan; and then it was that the Secre- 
 tary was obliged to re-issue the order, never 
 for a moment supposing that any English gen- 
 tleman would have done so mean a thing. The 
 impudence of the man out-Russells Russell. 
 'JMiink of him writing to the Secretary of 
 War to know if he (the Secretary) really 
 meant to act on the order that he (the Sec- 
 retary) issued ! following it up with an auda- 
 city almost beyond belief, by writing to the 
 President to know if he permitted his Sec- 
 retary of War to take any such action ! To 
 show you the impertinence of the thing, let 
 me suppose a case. Ireland has seceded; I 
 arrive in London as the correspondent of the 
 New York Herald; having met Lord Clyde 
 in the Crimea, I obtained permission to ac- 
 company him to Ireland, having first written 
 my letters to the Herald, ridiculing the Eng- 
 lish army, English generals, and English 
 ministers, (hear, hear,) proving beyond a 
 doubt how impossible it was for England to 
 recover Ireland. At this moment, these let- 
 ters having returned to England, the Secre- 
 tary of War calls Lord Clyde's attention to 
 an order prohibiting correspondents from 
 joining the army. Imagine my indignantly 
 waiting upon Lord Palmerston to know if 
 he meant to act on the army oi'der ; and 
 then, if you can, imagine my having the 
 audacity to have penetrated the gloom of 
 Osborne, to see if some higher power could 
 not make the Premier rescind his instruc- 
 tions, (Hear, hear.) I think, gentlemen, 
 I have succeeded in defending the Adminis^ 
 tration and Mr. Stanton. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 Russell went to America an Abolitionist ; 
 he came back, as most Englishmen do, a 
 pro-slavery man. He went to America as a 
 gentleman ; he returned, after outraging all 
 the rules of good society, to chuckle with his 
 employers over the fortunes that had been 
 made over this stock-jobbing operation. I 
 called him a robber ; is it not robbery to de- 
 prive widows and orphans, by frightening 
 them into selling their stocks at ruinous 
 prices? Is it not villainy to paint a lie, so 
 that it shall resemble truth ? Is it not mur- 
 der so to disseminate these lies, as to pro- 
 long a contest at the cost of thousands of 
 lives ? Is it not damnable to speculate in 
 human flesh, placing pounds in the scale 
 against human life? Is it not criminal, by 
 the repetition of continued falsehoods, to 
 create an animosity hetweeu two people, that, 
 
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 33 
 
 it may be difficult to allay ? He said our 
 mob would not give up Mason and Slidell ; 
 but when you know he said it in order to 
 speculate upon the stock exchange, can you 
 see what reliance could have been placed 
 upon the report of the battles that are now 
 taking place. He went to America bloated 
 with the conceit of his own importance. The 
 American journalists have tapped him, and 
 his sudden collapse is a well-merited rebuke 
 to his employers. Under the impulse of 
 champagne and good brandy, he can paint a 
 battle scene ; but how shallow, aside from 
 this, how feeble his correspondence gener- 
 ally appears. De TocqueviUe visited Ame- 
 rica, and wrote a searching analysis of our 
 institutions. Russell has had ample time to 
 do the same; but, has he done so? No. 
 What has he told the English people of our 
 enormous resources? our gigantic energy? 
 our terrible resolution? What has he said 
 about our progressive agriculture ? our in- 
 
 creasing manufacturing strength ? Where 
 has he described our progress in ship-build- 
 ing, and in railways, and in telegraphs? 
 What has he told the English people of our 
 educational systems, our common schools, 
 and our colleges? What essays has he writ- 
 ten, analyzing our social and political life ? 
 Pray, in what respect has he followed the 
 noble example of De TocqueviUe, in giving 
 Europe a philosophical treatise on republi- 
 can institutions? (Hear, hear.) Gentle- 
 men, I have finished. In sitting down, let 
 me say, that had I been in Washington, I 
 would have allowed him to have followed 
 the array, (cheers,) in order to show how 
 little we cared for his continued slanders. 
 (Oh, hear, hear.) But I think 1 have said 
 enough to make you admit that President 
 Lincoln was quite justified in not entirely 
 consulting William Howard Russell as to 
 the policy of the more or less United States 
 of America. (Loud cheers.) 
 
 GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN'S CASTIGATION OF LORD BROUGHAM. 
 
 TRAIN'S BOLD EXPOSURE OF THE WHOLESALE DEBAU- 
 CHERIES OF THE DERBY DAY. 
 
 \From the London American of June 11, 1862.] 
 
 Our Hamburg correspondent, some time 
 ago, alluded to Mr. Train as the indefati- 
 gable Train. If industry, application, and 
 study indicate the title, Mr. Train has cer- 
 tainly earned it. He lectures nearly every 
 night to large audiences, and all for chari- 
 table institutions. On Thursday evening he 
 lectured on " Travel, the Royal Road to 
 Knowledge," at Camberwell Hall, for the 
 benefit of the Milton Society for the Blind. 
 On Friday evening, at St. Mary's Church, 
 the Rev. Mr. Smith in the chair, for the 
 benefit of the Ragged School — on " Educa- 
 tion and Character in many Nations." Last 
 night, he spoke on " Temperance," to the 
 working-classes, at the Arnold Place Hall, 
 Dockhead. 
 
 Mr. Train is so widely known in England, 
 his name gives him filled rooms, and enables 
 him to add to the funds of many worthy 
 charities. His services are all gratuitous. 
 He never lectures for money, and the high 
 moral tone of his lectures has added to his 
 fame. We have been fearful that a man 
 possessing such wide and general information 
 would sometimes express too strong opinions 
 for these columns, but we have never been 
 more pleased than to see him come out as 
 he did on Saturday night, before a crowded 
 hall, as u moralist and reformer. We advise 
 
 him to stick to this platform — preach tem- 
 perance, virtue, morality — and there will be 
 no position he may not aspire to in his native 
 land. 
 
 Train's scorching rebuke to Lord Broug- 
 ham is well timed, and his terrible exposure 
 of the well-known vices of the Derby, was as 
 true as it was bold. A dozen speakers had 
 eulogized his lordship's speech at the Social 
 Science Convention, and each gave a glow- 
 ing description of their househeld god, the 
 Derby. Mr. Train did not intend to speak, 
 but the audience refused to hear the other 
 debaters who were on their feet. 
 
 Mr. Train : — I never refuse a challenge 
 from any source — (hear) — much more when 
 so personal as this has been to-night. I am 
 not in speaking mood. I came in too late. 
 I require some strong libel upon America to 
 bring me out. (Cheers.) 1 confess myself 
 better in defence than in attack, but as I see 
 a breach in the rampart I will give you a 
 taste of the latter. (Hear and applause.) 
 Mr. Warwick, while speaking on the late 
 Ministerial victory, said her Majesty's Gov- 
 ernment could not exist without an honor- 
 able Opposition. (Hear.) As 1 do not 
 occupy the Ministerial benches, I will play 
 the Disraeli of to-night's debate — (hear) — 
 and assume the character of Iconoclast. 
 
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 England worships many gods, but none more 
 than Lord Brougham — (cheers) — and the 
 Derby-day. (Cheers and laughter.) The 
 fulsome adulation Avhich you have lavished 
 on Lord Brougham to-night is as ill-timed 
 as the worship you bestow upon the Derby- 
 day. (Oh !) Lord Brougham is the most 
 overrated man in Europe! (Cries of No, 
 no, and hear.) Brougham the Great has 
 become Brougham the Little. The people's 
 champion has sunk into the advocate of the 
 aristocracy. (Oh, and derisive cheers.) The 
 once pre-eminent lawyer has changed into 
 the sychophantic Lord. His speeches twenty, 
 thirty, and forty years since showed un- 
 doubted intellectual vigor — (cheers) — but his 
 Social Science platitudes are as barren of 
 ideas as they are replete with vanity. (Oh, 
 and hear.) On three occasions I have 
 waded through the many-columned essays 
 ■which the Times records under the endorse- 
 ment of a fulsome leader — and each time I 
 returned my note-book to my pocket without 
 gaining a point worthy of record. (Oh, and 
 bosh.) Any schoolmaster would give you a 
 better essay in a day's notice — but any 
 schoolmaster could not get the essay into 
 the Times. (Hear.) The fact is, Lord 
 Brougham is a good illustration of wisdom 
 gone to seed. (Laughter.) He wrote him- 
 self out years ago, and talked himself out 
 before I was a schoolboy. His range of 
 thought is limited — his style is stifiF — his 
 mannerisms are painful. (Hear.) He is an 
 intellectual cucumber gone to seed — too ripe 
 for our age — we liked him better when he 
 was green — (laughter) — England worships 
 him for what he has been — his Social Science 
 Congress is the weakness of his dotage — a 
 mutual admiration society, of which he is the 
 mutual admiration — the sun surrounded by 
 innumerable mutual admiration satelites. 
 (Oh, and hear.) The old, You-tickle-me- 
 and-I-will-tickle-you system. (Hear and 
 laughter.) You do these things well in 
 England. Lord Brougham was the associ- 
 ate of Wilberforce, Buxton, Stephen, Clark- 
 son, and Zachary Macaulay. In the great 
 abolition scheme — (loud cheers) — he was in 
 at the birth — and was alive at the death — to 
 graduate as a worshipper of treason — (oh) 
 — a friend of the slave-owner — (no) — a hater 
 of America — (no) — and has been guilty of 
 preaching Secession even in the House of 
 Lords. (Cries of no — and a voice, "That 
 accounts for Mr. Train's attack.") You say 
 no — and yet you cannot have forgotten his 
 speech a few nights since to the peers, when 
 speaking of Mr. Seward's clever treaty on 
 the slave trade, he spoke of it as a treaty 
 made with the Northern Government. (Hear, 
 hear.) What does that convey? why — that 
 you have already acknowledged the Southern 
 Confederacy, and the House of Lords is in 
 communication with the abolition Broug- 
 ham's personal friends, the negro-breeding 
 
 traitors, Mason and Slidell. (Oh, and cheers.) 
 Treaty ivith the Northern Government ! 
 The insult is palpable — and the more so 
 because made in the House of Lords. The 
 Treaty is with the United States of America 
 — (cheers) — as a whole, not as a part. Mr. 
 Adams is our Minister, not Mr. Mason. 
 (Hear. Who doubts that Lord Brougham's 
 intellectual power is on the wane when he 
 makes such a mistake. Two years ago he 
 insulted Mr. Dallas, in the presence of the 
 Prince Consort, by a personal allusion to 
 the black delegate who was present at the 
 Congress. (Hear.) True he called to 
 apologize, but our Minister refused to see 
 the old libeller of our people. Only two 
 years ago he insulted the American people 
 because of slavery — and now insults them 
 again for trying to abolish it. (Hear, and 
 " Shame.") 
 
 It is high time that Lord Brougham wa8 
 laid upon the shelf. His time has past. Lord 
 Brougham, the Social Science toady of the 
 Peers, is no longer the once beloved Henry 
 Brougham of the people. (Cheers, and 
 dissent.) There goes Brougham's carriage, 
 said a noble Lord to Sydney Smith. You 
 see the B. outside. Yes, replied the wit, 
 but there is a wasp within. (Laughter.) 
 Were the dean alive to-day how quick he 
 would observe that the great Reformer had 
 given up Reform — that the leading Liberal 
 was no longer the advocate of liberal ideas 
 — in short that the wasp had lost its sting. 
 (Applause.) Mr. O'Brien asked. What is 
 conservatism? Shall I describe it ? (Yes.) 
 Well — then conservatism is old monarchies 
 — old nations — old customs — old men and 
 Lord Brougham. (Laughter.) Conserva- 
 tism is the great flat stone upon the green 
 sward. Dig it up and what do you see ? — ■ 
 serpents — lizards running to their holes — 
 huge bugs frightened at the daylight — spiders 
 — and cold clammy worms gathering them- 
 selves together— and all kinds of unclean 
 things. (Hear.) Remove the stone — cart 
 it away. Let tne sunshine of progress fall 
 upon the spot — and pass that way the next 
 year, and you will behold a sight to gladden 
 the eyes of man — beautiful grasses have 
 sprung up— and delicate flowers have bloome^^. 
 there, and all is fresh with purity and joy. 
 (Loud cheers.) Conservatism, gentlemen, is 
 the stone. Progress is its removal. (Cheers,) 
 The one represents the loathsome insects 
 that sleep in the darkness — the other the 
 buds and flowers that open their leaves in 
 the sunlight. (Loud cheers.) Yes, Conser- 
 vatism bears the same relation to Toryism 
 that the Puseyite does to the Catholic. The 
 one is a eunich — the other an entire man. 
 (Oh, and laughter.) Having taken down 
 from his niche in the altar of your worship 
 one of your household gods, I now come to 
 the other. All the speeches to-night were 
 eloquent on the Derby day — (cheers) — and 
 
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 •the last debater said it was a sight that 
 would make even Mr. Train delighted with 
 our institutions. Stimulated by your cheers, 
 he went on to say that there I could read 
 the Constitution of England. There, said 
 he, you see this great empire, and concluded 
 by representing the Derby day as a picture 
 of England's Civil Rights and Religious 
 Liberties. (Cheers.) It may seem unkind 
 for me to disturb the scene. You may think 
 it ungenerous for me to destroy the picture ; 
 but I may do good by telling the truth (hear) 
 — although it may meet with strong opposi- 
 tion. If I come out taught as a Reformer, 
 you must not censure me. (Hear.) If I 
 speak as a moralist, you must listen with re- 
 spect, (Hear.) You assent. (Yes.) Then 
 let me tell you that the Derby day is the 
 great charnel house of crime, where the 
 noble and the serf meet on equality the 
 gambler, the courtezan, and the horse thief. 
 (Cries of "Libel" — "Insult to England" — 
 "Bosh," and derisive cheers.) As Hamlet 
 remarks to Laertes, a palpable hit. (Hear.) 
 You seem offended. You forget that I am 
 on the opposition benches. (Hear.) That 
 you repeatedly called upon me before I rose 
 to speak. (Hear, and "That's so.") You 
 like the truth — you do not wish to be Bar- 
 numized — you cannot say that I flatter or 
 fawn upon you for my own benefit — and in 
 this age of toadyism and snobism you ought 
 to appreciate a man who dares to speak the 
 truth — (cheers) — although at the risk of 
 losing all his popularity. (Cheers,) I say 
 that the Derby is a disgrace to ICngland — a 
 blot upon the moral character of the English 
 people — (oh) — and if that day represents 
 civil liberty and religious freedom, I thank 
 God that America has not arrived at that 
 pitch of Christian civilization. (Oh, and 
 interruption, one or two gentlemen leaving 
 the hall, saying they were a lot of snobs to 
 listen to such abuse.) Order being restored, 
 Mr. Train said — 1 see I must prove my case, 
 point by point. (Hear.) I have made a 
 bold assertion, and you call upon me to prove 
 it. (Hear.) I will do it to your entire satis- 
 faction. (Cheers and laughter.) To com- 
 mence. The Derby is the delight of the 
 ruin-seller, the beer-shop, and the gin palace. 
 Intemperance that day holds his Bacchana- 
 lian court — Champagne on the grand stand 
 for the noble— rum and sherry, and gin, in 
 the court below for the Traviatas, and beer 
 and porter and foul mixtures for the great 
 unwashed. (Laughter.) The costermongcr 
 gets drunk for a shilling, and the noble for a 
 pound. Drunkenness is the great feature 
 of the Derby day — Soberness would be 
 sneered at — drink deep, drink long, drink 
 all the time. Ask Fortnum and Mason what 
 they put in the hampers to take away men's 
 senses. Look at the merchant, the broker, 
 and the banker the day after the Derby. 
 Those heavy eye-balls, with red borders, that 
 
 dark ridge under the eyelash, that yellow- 
 tinged complexion and listless gait, all be- 
 token a day of dissipation at the Derby, and 
 a night of debauchery at Cremorne. (Oh, 
 and laughter.) The Derby is the grand 
 annual muster of the Blackleg — the Burg- 
 lar—and the Gambler! (Hear.) There 
 they meet the Lords of England and the 
 Members of the House of Commons. Equality 
 — Fraternity — Liberty. Betting is contagi- 
 ous. The General sets the example to those 
 in the ranks. The Priest bets his bottle of 
 wine, and the ladies bet gloves. Everybody 
 gambles at the Derby. The passions are 
 excited. The mind is disordered. Impure 
 thoughts enter the brain. Vice is a terrible 
 contagion. Free Trade in gambling under- 
 mines morality, and schools industry to be 
 the first victim for the Penitentiary. I do 
 not think that assembling with blacklegs, 
 pimps and scamps, tends to elevate the mind 
 or improve the morals of man. (Hear, and 
 applause.) The Derby is not a day of prayer 
 and fasting ; but the tongue is loose and vul- 
 garity is the order of the hour. Profanity 
 is on the increase, vulgarity gains new disci- 
 ples on the Derby. I was taught that pro- 
 fane swearing was the resort of the vulgar. 
 (Hear, and oh.) The gentleman may dissent 
 — but the man who cannot endorse his opi- 
 nion without the obscene introduction of 
 some loud oath deserves the pity of all good 
 men. (Hear.) It is a vile habit — coarse 
 and plebeian. There are two distinct marks 
 of the true gentleman. He never tells a lie 
 or takes the name of God in vain. (Hear, 
 hear.) 
 
 It chills my heart to hear the blest Supreme 
 Ku lely appealed to upon every trifling theme, 
 Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise, 
 To swear is neither brave, pijite, nor wise, 
 You would not swear upon a bud of denth, 
 Kepent! your Maker nuw may stop your breath. 
 
 {Applause.) 
 The Derby Day ts the Baden Baden of 
 the Rouge et Noir. Gambling is the rule 
 — all classes bet — the servant copies the 
 master — men lose who can little afford it. 
 Gaming is a terrible vice — it ruins the win- 
 ner as well as the loser. What excitement 
 is the most intense? asked ihe Regent. — 
 Winning at cards, replied Fox. — What 
 next ? — Losing. The Derby is covered with 
 gamblers. Thimble-rigging, cock-fighting, 
 card betting, horse racing, fortune telling, 
 penny tossing. Each sharper bent on his 
 prey. The gamester is a lost man, and the 
 Derby is his lair. Another thought. The 
 Derby is a day of unbridled license. The 
 Christian preacher has no voice at the Derby. 
 Slang phrases are the fashion. The chafi" of 
 the Derby is an institution — (hear and 
 cheers) — but it is a vulgar, low, disgusting 
 institution. (Oh, and hisses.) The ride 
 home is a scene of danger — coats torn — 
 hats lost — carriages broken, and life risked 
 — stones, mud, dirt, and bon-bons fly around 
 
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 your head. Your eyes are liable to be put 
 out at anj' moment. The ladies in your 
 carriai^e may be your sisters — your wives — 
 your daughters. Never mind it ; they must 
 listen and blush not, for it is the Derby-day. 
 The young men with their four-in-hand 
 throw dolls and wooden babies into their 
 laps — (laughter) — the very idea conveys an 
 immoral thought — the conception is obscene. 
 Who introduced this doll-throwing custom? 
 Of course, it was the libertine — the seducer. 
 The act is often accompanied with loud 
 jests. 
 
 Immoclest words admit of no defence, 
 For wiint of decency is want of sense! 
 
 The Derby is thehenefit day of the Shoulder 
 hitter and the Pugilist. The rowdy scenes 
 — the brutal contests — the bloody fights on 
 the grounds are only surpassed in debauch- 
 ery by what take place on the return from 
 the races. The drunken drivers rush madly 
 along the streets, and human limbs and 
 human life are risked on all sides. Go into 
 the hospitals the next day and make a note 
 of the broken arms — the burned bodies and 
 disfigured faces you see there. Cruelty to 
 man succeeds cruelty to horses — Miss 
 Todd's coachman must not punish his horse 
 — but the jockey of the Earl of Essex, must 
 not be questioned when driving his spurs 
 deep into the favorite's sides. (Hear, hear.) 
 Again, the extravagance of the Derby is 
 enough to condemn it. How many go there 
 that can little afford it ? (That's so.) How 
 many young men have risked and lost — and 
 their employers must suffer until the clerk 
 turns out a Robsou — a Redpath— or a Pul- 
 linger ! (Cheers.) Perhaps he is a married 
 man with grown-up daughters and all de- 
 pendent upon his hard-earned salary. He 
 bets — he loses— ^he becomes mad — he looks 
 over the bridge— his courage fails— he stops a 
 moment— hesitates— then kneels down before 
 the heavily-laden coal cart — puts his head de- 
 liberately under the great wheel and iis 
 head is crushed to atoms! He died through 
 losses on the Derby ! PoUok speaks words 
 of fire of the suicide — who with his own 
 hands opened the portals of eternity and 
 sooner than the devils hoped arrived in hell ! 
 (Sensation.) The Derby is the Stock Ex- 
 change of horse thieves. (Oh.) That day 
 they revel in their villanies. They come 
 from all parts of these islands to carry on 
 their infamous traflic on the Derby — why is 
 it that men consider dishonesty a virtue 
 when they sell a horse? (Laughter.) The 
 Jew and Gentile — the Arab and the Hindoo 
 — the gentleman and the blackleg— the 
 English lord and the Irish peasant, are all 
 the same when dealing in horse-flesh ! The 
 Quaker said his horse had no faults and 
 would stick to a hill. "Will he draw?" 
 "Yes, thee would be delighted to see him 
 draw 1" Of course the animal turned out to 
 be a jibber — as well as blind ! — " That," said 
 
 the Quaker, " is his misfortune not his fault." 
 (Laughter.) The Parson will let the pur- 
 chaser find out the spavin ; the philanthro- 
 pist will not tell you of the lameness — the 
 Christian lady will conceal the vice of the 
 beast she offers for sale — and the Christian 
 gentleman delights in having his holiday 
 sport at the Derby! — The Derby is the 
 Kate Hamilton's of the Cyprians ! Here 
 Cyprians flaunt their silks and rustle their 
 satins, and make their coarse jests and loud 
 observations in the presence of the fairest, 
 the highest, and the most virtuous ladies of 
 England. Which is the lady, and which the 
 Cyprian, asks the stranger? Really, who 
 can tell. (Hear.) 
 
 Even Frith, in his picture of the Derby 
 Day, has the portraits of some celebrated 
 prostitutes to nxake it life-like. So I am 
 told. What a place to take our wives and 
 daughters ! AVould you introduce them at 
 the Holborn Casino? Would you take 
 them to dance the liancers at the Argyle 
 Rooms? (No), Would you go with them 
 to the Piccadilly Saloon, or the Portland 
 Rooms, or Cadwell's and drive them twice 
 a-week to Cremorne ? Most assuredly, no ! 
 Few married men would be so bold. Yet 
 what they shun in the haunts of vice in 
 London they court in broad daylight at the 
 Derby ! (True) They are horrified at vice 
 and the prostitution when retailed, but are 
 its noblest patrons when wholesaled. All 
 that is bad comes together at the Derby. 
 T/iat day the Argyle Magdalensarein their 
 champagne robes. That day the casino 
 empties its Camilles into the Defby, That 
 day Kate Hamilton sits supreme upon her 
 throne. That day the Hay-market removes 
 its entire papulation to the Derby — the 
 great rendezvous of the Concubine, and the 
 Stock Exchange of the Harlot. (Ironical 
 cheers.) That day bad women meet by 
 appointment bad men, and virtue is scoffed 
 at on the great charnel bourse of the Court- 
 ezan. Here female beauty means loss of 
 honor, of virtue, and of moral life. And yet 
 knowing these things, Englishmen hesitate 
 not to introduce their families into such 
 haunts of iniquity. Why ? Simply because 
 it is fashionable. (Hear.) The Lords are 
 there as well as the Commons. Fashion is 
 a tyrant. A Queen once introduced large 
 sleeves to cover her broken arm. A Queen 
 gave the world corsets to hide her ugly form. 
 A Queen suggested long dresses because 
 Ler feet were large, and an empress invented 
 crinoline when coming events cast their 
 shadows before. (Laughter.) So fashion 
 makes immorality popular. Great Ladies 
 countenance the Derby, and who dares 
 protest ? The Bishop of Oxford ? No ! 
 Lord Brougham ? No ! His Social Sci- 
 ence would not interfere with the Social evil 
 which he thinks is . a Social necessity. 
 (Laughter). Where is London, and Canter- 
 
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 bury, and Durham ? Do they object. Does i 
 the Duchess of Sutherland and the fair 
 peeresses of England endorse the horrid 
 debaucheries of the Derby day ? I have 
 never seen their protest, although they 
 found time to appeal to the American ladies 
 about the immorality of slavery. (Applause) 
 If evil communications curruptgood manners 
 the evil of the Derby must breed foul 
 curruption. If ladies are known by the 
 company they keep, the Derby is not the 
 place for modesty and purity. How the 
 young girl must shrink in the presence of 
 her lover, when listening from her elegant 
 brougham on the hill to the obscene songs 
 and conversation of the gipsy women, who 
 perhaps have been paid to entertain the 
 mistress of the young gentleman in the 
 adjoining carriage. (Hear.) All this is 
 allowed on the Derby day. The Peers 
 approve it — the judges award it — and no 
 Gumming — no Newman Hall— no Spurgeon 
 — no Lord Shaftesbury, raise their voices 
 against the wholesale immoralities of the 
 Derby Day ! Oh, no ! That would be un- 
 English. (Laughter.) My painting is com- 
 pleted, -my argument is closed. I was chal- 
 lenged, Mr. Grand. I accepted. I have fought 
 and I ask you, sir, who is the dead man? 
 (Laughter.) The honorable speaker pointed 
 to the Derby, where I might witness Givil 
 
 Right and Religious Freedom — the great 
 Gonstitutional Gharter of your race. After 
 the scenes I have painted, I hope, for the 
 sake of Virtue, Morality, and Religion, that 
 argument will never be advanced again. 
 I maintain I have proved three distinct 
 propositions. The Derby Day is the Stock 
 Exchange of Pugilism — the Mecca of the 
 Horse Thief — the Bourse of the Gambler — 
 the Rendezvous of the Blackleg — the Rum- 
 shop of the Drunkard— the Central Depot 
 where the villanies of the Turf are matured 
 — and the Grand Bazaar of the Gentleman 
 
 Better the Yulgar Gard-player the 
 
 elegant Adulterer — (oh, and cheers) — the 
 profligate Roue — the hardened Gipsy — and 
 the aristocratic Blackguard ! Here the frail 
 women hold their levees, who are as corrupt 
 in body as they are in mind, whose coarse 
 oaths in their drunken orgies sound upon 
 the ear like the Death Rattle of Remorse. 
 (Loud applause.) Virtue to the woman .is 
 what the grain is to the straw — take it away 
 and man and beast tread it under foot. 
 (Loud Cheers.) 
 
 M r. Train sat down amid congratulations 
 on all sides. He fairly changed his oppo- 
 nents into admirers by the power of his 
 morality and the crushing logic of his 
 eloquence. 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S GREAT SPEECH ON MEXICO. 
 
 THE MONROE DOCTRINE— THE SECRET TREATY— THE CONVEN- 
 TION AND THE QUARREL— ENGLAND A FILLIBUSTER— 
 AMERICA'S FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES— TEXAS 
 AND THE MEXICAN WAR— MEXICO 
 BEFORE THE REPUBLIC. 
 
 [From the London American of 3iay 28, 1862.] 
 
 WEEE KNGLAND, FRANCE, AND SPAIN JUSTIFIED 
 IN THEIR EXPEDITION AGAINST MEXICO? 
 
 The approaching settlement of the Amer- 
 ican question makes more prominent the 
 Mexican embroglio. England has backed 
 out — so has Spain — while France is left to 
 take the glory or the shame of this barefaced 
 piratical expedition. We are not surprised 
 to see the Times and Saturday Review 
 cheering on the Emperor to his certain ruin. 
 England's affection for France is undoubted. 
 Mr. Train has fairly exhausted the subject 
 in the Debate on Monday evening at St. 
 Paul's Discussion Hall in Ludgate-hill — 
 Were England, France, and Spain justi- 
 fied IN THEIR Expedition against Mexico ? 
 
 Mr. Train opened in the negative, and the 
 audience became most impatient under his 
 scorching sarcasms. The importance of the 
 speech warrants the space it occupies. He 
 gives a digest of Mexican history, introduces 
 all the points, and has fairly bayoneted Eng- 
 land while holding the Monitor up to 
 France. 
 
 Mr. Train (who had been detained at an- 
 other large meeting where he was advertised 
 to speak) commenced about nine o'clock, 
 and spoke for an hour and a half amid 
 considerable interruption, one man having 
 said it was a lie. Mr. Train demanded that 
 he should retract the unparliamentary ex- 
 pression or leave the Hall. He left. 
 
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 MEXICO BEFORE THE REPUBLIC. 
 
 Mr. Train : Mexico is the India of the 
 •west! While England was sowing the seeds 
 of empire in the east, Spain was equally 
 active in the west. But while England 
 holds her Indian empire still, Spain lost her 
 foothold on the mainland of the western 
 continent and planted her flag upon an 
 island where it still floats above the half- 
 caste and the Castilian. What Java is to 
 the Dutch, Cuba is to Spain. These islands 
 both pay. Mexico is no longer Spanish. 
 The blood thrills as we repaint the rise and 
 fall of the Mexican empire. How vivid the 
 blind historian Prescott paints the picture. 
 (Applause.) The first conquest of Mexico 
 under Cortez was no more brilliant than 
 the second conquest of Mexico under Scott. 
 (Cheers.) The third conquest of Mexico 
 under Napoleon is another thing. (Hear.) 
 The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 
 belong to Europe to act out the tragedy of 
 kings — the drama of Conquest, of Rapine, 
 and of Bloodshed. (Oh, and "That's so.") 
 Then the sword was mightier than the ship. 
 The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 
 were reserved for America to act out the 
 drama of Self-reliance — and to introduce the 
 age of republics — Commerce and Liberty. 
 (Cheers.) Never before, perhaps, in the 
 history of the world were such ideas placed 
 before so many minds. Crowd the world's 
 changes into a paragraph. The cities that 
 stud the great rivers in all lands are agi- 
 tated as they have never been before. 
 (Hear.) Look at Asia. Note the millions 
 who fight hand to hand on the banks of the 
 Yang-tze-kiang. Tai-ping-nang for fifteen 
 years has demonstrated that England is not 
 the only Brigand at large. (Oh, and dissent.) 
 The Volga's banks are now covered with 
 Free men where Serfs once were the fea- 
 tures of the country. Armed men are on 
 the Mincio — distrust is on the Danube — 
 fear reigns supreme upon the Tiber — (hear) 
 — uncertainly hangs over the Seine — great 
 changes will shortly take place on the banks 
 of the Thames — distress and starvation give 
 special interest to the banks of the Mersey 
 — while the great rivers of America have 
 been flowing with the blood of her children. 
 The Ohio and the Mississippi will now 
 become the scene of romance and of history. 
 (Applause.) The Tennessee, the Potomac, 
 the Shenandoah, and the James Jlivers are 
 already full of historical memories ! The 
 old world's novelists had made bankrupt its 
 resources. The new world will now be the 
 theme of the poet, the dramatist, and the 
 historian. (Cheers.) Turning away from 
 Asiatic and European life, leaving the great 
 Union army of my own fair land to work out 
 its country's destinies— (cheers) — I come 
 back again to Mexico, the land of Ferdinand 
 and Isabella, of Hernando Cortez and Win- 
 
 field Scott — (hear) — the Conquestadores of 
 the Mexican Armies. Revolution was all 
 the fashion when this century commenced. 
 America had forced England into respect, 
 and the American Revolution foreshadowed 
 and stimulated the Revolution of France, 
 which gave the world a Bonaparte. Prance 
 found in him an Emperor, but England 
 caught a Tartar in Napoleon. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 MEXICO AFTER THE REPUBLIC. 
 
 Ten years of brigandage prepared Mexico 
 for a change of Government. The Revolu- 
 tion of 1810, the Spanish fought the half- 
 caste. It was not quelled before 1820, and 
 the empire of Iturbide terminated in the 
 Republic. 'J'he Federal Government was 
 organized October 4, 1824, and Augustin I. 
 was no more. Spain was bowed out of 
 Mexico with the fall of San Juan de Ulloa 
 in 1825. Mexico copied America — the one 
 Constitution was modeled on the other. 
 The same right of States — of Representa- 
 tion — of Executive. There was no slave 
 property — no jealousy of South against 
 North — and no room for Secession. Read 
 Ludlow in Sampson Low's Exchange." Mex- 
 ico, however, did for the Catholic religion 
 what England does for the Protestant. 
 Here Mexico did not copy America — our 
 Constitution gave Free Trade to Religion — 
 (hear, hear) — while the Mexicans introduced 
 protection by giving the Religion to the 
 Catholics. Mexico ! Spain's child in Histo- 
 ry — Italy's child in Religion — but America's 
 child in Politics — was a bad pupil. The 
 American Fourth of July was a different 
 thing from the Mexican Vbth of September. 
 (Hear.) While America has had her six- 
 teen Presidents in her seventy-two years, 
 Mexico has had but two, Herrera and 
 Victoria, who acted out their four years. 
 America postponed her Revolution to finish 
 it up in a year— (cheers) — while Mexico 
 diluted her Revolution by having it all the 
 time — (laughter) — during its forty years of 
 government-making. The first President 
 was named after your Queen — or rather 
 before. General Victoria lived it out — 
 General Guerrero having put down the 
 Rebellion. Then came Gomez Pedraza — 
 at once succeeded by Gen. Guerrero (1828 
 and 1829). Bustamente then bursts np 
 Guerrero, and shoots him. (Hear.) Pe- 
 draza comes back — when lo, the curtain 
 rises and the man, old Houston, treads — 
 (laughter) — steps upon the stage. Santa 
 Anna knocks Bustamente over — kicks Pe- 
 draza out — introduces Plan of Toluca — 
 abolishes Federal Constitution, and raises 
 the wind generally. (Laughter.) This was 
 just after I was born (1833) ; as usual a 
 Yankee steps in and hopes he don't intrude. 
 (Laughter.) Moses Austin, in 1821, got 
 his grant of land in Texas, and the 300 
 families in 40 years have grown into a pop- 
 
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 *Tilous State. Place a coffee boy in that 
 place noted more for the warmth of its 
 temperature than the moral of its inhabi- 
 tants — (cheers and laughter) — and a Yankee 
 will find it. (Applause.) That has become 
 an American proverb. Santa Anna tried 
 to push Moses out of the bullrushes — 
 (laughter) — in Texas, but Moses wouldn't 
 go, (Laughter.) His sou Stephen Austin 
 was caught — imprisoned — was released — 
 became chief of the Texans — won the battles 
 of Gronzales, Goliard, and Bexar. Santa 
 Anna was enraged, took the field in person, 
 recaptured Bexar, poignarded the garrison 
 in true Mexican style — (hear, hear) — and 
 was himself defeated and captured (April 
 21, 1836) by an army not half so large as his 
 forces. Moses and Son, you observe, in 
 Texas still kept up their ancient fame ! 
 (Laughter.) Bustamente came back from 
 France (1837) and took the presidential 
 chair. This was the time that old Spain 
 recognized the Republic of Mexico. Now 
 comes foreign war. France wanted her 
 claims paid — you remember the demand — 
 the refusal — and the war. San Juan de 
 Ulloa bombarded by the French — Vera 
 Cruz besieged, and poor Santa Anna got 
 out of prison just in time to lose a leg. 
 (Laughter and cheers.) Mexico came to 
 terms. France deducted £40,000 from her 
 claim (1839). But Mexico was disgusted ; 
 Yucatan and Tabasco resisted. Bustamente 
 fell, and Santa Anna again came to the top. 
 England and France acknowledged Texas 
 and Mexico, forgetting San Jacinto, fought 
 to recover Texas and lost. 
 
 TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR. 
 
 The Texans petitioned America for ad- 
 mission. We paid her debts, and in due 
 time she repaid us by seceding the moment 
 she had the chance. (Oh, and cheers.) 
 Then the Davis-Slidell-Mason party laid the 
 track which brought the second conquest of 
 Mexico. Slidell (1846) negotiated, plotted, 
 and succeeded. Santa Anna fell. Paradez 
 became President, General Taylor advanced. 
 The battles of Palo Alto — (cheers) — Resaca 
 de la Palma, Matamoras, then Camarzo, 
 and the battles of Monterey, Saltillo. Buena 
 Vista. (Cheers.) While old Scott took 
 San Juan d'UlIoa — (cheers)- — fought El 
 Madelene, Cerro Gordo, Punta Nacional, 
 Puebla, Churibusco, Chepultepec, Molina 
 del Rey, where 36,000 Mexicans were de- 
 feated by 8,000 Americans — (cheers) — the 
 Gueta de Belin, and then hoisted the Stars 
 and Stripes over the halls of the Monte- 
 zumas ! — (loud cheers) — all done in sixteen 
 months, from 8th May, 1846, to 14th Sep- 
 tember, 1847. You know the rest. Santa 
 Anna fled. New Mexico and California 
 became American States, under the treaty 
 of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States 
 paying $15,000,000 for the property, in 
 
 addition to $3,500,000 to liquidate Mexico's 
 debts to American citizens. (Hear.) Mark 
 the contrast between American conquest 
 and European, Having taken their land by 
 fair fight, we presented the Mexicans the 
 conquered country, and loaned them money 
 to pay the debts of their armies. (Hear 
 and "No.") England and France occupy 
 countries, and not only refuse to leave, but 
 make the countries conquered pay their own 
 expenses. (Hear.) Witness the British 
 invasion of China. (Oh and hear.) The 
 American army went from battle to battle, 
 glory to glory, and when our soldiers left, the 
 Mexicans begged their conquerors to remain, 
 and ofiFerred General Scott the Presidency 
 of the country. (Cheers.) France will 
 have a different reception. (Hear, hear.) 
 Let me continue my digest. Herrara was 
 elected in 1847, with a pocket full of money, 
 which he had paid into the Mexican trea- 
 sury. General Arista succeeded (1850,) 
 and proved himself a better general under 
 Herrara than President. He fell in 1852, 
 and again Santa Anna was recalled, and 
 ruled in 1853. This was the age of Mexican 
 centralisation again. Press abolished — Je- 
 suits recalled — the order of "Our Lady of 
 Guadalupe " founded, and Santa Anna was 
 called Most Serene Highness, and colonels 
 stood behind his chair ; but Centralism 
 did not prosper better than Federalism. 
 Then came the filibustering Frenchman 
 Boulbon, at Arizona ; and the Buccaneer 
 Walker, at Lower California (1853-54). 
 The Frenchman was shot, and Walker 
 escaped to follow the same fate in Nica- 
 ragua. (Hear.) Mexico was again short — 
 America was rich — and $10,000,000 more 
 was given for Mesilla Valley, in order to 
 get a road to the Pacific. Now comes the 
 Indian savage — the Panther of the South, 
 General Alvarez, who drove Santa Anna 
 again from power (Aug. 1855); and the 
 populace rose and smashed his statute in 
 the square. (Hear.) Five Richmouds were 
 now in the field — Alvarez, Comonfort, 
 Carera, Haro y Tamariz, and the half-breed 
 Vidaueri, each representing a part of the 
 country, and fighting for the mastery of the 
 whole. They compromised — Alvarez was 
 President, and Comonfort was his lieuten- 
 ant. Had the old Indian accepted the 
 American Minister, Mr. Gadsen's, offer of a 
 loan of $30,000,000— it would have been 
 better for Mexico. (Hear and "That's so.") 
 The treaty was rejected — Mexican vanity 
 over-ruled prudence and policy. Now re- 
 sumes the struggles of rival chiefs for 
 victory — Comonfort seizes church property 
 — commits outrages upon foreigners — Spain 
 threatened war for non-execution of treaties, 
 1847, 1849, and 1853 — Alvarez resigned — 
 Comonfort was elected, September 16, 1857 
 — and the full-blooded Indian Juarez was 
 Vice-President. Zuloaga (Dec. IG) created 
 
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 insurrection — Comonfort fell — and. Jan. 29, 
 1858, Zuloaga was President — Miramon 
 succeeded, and civil war was general. The 
 young chief, about Bonaparte's age when 
 at the head of the Grand army of Italy, 
 espoused the church party — robberies took 
 place — murders were common — when the 
 Liberals again came top, and the Indian 
 rules to-day in Mexico. (Hear.) Two new 
 epidemics have come in with the present 
 age — one is the Malady of Nations, the 
 other is called the Malady of Princes. The 
 young Sultan of Turkey, the King of Portu- 
 gal and another Prince, suddenly die of 
 gastric fever? Doctors say that malaria 
 comes from low lands — kings live in high 
 lands. The next is the malady of nations. 
 The petty kings of Italy know what it 
 means. Unity is the cry. Grand Dukes 
 fly before their revolutionary subjects, Mo- 
 dena, Tuscaney, Parma, and Bomba only 
 take flight a few months in advance of the 
 despotic heads of the German nations — if 
 these tottering monarchies plot to destroy 
 republics. Mexico was the wedge to over- 
 throw America. The plot is exposed — the 
 game is up. England backs out of the dirty 
 job, and Prim was too much the soldier and 
 the gentleman to commit Spain. The whole 
 affair was a job against America not Mexico. 
 America is God's chosen laud. The Ameri- 
 cans are his chosen people. (Oh.) How, 
 then, if it is not so, do you account for the 
 miracles we have lately performed there? 
 (Hear.) God works in a mysterious way his 
 wonders to perform. By one stoke of his 
 policy he paralyzes the navies of the world. 
 (Cheers.) Gunboats render fortresses use- 
 less, and mortars show how valueless are 
 fleets upon the ocean, (Cheers.) England 
 is completely checkmated. (Oh.) So is 
 France. We have got you over the ropes 
 on this Mexican question — (laughter) — and 
 we shall hold you there. 
 
 THE SECRET TREATY, 
 
 France and England have made a secret 
 treaty! (No.) France goes to Mexico; if 
 America interferes, England will join ; and 
 then America will take one nation in one 
 hand, the other in the other hand, and shake 
 the two bullying powers into respect for 
 republics and American institutions. (Loud 
 cheers.) Let us come to the invasion and 
 trace the why and the wherefore. Take the 
 money out of his pocket, said Old Fagan to 
 iSmike, but don't break the law. (Laughter.) 
 England acts upon that maxim when a 
 nation's honor is at stake as a rule — but in 
 this case she does not even mention the law 
 although determined to have the money. 
 (Hear.) When a nation ignores the law the 
 decadence of that nation has commenced. 
 You pretend to be a law-abiding people. 
 If having one lawyer to every five people in 
 the land — (oh) — means law-abiding, then 
 
 you are what you profess to be. But if 
 law-abiding means honesty to individuals or 
 justice to States you are just the reverse.. 
 The aggregation of individuals make the 
 State as the aggregation of small towns 
 makes the city. So the law of the indi- 
 vidual through his representatives should be 
 the law of the State — and the law of the 
 State ought to be law of God ! (Hear, 
 hear.) England assisted in dictating the 
 law of nations — and it is this — when one 
 State injures another State, the injured 
 State first demands formal reparation. 
 (Hear.) That failing then comes reprisals. 
 That not succeeding, then England calls her 
 Privy Council together, and war is formally 
 declared. (Applause.) Now in this case 
 England has done neither the one nor the 
 other — no formal demands. (Yes.) No 
 reprisals — no declaration of war. (A voice 
 — England has made repeated demands.) I 
 say she has not. It appears that I have 
 examined the blue book closer than you, sir, 
 for I speak with confidence while you are 
 doubtful. (Hear.) Read Robert McCal- 
 mont's correspondence between the bankers, 
 the Mexican merchants and Lord John 
 Russell that was published in the Times' 
 city article some months ago. The noble 
 secretary distinctly tells them — you make 
 out, gentleman, a good case of bad faith — 
 you have your claim — your debt should be 
 paid — and is not — but that is no justification 
 for the active interference of the Govern- 
 ment. (Applause.) You entered on the 
 speculation as a mercantile transaction and 
 have lost, and call upon us to settle it. You 
 have a bad debt and insist upon the Gov- 
 ernment enforcing payment — and in reply, 
 Messrs. Bankers, I am instructed to say to 
 you that you have brought your complaints 
 to the wrong shop. (Hear, and laughter.) 
 If, as the noble lord stated, there was no 
 justification, then, pray, tell me, sir, what 
 has since occurred to warrant this singular 
 invasion of a friendly power? (Hear, hear.) 
 One gentleman says that the Mexicans 
 misappropriated the customs revenue and 
 murdered peaceful Englishmen ! Admit it ; 
 but that was done before your Minister 
 wrote that such things do not justify inter- 
 vention. (Hear.) Those acts, if my memory 
 serves me, were concocted by Miramon and 
 the church party — (applause) — not by Ju- 
 arez and the Liberal Government. (Hear, 
 and "That's so.") Yet you war with the 
 innocent in order to punish the guilty. 
 
 ENGLAND A FILLIBUSTER. 
 
 Let me tell you, statemen of Europe, your 
 acts are watched, and your crimes will be 
 held up at the bar of public opinion. (Hear.) 
 When a nation dies, the world's coroner will 
 carefully look into the case and publish his 
 verdict. (Hear.) The time has passed 
 when England can commit acts outside the 
 
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 pale of Christianity, and call it the march of 
 civilization. (Hear.) The time is passed 
 when Eagland can overrun weak powers, 
 and absorb them in her own dominions (A 
 voice — " 8he never has.") She never, sir, 
 did anything else. (Laughter.) The inva- 
 sion of India, China, Affghanislan, and 
 Persia — the seizure of Australia, Gibralter, 
 Malta, Pekin, were as clearly acts of piracy 
 — (oh) — as is the present unholy war for 
 land in New Zealand — the forcible occupa- 
 tion of the Punjaub — the annexing of Bur- 
 mah — the seizure of Onde, or this last but 
 by no means the least villainous attempt to 
 rob the Mexicans of their birthright and 
 barter away their country to a Ciitholic 
 Prince. (C beers.) No, Mr. Speaker, the 
 time has passed when the sea forces and the 
 land forces of a nation can organize them- 
 selves into bands of sheriff officers on the 
 high seas or the high lands to collect the 
 debts of individuals. (Loud cheers.) Eng- 
 land had little cause — France less — and 
 Spain none at all — for this outrageous 
 burglary. Let us take an observation and 
 see if we can trace this foul plot through 
 the fog of doubt that surrounds it. Little 
 fountains make large streams — large oaks 
 come from little acorns. Stand upon its 
 banks where it pours its turbid waters into 
 the Gulf that washes the Mexican shore as 
 well as our own and yours; and follow the 
 destiny of the great river — beyond where 
 Ferdinand de Soto thought he saw the gold 
 — and walk up its borders for tens of miles, 
 and I will show you great rivers that rush 
 in upon it to swell its current and increase 
 its tide. Go further on, hundreds of miles, 
 and I will point you out the banks and 
 rivulets that flow in from the mountains to 
 keep its volume. Still further northward, 
 thousands of miles, and the streams grow 
 weaker till away up in the mountain you 
 trace the tiny fountain, the source of all the 
 labor. (Cheers.) Here you find away up 
 in the highlands the beginning of the end, 
 and there away down in the sea you find the 
 end of the beginning. (Hear.) Individuals, 
 States, and Hemispheres are similarly com- 
 posed. The mind precedes organization, 
 and the conception comes before the deliv- 
 ery. The child is born in the thought, and 
 is formed in the brain before it becomes a 
 fact in the body. So is it with the law of 
 nations and the acts of statesmen. (Ap- 
 plause.) Each in itself is selfish. Do unto 
 others as you would have others do unto 
 YOU is the precept. Do unto yourself as, you 
 would not have others do unto themselves 
 is the practice. (Laughter.) Diplomacy 
 possesses a soul of mud and a brain of 
 cobweb. The square peg will get into the 
 round holes, and the round pegs will get 
 into the square holes — (laughter.) — in the 
 battle of life. So long as society continues 
 to be an organized hypocrisy — (oh 1) — so 
 
 long as crime continues to be not in the act 
 itself, but in its disclosure — (oh!) — so long 
 as England interprets civilization to mean 
 everything to the few — nothing to the many 
 — so long will the English people submit to 
 be called the mob, and take pride in obey- 
 ing a Government that not only governs 
 them without their consent, but without 
 pretending even to consult them. (Oh, 
 cheers, and question.) I have said enough 
 to show that the plot was against the 
 national life of the Americans, not the 
 Mexican State. As Poles abhor Eussiang 
 — Irish sneer at the English — Italians 
 despise Austrians — so Mexicans hate the 
 Spaniards. Hence England and FrancQ 
 join hands — they would not have done so 
 had America been free from civil war. 
 (Hear.) Dayton distinctly says to Seward 
 (Sept. 27), the allies are taking advantage 
 of our affairs to press Mexico. Suppress 
 the Rebellion, and have an army ready 
 to march, and they will be less cheeky. 
 (Laughter.) October 16, he says, Schurz at 
 Madrid thinks that Mexico will copy St. 
 Domingo, and ask for a Spanish Prince. 
 Not a word about Maximilian although the 
 crowned heads knew the plan months ago. 
 
 THE CONVENTION AND THE QUARREL. 
 
 You remember two women and a man, 
 through their Ministers, signed the Conven- 
 tion in London, October 31, 1861. Collect 
 our debts and demand security against 
 future outrages, and indemnity for the past. 
 That was its purport — no word about con- 
 quest, occupation, or forcing a monarchy on 
 the people. (Hear, hear.) Thouvenel (No- 
 vember 11) wrote Admiral De la Gravifere 
 endorsing the policy. The forces embarked. 
 The Spaniards landed, and occupied Vera 
 Cruz. England^ was annoyed, France dis- 
 gusted. Envy and jealousy distracts the 
 councils of robbers in all ages, (oh !) Then 
 came the Orizaba meeting, April 9. France 
 domineered, Prim protested. You break 
 the treaty ; you have no right to force a 
 government on the Mexicans against their 
 will. I am deceived. I shall' withdraw. 
 And he did. After the treaty of Soledad. 
 Napoleon was his friend. You remember 
 the letter? that passed between them. He 
 would not be the tool of the Emperor. 
 Fiance goes on, taking the refugee General 
 Almonte with her, and Maximilian is to 
 have a throne. The Count de Reuss sends 
 to Cuba for transports. The Governor- 
 General refuses to send them. The English 
 embarked for home April 16, and gave Gen- 
 eral Prim transports for two thousand Span- 
 iards. Earl Russell blundered at Vienna, 
 misled by Rothschild, Baring, and Brown ; 
 he blundered again by acknowledging the 
 South as a fact — (No) — and now his great 
 blunder, which will destroy his fame, is this 
 Mexican invasion. (Hear.) He wished to 
 
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 checkmate the ambitious designs of Spain 
 and France, and, playing too fine, he has 
 checkmated himself. (Hear.) Soldiers dy- 
 ing at Vera Cruz and swollen estimates are 
 not plensant reminiscences of the Mexican 
 embroglio. Forty years ago the Liberals 
 wept for joy over the Mexican Republic. 
 Now, Liberals inaugurate a monarchy for 
 that same nation ! M, Michel Chevalier 
 tries to prove France the protector of the 
 Latin race and the Catholic faith — but it 
 won't do. If so, let her face Garibaldi and 
 support the Pope ! Perhaps a frigate waits 
 at Civita Vecchia to take his Serene High- 
 ness to Vera Cruz, and the French army is 
 to be his body-guard on the Plaza! Per- 
 haps this is his honorable banishment ! 
 Who knows ? Perhaps Archbishop Hughes, 
 an American, will be the next Pope of the 
 Roman church ? (Hear.) 
 
 AUSTRIA, A REFORMER. 
 
 When Satan amused the ancient populace 
 by rebuking sin it created some severe com- 
 ments in the Court Journal of those days. 
 (Laughter.) The position was not more 
 absurd than for Austria — shaky, bankrupt, 
 imbecil Austria — to set herself up as a re- 
 former of the land of the Aztecs ! (Hear.) 
 Austria — shaky in Politics, imbecile in Dip- 
 lomacy, and bankrupt in Finance ! Austria 
 —where despotism is considered a virtue, 
 insolvency a merit, and defeat worthy of 
 praise ! Austria— that land whose capital 
 ran with blood only fourteen years ago, 
 whose rebellious subjects imitated the'Mexi- 
 can insurrectionists, and marched, through 
 Vienna in 1848 ! (Cheers.) Austria— who 
 lost Lombardy last year and will lose Venice 
 this! Austria — whose Hungarian dominions 
 are almost open revolt, where rebellion lurks 
 in the open day, and indeper^ence is loom- 
 in the distance ! Yes — this is the rotten 
 power that proposes to give a stable govern- 
 ment to Mexico, in the person of the Grand 
 Duke Maximilian ! Who will support his 
 prestige ? Will grand dukes be on his staff? 
 Will he take over some of the broken-down 
 Italian princes to form his Court? Will the 
 Emperor send him out in a frigate ? Will 
 some Swiss soldiers be hired to make his 
 body guard ? France is making a mess of 
 it. Why take Almonte ? — was he not ban- 
 ished ? Is he not the Slidell— the Davis of 
 the country ? Suppose France or England 
 had landed at Charleston and taken Yancey 
 and Mason by way of conciliating Mr. Sew- 
 ard ! (Hear.) Or suppose some power had 
 landed on the Irish shore, taking Smith 
 O'Brien, Mitchel or Meagher, on their 
 march to London, by way of reconciling Pal- 
 merston and Russel! (applause) or suppose 
 that Russia, Prussia, and Austria had claims 
 against France, and an Austrian, a Prussian 
 and Russian, had been murdered there — and 
 they signed a convention — landed at Cher- 
 
 bourg — quarreled there — and Russia went 
 alone to Paris, taking Lamoriciere, Ledru 
 Rollin, and Louis Blanc, to pacify the Em- 
 peror, or perhaps throw in a Bourbon or two 
 in order to make it pleasant! (Hear.) Or 
 still another analogy. Suppose Austria was 
 Mexico, and England and France landed 
 troops at Trieste, and to show their friendly 
 regard to the government of Vienna, they 
 allowed General 'i'urr, and Klapa, and 
 Kossuth to join this friendly expedition ! 
 (Cheers.) By changing the scene you see 
 the singular position Napoleon has placed 
 himself in by taking Almonte on his staff, 
 while England embarks with Comonfort and 
 Spain takes Miramon in charge — (cheers) — 
 the very men who committed the outrages 
 being their most intimate friends. (Ap- 
 plause.) Take another argument. The 
 Convention means invasion — the invasion, 
 actual war, without declaration. The object 
 is to collect old debts, and to stop murder. 
 Indeed ! If old debts, why not invade Spain 
 — (cheers) — Spain owes individuals, Span- 
 ish securities are shut out of all the Bourses 
 to-diiy; and yet repudiating Spain goes to 
 Mexico as a self-constituted bailiff, to sell 
 the Mexicans out. (Cheers and laughter.) 
 Why not invade Greece or Peru ? Do they 
 not owe some back moneys? Again to stop 
 murder. Ah, yes ! — well, I would recom- 
 mend them to invade Ireland, (cheers,) or 
 Manchester? or Ludgate-hill ? (Cheers.) 
 Stop murder ! why there have been more 
 murders of English subjects committed in 
 these Islands the last few weeks than in 
 Mexico in a dozen revolutions ! (Hear.) 
 The cry of murder comes up at every corner ! 
 We breakfast on murder ! dine on murder ! 
 The first thing your paper gives you in the 
 morning is another tragedy ! Tragedy, did 
 I say ? Yes, — what can be more melo-dra- 
 matic than the Taylors all in a row ? and the 
 little ones side by side in Ludgate Hill? Or 
 the brutal assasination of peaceful land- 
 owners in Ireland ? (Hear, and yes.) 
 France has gone to Mexico. Orizaba is 
 seventy miles from the shore. The next 
 station is La Puebla, where we shall hear 
 from the army by the mail due here on Sat- 
 urday, which left Vera Cruz on the 29th 
 April. Juarez will fight in the mountains. 
 Guerilla warfare is a Mexican patent. France 
 is in a singular position away inland — no 
 reinforcements, yellow fever in the camp, 
 guerillas on all sides — England and Spain 
 hostile — one hundred miles from Mexico ! 
 Good gracious, what a position ! The French 
 army has been sent there to perish — to be 
 sacrificed in order to allure France to the 
 proper pitch of enthusiasm to send reinforce- 
 ments. (Cheers.) For to-day the invasion 
 meets with no favor in the army, the navy, 
 or the people. All are against it, all oppose. 
 The Steele, La Presse, the Opinion Nationale, 
 and half the journals of France. England, 
 
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 France and Spain signed a contract to do a 
 certain thing. Somebody has broken that 
 agreement. (Hear.) If England is right 
 in returning, France is wrong. If France is 
 right in remaining, England is wroug. (Ap- 
 plause.) Prim lays the blame on France, while 
 the English press are all cheering France on 
 to destruction ! Is England trying to get 
 France into a war with America? The way 
 to win your game of chess is not to smash 
 the table. (Hear, hear.) I mentioned that 
 France must have a reverse in Mexico to 
 arouse the French. That is the way Pal- 
 merston managed the China affair. Remem- 
 ber the Peiho ! How easy after that it was 
 to send out ships and troops, and cannon, 
 and add £10,000,000 to the taxes. (Hear.) 
 Palmerston understands his people. He can 
 elect a Parliament any time on any war, any- 
 where ! unless it should so happen that the 
 people were hungry? Mr. Adams wrote to 
 Mr. Seward, February 14, that England 
 held the door lohile her tivo associates went 
 in to perpetrate the very act ivhich she de- 
 nounced at the start! and our minister 
 also intimates that the whole job was got up 
 by the premier and the foreign secretary, 
 without consulting the other members of the 
 Cabinet! (Oh! and order.) 
 
 The allies did not want the money. Did 
 not Mr. Corwin offer to pay the bills? Did 
 not Mexico accept the loan? and have not 
 England and France rejected the offer? Mr. 
 Seward says so. (Hear and applause.) What 
 is the inference ? Why, it is that the pound 
 of flesh nearest the heart was wanted — not 
 the ducats. Mexico was the flesh — America 
 the heart. But the European Shylock will 
 not be more successful than him of the 
 Eialto! (Hear and interruption.) Some gen- 
 tlemen remarks that England had retired, 
 and therefore was not responsible. When 
 three muscular Christians combine to go to 
 a church, and two of the burglars quarrel on 
 the threshold over the division of the spoil — 
 (laughter) — and the third goes out and robs 
 the treasury, burns down the church, and 
 shoots the priest — (hear)— do you pretend 
 to tell me that the outside thieves are not 
 equally responsible for the crime that the 
 inside ruffian has perpetrated ? (Loud 
 cheers.) 
 
 America's four cardinal virtues. 
 
 In conclusion, gentlemen, let me observe 
 that America has four points in her political 
 compass — four cardinal ideas — each grand, 
 pregnant, national. The first is Independ- 
 ence — a word that does not appear in the 
 Hebrew Bible or the English Shakespere. 
 The word is American — we fought for it — 
 we won it — we own it. (Hear.) The second 
 is Liberty ! No other land can claim its 
 fame. Liberty abroad means despotism. 
 (Oh!) In America it means liberty! (Cheers.) 
 The third is Union. (Cheers.) We planted 
 
 it — we cultivated it — and the idea is conse- 
 crated in the death of treason. (Hear.) The 
 fourth point is an heirloom — a tradition — a 
 fine idea — known to all, and all will fight for 
 it to the death. You anticipate my point — 
 it is the Monroe doctrine. (Cheers.) The 
 President, forty years ago, introduced ten 
 lines into his annual message. Let me recite 
 them : — 
 
 THE MONROE DOCTRINE. 
 
 " The American Continents, by the free 
 and independent condition which they have 
 assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to 
 be considered as subjects for future coloni- 
 zation by any European power ; and while 
 existing rights should be respected, the 
 safety and interest of the United States re- 
 quire them to announce that no future 
 colony or dominion shall, with their consent, 
 be planted or established in any part of the 
 North America Continent." 
 
 So wrote President Monroe in his Con- 
 gressional Message, Dec. 1823. Calhoun of 
 Carolina, and Adams of Massachusetts, were 
 the prominent men of his Cabinet. So North 
 and South were both well represented. 
 Senator Cass, representing the great work, 
 endorsed the doctrines in 1853 — and Mr. 
 Seward, representing the P^ast, Jan. 26, 
 1853, made a powerful speech in the Senate 
 on continental rights and relations. " Sir," 
 said Mr. Seward, " I am willing to declare 
 myself opposed— radically opposed—opposed 
 at all times, Jiorw henceforth and forever — 
 opposed at the risk of all hazards and conse- 
 quences, t^ any design, of any State or 
 States on this Continent." The Seward of 
 that day is the Seward of this. The eloquent 
 Senator is now the great Premier who has 
 confidence in his people, and his people have 
 confidence in him. (Cheers.) I am one of 
 his admirers, and I demand of him as one of 
 that people to drive France out of Mexico. 
 (Oh.) Let the Galena, the Monitor, and 
 fifty gunboats steam to Vera Cruz, and 
 speedily too. France must loose her grip 
 from the throat of Mexico, or Napoleon 
 must die. (Dissent.) C?esar had his Brutus — 
 Charles I. his Cromwell — and the Emperor 
 of the French does not profit by their ex- 
 ample. Naturally jealous of seeing the 
 Bourbon Princes intimate with the Presi- 
 dent — disgusted at finding them fighting 
 the battle of Liberty with McClellan — under 
 the impression that America was dying, 
 showing how little he knew our people. 
 (Cheers.) He has made a secret treaty with 
 Palmerston that will as surely overthrow 
 both powers, and meet with the contempt it 
 deserves. (Hear.) 
 
 Carry out the programme of forcing bank- 
 rupt European Kings upon Young Repub- 
 lics in the Western world, and Napoleon 
 may be the last Bonaparte that will ever 
 reign in France — (oh)— and the Prince of 
 
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 Wales may be the last King of England. 
 (Dissent, hisses, and derisive laughter.) You 
 may hiss — or you may applaud — yon can 
 neither bend me nor break me. (Hear.) 
 The debate is on the square — mind against 
 niind-^braia against biaiu. I have given 
 
 you some facts — some ideas — and conclude 
 by saying to France, take off your soldiers 
 from our Mexican soil, or we will make 
 Mexico the grave of the Tliird Napoleon! 
 (Loud cheers and applause.) 
 
 GEORGE ERANCIS TRAIN ON INTERVENTION! AMERICAN! 
 AND YANKEE PLUCK! 
 
 ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND AMERICA. LOUD CHEERS FOR 
 THE AMERICAN UNION. 
 
 [From the London American of J^ay 21, 1862.] 
 
 The terrible distress in Lancashire and 
 some of the other manufacturing districts of 
 England has given rise to the opinion with 
 some that England and France ought to in- 
 terfere in the American struggle. This 
 question, like all others which occupy the 
 public attention, is thoroughly discussed by 
 the people at the public discussion halls in 
 London, and as the secession press of Eng- 
 land are most industriously instructing the 
 people to encourage intervention, misrepre- 
 senting the North, and manufacturing sym- 
 pathy for the South, it is not surprising that 
 on the question, at one of these public dis- 
 cussions. " Ought England and f^rance to 
 interfere in the American struggle ?" there 
 should be many speakers in the afBrmative. 
 
 Mr. Train, who replied to those speakers, 
 spoke with his characteristic boldness ; it 
 will be observed that he has not scrupled to 
 speak plainly and to the point, regardless of 
 consequences. 
 
 It should be born in mind that in all these 
 speeches, made to English audiences, Mr. 
 Train never forces himself upon his audi- 
 ences, he never rises unless loudly called for, 
 or speaks unless by the desire of those who 
 listen to him. It may appear somewhat 
 singular to us that an English audience will 
 listen to the vigorous thrusts and tremen- 
 duous blows that Mr. Train inflicts upon 
 their government and themselves in many 
 of his speeches; but it should be borne in 
 mind that the people themselves admire 
 genuine pluck, and Mr. Train's unconquer- 
 able energy and perseverance, his demo- 
 cratic opinions, and his many successful and 
 profitable labors for English charities and 
 the English people, have won their esteem 
 and rendered him a popular man. 
 
 At a recent public discussion on the " in- 
 tervention" question, Mr. Train made the 
 following vigorous and characteristic speech: 
 
 Ought England and France interfere in the 
 
 American war ? Of course not — why should 
 they? What right have they to interfere? 
 Let England and France mind their own 
 affairs, and leave Aniprica to settle her own 
 disputes. (Hear.) The precedents men- 
 tioned by two speakers where England inter- 
 vened in the South American Republics 
 bear no analogy to this case. It is posi- 
 tively insulting to mention the three closer 
 powers of Paraguay, Venezuela, on Central 
 America, with the more or less United States 
 of America I And why did England inter- 
 fere even there ? Because they were weak 
 and she was strong. (Oh, and hear.) Bel- 
 gium and Greece were better precedents — 
 but those powers were also too feeble to re- 
 sist. You say France intervened iu the 
 Revolution. Even so — but there is a wide 
 field between the Revolution of the colonies 
 against England and the Conspiracy in Se- 
 cessia against the country. (A voice : where 
 is the difference?) Simply, one people re- 
 volted on the issue that taxation without 
 representation xoas robbery I — (hear, hear,) 
 — while the others conspired against the 
 very laws the Southerners made themselves. 
 (Applause.) Possessing more than an equal 
 representation, they went in for more by 
 robbery, ignoring taxation altogether. Such 
 men as Lafayette, and De Grasse, and Ro- 
 chambeau, are again well represented in 
 another age. — by the Count of Paris, the 
 Duke of Chartres and General Havelock, 
 and a dozen great names who are fighting 
 the cause of freedom. (Cheers.) Intervene 
 say you— but hands off, say I ! Europe says 
 to America, stop fighting ! America says 
 to Europe, mind your own business. (Laugh- 
 ter.) Europe says to America, when rogues 
 fall out, honest men reap their reward. 
 (Hear.) America says to Europe, when 
 honest men fall out, rogues stand ready to 
 pick up the spoil ! (Laughter and applause.) 
 The diplomatic wolves have been howling 
 
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 for montbs, but the nation is not quite dead. 
 The European vultures will have no oppor- 
 tunity of satiating their appetites on the 
 carcase of a dead Republic ! Look on if 
 you like, and commend or censure, no mat- 
 ter which ; but keep on your own side the 
 fence. We seek not your friendship — we 
 fear not your enmity. Enemies never be- 
 tray you — ^the ambush — tlie betrayal comes 
 from your friend. England bullies weak na- 
 tions but toadies to strong ones. (Oh!) 
 The honorable speaker makes a fearful ad- 
 mission when he says that England has put 
 up with insult fer more than fifty years, in- 
 stancing the Maine boundary — the Oregon 
 question — the 8an Juan difficulty — and the 
 overhauling of ships in the Gulf. (Hear.) 
 So much the worse for England's bravery — 
 if these were insults, which they were not, 
 and as England is ever ready to attack weak 
 powers, it follows that England was afraid 
 of us. (Oh! and derisive laughter.) You 
 may sneer, sir, but England never acts but 
 from motives of interest or fear. (Hear.) 
 An opium war in China, or a Fiilibustering 
 Expedition to Mexico, a fight with the Aff- 
 ghans, or an attack upon the Indians of the 
 Southern ocean, just suits the taste of your 
 people. (Oh ! and dissent.) Give us money, 
 give us land, give us trade, or judgment is 
 ours, and we will repay, saith this Christian 
 nation. (Laughter.) When you wanted 
 money last century your war policy was 
 comprised in a sentence : — Squeeze the old 
 Begimis of Oude. (Laughter.) Read the 
 impeachment of Warren Hastings, which 
 Burke prepared for Sheridan to deliver to 
 the House of Lords. Your policy this cen- 
 tury has been — when you wanted to distract 
 attention from European complications, you 
 overhauled an American ship, and then 
 apologized — (Oh!) — always ready to strike 
 a small man, but careful not to hit a man of 
 your own calibre. (Oh ! and hear.) Inter- 
 vention in our affairs means war to the 
 knife — war to the cannon's mouth. (Hear.) 
 
 Oh! though perennial be the .'trife, 
 For hounr U^ar. for hearthstone fire; 
 
 Give tlow fir blow! take lite lor life! 
 
 Strike till the last armed foe expire ! (Applause ) 
 
 You complain of our being so long in putting 
 down the revolution. You landed in the 
 Crimea in September, 1854, and did not 
 enter Sebastopol till September, 1855. 
 (Hear.) We have been some time ; but you 
 forget that we have been fighting our own 
 people — Americans against Americans. 
 Had we been pitted against Englishmen or 
 Frenchmen, as we should be in case either 
 dare to interfere — (oh !) — we would have 
 arranged the matter in half the time. (Ironi- 
 cal laughter, followed by loud cheer.-. An 
 English audience will always cheer a plucky 
 thing, even though it tells against them.) 
 Invade us, proud kingdom, if you dare, and 
 ■we will 
 
 Make every houpe. and rock and tr^e. 
 
 And hill, our forts; and f n and floodi 
 Yield not! our soil .shKll rather bo 
 
 One waste of fl:ime, one sea of blood I 
 Fear not your steel, nor fear your irold— 
 
 Nor English force, nor Knglish fraud, 
 Trust not your race — as filse as coM — 
 
 Whose very prayers are lies to God I 
 
 (Hisses and applause.) Domestic war may 
 bring foreign discord ; but foreign war would 
 bring domestic happines. Solomon was 
 luise lohen he detected the false mother hy 
 ordering the child to he cut in two I There 
 was mui-ic in the war songs of our revolu- 
 tionary sires : — 
 
 Statep of the VTest I my own fair land I 
 Our fo^ has cnme — the hour is nigh ; 
 His hale-fires rise on every hand — 
 
 Rise as one man to do or die ! 
 From mouutain, vale, and piaiiie wide, 
 From forest vast, and field aud gleu, 
 And crowded city, pour thy lide. 
 
 Oh. fervid band! of patriot men. (Applause.) 
 Up, old and young! the weak be stiong! 
 llise for the right — hml back the wrong, 
 And toot to foot, and brand to brand. 
 Strike for our own dear native laud 1 (Cheers ) 
 
 Interference ! who ever heard of an author 
 introducing a stately fisrure in the last scene 
 of the last act of a great drama. (Hear, 
 hear.) Think of trotting Macbeth out for 
 the first time just befora the fall of the cur- 
 tain. (Laughter and cheers.) The price of 
 truth is slander — the price of falsehood is 
 praise — nevertheless, truth is God's law — 
 while falsehood is the devil's counsel, (Ap- 
 plause.) Give me sneers and let me be 
 honest — or give me cheers and make me a 
 traitor. England applauds Secession — and 
 hisses Unity and patriotism — not because 
 she loves the South more — but the North 
 less. (Hear.) My words may annoy you — 
 but my points 1 will force you to admit. 
 (Will you?) How absurd for the learned 
 speaker to say that America is always insult- 
 ing England. Jf it is true why not resent it — 
 when the gauntlet is thrown down why don't 
 you take it up? No! Mr. Chairman, the 
 fault of our people is they think too much 
 of England — else they would not feel so sen- 
 sitive at your most unmanly, ungenerous, 
 unnatural conduct. (Hear.) America hate 
 you ! — you are misinformed. It is the elder 
 who envies the young nation. The father in 
 England is jealous of the son who is growing 
 up to overshadow him — no more prominent 
 trait crops out of English character. The 
 First George hated the Second — the Second 
 disliked the Third — and the- Third George 
 was always at war with the Fourth — Pitt 
 and the King were always plotting against 
 Fox and the Regent. (Hear.) Royalty 
 gives the fashion, nobles copy, and hate 
 their first-born sons. The landed gentry 
 follow, and dislike theirs, and the middle 
 classes, under the barbarous old feudal laws 
 of primogeniture, imitate all the vices of the 
 aristocracy without copying any of their vir- 
 tues. (Oh, and applause.) Hence the envy 
 and jealousy of the father towards the son 
 
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 who will supersede him in the entail. This 
 is the evil of primogeniture — (cheers) — such 
 is England. The aristocracy rule. The 
 middle classes assent, and the people are 
 called a mob! (Hear, and "that's so.") 
 This diversion I have made to prove that 
 the son bears the father no ill-will — while the 
 contrary is proverbial ! Individuals are too 
 much like States, not to apply the simile to 
 nations. England, the father, is jealous of 
 America, the first-born. But the child bears 
 no enmity against the parent. (Cheers.) 
 No ! America neither fears you nor hates 
 you. Her annoyance at your strange treat- 
 ment arises from affection, not revenge. 
 (Cheers.) Besides, victors bear no malice 
 against the vanquished. (Oh!) It is the 
 punished who brood revenge, not the pun- 
 isher, America has always been the victor. 
 England was defeated on both occasions. 
 (Hear and " No.") Therefore it is England 
 who broods over the disgrace— not America, 
 a country that was never conquered. (Oh, 
 and cheers.) Intervention in American af- 
 fairs! with whom? The North or South? 
 Not the South, for Yancey says it is im- 
 possible. Besides it would be declaring war 
 against the United States. (Cheers.) Not 
 the North — for America is not so low as to 
 choose an arbitrator in the hour of victory. 
 (Cheers.) Would Havelock have allowed 
 Prussia to have intervened as he was going 
 iutoLucknow? (No.) Would France have 
 allowed America to intervene in favor of 
 Austria for Solferino? (No.) Would Eng- 
 land have allowed intervention in the Crimea 
 as she was walking through the Redan and 
 MalakofiT into Sebastopol? (Cheers.) Not 
 a mite of it. Let Napoleon do so wild a 
 thing as to dare interfere in our affairs, and 
 you may purchase his crown for a shilling. 
 (Oh, and applause.) liCt England desecrate 
 our soil by invasion or intervention, and even 
 the crown jewels of those islands may as well 
 be offered to the highest bidder. (Hear and 
 " Question.") The gentleman says, " Ques- 
 tion" — the simple fact of his interruption 
 shows how closely I sail to the subject un- 
 der debate. (Applause.) England may not 
 be accustomed to this kind of talk; bul it is 
 high time she understood that America 
 ceased to be a chicken — (laughter) — when 
 she smashed up all the European navies by 
 that little naval sea fight at Fortress Mon- 
 roe. (Cheers,) Which the Times in ifs 
 geographical wisdom locates at the mouth 
 of the Potomac. (Laughter.) Do you sup- 
 pose that the American President would 
 have allowed the French Minister to have 
 gone to Richmond without the sanction of 
 the administration ? (Hear, hear.) The 
 least thought would explain to you that Mr. 
 Lincoln and Mr. Seward planned the whole 
 affair, and in acknowledgment for the ser- 
 vices rendered by France, the President 
 pays the Emperor the high compliment of 
 
 going on board the French frigate at Wash- 
 ington — (applause) — the first time it was 
 ever done by any President. The Minister 
 most likely went down to tell Davis that the 
 Emperor was ashamed of his acquaintance. 
 (Laughter.) Why is it, gentlemen, you see 
 nothing in America to commend ? Why do 
 you look so disheartened at the announce- 
 ment of the fall of New Orleans ? Does it 
 remind you of the picture of General Jack- 
 son ? Why is it that you continually do cry 
 — (laughter) — that the next mail will bring 
 another Bull Run? I will tell you, gentle- 
 men, it is because the Wish is Thought's 
 Father. (No, no ; and hear, hear.) Federal 
 victories make you miserable. Hence you 
 pray every night for Federal reverses. (No, 
 no ; and that's so.) Everything against us 
 delights you. Everything in our favor you 
 disclaim. You would illuminate all London, 
 if you dared to, if McClellan was defeated at 
 Yorktown. (Oh ! and a hiss.) No wonder 
 you object to my mentioning Yorktown. It 
 certainly has some unpleasant memories to 
 Englishmen. (Question.) McClellan has 
 been before the town about the same time 
 that Washington was in another century — 
 and the traitor Davis will, most likely, not 
 wait so long to give up his sword as Lord 
 Cornwallis did on a similar occasion. (Hear, 
 hear; and applause.) Our army is full of 
 Washingtons, and Koscuiskos and Layfay- 
 ettes. Faraday saw the thunderstorm in a 
 dish of water. Watts saw the power of 
 steam, as the kettle sung its song of triumph 
 over the firewood. So the true Union man 
 felt in his bones the destiny God has ordained 
 for his chosen people. (Applause.) Ich 
 Dien was his war cry as well as that of 
 the Prince of Wales. 'I'he almighty Dol- 
 lar has furnished you with many a sneer. 
 The almighty Cotton has also stimulated 
 your sarcasms, but in future we intend 
 to make you respect the almighty Union ! 
 (Cheers.) The reserve power of America is 
 terrible ! Every soldier is a voltaic battery, 
 every officer a steam engine in breeches — 
 (laughter) — for the future to be of American 
 manufacture. (Hear, hear.) Our revolution 
 is a war of ideas — a war of freedom — a war 
 for oppressed mankind. (Applause.) There 
 is more brains in Northern hands than 
 Southern heads — that is why we take the 
 belt. (Hear.) Remember that only a year 
 has passed since England made that fearful 
 error of siding with rebellion. We shall 
 never forget — nor will you ! 
 
 Remember we that awful mom? along the lines then came 
 The flash from Sumter's guns that set our northern ihy 
 
 aflame. 
 Nor lehS was ours the thrilling thought from lip to lip that 
 
 ran, 
 Than theirs at Belgium's festival when Waterloo began ! 
 
 (Cheers.) 
 AdDwn Virginia's valleys and along her mountain ways, 
 The light of loyal bayonets shall gleam like flelJs of maize. 
 Beyond her lair Potomac, und where James's current runs, 
 The tide of loyal armies bears down her treacherous sons; 
 
 (Loud cheers.) 
 
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 Even Wellington and Bonaparte begin to 
 pale with their one-barrel artillery campaigns 
 when compared with our revolving arms. 
 (Laughter and cheers.) England's idea of 
 liberty is freedom for England and slavery 
 for all mankind. (Hear, and dissent.) I 
 mean providing it pays. (Laughter.) Other- 
 wise — then slavery for England and freedom 
 for all the world. (Oh, and hear.) It is 
 only a question of money. India gave man- 
 kind Conscience — Greece added Keason — 
 Rome, Will — but America, possessing con- 
 science, reason, and will, took out a patent 
 for Energy and Truth. (Hear, and laugh- 
 ter.) When England engaged a passage on 
 the Secession Pirate, she accidentally got 
 into the wrong boat — (laughter) — and pos- 
 terity will refuse to pay back the passage 
 money. (Laughter.) Ifyou have the least 
 spark of honesty about slavery, why don't 
 you praise our people for abolishing it in the 
 District of Columbia ? Why do you not get 
 up and cheer for Mr. Seward for making a 
 treaty with Lord Lyons to put down the 
 slave trade. (Hear.) Have we not given 
 up another point, the right of search ? Ow- 
 ing to our wonderful activity, England will 
 find that our people will overhaul the most 
 ships — (laughter) — and by that means no 
 doubt prove that the slave trade is mostly 
 carried on by English ships and English 
 capital, armed by some of the leading dis- 
 ciples of Exeter Hall. (Cries of oh, and 
 that is most unfair.) 
 
 Could every man's interual care be written on his brow, 
 How many would our pity sliare, that raise our euvy now i 
 
 The simile is most applicable to some Chris- 
 tian nations. (Laughter.) What a howl 
 would have passed through England had 
 the Northern army been guilty of the brutal 
 attrocities perpetrated by the rebels at 
 Manassas and elsewhere ? (Shame.) Using 
 the skulls of our brave officers for spittoons, 
 boiling off their flesh to get their ribs for 
 castinets — (shame) — and sending tokens 
 made from the bones of our brave men to the 
 fiends in the shape of women, who seem to 
 have acted like so many tigresses during this 
 terrible civil war. (Shame.) May God 
 have mercy on their souls 1 Yes — 
 
 Perish ye traitors and knaves, 
 Ye changers of men into slaves, 
 
 Ye rebels, so craven and base. 
 Where now is your boasted reliance ? 
 And where are your looks of defiance?} 
 
 Mid clouds of defeat and disgrace! 
 
 These men and women are quite worthy of 
 your sympathy. (Oh! and a voice: We 
 never sympathized with them.) But, hurrah ! 
 for the men of the North, hurrah ! You 
 have not the inclination to appreciate our 
 array of noble women and brave men, but 
 I say— 
 
 God bless the Union army, 
 
 And ihe flag by wliicli it stands; 
 Miiv it preserve with Freemau's nerye 
 
 What Freeman's God demands! (CheerB.) 
 Peal out, >e bells, ye women pray. 
 
 Fur never yet went forth 
 So grand a ljand,for Law and Land, 
 
 As the muster of the North. 
 
 , (Loud and continued cheering.) 
 
 GEORGE ERANCIS TRAI^ OK THE AMERICAN NAVY! 
 
 THE MONITOR! STATESMEN! BAiNKRUPTCY! 
 
 INSOLVENCY! AND TAXATION! 
 
 [^From the London American of April 2, 1862. J 
 
 ANOTHER BROADSIDE FROM MR. TRAIN. 
 
 It would be rather difficult to realize how 
 completely the Secession sentiment has given 
 way in this country, since the recent North- 
 ern victories, to Federal sympathy. The 
 press took the cue from Lord John Russell 
 and the Parliamentary debates, and the 
 people are not long in following their lead- 
 ers. Yet, notwithstanding this sudden 
 change in favor of the Union, the old feel- 
 ing crops out now and then ; as was shown 
 at the " Cogers" on Saturday evening, when 
 Mr. Train brought his batteries again into 
 action in defence, the opening speaker saying 
 that America was bankrupt, and had no 
 statesman equal to the present emergency, 
 the principal attack being against the tax 
 
 bill of Congress. The audience seemed 
 unanimous in calling up Mr. Train to re- 
 spond to the charge, 
 
 NO STATESMEN IN AMERICA ! 
 
 Mr. Train : I will answer your cheers, 
 Mr. Grand and gentlemen, by brevity in re- 
 ply. Some poet says, we take no notes on 
 time but for a loss. (I^aughter.) Young, I 
 think, was the party who said that man at 
 thirty thinks himself a fool, knows it at forty, 
 and at fifty chides his infamous delay; but 
 to-night we have had a gentleman past sixty 
 stand face to face with acknowledged facts, 
 ridiculing our institutions, sneering at our 
 statesmen, and misrepresenting the object 
 of our civil war. (No, and hear.) He says 
 there is no honesty, no intelligence, no en- 
 
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 ergy, no virtue in our statesmen. Oh ! that 
 we could have his superior wisdom to guide 
 our ship of state through the secession reefs ! 
 I rise to apologize for his speech, (Oh! and 
 laughter,) or rather to explain to you his 
 meaning. Of course he could not have 
 meant the Federal administration, where 
 energy, honesty, action, has shaken even 
 conservative Europe into respect. (Hear, 
 hear.) His remarks apply solely to Floyd, 
 the Thief ! Pillow, the Coward ! Beaure- 
 gard, the EvACUATOR ! Cobb, the Robber ! 
 Davis, the Traitor ! Wise, the Liar ! 
 Toombs, the Pirate ! and Breckenridge, the 
 Drunkard! (Loud cheers, laughter, and 
 applause.) The honorable speaker's com- 
 ments were intended for this nice little 
 party of villains, who the thieves, burglars, 
 and scamps of New York were ashamed of, 
 and petitioned the Chief of Police to remove 
 their photographs from the " Rogues' Gal- 
 lery." (Laughter and cheers.) So you see, 
 gentlemen, that there is some honor left 
 even in the profession. Again, he said — 
 America is going down with a velocity piti- 
 ful to witness. Once more I act as interpre- 
 ter. He means the great Northern army is 
 about pouring down over the tobacco plan- 
 tations and the cotton fields, to sweep away 
 the remnants of treason into the Gulf of 
 Mexico. (Applause.) He, is fresh from 
 reading McClellan's proclamation to the 
 Army of the Constitution! (Hear, hear.) 
 The words, " rapid and long marches," " he- 
 roic exertion," " great privation," " death- 
 blow to rebellion," are in his mind. (Hear, 
 hear.) God smiles upon us. Victory at- 
 tends us. These stirring thoughts inspire 
 him to say that the Republic is going down 
 out of the sight of nations, when he meant 
 to say that the Army of the Potomac is 
 already in Richmond. (Cheers.) Who would 
 ever have thought that p]ngland would have 
 gone into ecstacies in describing the mas- 
 terly retreat of the Army of Manassas! — 
 retreat in this instance signifies weakness, 
 cowardice, ignominy, disgrace ; while skill, 
 judgment, prudence, and bravery are words 
 to apply to the Russian army crossing to 
 the north side of Sebastopol in a single night. 
 (Hear, hear.) Do you know that sixty-five 
 gun and mortar-boats are within cannon-shot 
 of New Orleans? The poisoning of wells, 
 the infernal machines recently discovered 
 about the fortifications of Columbus, the de- 
 struction of crops, and the setting fire to 
 peaceful commercial cities are acts of bar- 
 barism equal to any of the brightest pages 
 of English history. (Oh ! order, and inter- 
 ruption.) Gentlemen, I allude to the em- 
 ployment of Indians to bring the scalps of 
 Americans to the English Treasury at so 
 much apiece during the Revolution, to the 
 ruthless destruction to the archives of the 
 nation, the patents, and the valuable library 
 at Washington in the last war ; the burning 
 
 of the Danish fleet; the use of Sepoy com- 
 missioners, in the absence of other wadding, 
 for Punjaub cannon ; and the more recent 
 barbarian destruction of documents four 
 thousand years of age, curious, countless in 
 value, presents from European princes ia 
 former ages that can never be replaced, to- 
 gether with all the rich works of art of the 
 Mantchou dynasty by the uncalled-for, un- 
 manly, and ungenerous burning of the Em- 
 peror's summer palace at Pekin ! (Hear, 
 hear, and interruption ; order ! the chairman 
 remarking that every speaker had the right 
 of expressing his free opinions.) But, Mr. 
 Grand and gentlemen, 1 will leave that por- 
 tion of the American question to the in- 
 coming mails, which will astonish you dur- 
 ing the next few weeks with Federal victories, 
 as much as you have been startled by our 
 past successes, (applause,) and take up ano- 
 ther subject — a subject that has already 
 opened the eyes of the Times and the Ad- 
 miralty. I speak of 
 
 THE late naval BULL-FIGHT ! 
 
 The Merrimac. — Five years ago I was in- 
 vited by the Mayor of Southampton to meet 
 the ofiicers of a five thousand ton American 
 frigate that had just arrived in the bay. 
 (Hear, hear.) The Times gave accurate 
 descriptions of this fine specimen of Ameri- 
 can naval architecture, and the Emperor of 
 Russia ordered Webb to build the General 
 Admiral, as a model for his navy. You 
 know the history of the Merrimac — how she 
 was sunk at Norfolk, burnt nearly to the 
 water's edge; armor-plated, iron-prowed, 
 and created into a huge war-machine upon 
 the ideas which Buchanan, the commander 
 of the Washington navy-yard gathered from 
 the unfinished Stevens' battery. (Hear, 
 hear.) So still has been the movement, we 
 had almost forgotten that such a ship ex- 
 isted ; when, presto ! James River is alive 
 again ; the Cumberland fires a broadside 
 only to receive a fatal thrust from her iron 
 antagonist, who, like Spanish matador with 
 Spanish bull, withdraws a little, fires another 
 broadside, headlong plunges into the Cum- 
 berland, who bravely refused to strike her 
 flag, and two hundred valiant men are with 
 the fishes at the bottom of the sea! Like 
 the soldiers who presented arms when the 
 Birkenhead went down in Algoa bay — 
 (cheers) — the men of the Cumberland sunk 
 to rise no more in this world. (Hear, hear.) 
 Another broadside from the iron monster, 
 and the Congress struck, for blood was too 
 deep upon her decks to fight, (applause;) it 
 was not war — it was murder! Still another 
 broadside, and the Minnesota, Roanoke, and 
 St. Lawrence would have shared the same 
 unhappy fate, when, lo ! a strange turtle- 
 shaped craft startles the Merrimac's captain, 
 compelling him to let go his expected prize, 
 and stand to arms. (Hear, hear.) They 
 
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 fonglit For five hours like two wild boars; 
 now battery to battery — oow hand to hand ; 
 but the little war-god gained the victory — 
 Hcenaii broke the arm of Sayers — (cheers, 
 and laoghter) — and the Merrimac returned 
 lo stop her bleeding wounds. (Het.r, hear.) 
 Now I come to the important part of my 
 remarks : 
 
 li'^^GLAND IS NO LONGER MISTRESS OF TEE SEAS 
 ' — THE MONITOR. 
 
 (Oh! order.) The Merrimac has proved 
 lierself not a safe vessel to lay around loose. 
 (Laughter.) Suppose the Monitor hud have 
 been tbrty-'eight hours sooner, she wo«ld 
 have been in \\'ashington! forty-eight hours 
 !ater the Merrimac might have been there 
 ETistead. (Applause.) <jrive her coals and 
 munitioRS of war, what prevented her from 
 running down the coasts, and smashing up 
 our fleets? Who wonders that New York 
 was frightened ? No doubt we would have 
 Sound means to have stopped her progress, 
 but not before some magaKine of mischief 
 had exploded. Here is my point: the War- 
 dor will destroy any half-do«en wooden men- 
 of-war aifioat, (cheers;) and in thirty min«tes 
 the Merrimac would destroy the Warrior, 
 (dissent, and Oh I) hence the Merrimac alone 
 would destroy the British navy; while the 
 Monitor gave the Merrimac one crack be- 
 tween the eyes, and sent her back to her 
 corner, (Cheers.) I saw the Warrior was 
 a faihire when I found that she could only 
 go into Portsmouth for coals fifteen days in 
 the month. The Orlandos, the Emeralds, 
 and the Warriors are all too deep for any 
 port io American waters J (Cheers.) No 
 greater event has happeRed this last three 
 hundred years. The locomotive was de- 
 structive to the stage coaches ; telegraph 
 made havoc of the letter-bags 5 revolver 
 proved itself a full-blooded colt among horse 
 pistols. As the Enfield rifie laughed at the 
 old brown Bess, and the flint-lock smooth- 
 bores of the early wars, so the Monitor in 
 naval warfare is what Mr. Peabody is in 
 charity. (Loud cheers ) You had better 
 tell Laird to stop the Defiance at Birken- 
 head, and Bell to stop vast-heaving on the 
 other iron-clad battery. Telegraph to Ports- 
 mouth to discharge the workmen on the for- 
 tifications, and order the Admiralty to turn 
 your entire navy into cotton ships, coal ships, 
 and lumbermen 5 for half-a dozen Monitors 
 would destroy as many empires. (Cheers, 
 and dissent.) Some gentleman doubts it, 
 but her recent action convinces me that the 
 Monitor having proved herself a better sea- 
 boat in the terrible gale on the 7th than the 
 Warrior did in the Bay of Biscay, could 
 steam across the ocean, and place Liverpool 
 under tribute; knock down your fortifica- 
 tions at Spithead ; destroy your fleet at 
 Portsmouth; steam up the 'I'hames, (for 
 you kaow how opposed England is to sinking 
 
 vessels in the river ;)' (laughter and cheers;) 
 and place London at her mercy, with her 
 turret revolvers pointed at the Houses of 
 Parliament, while Lord Palmerston was dis- 
 cussing the propriety of spending twelve 
 millions sterliug on the fortifications of Eng- 
 land. (Hear, and applause.) The Monitor 
 had two guy.s — the Jlerrimac ten ; the M oni- 
 tor had fifty men — the Merrimac five hun- 
 dred ; the Monitor is not twelve hundred 
 tons burthen; the Warrior five thousand; 
 the Monitor draws but eight feet— the War- 
 rior twenty-eight; the Monitor cost fifty 
 thousand pounds — the Warrior five hundred 
 thousand. The keel of the Monitor was laid 
 in the middle of October; she was launched 
 in the middle of January; and before the 
 middle of March demonstrated a principle 
 that has rendered valueless a Iwndred navies 
 and a thousand line-of-battle ships. The 
 Warrior was two years in building. The 
 wooden walls of England are buried with 
 Campbell, who in poetry made their name 
 immortal, (cheers ;) and Tennyson, I trust, 
 is already at work on the iron sides of Eng- 
 land; for Britannia does need bulwarks, 
 since the Monitor has rendered unsafe her 
 march upon the deep. The Monitor has in- 
 troduced a new epoch in naval history: 
 already the French Minister has received 
 the plans from our Secretary of War; al- 
 ready the Russian legation have got the 
 models; and Loi-d Lyons has already sent 
 Lord John Russell plans for the Admiralty, 
 You see that America is generous. We 
 will not only send you the plans, but the 
 men to make the steamers, as we did to 
 make the Enfield rifles. (Laughter and 
 cheers ) Who wonders at the astonishment 
 of the Times! How anxious Napoleon 
 must be to get to work ! for the Monitor 
 could steer into Cherbourg, and sink the 
 navy of France. For cannon balls rattle off 
 her bomb-proof deck like minnies on the side 
 of a rhinoceros, or buck shot off the corru- 
 gated back of an alligator. The first naval 
 power of to-day is America. (Oh! cheers, 
 and laughter.) Our navy consists of the 
 Monitor ; but we have voted five millions 
 sterling to build a huudred more during the 
 next six months, some of which are to go, 
 like the Stevens' battery, //^ee« miles an 
 hour, and to throw Rodman shot, some one 
 writes to Laird, weighing half a ton. (Hear 
 and cheers.) Do you know why you cannot 
 fire over a hundred pound shot without burst- 
 ing your Whilworths and your Armstrongs? 
 Let me tell you a secret, as you know 1 bear 
 England the best of good will. (Hear, hear,) 
 It is because you have not learned the art 
 of gunpowder ; you have been spending your 
 time on shot and shell, and cannon, and iron 
 plates ; but you still use the old-fashioned 
 small-grained powder, which has made the 
 Armstrong gun a failure ; (by-the-by, as 
 your governnieDt has the monopoly ot that 
 
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 gan, will some of you bfe kind enough to tell 
 me where the Merrimac got her two Arm- 
 strougs from?) (Hear, hear.) Yes! you 
 are not awake to the use of powder. When 
 Dupont was here buying up the saltpetre, he 
 seemed astonished at seeing large guns still 
 loaded with small-grained powder. Your 
 War Department should know that during 
 this war all our large guns were loaded with 
 a kind of gunpowder an inch cube in size, 
 ■which gives new power to the projectile — a 
 fact which your Admiralty should have made 
 use of \on^ before this. (Hear, hear.) This 
 is the age of Monitors and gunpowder ! — 
 have YOU not noticed Nelson's animated ap- 
 pearance since the recent naval battle? — 
 oblige me by standing a minute on the steps 
 of the Hotel du Morley, and contemplate his 
 manly attitude both in peace and war. — 
 (Laughter and cheers.) How surprised old 
 Napier would have be^n could he have had 
 one of the reserved seats at the late trial of 
 armor clad battle ships ! Why, the Monitor 
 could hav'e steamed through his fleet in the 
 Baltic, sinking his men-of-war right and left, 
 as the Merrimac did the Cumberland and 
 the (Congress, steamed into Cronstadt, sunk 
 the Russian squadron, sailed up the Neva, 
 and asked the Emperor in his winter palace 
 for a small tribute — if he preferred it to the 
 destruction of his capital. Nay, more: the 
 Monitor might have paid her respects to 
 Dundas in the Black Sea, and swept away 
 the Agamemnons and Napoleons the Third 
 of the allied fleet like so many wooden houses, 
 run into Sebastopol, sunk the Twelve Apos- 
 tles, smashed Fort Constantine, and made 
 Menschikoti" on bended knees beg for the 
 safety of Sebastopol ! (Cheers.) Of such, 
 gentlemen, is the Monitor. You must wipe 
 off the old score, and commence anew. You 
 have no navy now. Suppose both of us go 
 to building Monitors, so that in 1863 we can 
 start ofl' on a piratical, filibustering expe- 
 dition over the world together, instead of 
 your going alone, as formerly. (Laughter, 
 and cheers.) 
 
 BANKRUPTCY — INSOLVENCY — TAXATION. 
 
 1 wanted to say a word upon the severe 
 attack the gentleman made upon our taxa- 
 tion and expectant bankruptcy, but 1 fear 
 that the morning hour is too near at hand. 
 (Cries of go on : you have five minutes more, 
 from the Chairman.) Your words, sir, were 
 harsh upon America, and conie with bad 
 grace from a subject of the most tax-bur- 
 dened nation of the world. (Oh, and hear, 
 hear.) When a man has realized a fortune 
 in the sale of intoxicating liquors, how sin- 
 gular it seems to have him come out as a 
 first-class temperance lecturer! AVhen a 
 burglar sets your house on fire, it requires 
 some cheek for him to run up the street 
 singing out, Stop thief! You can imagine 
 my surprise when Lola Montez, who had led 
 
 the gayest life of any woman in the century, 
 told me in Australia that she was about re- 
 turning to the United States and England, 
 to deliver a course of lectures on virtue and 
 morality — (laughter) — on the Christian prin- 
 ciple that one sinner who repenteth, and so- 
 forth ; of course. I applauded, as you do 
 now. (Hear, and laughter.) These sudden 
 changes are always surprising, but not so 
 much so as to see England, who had built 
 up her fortune on the slave trade, and the 
 product of slave labor, coolly lecturing Ame- 
 rica about the terrible ain she had entailed 
 upon her. All these things I can stand — 
 (hear, hear) but Herod is out-Heroded when 
 England acts the Monitor as a taxation lec- 
 turer. (Laughter and applause.) Certainly 
 no other country has ever so manfully stag- 
 gered under such terrible pressure. In all 
 good nature, will you allow me to sketch 
 your position? (Hear, hear, yes, and -go on.) 
 Then I will say that the honorable speaker 
 is taxed on every thing he wears, from head 
 to foot; on his American tobacco and Chi- 
 nese tea ; on bis Belgian chicory and West 
 India sugar; his French wines and his Span- 
 ish brandies ; every thing in this hall to- 
 night — pictures on the walls, the gas-lights, 
 and even the salaries of waiters bear the 
 marks of taxation ! the rich and the poor, 
 the merchant and the mechanic, the peer 
 and peasant, all know the merits or demerits 
 of taxation. Perhaps, as I am on the sub- 
 ject, you prefer your own critic to tell you 
 who it reaches: Your love of war, wrote 
 the witty Dean, not many years before he 
 died, has brought you taxes on every thing 
 on the earth, and the waters under the earth, 
 taxes upon all that conies from abroad, and 
 every fresh value that is added to it by the 
 industry of man ; taxes upon light, and heat 
 and air ; taxes upon the spice that pampers 
 the rich man's appetite, and the drug that 
 restores him to health ; taxes upon the rich 
 ermine of the judge, and the rope that hangs 
 the criminal; taxes upon the brass nails of 
 the cofBn, and the ribbons of the bride — 
 (loud cheers! Mr. Train, however, continu- 
 ing his apostrophe, and not noticing the in- 
 terruption ;) the school-boy whips his taxed 
 top; the college-student drives his taxed 
 horse with a taxed bridle over a taxed road ; 
 and the dying Englishman pours his medi- 
 cine, which is taxed fifteen per cent., into 
 the spoon which is taxed twenty-two per 
 cent., to fall buck and die in the arms of his 
 apothecary, who has paid a hundred pounds 
 for the license of putting him to death, — 
 (Cheers and laughter.) — He is then taken in 
 a taxed hearse by taxed mourners to a taxed 
 grave, where his virtues are portrayed by a 
 taxed brush on a taxed marble^ when he is 
 gathered to his fathers to be taxed no more ! 
 (Loud cheers. The audience seemed to 
 take it all in perfect good nature.) England 
 is the last nation to lecture America on tax- 
 
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 ation. I have always denied your right of 
 the monopoly of all the taxes of the world ! 
 (Laughter.) America is great in nature as 
 she is in art. and has the genius to organize 
 a system of taxation that will make you 
 ashamed of yourselves. (Loud laughter.) 
 I remember two pictures in Punch that so 
 amused me at the time that I could have 
 squeezed that (Mark) Lemon in pure delight. 
 (Laughter.) One was Jonathan on one 
 shore talking to John Bull on the other; a 
 beautiful little clipper (representing the 
 yacht America) sailing round and round a 
 wash-tub in the foreground — (laughter) — 
 Jonathan modestly opening the conversation 
 by saying to John, We'll teach you how to 
 make a man-of-war — (laughter) — one of these 
 days — the comic artist must have had the 
 Monitor in his eye ! (Applause.) The other 
 picture demonstrated England's power of 
 bearing taxation ; it was during the Crimean 
 war ; an acrobat (John Bull) of huge pro- 
 portions appears with a pyramid of cannon 
 Ijalls on his head, arms extended, with an 
 immense weight in each hand, marked " na- 
 tional debt, four hundred million pounds ster- 
 ling," a huge mill-stone on his chest, (income 
 tax,) while in the corner was a bag represent- 
 ing the sixteen million pounds loan. (Hear, 
 hear.) Punch observes underneath, ''Not- 
 withstanding the immense weigJit which he 
 is novj carrying, he can take the bag bettveen 
 his teeth, and toalk round the room. (Loud 
 cheers, and laughter.) Now, Mr. Grand, if 
 the gentlemen will promise not to say any 
 
 thing more about taxation in Americe, I 
 will henceforth drop the subject in England. 
 (Laughter, and good.) In conclusion, let me 
 say that the logic of eveijts, the logic of 
 drilled armies, and the logic of Monitors, is 
 working out a new destiny for our Western 
 civilization. Glance, if you will, through 
 Nineverian, Babylonian, and Assyrian story, 
 all settling down to represent Industry in 
 Egypt ; pass on the tidal wave of time, 
 through Persian, Carthageniau, and Grecian 
 page, and you will find Rome introduced the 
 moral power of Law ; a thousand years and 
 more passed by. and France gives you Art ; 
 another era of centuries, and a combination 
 of Romans, Danes, Saxons, Normans, give 
 birth to the science of Commerce in your 
 proud and noble Englishmen. (Cheers.) 
 When Providence, in his march of Empire, 
 selected our western world to combine the 
 whole record, Industry, Law, Art, Com- 
 merce, in order to represent in its sublimity 
 the great idea of nature — Progress. (Cheers.) 
 The transactions of the past twelve months 
 have led some distinguished philosophers to 
 come to the conclusion that Humanity was 
 a puling babe in Asia, a school-boy in Europe, 
 and has gone to America to pass its man- 
 hood ! (Cheers and applause.) 
 
 Mr. Train was congratulated by several of 
 his opponents, for, however sharp he may 
 be in his thrusts when under the fire of de- 
 bate, he generally manages to keep on the 
 riffht side of his audiences. 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, A CONVICTED FELON. 
 
 HIS ABLE DEFENCE BEFORE THE MASSES. 
 
 [From the London American of April 9, 1862.] 
 
 A remarkable result of a remarkable trial 
 will be found in our column's to-day. Mr. 
 Train is the criminal, having committed an 
 unprovoked assault on the Queen's highway. 
 British justice is avenged. The American 
 was condemned, the Englishmen were 
 cleared. The most wonderful part, how- 
 ever, was the finding a man guilty purely on 
 exparte evidence Not one of Mr. Train's 
 witnesses were called. Some forty had been 
 got together at great expense. Nor was it 
 decided that he had the right of appeal. The 
 animus of some of the witnesses was clearly 
 shown to arise from the political feeling cre- 
 ated by Mr. Train's steadfast position on 
 the American question and the Trent affair. 
 Mr. Ward, the tradesman, who testified to 
 
 numerous accidents, admitted that he had 
 placarded in his window articles against Mr. 
 Train on his letter to the New York Herald. 
 Mr. Train seems to be already ventilating 
 the question in the Discussion Halls. The 
 same night he spoke at the " Forum," and 
 the " Cogers," where the numerous audiences 
 unanimously decided in favor of Mr. Train 
 and his Tramways. The speakers all pointed 
 one way — •' Whatever may be the decision 
 in the Court of Justice, the people are with 
 you, the best evidence of which are the 
 cheers with which you have been received 
 to-night." Mr. Train, in rising amid loud 
 applause, thanked the audience for permit 
 ting him to deliver the speech in his defence 
 that was refused him in the court. 
 
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 STATEMENT OF THE CASE. 
 
 Mr. Train. — You will give nie credit, Mr. 
 Chairman and gentlemen, of never having 
 intruded upon you any personal matters of 
 my failures or my successes. A paper has 
 been handed me showing me the points of 
 discussion of this evening under the events 
 of the week, but as I am just from the Court 
 House, perhaps you will allow me to speak 
 upon an event, which may not only prove 
 fatal to foreigners, but actually aims a blow 
 at the right of the subject, and if individuals 
 can be indicted for the act of an incorporated 
 body, would prove destructive to the grand 
 liberties of vestries and corporations. My 
 case is briefly stated. I am too well known 
 as the sole patentee, promoter, and intro- 
 ducer of tramways into Europe, to require a 
 preface to my remarks. And I have received 
 too much courtesy in this hall, not to know 
 that you will accept whatever I have to say, 
 without imputing to me motives with which 
 I am not actuated. I came, I saw, I con- 
 quered. Birkenhead, London, and Potteries, 
 and Darlington, all admitted — that provin- 
 cial roads have passed the ordeal of preju- 
 dice, and the omnibus proprietor of Birken- 
 head has just leased that line for five years, 
 at a large percentage on its cost ; but under 
 the decision of to-day, these lines may be 
 ordered up — tor the law as laid down at 
 Kingston, would apply to one as well as the 
 other. 
 
 COURSE PURSUED BY INVENTORS IN ENGLAND. 
 
 When inventors and introducers of new 
 ideas reach a foreign country, they natu- 
 rally seek those most interested to adopt 
 the scheme. McCormick with his reaping 
 machine saw the agriculturalists. Hobbs 
 with his locks saw the manufacturers. Colt 
 presented his pistol to the War Department. 
 The yatch America reported herself to the 
 Yatch Club. Creamer with his safety-brake 
 and Beard with his patent truck saw the 
 railway men. Hoe took his printing press 
 to the Times. Lee shows his steam fire en- 
 gine to the insurance companies. Thompson 
 astonishes the boat-builders with his new 
 inventions. The Monitor respectfully pre- 
 sents her plans to the Admirality. In these 
 inventions America was simply paying Eng- 
 land a little interest on the great capital of 
 Energy, Industry, Invention, and the Genius 
 of Machinery she has been borrowing during 
 the last half century. Each inventor, 1 say, 
 seeks the head-quarters of his invention, in 
 order to get authority to act, 
 
 PLANS presented TO LAMBETH VESTRY. 
 
 I presented my plans to the Corporations 
 believing that any public body incorporated 
 under the Act of Parliament, who was per- 
 mitted to give a trial of my scheme, would 
 save me harmless from criminal prosecu- 
 
 tion. The Lambeth Vestry was duly incor- 
 porated by Parliamentary Act. I sent them 
 my application. They asked for models. I 
 showed them, giving explanations. They 
 asked for a proposition. I made it. It was 
 accepted. They wanted guarantees, 1 
 gave them. The bond was signed. The 
 agreement sealed. The road promptly laid 
 down under the eye of their surveyor. The 
 vestry was satisfied ; and six handled thous- 
 and passengers since August, have used the 
 four cars in testimony of my perfect success 
 in introducing a carriage for the people. 
 
 OPPOSED TO LEGAL RESEARCH. 
 
 Now, having done alj that a man could do 
 to comply with the law, was it to be ex- 
 pected that I should ransack the musty re- 
 cords of the past since Alfred's day, wading 
 through Habeas Corpus, Magna Charta, 
 and the complicated machinery of the British 
 Constitution — a copy of which I have never 
 yet been able to purchase of any book- 
 seller, although for one shilling the Ameri- 
 can Constitution can be found in any book- 
 store. (Mr, Hanley occasioned much 
 laughter by saying that that was all it was 
 worth.) Mr. Train — Yes ! under the un- 
 godly rain of " Secessia," you are right — 
 but under the new regime of honor and of 
 " Union," its value is priceless to foreigners, 
 to whom it will be presented in the novel 
 shape of " Monitors." I say, continued Mr. 
 Train, was it to be expected that I should 
 pore over the records of the past, since the 
 laws of Medes and Persians, to ascertain if 
 there had been sufficient power given to Par- 
 liament to pass an act authorizing vestries 
 to treat with me on their own affairs? 
 
 ENGLISH GRAND JURY SYSTEM, 
 
 I come now to the case. Can individual 
 members of a vestry be held responsible for 
 the act of the majority? Decidedly not! 
 Such a law would destroy every corporation 
 in the empire, for what individual would be- 
 come a member of the vestry at the personal 
 risk of time, money, and, in default, impris- 
 onment ? Take Lambeth — .Messrs. Henton 
 and Taylor, connected with the " London 
 General Omnibus Company," go to Kingston, 
 and swear that twelve of their brother ves- 
 trymen have conspired with Mr. Train 
 against the lives of the parishioners. Your 
 grand jury system is a sad relic of feudal 
 days and barbarous years. A good man's 
 name can be blasted by the oath of a bad 
 neighbor, and, although the court may decide 
 him innocent, this trial may have ruined his 
 fortune and blasted his character forever. 
 I was told that this exparte indictment was 
 nothing, as I should have a fair trial where 
 both sides should be heard. The words 
 British Justice, Fair Play, and the honor of 
 the British Jury were the grand words used 
 to beguile me into the trial. My own judg- 
 
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 ment, however, told me that until the feeling 
 created by the Trent affair had passed away, 
 it was suicidal for an Amarican to trust him- 
 self in the hands of a British jury. 
 
 A FARCICAL TRIAL. 
 
 However, armed with a case prepared by 
 Messrs. Baxter, Rose & Co., the leading 
 solicitors in England, supported by six able 
 counselors, Messrs. Bovillk, Knapp, Pol- 
 lock, Lush, Sergeant Ballentine and Grath 
 — I, at least, expected fair play, but what 
 are the facts ? The first day, the case of the 
 prosecution was entirely in my favor as 
 evinced from the witnesses ; but imagine the 
 astonishment of every one in the court to 
 see the foreman of the jury arise, and say 
 that it was useless to call any more witnesses, 
 as their minds were already made up. The 
 quality of justice is not strained — it blesses 
 those that give and curses those that receive. 
 The counsel intimated that Mr. Train had 
 some forty scientific witnesses and others, 
 some of them large vehicle owners, who used 
 the tramway in preference, as it decreased 
 friction, and enabled them to carry heavier 
 loads, besides a mass of other evidence, 
 proving that it was not only not a nuisance, 
 but a great blessing to the community. In 
 reply to the judge the jury said — it was use- 
 less to go on, as they had already decided 
 that Mr, Train was guilty ! 
 
 a convicted felon. 
 
 Now I ask you, brother Cogers, if it is not 
 rather a hard case that I should appear be- 
 fore you a Convicted Felon ! having first 
 been indicted as a nuisance by an ex parte 
 statement, and found guilty by purely an ex 
 parte trial. The right of appeal was denied 
 me, although some bills of exceptions — 
 which I presume I shall have to pay — will 
 be argued before the judges at Westminster. 
 Bringing the verdict of guilty against the 
 vestrymen would involve the ordering up of 
 the road. The vestrymen would respond, 
 we are but twelve in a hundred and twenty, 
 and you find us guilty of doing as individuals 
 what the Act of Parliament says we have only 
 power to do as a corporation. You see where 
 the law clashes with the State that made 
 it ; the vestry's position is peculiar, having 
 no power to put down the railway, they cer- 
 tainly have no power to order it up. Look 
 at Wyld's Great Globe in Leicester square, 
 erected in 1851. Laws are made for past 
 experiences, not future expectations. When 
 they told me there was no law in P^ngland 
 allowing me to lay down a tramway, I re- 
 sponded that there was no law against it. 
 There is no law for navigating the air or un- 
 der the ocean, because such locomotion has 
 not been demonstrated. So there was no 
 law on tramways, simply because you never 
 expected them. The singular feature of the 
 verdict is, all the Englishmen escaped, while 
 
 the American, who acted by their authority 
 was convicted, without his being allowed to 
 speak in his own defence, or call a single 
 witness in his own favor. 
 
 A RIGHT DENIED. 
 
 You, perhaps, may know that the laws of 
 nations permit a foreigner to have six of his 
 own countrymen on the jury on any criminal 
 offence. My crime in the words and eye of 
 the law, was a criminal one, and as Chief 
 Justice Earl remarked, did not come under 
 any civil process, therefore I was entitled to 
 have six Americans upon the jury. A Brit- 
 ish sailor in New York frequently calls for 
 six Englishmen upon his case ; and I myself 
 have been asked to act as juryman in Liver- 
 pool when an American sailor was being 
 tried for some criminal offence. These, then, 
 are the grounds of which I complain. First, 
 I am indicted as a criminal by ex parte 
 statements. Second, I am not allowed to 
 have six Americans upon the jury. Third, I 
 am not allowed to speak in my own defence. 
 Fourth, the verdict is suspended with the 
 Englishmen — thereby throwing all the costs, 
 my own, the vestry's and the prosecution, 
 on to my shoulders, and those I represent ! 
 and I may mention that twelve hundred and 
 fifty pounds in cash, for law expenses had to 
 be deposited before the trial came on. Fifth, 
 I am not allowed to call one of my witnesses, 
 hence am found guilty by purely an ex parte 
 trial, when their leading witness testified to 
 his political animus to an American. 
 
 REFLECTIONS ON THE TRIAL. 
 
 I am satisfied that my solicitors did all 
 they could. My counsel watched every 
 point of the case. The judge seemed en- 
 tirely impartial, and the jury — specially 
 called, were country gentlemen, owning their 
 carriages — may have given a conscientious 
 verdict. Oh, that I had lived in the halcyon 
 days of the good and much abused Jeffries ! 
 But why did the prosecution take the case 
 down into the country, where tramways were 
 not used, instead of bringing it to Westmin- 
 ster? If, as the judge ruled, nineti/-7ime 
 were henefitted and one inconvenienced, 
 why need the jury have heard more than one 
 witness, if tiiey believed his statement? 
 Ninety men may drink gin and water; I 
 don't — hence they should be indicted. I 
 have written a letter to the Tini'^s, a letter 
 comprising some of the facts of this extra- 
 ordinary one-sided trial, without the least 
 expectation of their doing me the commonest 
 justice of printing it. Had I been a "Seces- 
 sionist," willing to sell my country to the 
 highest bidder, it would receive more atten- 
 tion. In conclusion, gentlemen, let me say 
 that I have, at great cost of time arid money, 
 and of good nature, neither of which are en- 
 tirely exhausted, practically sown an idea 
 that must eventually fructify into a successful 
 harvest. 
 
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 WUAT IS A NUISANCE IN ENGLAND. 
 
 It is pronounced a nuisance ! — Nuisance? 
 — Yes ! — to whom ? the Queen ? No ! I 
 pay five per cent, on gross receipts into the 
 Exchequer, as my mite to assist Mr. Glad- 
 stone in swelling the revenue. A nuisance 
 to the parish ? certainly not ! I pay five hun- 
 dred pounds a year towards the repairs of 
 the road, thereby saving twenty-five per cent, 
 taxes to the rale payers. A nuisance to 
 industry? hardly? Do I not employ work- 
 men to make carriages, cut timber, roll iron 
 and lay the road? Does not the purchase 
 ot" horses and corn, and hay, and the employ- 
 ment of men to manage the tramway, add to 
 the wealth of the nation ? A nuisance to 
 the six hundred thousand passengers who 
 
 used the tramway? Ask them! And they 
 will tell you that many of them own their 
 carriages and vehicles, and use the tram in 
 preference to the road. To whom then is 
 the nuisance f Principally to Mr. Samuel 
 Henton, the vestryman who receives some 
 two thousand pounds a year from the " Lon- 
 don General Omnibus Company," for har- 
 nesses, and prosecutes this case in his public 
 cap I city of vestryman, simply as an act of 
 philanthropy to the public at large. Of 
 course the fact of one hundred millions of 
 passengers passing over the roads of Boston, 
 Philadelphia and New York last year, are 
 not arguments available in England. The 
 only point of law which an American will 
 be permitted to reserve, is — The Monitor. 
 
 THE FEDERAL ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S LIVE SPEECH ON THE FEDERAL 
 
 ARMY, DELIVERED BEFORE THE LONDON SOCIETY 
 
 OF COGERS ON MARCH 22, 1862. 
 
 \^From the London American of March 26, 1862.] 
 
 The Society of Cogers is one of the most 
 ancient of the London Discussion Halls, 
 having been established in the rei^n of the 
 Third George. It originally consisted of 
 citizens of London, who met to watch the 
 course of their representatives in London — 
 Freedom of the Press — Freedom of Discus- 
 sion — Obedience to the Laws — Loyalty to 
 the Crown — and the Practice of Public and 
 Social Virtue — are some of its tenets. — 
 Among its early members were the Alder- 
 men John Wilks (1756), Sir Richard Glynn 
 (1784), Sir James Shaw (1813), Sir W. 
 Faking (1819), and many of England's lead- 
 ers. Here Brougham and Campbell mea- 
 sured intellect; and both Houses have among 
 them men who have debated here in other 
 days. 
 
 Mr. Train, on entering the Debating Hall 
 on the 22d ult. for the first time, was at once 
 recognized, and loudly called for : the events 
 of the week being the theme for discussion. 
 The audience was so pleased with his rat- 
 tling digest of the late American victories, 
 and his former able efi'orts, that they rose 
 by acclamation, and there and then elected 
 him an honorary member of the Ancient 
 Society of Cogers. 
 
 Below, we give Mr. Train's remarks on 
 the American Army, on this occasion. We 
 should judge, by the opening portion of this 
 speech, that Mr. Train evidently thinks the 
 advice of Sam Slick, that the judicious ap- 
 
 plication of a little " soft sawder" often helps 
 things along mightily, to be of some account. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, I rise because courtesy 
 demands it; 1 speak because it would be 
 rudeness not to. and because, when an Eng- 
 lish audience express their will, it is useless 
 to combat it. The last speaker is a bold 
 man to express such radical sentiments. 
 One would suppose that Ireland was on fire 
 with revolution ; when, since Major O'Riley's 
 selection, it seems as calm as a summer lake. 
 I was pained to hear his comments on the 
 Government, and apparent coldness when 
 alluding to England's sovereign. It would 
 be singular were an American to prove him- 
 self more loyal in an English audience than 
 the English or Irish themselves; but such 
 is the fact in his case ; I never remember 
 hearing the name of England's Queen men- 
 tioned where Americans composed the party, 
 that each and all did not rise, as if she were 
 their Queen as well as yours. (Cheers.) The 
 American people are peculiar in their admi- 
 ration for that estimable lady ; and now 
 more than ever she has gained our esteem, 
 since it has become known to us that it was 
 her beneficent hand that removed the pen 
 and ink away from Lord Palmerston just as 
 he was about to indite that fatal declaration 
 of war against a proud people, who have 
 lived and will live in remembrance of the 
 hallowed associations of their haughty an- 
 
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 cestors. (Cheers.) A thoug-ht occurs to me 
 as you cheer: we are living in a whirling 
 age ; it is no longer the divine right of kings 
 in your case, but the divine right of queens; 
 (applause;) and on our side is a divine right 
 which we shall ever maintain, of Union now 
 AND Union for ever. 
 
 The strange fancy that enters my brain is 
 this : Should it ever so happea in the break- 
 ing up of ministries, and the breaking down 
 of governments, that you should become 
 tired of the noble lady that had done already 
 more for England than England can do for 
 her — should it ever so happen in the strange 
 vicissitudes that are taking place during this 
 age of events, that your Queen should be 
 distasteful to you, which God forbid, and 
 which I believe impossible, then let me say 
 to you, in the name of the American people, 
 I hereby promise that she shall be elected 
 President of the United States. (Laughter 
 and cheering.) And I am confident that 
 the same spirit that sprung up in every liv- 
 ing breast in that great United North to 
 embrace and welcome her proud and lovely 
 firstborn child, (cheers,) will stimulate our 
 people to throw aside party on that august 
 occasion, and place Victoria in the White 
 House by acclamation. (Cheers, laughter, 
 and applause.) 
 
 The gentleman made a happy hit by call- 
 ing this audience a republic of free men, 
 where free thought and free debate and free 
 opinion ruled supreme. I accept the Re- 
 publican simile, and should hope that among 
 its citizens there are none who would com- 
 mit so base an act, under the garb of loy- 
 alty to the Queen, as to breed treason 
 against the government, and seek with blood- 
 shed its overthrow, as some other bad citi- 
 zens have done in that Great Republic over 
 the way. (Hear, and applause.) Mr. O'Brien 
 does not believe in the honesty of our Presi- 
 dent on the slave question ; I am not sur- 
 prised, for I have been long enough in this 
 country to know that there is a large party 
 in the laud who would not believe any good 
 of America or the Americans, even though 
 the angel Gabriel whispered it in their ears. 
 (Laughter.)' The more we try to please you 
 the less we appear to succeed. But what 
 can we expect when the Saturday Review 
 lands Burnside's naval expedition in the 
 mountains of Western Virginia, (laughter,) 
 and the Times makes the Confederate army 
 march from Richmond to Bunker's Hill in a 
 single night ! (Laughter.) Older than our- 
 selves we have taken your advice ; Dr. Rus- 
 sell gave you the text to ridicule and laugh 
 at our raw recruits ; (as Sotheron says in 
 Lord Dundreary, he seems to have been as 
 mad on the American question as a Welsh 
 wabbit.) (Laughter.) You took it up, and 
 told us that to make soldiers out of farmers, 
 and tradesmen, and mechanics, and fisher- 
 men, tliere must be hard drilling. We ac- 
 
 cepted your counsel. Europe poured in 
 upon us hundreds of her best artillery, cav- 
 alry, and infantry officers, who, bursting with 
 the love of liberty, were anxious to give 
 Union battle. Look at McClellan's staff, 
 composed of brave generals, bold princes, 
 and future kings, who already have cried A 
 Bourbon! A Havklock! and let slip a hun- 
 dred regiments, to sweep the madman from 
 his throne. (Applause.) By this time there 
 is not even one Richmond in the field. 
 Drill, you said ; we have drilled. 
 
 Why do you wait so long ? then yott 
 asked. We are drilling, we replied. And 
 I now point you to the million of drilled men 
 that cover a battle line of two thousand 
 miles. Your mob, again you said, your mob 
 never will give up Mason and Slidell. The 
 mob did give up the traitors, and further- 
 more received the British officers at Boston, 
 who were sent to wage war against us, with 
 almost a royal welcome! (Applause.) You 
 said, you have no money, and we will not 
 lend you a shilling. Gentlemen, we never 
 asked you for a shilling. (Hear, hear.) 
 And, as I observed on a previous occasion, 
 the only real cause tve have yet given you 
 for breaking the blockade ivas the taking 
 up the entire Federal loan in our own land, 
 without even consulting Mr. Sampson of 
 the Times, Baron Rothschild, or the Lon- 
 don Stock Exchange. 
 
 You said it was impossible to blockade 
 our ports. Gentlemen, there never was a 
 blockade so effectual, because there never 
 was war so extensive, or people so deter- 
 mined, or administration so strong I There 
 is no cathartic sufficiently powerful to re- 
 move the stones from the ruined harbor of 
 Charleston, until the Federal Power chooses 
 to exercise its clemency again. The Times 
 Russell now admits the power of our navy, 
 which you have ridiculed, and thinks, where 
 two millions of bales of cotton are locked 
 up, which, if let loose, would command three 
 prices, and where all the simple necessaries 
 of life are one hundred and fifty per cent, 
 above the market, the blockade must be 
 effectual. Foster's scorching rebuke to 
 Gregory in the Commons has made more 
 ridiculous than ever the Irish champion of 
 treason. You said that the North and the 
 South would never come together ! Wait a 
 little longer ! You said. Republican insti- 
 tutions had failed ! Already the passport 
 system is abolished, the political prisoners 
 have been released, martial law superseded 
 to the civil government, and the placid ocean 
 of Peace is gradually replacing the turbulent 
 waves of War, so that when the sunlight of 
 Union shines upon it, there will be reflected 
 back from the glassy mirror myriads of faces 
 from a happy, contented people. ( Applause.) 
 
 You never will know the herculean ener- 
 gies we have displayed. Let me paint the 
 picture in my own way. We have nine 
 
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 armies, under nine Generals, composing a 
 force equal to nine Waterloos, a dozen Aus- 
 terlitzes, two Moscows, and larger than all 
 the forces of all the nations that gave battle 
 in the Crimea. (Oh!) To give you the 
 idea of its magnitude, I will change the 
 battle-ground. 
 
 Old England shall represent New Eng- 
 land ; and •oil Europe shall be the field of 
 action. Time of preparation, six months; 
 resources, all onr own. With the sympathies 
 of England and the world against us, we 
 have placed twenty thousand men under 
 General Butler at Cronstadt; twenty thou- 
 sand under General Sherman, at Hamburg; 
 thirty thousand under General Burnside, at 
 Amsterdam ; twenty thousand under Gen- 
 eral Halleck, at Odessa; twenty thousand 
 under General Hunter, blockading Vienna, 
 on the Danube; forty thousand under (gen- 
 eral Buell, at Trieste; eighty thousand un- 
 der General Grant, at Marseilles; sixty 
 thousand under General Banks, on the Bel- 
 gian coast ; leaving some three hundred 
 thousand under (General McClellan, on the 
 French shore, after crossing the Potomac of 
 the Channel. (Hear, hear ) The distances 
 in my picture are not so unequal, although 
 populations, fortresses, and language are 
 different. Remember that England was the 
 point from which I take my sketch. Aus- 
 tralia is the California, with another Union 
 army for the Pacific shore. All those points 
 protected, we have England still to repre- 
 sent the great Union party in our Northern 
 country, with five millions more of armed 
 men ready to plunge into battle in defence 
 of the nation's life. (Loud cheers.) 
 
 In America, as in England, there is an 
 uncoiled spring of magnetic intelligence that, 
 when set in motion, could only be surpassed 
 in grandeur by the artillery batteries of hea- 
 ven ! (Applause.) The next mail will bring 
 yon startling intelligence. Let me fore- 
 shadow the plan of action ; the battles are 
 already fought; if reverse were possible in 
 one point, victory triumphs in another : the 
 Georgians lost their mail arrangements some 
 time ago, and now they have had their water- 
 works cut off. (Loud laughter.) Gentle- 
 men, it is no laughing matter, were you 
 citizens of Savannah, to be shut off from all 
 communication from your fellow men, (re- 
 newed laughter,) who have already began to 
 contemplate the terrible atrocities so vividly 
 pictured by Arrowsmith, the reliable corres- 
 pondent for the London Times, of Railways 
 
 AND REVOLVERS IN GEORGIA ! (LaUghtCr 
 
 and applanse ) 
 
 Savannah is down, Charleston is taken, 
 Mobile occupied by Unionists, New Orleans 
 besieged, and Memphis occupied ! Two weeks 
 after the fall of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, 
 the occupation of Clarkesvilleand Nashville, 
 the evacuation of Columbus, that Mantua of 
 the West, (cheers,) and Norfolk under the 
 
 " Stars and Stripes !" Beauregard, the her© 
 of fortifications, has become the hero of evac- 
 uations ; Pillow keeps up his Mexican repu- 
 tation by cutting his way tJirough the foreat, 
 at the first smell of blood, (laughter,) while 
 the battle of Floyd's Run (laughter) shali 
 be commemorated as the Leipsic of Confed- 
 erate history. The Confederates are howl- 
 ing at England, calling the minister all kinds 
 of names, playing the rogue's march, singing 
 Perfide Albion in the dim twilijjht of their 
 conspiracy, gnashing their teeth with hate 
 and rage, in vain endeavors to cover up 
 their ignominy and their shame. 
 
 A voice : " Where is the Sumter ?" Cries 
 of " Order!" " Put him out !" 
 
 The Sumter, sir, which comprises one-half 
 the Confederate navy, (laughter.) is corked 
 up in Gibraltar, with deserted crew, watched 
 by the Tnscarora, and out of the reach of 
 again being ordered away by your foreign 
 office. The Sumter can no more burn inno- 
 cent merchantmen, and rob peaceful traders. 
 Two of her oflRcers are already on their way 
 to the American coast in a Federal war 
 ship to receive the just punishment of an 
 outraged power ; another part of the pirate 
 navy has just arrived at Wilmington, by 
 express order of the Confederate Cabinet, 
 who have their trunks all packed, and have 
 stolen all the money they could lay their 
 hands on, preparatory to taking their chances 
 of escaping in the Nashville from the doom 
 that awaits them. (Cheers.) 
 
 The order to burn the cotton and tobacco 
 is under the mistaken idea that it would in- 
 volve England in the common ruin with 
 themselves. Bear in mind, gentlemen, that 
 this cotton and tobacco is solemnly pledged 
 for the redemption of the Confederate paper 
 and the Confederate loan, and now the Con- 
 federate Cabinet have got all the money 
 they can sponge out of their deceived sub- 
 jects, they solemnly order them to destroy 
 the securities on which the loan was paid. 
 (Hear, hear.) And all this to deceive Eng- 
 land, or rather frighten England by a threat, 
 the very last thing of all others, so history 
 states, that would bring this , remarkable 
 people to look. 
 
 You should know that the crops destroyed 
 and the cities burned are not by their own- 
 ers, but by the miserable riff-raff, who have 
 nothing to lose ; a riff-raff, as one speaker 
 beautifully remarked, who represent the dead 
 level of humanity, standing on the zero of 
 civilization, or wallowing in the mire of their 
 own beastly sensuality', instead of floating 
 on the wings of a virtuous indignation, or 
 poised on the pinions of patriotic intelli- 
 gence. (Cheers.) 
 
 General Banks' movement on Winchester 
 is only a feint to allow McClellan to push 
 on to Fredericksburg, and the nature of a 
 conflict that a mail or two will announce may 
 be estimated by the Commander-in-Chief 
 
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 5-7 
 
 having ordered fifteen thousand ambulances 
 to hear aivay the wounded! (Sensation.) 
 Verily, it is a terrible necessity ; but the 
 spring has arrived — the month and the hour 
 that calls loudly for victory ; two thousand 
 years hence the ides of March will be asso- 
 ciated with the history of the Potomac. 
 
 The beautiful lines of Bayard Taylor are in 
 my memory : 
 
 " Then down the long Potomac's line, 
 Shout like a storm on hills of pine : 
 Till ramrods rinj;, and bayonets sliiiie ! 
 Advance! the chieftain's call is mine. 
 March !" (Loud cheers and applause.) 
 
 GEORGE FRAT^CIS TRAIN'S POPULARITY IN AMERICA. 
 
 [From the London American of May 21, 1862.] 
 
 Union Speeches Delivered in Enqland 
 during the present American War. — 
 " First Series." By George Francis 
 Train, of Boston, United States, author 
 of "Young America Abroad," "Young 
 America in AVall Street," " Young Ame- 
 rica on Slavery," &c., &c. T, B. Peterson 
 & Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut Street, 
 Philadelphia. John A. Knight, No. 100 
 Fleet Street, London. 1862. 
 The Union Speeches, delivered in England 
 during the American war, published by 
 Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, for the 
 benefit of "The London American," are 
 having a most extensive sale throughout the 
 United States. 
 
 They are sold in the streets — they meet 
 you at the hotels, and boys are continually 
 crying, " Train's Union Speeches," wherever 
 you go. in the railway cars from Washington 
 to St. Louis, or anywhere else. 
 
 Our American files are full of the most 
 complimentary notices. Seldom has a man 
 been so successful in touching the heart of a 
 great people as has Mr. Train that of the 
 Americans. 
 
 As we intimated in a previous notice, we 
 are not disinterested in making these re- 
 marks, as the great sale of the book will place 
 this paper on an entirely independent basis 
 as the only American organ in this hemi- 
 sphere. We cannot better acknowledge our 
 obligations to the American press, for their 
 repeated quotations from our columns, than 
 by giving two or three extracts as a sample 
 of the various notices of this book through- 
 out the United States. 
 
 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Netvspaper, so 
 ably edited by the distinguished author and 
 Cetitral American explorer, E. G. Squier, 
 says (April 19) : 
 
 " We have here, in a double column pam- 
 phlet of 88 pages, in a bufif cover, with a 
 medallion head of some eminent Greek, 
 which we take to be that of Alcibiades, on 
 the title-page, a collection of quaint, but 
 thoroughly patriotic, and by no means unphi- 
 losophical speeches, delivered before English 
 audiences, during the past twelve months, 
 by one of the most extraordinary men of the 
 
 day — extraordinary as an embodiment of 
 spread-eagleism in style, enterprise in busi- 
 ness, good sense, much observation and ex- 
 perience in the world and its ways. There 
 is hardly a trait in the man's character in 
 which one is not disposed to find fault, yet 
 very few which one would like to have 
 changed — except, perhaps, that excess of 
 modesty and lack of assurance which is so 
 painfully apparent in all he says or does. Mr. 
 Train's speeches are so utterly different from 
 conventional harangues, in style, mode of 
 treating the subject matter, and in illustra- 
 tion, that at first blush most people are dis- 
 posed to pronounce on them unfavorably; 
 but a little familiarity with their peculiari- 
 ties of form wears away prejudice, and it is 
 found that substantially they are equal, if 
 not superior, to the formal and portentous 
 efTorts which are called orations. Put Mr. 
 Train's arguments in the pompous phraseol- 
 ogy of Webster, and for his familiar illustra- 
 tions and idiomatic phrases substitute quota- 
 tions from the classics and Latinized formulas, 
 and men would look wise and pronounce 
 them ' grand.' But the days of sublime bom- 
 bast are fast passing away ; huge logical 
 fabrics and stately periods are becoming ob- 
 solete, and Mr. Train is one of the Apostles 
 of the Reformation. ' Long may he wave.' " 
 
 The progress of civilization is certainly 
 westward. We little expected to have in 
 our exchange list a paper from the Rocky 
 Mountains. But here we have before us a 
 file of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, 
 Colorado Territory, wherein we find that Mr. 
 Train's speeches have got up into the moun- 
 tains, as well as down in the army, where 
 officers and men are using them as text books 
 for Union expressions. We quote from the 
 Neios, (April 19) : 
 
 " Train's Union Speeches have just been 
 received by the last United States mail. 
 They are published by T. B. Peterson & 
 Brothers, Philadelphia, and were delivered 
 by George trancis Train, in England, during 
 the present American war, where he has 
 been doing good service to the Union cause 
 ever since the out-break of the rebellion. 
 These speeches should be read .by his coun- 
 
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 trymen with as great interest and profit as 
 they were listened to by the English of all 
 classes, who crowded the places of public 
 assembly whenever he was announced for 
 a speech. In England he has nobly con- 
 fronted exilo Secessionists, and prejudiced 
 Englishmen, who hated our Republican in- 
 stitutions. His speeches are full of fire and 
 pure Union sentiments, and a perusal of 
 them will be enjoyed by every true and loyal 
 American. Mr. Train's eloquence is entirely 
 sui generis — he is the founder of the spread- 
 eagle school of oratory, and it may truly be 
 said, ' none but himself can be his parallel.' " 
 
 The New York Times (under the clever 
 management of Henry J. Raymond, the 
 Speaker of the New York Legislature, who 
 won a leader in the Times the other day for 
 his speech on England at Albany) has been 
 most severe in reviewing some of Mr. Train's 
 former books, but this time the reviewer 
 does him justice. We quote (April 9) : 
 
 "Mr. Train has become an American ce- 
 lebrity both at home and abroad, and has 
 pretty thoroughly identified himself with the 
 peculiar, and sometimes even eccentric char- 
 acteristics which distinguish our cis- Atlantic 
 youth. Not that Mr. Train still lingers in 
 his 'teens or on the sunny side of thirty, do 
 we employ the juvenile designation, but be- 
 cause 'Young America' is a favorite phrase 
 with that gentleman, and, moreover, because 
 he has certainly, on all occasions, manifested 
 the go-ahead, dashing, devil-may-care style 
 and disposition, which are by most foreign- 
 ers, and a great many of our own people, 
 supposed to place our young folk of both 
 sexes far in advance of other races. Mr. 
 Train, until very lately, has been chiefly 
 known to the world in connection with street 
 railways, which he has been endeavouring, 
 with a certain measure of success, to intro- 
 duce in London and other English cities. He 
 has been in this work decidedly a ' fast' train ; 
 and the unsophisticated, sober-sided, com- 
 mercial Cheerybles of England have contem- 
 plated his exploits with commingled wonder 
 and awe. Since the outbreak of the South- 
 ern rebellion, Mr. Train's talents have been 
 devoted to the task of sustaining the Union 
 cause in the British Isles; and the present 
 pamphlet, published by Peterson & Brothers, 
 contains a rare selection of his speeches and 
 letters put forth on that subject during the 
 past twelvemonth. 'J'he proceeds of its sale 
 are to be applied to the benefit of the Lon- 
 don American — the only American news- 
 paper published beyond the Atlantic. The 
 journal is pledged to the service of the Na- 
 tional Flag, and opposition to secessionism, 
 and it is published under the editorship of A. 
 W. Bostwick, Esq. Mr. Train's speeches on 
 the American question, on war and cotton, 
 and on the future treatment of rebels, have 
 made a decided sensation wherever read. 
 They are given verbatim and entire in this 
 
 collection, and will furnish the reader with 
 the highest order of excitement producible 
 by electrical oratory, doubly powerful in the 
 present case, because the rhetorical Galvani 
 here used his batteries in the best of service." 
 
 The Neio York World, May 3rd, consid- 
 ers that the opposition to Mr. Train's tram- 
 way, has arisen from his Union speeches : — 
 
 " George Francis Train and his city rail- 
 way scheme has come to grief in London. 
 The track has been pronounced a nuisance 
 in a London local court, or rather Train has 
 been convicted of creating a nuisance for 
 having laid the track. This probably dis- 
 poses of the subject of city railways in Eng- 
 land, as it will be well nigh impossible for 
 the irrepressible American to make further 
 headway against the prejudice he has excited, 
 both against himself and his Yankee notion. 
 It was admitted on all hands that the railway 
 would be a great convenience and saving to 
 the myriads of travellers i i the crowded 
 cities of Great Britain, but then it was a 
 new thing, and, more than all, was chaper- 
 oned by Mr. Train, loho made himself many 
 enemies in England by his stirring and 
 spread-eagle speeches in defence of his 
 native land during the Trent excitement. 
 So the reign of lumbering omnibusses and 
 expensive cabs and hackney coaches will be 
 continued yet awhile longer in England. Mr. 
 Train ought to come home and help build 
 railroads in the newly-recovered rebel States, 
 If his work were as fast as his speeches, 
 Washington and Richmond would soon be 
 connected by rail." 
 
 The Press of Philadelphia, says that Mr. 
 Train is not the first man who has suffered 
 for his patriotism, and there cannot be the 
 slightest doubt, that among illiberal persons 
 in England, and especially in and about Lon- 
 don, there exists a feeling strongly antagon- 
 istic to Mr. Train, on account of his spirited 
 speeches in favor of the American Union. 
 Some of these unavoidably touched on the 
 apparent negligence of the British Govern- 
 ment in respect to breaches of its proclaimed 
 neutrality (vessels loading in British ports, 
 with arms, ammunition, &c., for the rebel 
 South), and John Bull has put his back up, 
 in wrath, at any foreigner -presuming to pass 
 comments upon the conduct of the Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 Our space only permits us to make one 
 more extract to show that the outrageous 
 persecution against Mr. Train, whose &a\y 
 crime has been the defence of his country 
 abroad, is properly interpreted by the Amer- 
 ican journals to that cause : — 
 
 " A verdict against George Francis Train." 
 says the Boston Commercial Bulletin, May 
 8, " has been rendered against one of Mr. 
 Train's horse railroads in London, or rather 
 tramways as they are called in England, 
 which was complained of by certain parties 
 as a nuisance. The most astonishing part 
 
train's union speeches! — SECOND SERIES. 
 
 59 
 
 of this affair is that the jury in this case 
 brought in a verdict on purely ex parte evi- 
 dence. After hearing the evidence for the 
 prosecution the jury announced that their 
 ininds were made up and no amount of evi- 
 dence could change their opinion, — this is 
 fair play with a vengeance ! Not one of Mr. 
 Train's witnesses was called, although some 
 forty had been got together at great expense. 
 Nor was it decided that he had the right of 
 appeal. The animus of some of the witnes- 
 ses was clearly shown to arise from the poli- 
 
 tical feeling created by Mr. Train's steadfast 
 position on the American question and the 
 Trent affair, and "The London American" 
 intimates that the verdict was directed 
 again.st the man and not the tram." 
 
 These few extracts, selected from scores of 
 notices, bear out our remarks that Mr. 
 Train to-day is one of the most popular men 
 in the United States. We hope, in the inde- 
 pendence of his nature, he will do nothing to 
 forfeit his well-merited popularity. 
 
 THE BOSTOI^ MERCHANTS AND GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. 
 
 A LETTER FROM NINETY-FIVE OF THE LEADING CITIZENS 
 
 OF BOSTON, AND STATE SENATORS AND MEMBERS 
 
 OF THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 [From the London American of April 23, 1862.] 
 
 MK. TRAIN AND THE BOSTON MERCHANTS. 
 
 Asa native of the Modern Athens we are 
 not surprised to see Boston vieing with the 
 Quaker city in acknowledgment of the ser- 
 vices which Mr. Train has rendered to his 
 country — when such services were most 
 needed. 
 
 The Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago 
 papers copy Mr. Train's speeches in full. 
 The Commercial Bulletin by this mail has 
 several columns of Mr. Train's argument on 
 slavery — which is attracting, as we antici- 
 pated, much attention. 
 
 The Philadelphia Inquirer \vas one of 
 the first journals that copied Mr. Train's 
 speeches at length — and as a specimen of 
 many notices that are in our files — we copy 
 from a leader in that journal of March 29, 
 the following extract : — 
 
 America's champion in England — the sword 
 and battle-ax of george francis train. 
 
 Among all the pictures hung up by Scott 
 in his immortal gallery, no two are more 
 perfect in their drawing, or striking by their 
 contrast, than those of the slow, Titanic 
 Richard, with his resistless battle-ax, and 
 the lithe, lightning-like Saladin, with his 
 inevitable sword. Each foe seemed deadlier 
 than the other — the ponderous weapon of 
 the one felling to the earth whatever stood 
 before it — ^the other's bright Damascus cut- 
 ting clean alike through a helmet or a 
 feather. The union of the two — of power 
 with ease, of weight with speed and splendor, 
 impossible in the physical swordsman — is 
 Been in the rhetorical fencing of George 
 Francis Train. In the right hand his coun- 
 
 try's champion bears the crushing battle-ax ; 
 in the left, the glittering scimitar; and 
 crossing, circling, darting, intermingling, 
 now this, now that, now both smite down or 
 flash through whatever they may strike. 
 Mr. Train's variety and fertility in argu- 
 ments and images, and his rapidity in their 
 use for deadly thrust or skillful parry, are 
 really amazing. He is not, nor aims to be, 
 a finished fencer, though grace sometimes 
 adds beauty to his power. An impassioned 
 gladiator, of intense vitality and infinite 
 resources, he throws his soul into his sword, 
 and always guards himself by always dis- 
 arming or slaying his opponent. To exem- 
 plify by quotations were almost like selecting 
 specimen lightnings from an unbroken storm, 
 where all that was not flash was bolt, or 
 rather, where the flash was but the scabbard 
 to the bolt. Of scores of passages that we 
 have marked in the recently published pam- 
 phlet edition of his London speeches, each 
 seems as choiceworthy as the other. So we 
 take a few at random. You may generally 
 tell the Richard from the Saladin, but some- 
 times the ax and sword fall and gleam to- 
 gether, and the blow both cuts and crushes. 
 ******** 
 
 There are some points {vide one on page 
 sixty-two of Petersons' edition,) [Mr. Train's 
 speeches have been published by Messrs. 
 Peterson, in Philadelphia, and are having 
 an extensive sale. — Ed. L. A.] so adroitly 
 taken and powerfully put home, that we 
 would fain exhibit them. But the whole 
 display is one of telling hits — for the British, 
 a slash and a courtesy; for the Rebels, a 
 hurricane of deadly blows. For Mr. Train 
 is no carpet-knight, flourishing to show off 
 
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 train's union speeches! — SECOND SERIES. 
 
 his grace of posture, or cunningness of fence. 
 He is a fighter, filled with burning indigna- 
 nation, and whose purpose is to kill. 'If the 
 ax of Richard swing, sledgewise, at a lie, it 
 is to dash its brains out ! If the sword of 
 Saladin dart, thought-like, at Treason, it is 
 to cut its heart through ! 
 
 We know Boston well; we know many of 
 the gentlemen who have signed the flatter- 
 ing testimonial, and, knowing them, we can 
 nnderstand just at this particular time, in 
 Mr. Train's fortunes, how gratifying it must 
 be for him to know that his countrymen in 
 the city where he was born are not the last 
 to send him words of friendship and of 
 praise. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 
 Boston, April 1, 1862. 
 Mt Dear Friexd Train, — The enclosed 
 address was signed by willing hands ; as many 
 more names could have been secured, but 
 those you have are enough to give you an 
 idea of the minds of Boston. 
 
 Your patriotic course has been noticed 
 with much pleasure by your old friends, and 
 you have made many new ones. 
 
 With kind regards, believe me, most truly 
 yours, 
 
 (Signed) Alpheus Hardy. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 
 Boston, March 13, 1862. 
 George Francis Train, Esq., London. 
 
 Dear Sir, — For your many noble, manly, 
 and eloquent speeches in defence of our 
 country ; for your sacrifices and labors in 
 setting forth the truth, where rebels were 
 industriously sowing falsehoods ; for your 
 untiring efforts in meeting and defeating 
 our country's foes, we beg to tender to you 
 oui; heartfelt thanks, and congratulate you 
 upon your intellectual victories and suc- 
 cesses. 
 
 Thomas Russel, Elisha Atkins, Curtis 
 Guild, Thomas Howe, Albert G. Browne, 
 Firastus Sampson, Bailey Loring, H. T. 
 Delano, E. C. Sherman, J. Willard Rice, 
 Charles S. Kendall, Thomas Rice, jun., 
 Alpheus Hardy, F, W. Lincoln, jun., A. A, 
 Frazer, Osborn Howes, Jos. Y. Bacon, F. 
 Nickerson, W. T. Glidden, J. A. Andrew 
 (Governor of Massachusetts), Thomas Cur- 
 tis, B. G. G. Andros, Isaac Taylor, A. A. 
 Burwell, Charles C. Evans, Charles H. 
 Dillaway, Charles L. Wright, James 0. 
 Curtis, Nathaniel C. Nash, James Lee, jun., 
 George F. Williams, James F. Bush, 
 Richard A. Howes, J. B. Brigham, E. H. 
 Baker, Edwin Briggs, H. 0. Briggs, Stephen 
 Bowen, Curtis and Peabody, Joseph P. 
 Glover, Duncan McLean, Timothy T. Saw- 
 yer, George C. Lord, H. Harris, Charles W. 
 Scudder, Otis Clapp, Edward Hamilton, 
 John .J. Baker, J. 0. Wyman. John L. 
 Swift, Hugh W. Greene, Jared M. Heard, 
 
 0. Webster King. James Brown, E. J. 
 Collins, H. B. Wheelright, William F. 
 Weld, Frederick Howes, James S. McLel- 
 lan, J. S. Farlow, C. J. Morrill, Henry 
 Warner, F. H. Forbes, Addison Gage, 
 Albert Ballard, D. B. Flint, C. L. Colby, 
 John Taylor, B. F. White, Samuel J. Coch- 
 rane, Silas Peirce, J. S. Robinson. 
 
 STATE SENATORS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Alvah Crocker, John J. Babson, E. 0. 
 Haven, Chas. G. Stevens, W. Griswold, 
 C. J. Rus. Ebenezer Gay, E. P. Brownell. 
 Stephen N. Stockwell, John C. Tucker, 
 Hartley Williams, R. H. Libby, Henry 
 Smith, 11. Montgomery, 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE 
 OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 Henry L. Pierce, John S. E. Rogers, 
 Chas. J. McCarthy, A. M. Giles, Stephen 
 G. Wheatland, J. A. Gillis, T. L. Hemson, 
 A. F. Wright, Allen S. Weeks. 
 
 (Copy of Mr. Train's Reply.) 
 18 St. James's-street, Piccadilly, 
 
 London, April 21, 1862. 
 Dear Alpheus Hardy, 
 
 And my many friends in my native city. 
 Obey orders if you break owners. I al- 
 ways did. — Now I obey the impulses of my 
 nature at the risk of breaking myself. Wise- 
 acres advised me not to jeopardize my for- 
 tunes for my country. If ignorance is wis- 
 dom it is folly to be wise ! Do young men 
 think old men are fools? — No. Do old men 
 know that young men are ? — Certainly not. 
 Old men think they know more than they 
 know — Young men drink more than they 
 think. England is very old ; the crow feet — 
 the silver Uair — the unsteady gait — the slip- 
 pered pantaloon — all betoken great age ; 
 while instant action in the Trent affair 
 proves that there is life in the old man yet. 
 America is very young, and, oh 1 what terrible 
 energy — such a navy — such an army — such 
 a Treasury — such self-reliance ! Where can 
 you find its counterpart ? The world is 
 silent, and wonder sleeps on the faces of 
 men. Now that America stands first among 
 the nations, Americans should be less 
 modest, less diffident, and less unassuming. 
 Let us be as confident as England is. First 
 in Commerce — first in Agriculture — first in 
 Invention — first in War — better educated — 
 better dressed — Americans ought to be 
 more confident, and preach boldly, America 
 for the Americans. How wonderful that 
 America is the only land where the world 
 seeks citizenship ! Do Americans'become 
 naturalized in England, France, Germany, 
 Russia? — No. But our nation's door is 
 always open to Europe, Asia, Africa — and 
 millions cross the threshold to become 
 Americans ! So long as Aristocracy is 
 antagonistic to Democracy, Monarchies will 
 
train's union speeches! — SECOND SERIES. 
 
 61 
 
 hate Republics ; but the people of Europe 
 will continue to love the people of America. 
 Cromv/ell the First is adored in England — 
 sometime Cromwell the Second will be 
 equally appreciated. God bless my native 
 city ! — (jrod bless my native State ! — but, 
 before city, before iState, God bless my 
 Native Land ! 
 
 I am proud of Boston — proud of Massa- 
 chusetts, but never before have I felt so 
 proud of being a citizen of the United States 
 of America. 
 
 We are a proud people ! While the silken band 
 That binds the Union of our happy land 
 Remains unbroken, we no doubt may feel, 
 Of ['ureiga influence or of Foreign steel ! 
 Turn back the bolts against us hurled — 
 Throw down our gauntlet and defy the world ! 
 
 Massachusetts was in the front rank in 
 the First Revolution, as she has been in the 
 Second. The battle of Baltimore was 
 fought on the anniversary of the battle of 
 Lexington. 
 
 England has forty dialects — America 
 must have but one. Men of the East and 
 men of the West must say to the men of 
 the North, and Union men of the South — 
 There must be no more local jealousy. 
 Americans can have but one thought and 
 one destiny so long as they continue to 
 be parts of one tremendous whole, whose 
 body Union is, and Liberty the soul. 
 
 Most faithfully yours, 
 (Signed) Geoegk Fkancis Train. 
 
 THE HIGHT HOK LORD CAMPBELL YACATES IK FAYOR 
 OF GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. 
 
 THE AMERICAN CITIZEN AND THE ENGLISH NOBLEMAN. 
 
 [From The London American of May 14, 1862.] 
 
 The Anniversary Dinner of the Royal 
 Asylum of St. Anne's Society has long been 
 one of the leading features of the great Lon- 
 don charities. Established in the reign of 
 "William III., and supported by voluntary 
 subscriptions, it has for more than one hun- 
 dred and fifty years proved a godsend to 
 thousands of orphans of families who were 
 once in prosperity. On Wednesday night 
 the Society dined at Willis's Rooms, under 
 the presidency of Lord Campbell, son of the 
 late Lord Chancellor. The three long tables 
 were packed with the friends of the children 
 of St. Anne, as they are called ; and among 
 the invited guests we observed the President 
 and some of the Senators of the Republic of 
 Liberia, some of the Princes of Oude, in 
 their peculiar Indian robes, and other distin- 
 guished foreigners. Mr. Adams, the Amer- 
 ican Minister, was prevented from being 
 present by a previous engagement ; and the 
 Japanese Ambassadors were also absent. 
 The band was composed of the boys of the 
 Society ; and the little orphan girls and boys 
 1 presented a beautiful sight as they were led 
 around the tables after the cloth had been 
 removed. Lord Campbell gave the usual 
 toasts in Lord Dundreary style, when several 
 voices in the Hall cried out, "Train ! Train !" 
 This was after the President of the Liberian 
 Republic had made an effective speech, al- 
 luding to having left the United States when 
 only six years of age, and being for forty 
 years identified with African civilization. 
 Captain Rogers, of the Surrey Rifles, went 
 to the noble chairman, as the mouth-piece of 
 
 several gentlemen, to ask him to propose 
 " Our American Cousins," in order to call up 
 Mr. Train, and with the desire to show the 
 good feeling existing between the two lands. 
 The request was peremptorily refused ; he 
 did not wish to have any thing to do with 
 the Americans or Mr. Train ; and suddenly, 
 in evident ill-humor at the audience calling 
 upon Mr. Train, he interrupted a beautiful 
 duet on the piano by proposing another 
 toast ! Here commenced a battle between 
 fair play and bad nature ; between the people 
 and a lord! — that was amusing in the ex- 
 treme. The cheers for the artists only 
 drowned the hisses for the chair; audwhenthe 
 guests carried their own point, encoring the 
 piece and making Lord Campbell sit down, 
 the storm of applause was a warning to any 
 one who dares to trifle with the vested 
 rights of an Englishman. Having carried 
 their point, and in order to show how un- 
 fairly his lordship had treated Mr. Train, 
 the cries were renewed for Mr. Train to take 
 the chair, much to the disgust of his lordship, 
 who finally left the chair and the Hall, 
 amidst groans and hisses, mingled with a few 
 cheers of the excited members of St. Anne's. 
 Mr. Train immediately was conducted to the 
 chair, amid loud cheering, and only one or 
 two hisses. His power of pleasing an audi- 
 ence is too well known. 
 
 MR. train's speech. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen of St. Anne, said 
 Mr. Train : — I know not why you thus so 
 generously shower these honors upon me, 
 
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 TRAIJ^'S UNION speeches! — SECOND SERIES. 
 
 unless because it is known that I am one 
 of the governors of St. Anne for life — (cheers) 
 — and to-morrow night I again volunteer 
 my services in aid of. the funds of this 
 noble charity — by lecturing in its behalf at 
 Islington. (Cheers.) How little the world 
 really knows England ; how few are aware 
 that in this great city there are nearly one 
 thousand of these noble charities, supported 
 entirely by the generosity of the English 
 race. (Applause.) Knowing how difficult it 
 is in America to be elected President for 
 four years — (laughter) — 1 lost no time when 
 I met you on your last anniversary in send- 
 ing my ten guineas, and making myself a 
 governor for life in England. (Loud cheers.) 
 Perhaps that accounts for your cheers and 
 calls upon me to preside — (hear) — the band 
 playing not the merry tune of " The Camp- 
 bells are Coming," but the somewhat novel 
 air of "The Campbells are Going." — 
 (Laughter, cheers, and some hisses.) When 
 England speaks the world must listen ; when 
 Englishmen express their wish, bold is the 
 brave man that runs counter to iheir thought ; 
 and this blaze of energy on your part to- 
 night gives me — blase as 1 am — that strange 
 pulsation described by Sir Charles Cold- 
 stream, when he put the blacksmith out the 
 window. (Laughter and applause.) Thanks, 
 gentlemen, for your kind allusions to my own 
 dear land. (Cheers.) Nations, like individ- 
 uals, have their reverses and their successes ; 
 and what appear to be reverses to strangers 
 may be actual successes to those most inte- 
 rested. (Hear.) Nations, like men, have 
 friends on all sides in prosperity, while ene- 
 mies appear on every hillock in adversity. 
 Nature arranges these matters — myriads of 
 insects surround the horseman when the sun 
 shines, only to scatter over the moorland 
 the moment the storm appears. (Hear, hear.) 
 This noble charity blesses those that give 
 
 as well as those that receive. (Cheers.) 
 England is at home with these orphan 
 children, and charity begins there. I, too, 
 was an orphan — no dear father, no mother, 
 no sweet sister, no kind brother, watched 
 my early pathway, for I was left on the 
 banks of a mighty river, a little orphan boy, 
 of tender years, a wanderer in the world ! 
 (Sensation.) Therefore, be not surprised at 
 my interest in the Society of St. Anne, for 
 I have little children ; and as your liberal 
 constitution confines your charity to no 
 creed, no party, and no country — (loud 
 cheers) — some day, who knows, but what I 
 may come knocking at your door — not yet, 
 perhaps, although, from what the judges say, 
 I may have to change my apartments for a 
 time — (laughter, and No !) — in atonement 
 for having dared to be an American. (No ! 
 No !) I mean for having ventured to intro- 
 duce a carriage for the people. (Loud 
 cheers.) 
 
 Mr. Train gave the toasts that Lord Camp- 
 bell had passed over, introducing each with 
 appropriate remarks, concluding again pro- 
 posing the ladies, and you can imagine 
 how loud was the applause when he inti- 
 mated that he believed that husbands did 
 not, as a rule, give their wives sufficient 
 pin money — (loud cheers) — in days of good 
 fortune ; so that the dear creatures could 
 carefully preserve it when adversity made its 
 unwelcome appearance. (Hear, laughter 
 and cheers.) 
 
 We certainly think that this singular inci- 
 dent is worthy of recording, as showing the 
 sense of justice in the English mind — the 
 actual feeling of goodwill in England towards 
 the United States — as well as the somewhat 
 novel manner in which an American citizen 
 is forced against his desire to occupy the 
 chair, so petulantly abandoned by an English 
 noble. 
 
 GEORGE EMNCIS TRAIN'S l.ETTER TO THE COMMER- 
 CIAL BULLETIN, BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 A FEW FACTS AND ADVICE FOR BOSTON. 
 
 [From the Commercial Bulletin, Boston, May 10, 1862.] 
 
 In one of Mr. Train's friendly letters to 
 tons, just received from London, he takes 
 occasion to allude to Boston at some length, 
 and to offer some suggestions and character- 
 istic remarks, which are so pertinent in many 
 respects that we make the following liberal 
 extracts from his epistle, for the benefit of 
 the progressive portion of our readers : 
 
 London, April 19, 1862. 
 A looker-on from foreign land.^ Boston 
 appears to me to have lost much of its former 
 prestige. Formerly, who imported the tea? 
 —the Boston merchants. Who the silks 
 and the satins? — the Boston merchants. 
 Who started the clipper ships ? — the Boston 
 merchants. Who initiated the railway ec- 
 
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 63 
 
 terprise of the country, but the merchants 
 and capitalists of my native city ? 
 
 The exports and imports of Boston do not 
 keep pace with its population and its fame. 
 Foreigners sap the liie-blood of our people 
 through their mail subsidies, and Cunard 
 bears off the honors that ought to fall upon 
 the shoulders of Americans. Where are the 
 Boston packets? Who builds the Govern- 
 ment ships ? Why is it that we cannot have 
 a line of mail steamers? " A little money, 
 and a good deal of puffing," said Joshua 
 Bates to Colonel Train, in 1844, " and you 
 are sure to succeed." Seventeen years have 
 passed, and the Empire City is sapping 
 away our life blood, till the bloom has left 
 our cheeks, and unless some powerful reme- 
 dy is applied, some Chinese commercial trav- 
 eller will speak in his note book of the 
 modern Athens, resembling, so far as com- 
 mercial energy is concerned, an ancient 
 Babylon. Let your merchants and your 
 bankers show the same energy that the man- 
 ufacturers show at Lawrence, at Waltham, 
 and at Lowell. Let your active ship owners 
 and merchant princes stimulate the nerve, 
 and patriotism of our brave Massachusetts 
 boys at Baltimore, and at Ball's Bluff, and 
 the wharves of Boston would again ring with 
 the cheering stevedore's voice in discharging 
 ships from the Orient — from the North, and 
 the South, and the East, and the West. 
 Wise men of the East arouse from your 
 lethargy, or New York will reduce our 
 three-fold hills to a sandbank of indol- 
 ence! 
 
 Greenock was once flourishing when Glas- 
 gow was a little village. The Clyde was 
 widened, the Broomlaw made, and now 
 Greenock is a petty shipping port, while 
 Glasgow absorbs a magnificent commerce, 
 and has increased her population to three 
 times that of Boston. Williamstown, at the 
 mouth of the Yarra Yarra, in Hobson's Bay, 
 was larger than Melbourne twenty years 
 ago ; but now the one acts as a coal tender 
 to the steam engine. So it may be with 
 Boston. The fossils, molonyxes, mastadons 
 and megatheariums, who have so long im- 
 peded the expansion of our trade, must 
 stand aside, for we must and will have more 
 life, more energy, more action! Let us re- 
 vive the days of Billy Gray, and again send 
 our ships out into the world. New ideas, 
 new thoughts, new blood is wanted. Why 
 don't you organize a Mutual Admiration So- 
 ciety of young merchants, to compose a 
 young Exchange ? You want young insu- 
 rance offices, young banks, young shipbuild- 
 ers, to organize a band of progress. A new 
 era of trade is about to open. New England 
 is to supersede old England on the highways 
 of commerce. High tariffs will give us the 
 control of Eastern trade, and a line of 
 steamers from California to China should 
 bring us always later dates. Circumstances 
 
 make men, but it is only me?^ that can con- 
 trol the circumstances. 
 
 Why do your merchants establish their 
 branch houses in New York ? V/hy do your 
 young men emigrate to other cities? It is 
 because the oligarchy of the few produces 
 paralysis on the many. What chance has 
 the young merchant of having his paper dis- 
 counted at the old Bank? llemember that 
 the merchants who gave our city fame, did 
 it when they were young men. God forbid 
 that I have said any thing in this letter re- 
 flecting upon any of our commercial jgenerals, 
 — but Scott succumbed to McOlellan, Came- 
 ron to Stanton, and the magnates of State 
 street have managed the spoils long enough. 
 Our Knights of the Golden Circle have had 
 it too long their own way. Our secession 
 party had better all secede to New York if 
 they like, for we will not permit them any 
 longer to keep back the progress of Boston. 
 Our three-fold hill is the home of arts and 
 the nurse of liberty. 
 
 Dear old Boston ? I cherish every stone 
 in her warehouses ; every keel in her ship- 
 ping ; every merchant who will add one 
 laurel to her former greatness. The moment 
 the war is ended there will be an enormous 
 trade with the South. When this trade is 
 divided, Boston demands its share. I would 
 use this motto : New York — its Riohts, 
 AND Nothing More ! Boston — Its Eights, 
 AND Nothing Less ! 
 
 Let our young men be first to establish 
 houses in our Southern cities to manage our 
 Northern trade. Boston must be a great 
 place of export. Long since we pushed 
 England oft' the track in China, and a new 
 era', is now opened to our manufacturers to 
 spin yarns and cottons for the cargoes of our 
 ships. Open wide the Bulletin's columns 
 to any man, who will make two ships grow 
 where one was launched before. 
 
 The first important thing Boston ought to 
 do is to establish a line of mail steamers to 
 England, — make it a joint stock company of 
 two millions of dollars, make every exporter 
 and every importer take one hundred to five 
 hundred dollars each. Steam directly to 
 the English shore without stopping at Hali- 
 fax. Don't allow a shilling of foreign capi- 
 tal. Let the ship-builder and the ship- 
 chandler, the agent and the broker, all take 
 a portion of their pay in the shares of the 
 company; and, before the end of the year, 
 swift passages would bring fair returns, and 
 Boston would regain in prestige during the 
 next ten months what it has lost during the 
 last ten years. Call it the Union Line, 
 managed by a Union company of Union 
 men. Send out your own people to manage 
 them in England. 
 
 The Barings, the Browns, the Pickersgills, 
 have long ceased to represent our people. 
 These old firms, for twenty years, have hung 
 like a night-mare over our finances, cashier- 
 
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 ing every good enterprise that did not fall 
 into their hands. Why do American Secu- 
 rities stand so low in England? Simjily be- 
 cause these firms bear them down to the 
 lowest ebb, in order to profit by the flood. 
 Take Sampson's anathemas against our 
 State Stocks, our Railway Securities, during 
 the last year, and tell me who inspires them. 
 "Why, no other than the international bank- 
 ers, who profess to be interested in our wel- 
 fare. The Barinj;s, the Browns, <fec., are 
 English houses — not American — and I know 
 nearly every man of them to have been seces- 
 sionists during the reign of secession. Rumor 
 assures me that (ieorge Peabody alone has 
 realized upwards of three hundred thousand 
 pounds in American Securities during the 
 Trent affair ; one-half of which he has gene- 
 rously given to the London poor. 'J'he other 
 half, I understand, he is going to generously 
 devote to a Union Hospital, for Union 
 soldiers who have been mutilated during 
 this ungodly war ! 
 
 I would not make these comments were I 
 not annoyed to see so many Americans in- 
 
 directly sympathise with those who would 
 gloat over our destruction. 
 
 Secessia, thus far, has been a good thing 
 for Lancashire and Yorkshire. The cotton 
 brokers, bankers, and merchants, since 18.57 
 sunk two pounds a bale on their two mil- 
 lions of cotton. Four millions less per an- 
 num, to twelve millions sunk in three years. 
 This twelve millions of paper, a dead loss, 
 was flooded on the London market until the 
 Rebellion stopped the cotton and saved some 
 scores of bankers, manufacturers and mer- 
 chants from bankruptcy. The disaster is 
 taken off the shoulders of the wealthiest 
 classes to be thrown upon the backs of the 
 poor. I know of nothing more saddening 
 than the dismal wail that comes up to me 
 from the manufacturing districts — give us 
 food or give us labor to purchase food, for 
 the times are bad, the sky is dull, no brilliant 
 prospect in the future, no hope, no bread, 
 the pauper houses are full, and the grave 
 yard is yawning for more victims, for of such 
 is the kingdom of Secession. 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. 
 
 TRAIN AN HONORARY GOYEHNOR OF THE LAMBETH 
 PENSION SOCIETY. 
 
 [Fi'om the London American of May 14, 1862.] 
 
 Mr. Train's continued efibrts in aid of the 
 charities of the metropolis are evidently 
 making themselves felt upon the popular 
 mind — Mr. Peabody with his money, and Mr. 
 Train with his lectures, must do much to 
 neutralize the attempts of Secessionists to 
 embroil the two countries in war. The fol- 
 lowing correspondence tells its own story ; 
 
 (Copy of a letter from the Honorary Sec- 
 retary of the Lambeth Pension Society) : 
 
 59 Walcot-place, East Lambeth, 
 5th of May, 1862. 
 
 Dear Sir, — I beg respectfully to apprize 
 you that at the Annual General Meeting of 
 Subscribers held at the Vestry Hall, on 
 "Wednesday, the 30th day of April, you were 
 unanimously elected an Honorary Governor 
 of this Society, for the benefit conferred by 
 your lectures in aid of the funds thereof,— 
 I remain, dear Sir, yours truly. 
 
 (Signed) 'J'hos. Roffey, Secretary. 
 To Geo. F. Train, Esq. 
 
 (MR. train's reply. 
 18 St. James's-street, Piccadilly, 
 London, May 7, 1862. 
 Dear Sir, — When a man's motives have 
 been misunderstood, and his sentiments mis- 
 interpreted, what can be more gratifying to 
 him than to be appreciated by those who, 
 not knowing him, mistook his warm expres- 
 sions of attachment for his own land as an 
 unfriendly act towards another country. 
 
 Be so kind as to make known to your 
 noble Institution how delighted I am to be 
 made an honorary governor of so worthy a 
 Society, and say to them that they may com- 
 mand my services on any future occasion, 
 whenever they think I can add to their funds 
 by lecturing to those whose acquaintance I 
 am so proud to make. 
 
 By such mutual expressions of good will 
 between our respective nations 1 hope to 
 prove to you that Americans wish to culti- 
 vate the friendship of Englishmen, not pro- 
 voke their enmity. 
 
 Most respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 George Feakcis Train. 
 Thomas RofiFey, Esq. 
 
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 65 
 
 MR. TRAIN'S LECTURE AT THE WIIITTmGTON CLUB. 
 
 [Fro7n the London American of May 2\st, 1862.] 
 
 On Thursday evening Mr. Train lectured 
 at the Whitting-ton Club, for the benefit of 
 the " Metropolitan Church Schoolmasters' 
 Association," the subject being " Recollec- 
 tions of Travels in America, Europe, Asia. 
 Africa, and Australia." J. Williams, Esq., 
 Churchwarden of Lambeth, occupied the 
 chair. Owing to the unfavorable condition 
 of the weather — caused, no doubt, by the 
 depressed state of the mercury in the 
 barometer — the audience was not large, but 
 made up in attention and enthusiasm what 
 it lacked in numbers. The lecturer gave 
 his own experience in the various countries 
 through which he had journeyed, embellish- 
 ing his earnest facts with anecdote and wit. 
 , His imitations of the Chinese and other 
 characters were well received by his audi- 
 ence, and were no doubt, inimitable in their 
 way ; at the same time we cannot help 
 thinking that originality is always better 
 than imitation, and, for ourselves, we would 
 prefer Mr. Train's own features to the parch- 
 ment-like countenance of a Chinese mandarin. 
 
 Mr. Train then proceeded to narrate his 
 travels and adventures in Turkey, " amongst 
 the half-civilized, proud, uncouth, and ob- 
 stinate people." He gave, in a rich vein of 
 satirical humor, an account of himself and a 
 party of friends visiting a Turkish Mosque. 
 The attempt on the part of the Turkish at- 
 tendants at imposition, after bargaining for a 
 certain payment ; but how, when himself and 
 party assumed a determined and menacing 
 attitude, the Turkish attendants alarmed, 
 made the most humble and abject salaams. 
 The lecturer's droll and inimitable style of 
 mimicry, and occasional bursts of thrilling 
 eloquence while describing ancient Stamboul 
 and the Turks, quite electrified his audience, 
 and drew forth the most hearty and contin- 
 ued rounds of applause. From Turkey he 
 took his audience into the Sunny Lands of 
 Italy, and gave a fervid and eloquent de- 
 scription of that then distracted country, 
 " the Land of Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, 
 and Art," and of her expectant, hopeful, 
 patriotic, and determined peoples." 
 
 The originality of idea in which he de- 
 scribed what he saw, felt and heard in travel- 
 ing through that beautiful land, his graphic 
 picture of its present condition and future 
 destiny, the touching and eloquent appeal 
 to the people of England, in favor of Italy, 
 and the fervid manner lie called for three 
 cheers for the illustrious Garibaldi, so wrought 
 up the feelings of his admiring audience, that 
 the whole assembly instantly rose from their 
 seats and gave, and that lustily, three such 
 
 cheers as an English audience only can give, 
 and three cheers more, and one more to 
 finish. 
 
 The lecturer then proceeded to France, 
 and the French, Louis Napolean and his 
 Court, state of parties in France, probabili- 
 ties of the future, in which he displayed an 
 acumen, tact and knowledge that evinced 
 how rapidily correct information and expe- 
 rience may be acquired whilst traveling, by 
 those who are determined to seek for and to 
 obtain it. The lecturer then concluded one 
 of the most eloquent orations ever delivered, 
 by making some very feeling and telling 
 observations on the recent misunderstand- 
 ing with our American cousins, reciting a 
 beautiful poem, called, "John and Jona- 
 than," showing how England and America, 
 by mutual charity, forbearance, union, and 
 co-operation, may rule the world and give 
 laws to the whole human family. 
 
 One of the most pleasing features of the 
 evening's entertainment was the enthusiasm 
 with which the audience received every refer- 
 ence made by the speaker to the better under- 
 standing which is beginning to prevail, 
 between England and the United States. 
 At the conclusion, a vote of thanks, and 
 three hearty cheers from the entire assem- 
 bly, were accorded to the speaker for his 
 able and instructive lecture. In proposing 
 the vote of thanks to Mr. Train, the Secre- 
 tary of the Society, Mr. Sales, took occasion 
 to read the subjoined parody, entitled — 
 
 TRAMWAYS, OR NO TRAMWAYS? 
 
 Thp Tram, or not the Tram, that is the question, 
 
 \Vheth"r 'tis shrewder in a man to suffer 
 
 The dingy, narrow and outrageous busses ; 
 
 Or. to take tickets fnr George Train's Tram-(iarriage, 
 
 And, by opposing, floor them? To ride, to lounge. 
 
 No more ; and by a lounge, to say we end 
 
 The feet ache, and the thousand natural shocks 
 
 That boots are heirs to. 'Tis a consummatiou 
 
 Devoutly to be wi>hed. To ride; to lounge — 
 
 To lounge! perchance to muse ; aye. there's the knot. 
 
 For in that car of Train's what tlioughts may come, 
 
 Aa we go smoothly o'er tlie metal coil 
 
 Must wake us up. That's the idea 
 
 Which makes the old bus firm of so long life ; 
 
 For who wnuld bear the harsh rebound of spring ; 
 
 The rattling windows, the fat lady's compiiny, 
 
 The rasp of steel-bound skirls, the timed delay. 
 
 The insolence of coachey. or the chaff 
 
 That modest riders from the cou'luctors take. 
 
 When he himself might his safe journeyings mak 
 
 In a fair carriage ? Who would mount the roof. 
 
 To chafe and slip upon a knife-board bare. 
 
 But that the thought of cancelling the law. 
 
 The most tremendous power which had fixed 
 
 The present Act of Highways, puzzles a cove, 
 
 And makes him rather use the roads we have, 
 
 Than fly to one the statutes know not of! 
 
 Thu3 Parliament makes cowards of us all! 
 
 And thus the Foreign Spirit of SpeculatioQ 
 
 Is twaddled over in parochial votes; 
 
 And enterprise of great use and value. 
 
 With this regard, are forc'd to rai-e tUeir lines 
 
 And lose the name of roadways. 
 
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 GEORGE FRAIiCIS TRAIN ON SLAVERY AND UNIVERSAL 
 
 EMANCIPATION. 
 
 "IS AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE NEGRO A STEPPING-STONE 
 EROM AFRICAN BARBARISM TO CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION ?" 
 
 [From the London American of 3Iarch 19, 1862.] 
 
 Mr. Train. — Slavery, Mr. Chairman and 
 Gentlemen, is as old as the Bible— older, for 
 man existed before parchment, and owned 
 slaves, before he commenced writing for the 
 Times, — in which he lived. (Laughter.) You 
 all know why I put the question on the 
 paper — wherever the American war has been 
 discussed, each speaker seems to have felt 
 it his duty to give the Americans a homily 
 on slavery. Hence, it occurred to me that 
 a subject which had occupied your Broug- 
 hams — your VVilberforces, your Buxtous, 
 your Clarksons— for more than a quarter of 
 a century, was wide enough for a Forum de- 
 bate without the collateral issues which 
 stifle sound logic and swamp honest argu- 
 ment. (Applause.) It was generous in me 
 to take the unpopular side, and, perhaps, 
 too bold to rashly throw the gauntlet to the 
 clever men that have come in to-night to 
 crush me with abolitionism. (Laughter and 
 applause.) But fear not for me, I will make 
 good my cause and oblige you to admit that 
 American slavery is a stepping-stone to the 
 negro from African barbarism to Christian 
 civilization 1 Hence, a Divine Institution. 
 (" Oh," and dissent.) Gentlemen, you mur- 
 mur, but you have no right to trifle with the 
 mysterious ways of Providence. Whatever 
 is, is right ; man proposes, God disposes. 
 He arranged the plan of civilization I defend, 
 not man. 
 
 AVlien you will explain why, in His wis- 
 dom, He made one mountain overtop an- 
 other mountain — formed one ocean larger 
 than another ocean — planned one valley 
 wider than another valley ; when you can 
 make me understand why He made the oak 
 stronger than its neighbor — the rainbow 
 more beautiful than the storm-cloud — the 
 lily more lovely than the lilac ; when you 
 will tell me the reason that Providence or- 
 dained that the fair Saxon should be per- 
 mitted to express, in the blush upon her 
 face, all the emotions of her soul, while the 
 African knows not the signification of the 
 •word — (applause) — when these things are 
 made clear to me, I will tell you how and 
 
 why He has made the African the servant 
 of the Anglo-Saxon race, but not till then. 
 (Cheers.) They were born and bred ser- 
 vants, they cannot be masters. I have been 
 in Africa, and nowhere did I learn that the 
 Nubian had ever been other than a hewer of 
 wood and a drawer of water. For forty 
 centuries they have borne the burden. We 
 may regret their position, but we cannot 
 change the laws of God. The obelisks and 
 hieroglyphics of the past have stamped their 
 occupations. Africa is a desert — America a 
 garden — mind you, I speak of that portion of 
 the great Ethiopean country that cultivates 
 the English staple of slavery. (" Oh ! it is not 
 a modern institution.") No, I admit that 
 slavery is no new institution — did I not 
 open the debate with that statement ? It is 
 as old as the world of the geologists. All 
 ages have owned their slaves. Examine 
 the archives of time. Chaos before Cosmo 
 — then the lower animals, then man, concen- 
 trating something from all, but created in 
 the image of his Creator. Man required 
 society. Society must have laws. Laws 
 constitute government. Hence, government 
 is civil law, controlling property, liberty, life. 
 This was the primitive state. The people 
 elect governors; the most intellectual are 
 chiefs. First, it was physical courage, then 
 mental energy, superiority; hence slavery. 
 You find it in every age. From Chaldea it 
 went to Egypt, to Arabia, to all Eastern 
 lands, and finally all over the world. I 
 found them everywhere in my travels, but 
 under different names. In Homer's day all 
 war prisoners in Greece were slaves. The 
 Lacedemonian youth were trained to trap 
 them, and afterwards butcher them. Three 
 thousand prisoners were slaughtered on one 
 occasion by these manly Spartans merely 
 for amusement. Three centuries before the 
 Christian era, Alexander destroyed Thebes, 
 and sold into abject slavery, the entire popu- 
 lation. Slaves in chains, received the ban- 
 quet guests in the Roman mansions. The 
 laws of the XII Tables made insolvent 
 debtors slaves until the debt was paid ; and 
 
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 only forty-two years before Christ, Polio fat- 
 tened his lampreys on the slaves that of- 
 fended him ! Twelve years before that 
 Ccecilius Isidorus left 4,116 in his will to his 
 heir. Twenty-two centuries, (says Dr. Mor- 
 ton,) before Christ, we see in the monuments 
 of Egypt, Caucasian and negro as master 
 and slave. Gliddon's "Types of Man," 
 pictures the negro dancing in handcuffs in 
 the streets of Thebes three thousand four 
 hundred years ago ! The negro is always 
 painted a slave on the vases found in the 
 tombs of Etruria. He has not made in 
 Africa one progressive step, since his char- 
 acteristics were shown on the gravestones of 
 the kings. I make these preparatory com- 
 ments in reply to the gentleman who said it 
 was not purely an English institution, in 
 order to bring my points to bear upon the 
 question, so as to prove to your satisfaction 
 that American slavery is a stepping-stone to 
 the improvement of the African. 
 
 England had the best of examples for in- 
 troducing slavery into the Western World. 
 (Hear.) But let us not trust to profane 
 historians — take sacred writers. Read the 
 Bible and observe the bondsmen — the laws 
 that regulate their sale and purchase. No- 
 tice the numbers owned by Abraham, by 
 Isaac, by Jacob. Moses, too, had so many, 
 he made laws to govern the slave-owner. 
 What were the bondsmen and bondsmaids 
 of the ancients but slaves ? Dr. Wayland 
 saj's that the Hebrews held slaves since the 
 conquest of Canaan — and it was on Canaan 
 that the badge of servitude fell. Abraham 
 owned one thousand. Even AVhitfield did 
 not call it a sin. Read 25th Leviticus — 
 read 21st Exodus — where the slave is called 
 money — " When his master shall bore his 
 ear through with an awl, and he shall own 
 him for ever." Polygamy, divorce, murder, 
 incest, the Bible precepts forbade, but 
 placed no ban on slavery I find no law 
 against it in the Scriptures. Even Moses 
 delivered up a fugitive slave — (hear, hear) — 
 but it does not follow that I advocate it in 
 perpetuity. (Continued applause.) The 
 fact is, men in our day would be hung for 
 what then hardly occasioned a rebuke. 
 " Servants obey your masters," was the Di- 
 vine law, and St. Paul endorsed it. If the 
 Author of Christianity had not approved of 
 it, His goodness and his honor must neces- 
 sarily have rejected it. The Old Testament 
 sanctioned it, the New gives no word nor 
 sign against it — but laws regulating it are 
 recorded in both. St. Paul had time to give 
 directions about the cut of a coat, or to say 
 polite words to King Agrippa, but nowhere 
 records anything against slavery; on the 
 contrary, in his letter to his friend Philemon, 
 to whom he consigns his own son Onesimus 
 — "Whom I have begotten in my bonds." 
 Does he not say " which in time past was to 
 
 thee nnprojitable, but now profilahJe to thee 
 and me?" One would suppose that slavery 
 is purely of American origin, if trained by 
 the modern philanthropists, but it seems to 
 be a plant of very ancient growth. But 
 pass by the barbarous days, come back to 
 Christian England. Saxon Alfred made 
 laws as to the sale of slaves, and it is well 
 known that in Saxon and Norman times the 
 children of the English peasantry were sold 
 in the Bristol market like cattle for expor- 
 tation ! — some went to Ireland, some to 
 Scotland. Wat Tyler's rebellion in 1381 
 arose from serfdom. Edward VI. branded 
 V on the breast of any one who lived idle 
 for three days, and the buyer owned him for 
 two years as his slave. He could oblige 
 him to work by beating and chaining him ; 
 let him absent himself for a fortnight, and, 
 with a brand upon his cheek, he was made a 
 slave for ever! His neck, his leg, or his 
 arm could be circled with rings of iron, and 
 these were Saxon England's laws ! Even in 
 1547 a runaway apprentice became by 
 statute a slave. This hasty glance at the 
 past brings us down to the base of our ar- 
 gument, when England stamped African 
 slavery into the American soil. Sir John 
 Hawkins (1563) was not long in following 
 the Portuguese in profiting by the Congo 
 and Angola traffic in Africans — perhajis 
 England, even at this early day, thought of 
 this method of Christianizing Africans. 
 (Laughter, and " Good.") Queen Elizabeth 
 was an accomplice, and the English Anne 
 was joint partner with the Spanish Philip in 
 dividing profit in the 144,01)0 slaves stipu- 
 lated for in the Assiente treaty ! England, 
 I say, may thus early have had the praise- 
 worthy idea of civilizing this God-forsaken 
 race by firmly planting in the West the 
 Bible staple of slavery. (Laughter.) Eng- 
 land has been consistent from the first — all 
 the Georges were engaged in it. The dia- 
 monds in the Royal Crown, now worn by 
 your Queen, were bought by the proceeds 
 arising from the sale of your negroes, and as 
 your former Queens, your Government and 
 your people were all so largely engaged in 
 the traffic, it is most unfair to presume tha.t 
 they had any other motive in view in carry- 
 ing on this wholesale trade in human flesh 
 than the Christianizing of the savage !. 
 (Laughter.) Even the capital in which you 
 established the East India Company and the 
 Bank of England, was furnished from the 
 profits of the African slave trade. 
 
 Any one at all acquainted with English 
 characteristics — knowing how disinterested 
 they are in all matters of personal interest, 
 and how little they care for that which most 
 nations seek for — money — and how all iheir 
 eff'orts for a period of centuries has been to 
 benefit other lands instead of their own — 
 (laughter) — will not for a moment credit the 
 
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 unpleasant rumors that have got abroad that ] human flesh is the commerce of the white 
 England had any sordid object in view, man ;) but as an American slave has he not 
 (Laughter, and hear, hear.) Assuming, then, ' grown corn, cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, and 
 the generous view, that the civilization of i coffee, and thus helped to civilize the world 
 the African was the object, I proceed to ' more than all the missionaries in Christea- 
 
 , condense my whole argument into a few 
 paragraphs to show how successful England 
 has been in her philanthropy, and during 
 the next five minutes, will convince the most 
 skeptical, that American slavery to the 
 negro is a stepping stone in the right direc- 
 tion. In order to bring my point straight 
 home to your comprehension, I shall lay be- 
 fore you bone by bone, the skeleton on 
 which I base the argument. I shall ana- 
 lyze and divide the whole question into affir- 
 matives and negatives, and making you ac- 
 knowledge individual points, 1 shall compel 
 you to admit the collective argument. — 
 ("We'll see !" and applause.) 
 
 PHYSICALLY. 
 
 Is not the meagre, thin, long, chop-fallen, 
 Jialf-sturved savage, as you find him a pri- 
 soner of war in nagro land, a barbarian, com- 
 pared to the happy, contented, loell developed, 
 strong, hearty, well clothed, well fed, negro 
 slave in his Christianized state of American 
 Slavery? Answer me, gentlemen — yes, or 
 no, as I give you point by point. (" Yes," 
 and applause.) That much admitted, take 
 him INTELLECTUALLY and MENTALLY. The 
 physical effects, the intellectual — take care 
 of the body, and you improve the mind. The 
 muscles of your brain grow by action, as the 
 muscles of the body become stronger by 
 ■exertion. (" That's so,") A man's arm is 
 like a woman's before he trains for the prize- 
 fight ; but action makes the cords appear 
 2ike iron ; so it is with the mind, hence the 
 emaciated physique gives perfoi'ce an emaci- 
 ated intellect, i ask you to look on the ( 
 miserable, weak-minded animal in Africa, 
 who knows not the sweets of labor, or Bible 
 schools, Bible societies, or Christian prea- 
 chers — makes no statues, paints no portraits, 
 writes no books, and contrast him in his 
 improved state in the West, where he has a 
 higher order of talent to shape his thoughts ; 
 — look at moles, and your ideas become 
 moley ; look at mountains, and they become 
 mountainous. In Africa, he had no higher 
 example. In America, the Caucasian race 
 has elevated his intellect, as it has improved 
 his physique, and I ask again, has not the 
 barbarian, which you admit in the one case, 
 made progress in the other ? (" Yes," and 
 applause.) 
 
 COMMERCIALLY. 
 
 The African savage never benefitted man- 
 kind as an African savage (for their palm 
 oil, their elephants' tusks, and traffic in 
 
 dom? ("Yes," and applause.) 
 
 FINANCIALLY, 
 
 The argument applies — what finance has 
 he in Africa ? No circulating medium, no 
 exchequer bills, no currency, nothing but 
 human beings constitute the coin in their 
 barter trade ; while in America, does not 
 his labor, based on the commerce it produces, 
 regulate exchanges, rule markets, stimulate 
 finance ? Is not the Atlantic Ocean bridg- 
 ed with letters of credit? — perhaps not now, 
 since our blockades is so effectual — (laugh- 
 ter) — proving that the African financially 
 stands in a higher position as an American 
 slave than as a negro barbarian! ("Yes," 
 and applause.) 
 
 MECHANICALLY. 
 
 What arts, sciences, instruments ; what 
 ingenuity has the negro in his barbarian 
 state ever shown ? Nothing ; but in our 
 American slavery, he has seen in the white 
 man a higher order of mankind ; and there 
 are now mechanics, carpenters, smiths, metal 
 workers among slaves. Will any gentleman 
 dispute it ? (No.) Am I stating facts ? 
 (Yes.) 'i hen gentlemen, take care, or I shall 
 make you admit the entire argument, piece 
 by piece, before I come to the climatrix. — 
 (Laughter.) 
 
 SOCIALLY. 
 
 , I see gentlemen, what you are all waiting 
 for — you all expect me to be floored upon 
 the moral, social and religious point of view. 
 
 I You have admitted my former propositions, 
 believing that I should break down upon the 
 moral view of the subject, forgetting, as you 
 do, that all the previous points which I have 
 made in the affirmative- — physically, intel- 
 
 L'ECTUALLY, COMMERCIALLY, MECHANICALLY 
 
 (and 1 could have added agriculture and 
 manufactures) — bear direct on the social, 
 religious, and moral aspect of the case. But 
 I do not require their assistance, although 
 each one of them proves the affirmative of 
 the question under discussion. I now take 
 it up SOCIALLY. The African has no social 
 ties, no sacred rights, no family pleasures, 
 and is a cannibal ; while as an American 
 slave he goes to church, sings psalms, laughs, 
 reads tracts, shoots birds, dances round the 
 plantation fires, and is the happiest laborer 
 I have ever witnessed in my extensive 
 travel. — (Cheers, and " That's so" from the 
 Southeraers.) Will you admit that, as the 
 
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 69 
 
 American slave never eats his own or other 
 people's children, that American slavery is 
 Christianity contrasted with the barbarism 
 of cannibalism? (Applause, "yes," and 
 " no," from two voices.) The Hon. Colonial 
 Secretary from Sierra Leone says no ; then 
 I will give him an opportunity of proving the 
 negative ; but I have with me a higher au- 
 thority that says yes. Although perhaps, 
 not strictly parliamentary, will you allow me 
 to read a letter received from one of the 
 most distinguished men of this century with 
 whom I have been corresponding, which 
 admits what the gentlemen from the African 
 coast denies. The letter, gentlemen, is from 
 the distinguished poet and abolitionist, M. 
 Victor Hugo. You may remember his 
 celebrated picture on the John Brown raid 
 — simply a black fore-ground, with a man 
 hanging in the distance, while the light of 
 abolition is breaking in the sky beyond ! 
 Victor Hugo wrote a letter to the engraver, 
 commemorating the act as the dissolution of 
 the American Empire. On this I wrote him, 
 proposing to prove to him, as I shall do to 
 you before I get through, that Mr. Seward's 
 prophetic Irrepressible Conflict, as inaug- 
 urated by the John Brown raid (m tchich 
 Mr. Seward was in no way implirated.) that 
 60 far from destroying our republic it would 
 give it a lease for another hundred years. 
 (Cries of " Read, read.") I will translate it 
 into English. 
 
 " Your opinion, sir, is true upon the first 
 phase of slavery, but it is not all so in the 
 second. It is evident that slavery wrested 
 its prey from the eaters of human flesh, but 
 it has only progressed in regard to cannibal- 
 ism ; whenever it finds itself in the presence of 
 Christianism, and, above all, of human reason, 
 it must abdicate under penalty of becoming 
 monstrous. — The persistency of the South- 
 ern States in slavery is the greatest moral 
 deformity of the nineteenth century. (Ap- 
 plause.) You see, sir, that we differ in our 
 points of view. However I am not for that 
 less sensible to the sentiment of sympathy 
 expressed in your honorable letter in such 
 warm words, and I pray you to accept the 
 assurance of my esteem. 
 
 (Signed) " Victor Hugo. 
 
 "Hauteville House, Feb. 25, 1861." 
 
 In reply, I argued with him as with you, 
 by saying, as he admits the first phase of my 
 proposition, a system that rescues humanity 
 from man-eaters must have some divinity 
 in its origin — Religiously and morally, all 
 the heads under which I have classified the 
 arguments are subordinate to this — the bar- 
 barian meets civilized man and improves as 
 far as he can. Education may develop, but 
 cannot originate mind. Color is not the 
 only thing that marks him. You must Jirst 
 
 jnit inside his tJiick sJcitU nine cubic inches 
 more of brain! He may possess the two 
 hundred and forty-eight bones, the four hun- 
 dred muscles, the fifty-six joints on hands 
 and feet, the twenty miles of arteries that 
 make the white man — and those who ap- 
 proach them in summer will testify that 
 they also have the seven millions of pores 
 (kiughter) ; but the brain, the organ of 
 thought is not there ; for the negro, while a 
 man in body, is in mind a child. 
 
 Three types of man landed in the Ameri- 
 can forests, and are well represented by 
 three classes of the horse tribe — the Indian 
 was the Zebra, yon could never tame him ; the 
 ivhite man loas the Arab horse, the living pic- 
 ture of strength and progress (hear, hear) ; 
 the negro was the donkey (laughter), tvho did 
 the labor, and in that way carried out his 
 destiny. 
 
 All men are not born "free and equal." 
 I deny it. The Creator's plans cannot be 
 thwarted by a turn of words in the nation's 
 declaration of independence. Jefferson may 
 have intended to say that all white men were 
 born free and equal ; but if he did so he was 
 wrong, because they are not. All are differ- 
 ent — no two things are alike — no drop in 
 the ocean, leaf in forest, sand in mountain, 
 fish in sea, flower in garden. How, then, 
 can races be the same? Each land has its 
 fauna, its floi'a, and its humanity. This has 
 been so in all ages. The Arab, the Egyptian, 
 the Kegro, are as distinctly chiseled in the 
 monuments forty centuries ago as are the 
 wild dog, the greyhound, and the turnspit. 
 The type never dies! (Applause.) Geology 
 shows the different strata of the earth ; 
 ethnology teaches us the different strata of 
 men — the negro is the Paleozoic. 
 
 As there are no teachers, no schoolmasters, 
 no mechanics' associations, no Christian 
 ministers, nothing for the African to look up 
 to in Africa, how expect improvement, 
 morally or religiously, unless transplanted to 
 another climate, where his eyes, his ears, 
 and senses are taught, without much effort, 
 the common rudiments of education. Con- 
 centrate your thoughts on Lilliput, and 
 your mind becomes Lilliputian ; but centre 
 your gaze on Gulliver, and your views con- 
 sequently become Gulliverian! (Applause.) 
 My forty minutes are nearly exhausted, and 
 I ask you to run along the edge of my argu- 
 ment and tell me if I have not proved be- 
 yond the shadow of a doubt that American 
 slavery to the Negro is a stepping-stone from 
 African barbarism to Christian civilization. 
 (Loud cheers, and " No" from Mr. Edwards.) 
 One gentleman says no, and yet all have 
 admitted, as I put bone and bone together, 
 and laid before you my pian, that, carrying 
 as you have done any portion of the argu- 
 ment in my favor, it naturally bears with it 
 the whole ; and the collateral issues that I 
 
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 have raised were merely the veins, arteries, 
 blood, and flesh, that I have filled into the 
 framework ; and if I have occupied a few 
 minutes more, it is in order to put boots, 
 and trousers, and coat, and hat upon my 
 Christianized African, and let him stand be- 
 fore you an improved human being, with 
 nine cubic inches less of brain than the Cau- 
 casian race, that has assisted him up one 
 stepping-stone towards the temple of Chris- 
 tian freedom. (Cheers.) 
 
 But Mr. Edwards said no ! I will then 
 convince him, by firing another arrow in my 
 quiver. Read the recent parliamentary cor- 
 respondence of Dahomey, regarding the in- 
 human acts of that barbarous people. King 
 Gezo, not many months ago, died. In ac- 
 cordance with their usual custom, the great 
 king must have a great funeral. Seven 
 thousand negroes were to be tortured, mu- 
 tilated, and burned to ashes over the funeral 
 pile of the dead king — but owing to the high 
 price of slaves, arising from England's rav- 
 enous demand for cotton — (cheers) — still, as 
 you observe, at her old work of Christian- 
 izing the Heathen — (laughter) — negroes 
 commanded too high a price at Dahomey to 
 permit the royal treasury to luxuriate in 
 such gigantic torture, hence the successors 
 of the dead king tore away from their fami- 
 lies only eight hundred little children and 
 old men, young girls, and aged women, and 
 sacrified them with their instruments of tor- 
 ture in honor of the dead chief, in accordance 
 ■with the barbarous funeral rites of that un- 
 happy land ! 
 
 By purchasing slave-grown produce, Eng- 
 land again did something for civilization in 
 this case, as she did three centuries ago, 
 when Sir John Hawkins landed his first 
 cargo on the American shore. (Laughter 
 and applause.) Now, as Mr. Edwards can- 
 not give me a single instance where any 
 American slave on the American plantation 
 has been sacrificed over the funeral pile in a 
 similar manner — or point to a single instance 
 of Cannibalism, he certainly must now admit 
 by this last shot in my locker, that a system 
 which does away with this inhuman practice 
 • — that Lord Palmerston and Lord John 
 Eussell have in vain tried to uproot in Africa 
 — must be beneficial to the African bar- 
 barian, and gives me the affirmative of the 
 argument that To the Negro, American 
 Slavery is a stepping-stone from African 
 barbarism to christian civilization. 
 
 Several speakers were on their feet at 
 once in reply — and each in his turn attacked 
 Mr. Train in the stronghold he had built 
 around his argument. He baffled his antag- 
 onists by the way he put the question — they 
 evidently looking at the debasement of the 
 white man more than the elevation of the 
 
 negro. So many were desirous of speaking, 
 Mr. Train moved the adjournment of the 
 debate to Monday evening, March 17th. 
 This was carried, and on that evening the 
 hall was packed — most of the speakers being 
 against Mr. Train — who rose to 'order, and 
 asked them not to argue on what he was 
 going to say, but upon what he had said. 
 He told them that he had paved one stepping- 
 stone — and asked them how they were able 
 to interpret his thoughts. " How do yoa 
 know," said he, "but what the real stepping- 
 stone is Universal Emancipation." 
 
 CONCLUSION OF MR. TRAIN'S 
 GREAT SPEECH ON SLAVERY. 
 
 Mr. Train says America's mission is for 
 white people — England's for blacks — hence 
 recommends Lord Shaftesbury to give his 
 attention to Africa — as a wider field for his 
 well-known philanthropy. This speech will 
 attract attention by the boldness of its 
 theories — and the new light he has thrown 
 upon some old ideas. As he has so often 
 foreshadowed events during the Revolution, 
 he may have again anticipated the policy of 
 the Administration. 
 
 Mr. Train, — Inasmuch, Mr. Chairman and 
 gentleman, as this is the fifth night of the 
 debate — and inasmuch as thirteen experi- 
 enced debaters have been firing hot shot into 
 the fortification I built around my argument 
 — while only two speakers came to my 
 assistance — and inasmuch as I adopted the 
 unpopular side of the question to give life to 
 the debate — the least I can expect is that 
 you will yield to me the same fairness you 
 have given to others — (hear, hear) — and not 
 interrupt me unless under mis-statement — 
 no matter how direct may be the fire of my 
 batteries — until I have fully satisfied you 
 that the point I took when opening the 
 debate has not in any point been assailed. 
 (Oh, and laughter.) I knew the result at the 
 start — I knew the question was so worded 
 that nothing could shake my position. — 
 Hence, as no one has confuted my argument 
 — (oh) — I have a right to demand the same 
 latitude in reply that you have accorded to 
 others — (hear) — and if I tread rather uncere- 
 moniously on the prejudices of the English 
 people — you should remember how severely 
 I have been attacked. So fair play and no 
 favor— (hear and applause) — and I will do 
 my best to pay in gold the paper drafts 
 which have been made upon me — and if I 
 use the weapon of ridicule and satire, it is in 
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 ■whieli T shall confound my enemies! (Hear, 
 hear.) In my openinp^ speech I met their 
 figures of rhetoric with my figures of arith- 
 metic, making all admit the steppimj-stone, 
 save those so blind that they would not see ! 
 — That admitted, they wished me to go fur- 
 ther, hence ripped up the whole question of 
 the African slave-trade. West Indian eman- 
 cipation, and American slavery. — Proving 
 my first step, to the satisfaction of every 
 intelligent mind, it may come to pass, before 
 I conclude, that I am more of an abolitionist 
 than you are. ("Oh." and cries of "You 
 have a queer way of showing it.") Does not 
 the order of nature give sensation before 
 thinking — creeping before walking — crying 
 before language — and coarseness before cul- 
 ture — superstition before intellectual educa- 
 tion — experience before wisdom — and barba- 
 rism befox'e civilization? (Hear, hear.) So, 
 American slavery precedes thetemaucipation 
 of the African slave? (Applause.) I kept 
 my argument rattling against the bull's-nye 
 of the question, while my opponents did not 
 hit the target at all — hence it is useless for 
 me to bring any more facts to bear upon the 
 stepping-sione, — but will take up one by one, 
 as my memory serves me, the points of the 
 other debaters, in order to show how ridicu- 
 lous by a little analysis they can be made to 
 appear. (No personalities !) The gentle- 
 man says no personalities, and yet they have 
 endeavored to hammer me into a gold leaf. 
 — I did intend commencing at the alpha, 
 walking along towards the omega — but as 
 there are many new speakers here to-night, 
 I will reverse the argument, walking back- 
 ward snail-like, as some of the other speakers 
 have done (laughter), by taking up the last 
 debater. His great point was, that slavery 
 was based on piracy, robbery, debauchery, 
 and murder — hence it could have nothing to 
 do with Christianity. 
 
 Now, gentlemen, this is the platform on 
 which the world was built. (Oh ! and dis- 
 sent.) You dissent — but here are a few 
 thousand years of history crowded into one 
 paragraph. — Cain murdered — Lot sotted — 
 Onan ouanized — David Uriahized — Moses 
 plotted — and Jacob cheated — Solomon Mor- 
 monized — Noah inebriated — Peter lied — 
 Judas betraj^ed. — (Sensation.) — Yet, while 
 all these bad men were slave owners — each 
 representing a fair type of the Confederate 
 Cabinet — none of them were so debauched 
 in immorality as that cabinet have been by 
 Negro slavery, as to have been guilty of the 
 terrible crime of high treason against the 
 grandest government the world ever saw ! 
 (Loud cheers.) The gentleman gave such a 
 picture of the African slave trade, showing 
 the manacled position of the slave, that an 
 ungenerous mind might have had the sus- 
 picion — as he comes from that enterprising 
 Nutmeg State of Connecticut — that he had 
 
 commanded a slaver, (laughter, and hear, 
 hear,) and the details he gave as to slave 
 owners selling negro babies by the pound, 
 might lead us to suppose that at some period 
 of his life, he was also directly interested in 
 the domestic slave trade as well. (Oh, and 
 laughter.) He says, while holding high my 
 country's flag during the reign of Secessia in 
 England, he was one of the loudest to cheer 
 me ; but he felt it to be a disgrace to be an 
 American — to hear the Union champion 
 advocating negro slavery, (applause) ; and 
 yet, before I finish, I shall prove myself 
 more of an abolitionist than he is. (Hear, 
 hear, and prove it.) His abolitionism, like 
 Lord Shaftesbury's, is theoretical —mine 
 may prove practical — he talks, 1 act. — My 
 plan may benefit the slave by being honest, 
 while Exeter Hall abolitionism is the basest 
 kind of hypocrisy. (Oh, cheers, and dissent.) 
 He says, a great statesman, whose superior- 
 ity Mr. Train acknowledges — fell from the 
 height he had raised himself in New England, 
 by selling himself to the slave owners, and 
 he compliments me by galvanising me into 
 so important a personage, that a storm of 
 indignation would reach me from Boston, 
 as greeted him there on his arrival from 
 Washington. — Now, Mr. Chairman, first, 
 I never acknowledged Mr. Webster ray 
 superior. (Loud cheers, laughter and ap- 
 plause.) Se'ond, My inherent modesty (re- 
 newed laughter,) would not allow me to 
 suppose— that my humble opinions would 
 stimulate the American people into exhibit- 
 ing any such feats of gymnastics as he has 
 pictured. (Laughter.) They did give up a 
 fugitive slave in my native city — and by 
 obeying the sacred mandate of the law 
 under the Constitution — proved how little 
 cause the conspirators had for the ungodly 
 rebellion which agitated our land. (Cheers.) 
 Several speakers, plunged into the horrors 
 of the middle passage as he had done. 
 Admit, that England for three centuries has 
 Macadamized the bed of the Atlantic Oceaa 
 with the skulls of the negro. (Oh!) Admit 
 all these horrors that weigh heavy upon 
 England's shoulders, but acknowledge that, 
 had she allowed the same free trade in the 
 emigration of the black man, that regulates 
 other roces, how many millions of lives she 
 might have saved in her praiseworthy efforts 
 to Christianize the heathen. (Oh, and 
 cheers.) It was the squadron on the coast 
 — the mistaken philanthropy, in making 
 the negro emigration illegal, thut caused the 
 horrors of the middle passage, while my plan 
 would have been to have opened the way in 
 comfortable ships like the Great Eastern — 
 
 I (cheers) — which would have carried out the 
 
 ! Exeter Hall platform on a more Christian 
 basis — (oh! and applause) — but with my 
 permission she shall not bring any more of 
 
 j them to America. (Laughter.) America's 
 
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 mission is to look out for white men, while 
 England's mission is to Christianize the 
 blacks. Why should England give all her 
 attention to slavery as it exists in America ? 
 Why not talk vv'ith Portugal and the Em- 
 peror of Brazil ? \Vhy not send their aboli- 
 tion speakers to Cuba instead of taking in 
 that old slave catcher and slave trader — 
 repudiating old Spain, whose Government 
 stocks she refuses to quote ou the London 
 Stock Exchange — into a full partnership, 
 into the Anglo-Gallic lillibustering firm re- 
 cently established in the garden land of the 
 Montezumas ! (Cheers.) How is it that 
 England has no sympathies for her own col- 
 liers, her ovvn miners, and hard-worked 
 operatives? (Oh!) How is it that Lord 
 Shaftesbury and the Duchess of Sutherland 
 Lave selected th's one race for iheir especial 
 protection? No word of kindness for the 
 white Circassian sold in the slave marts of 
 old Stamboul ! No pity for the poor Boers 
 in Southern Africa ! No thought of the 
 red Indian she formerly sold on English 
 soil — nor a word of pity for the dark native 
 of Hindostan, she sent to wear his life away 
 on the sugar plantations of the Mauritius. 
 No sympathy for the yellow-faced son of 
 Confucius whom I have seen her kidnap in 
 the China Seas, and bear him away under 
 the philanthropic flag of England, through 
 similar horrors of the middle passage, 
 vividly described by the last speaker — to 
 perish on the dry arid rocks of the Chincha 
 Islands, where he digs the guano which is 
 sold in England to cultivate the soil in order 
 to give you food — (Cheers — or sells him 
 under the Coolie system to the Spanish 
 planter, where be ekes out a few years of 
 miserable existence, and lays him down in a 
 stranger grave, far away from the land of 
 his ancestors, with this simple epitaph — 
 worked to death through the Christian philan- 
 thropy of Exder Mall. (Oh ! and hear, 
 hear.) 
 
 I say, why is it, gentlemen, that England's 
 sympathies are only for this Ethiope race? 
 1 will tell you— simply because it was ftvshion- 
 able — and one of my objects in bringing 
 forward this question is to smash the Eexter 
 Hall platform into so many pieces that its 
 most enthusiastic disciples will never be able 
 again to connect th m together. (Dissent.) 
 Abolitionism in England, means the destruc- 
 tion of the Western Empire! Mure hate, 
 envy, jealousy against the white race, than 
 sympathy, affection, or love for the black. 
 (Oh ! and cheers.) Northerner as I am by 
 birth and education, I have been so often 
 insulted at the hospitable table of England 
 in defending my couiitrj', my people, and my 
 flag against the question of the negro, which 
 was not a Northern institution, that it almost 
 made a pro-slavery man of me, as my nation- 
 ality was sufficiently wide to cover all the 
 
 institutions of my country. (Cheers.) In 
 this, I agree with Webster. I know no 
 North, no South, no East, no West, — when 
 England abused America on account of an 
 institution which she has planted there— her 
 vituperations against my own land were too 
 apparent not to be offensive — and living in 
 England throughout the entire reign of Seces- 
 sia, I saw her inconsistency by falling sudden- 
 ly in love M-ith the treacherous reptiles that 
 raised their fabric of treason on the corner- 
 stone platform of American slavery, and my 
 annoyance culminated into disgust, when I 
 saw Lord Shaftesbury refuse to attend a 
 meeting of clergymen in that same Exeter 
 Hall— a meeting of Christian preachers 
 called together to offer up prayers to Al- 
 mighty God for peace between England and 
 America! (Hear, hear.) You see that 
 when sixty millions of white people are to be 
 saved. Lord Shaftesbury does not wish to 
 embarrass the Government. (Shame.) Now 
 you have the secret of why I put this question 
 before you. It was to show the Dishonesty, 
 the Humbug, the Cant, of the Exeter Hall 
 disciples, who would involve sixty millions of 
 I'espectable white people in war to gratify 
 their selfish appetites for African charities. 
 ("Oh," and "hear, hear!") Better be an 
 honest American slave than a dishonest 
 Anti-Slavery freeman ! Servitude like 
 happiness is only comparative — good is 
 comparative, — so is evil, — so is light, heat, 
 air, — all comparative. Liberty, when mis- 
 taken for license— servility when mistaken 
 for civility — is as bad as to place the servant 
 in the master's chair. The Creator made the 
 world to suit himself — not Exeter Hall. — 
 His tenants were of his own choosing. 
 Having a taste for colors, as shown in the 
 rainbow, the dolphin, the flower-garden, and 
 the forest, he carried out his fancy in color, 
 shape, and capacity of man. — (Applause ) — 
 In nature large fish swallow little fish,— large 
 trees draw the sap from little trees, — large 
 oceans drink up the rivulets,- — so that race 
 that possesses most governing power, rules. 
 (Hear.) The negro never was Governor — 
 American slaves sleep under the palm tree — 
 quote scripture, and have fewer crimes than 
 any other race, — as the churning of milk 
 maketh butter — as the ringing of the nose 
 bringeth blood — so England's Abolition non- 
 sense was introduced on the Slave question 
 in order to bring contention among the 
 Americans. (Hear, hear, and applause.) 
 
 To show how well they have succeeded, I 
 point you to the present Civil War, where 
 brother hews down brother with a blood- 
 thirstiness that ought to satisfy the most 
 rabid disciple of Exeter Hall. (Oh !) Leave 
 America alone for awhile — Withdraw thy 
 foot from thy neighbor's house, ye Abolition- 
 ists — lesl he be iceary oftJtee and so hate thee! 
 — Let Lord Shaftesbury explain " the way 
 
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 of the eagle in the air — the way of a ser- 
 pent on the rock — the way of a ship in the 
 waters of the sea " — before he tries to raise 
 the negro above the kitchen. Since Ham 
 rejoiced at Noah's intoxication — since Judah 
 dishonored his child— since Moses broke the 
 Commandments on the mountain — the negro 
 race has swept the house, made the fires, 
 done the cooking, and always gone out to 
 service. Tribulation worketh patience — 
 patience maketh experience — experience 
 bringeth hope. Hence, I believe, with Ed- 
 ward Everett, " that American slavery is to 
 be the ultimate civilization of Africa" — 
 Nature's laws are indestructible. The 
 Creator first made the inanimate world — 
 then the vegetable kingdom — then the ser- 
 pent tribe ; — out of them came the fish, then 
 the fowls of the air, then the brute creation ; 
 but his masterpiece was man ! He divided 
 the world into two climates, and peopled it 
 with his children. I believe with Agassiz 
 that the world was peopled by nations, not 
 in pairs. As there were degrees in veget- 
 able, animal and mineral kingdoms, so he 
 instituted degrees in the human race. — 
 Naturalists point out our ancient stepping- 
 stones — the monkey — the ape — the baboon 
 — cutting off the tail of the gorilla in order 
 to make the Australian — (laughter) — the 
 lowest type of man — then the African— the 
 Malayan — the Mongolian — the Caucasian — 
 making up that noble specimen of civiliza- 
 tion, the Englishman — (" hear," and ap- 
 plause) — finishing off with the progressive 
 type of man — who combines the virtues of 
 the past, and endeavors to avoid its vices — 
 THE American! (Cheers and laughter.) One 
 gentleman asks if the separation of families 
 at the slave auction, and the sale of your 
 own flesh and blood, is au instance of civil- 
 ization ? Certainly not. Such is not now 
 the case — public opinion has become the 
 public law — families are not divided as in 
 former times. (" Oh !" and " It is not true !) 
 I know that I am right, gentlemen. I saw 
 the advertisement for the sale of the negroes 
 on Pierce Butler's estate in Georgia— in 
 bankruptcy — children were not separated 
 from their parents, nor wives from their 
 husbands, and, since which, this exception 
 has now become the rule. You are not the 
 first to speak about selling one's flesh and 
 blood — hence, I i-emiud you of the law of 
 England, that permits you to seduce the 
 poor man's child, but only compels you to 
 pay two shillings and sixpence per week for 
 its maintenance. (No !) I say it is the law 
 of bastardy — (hear, hear) — and if the in- 
 human planter does dispose of his own flesh 
 and blood, as you have alleged, so long as 
 you continue to pay the present prices for 
 cotton, he does not sell his own offspring for 
 half-a-crowu per week. (" Hear," laughter, 
 and cheers.) The slavery of your army 
 
 white man is more abject than the Southern 
 negro ! — " One is voluntary, the other is 
 not.") Exactly, hence the soldier who 
 would desert is as much a slave as the negro 
 — I believe there are as many slaves who 
 would not accept freedom as soldiers. The 
 slaves cling to their masters from affection ; 
 while the soldier or the operative remains 
 solely for his food and raiment — what do 
 they care about their officers and employers, 
 or even sovereign, beyond the protection or 
 support which, directly or indirectly, they 
 afford them ? The law obliges the one to 
 place himself in the ranks to be shot down, 
 and if he refuses, objects, hesitates — if he 
 dares to desert, or show the least insubor- 
 dination, he is strung up and put under the 
 lash! The whip is applied oftener on the 
 Saxon soldier— if I may judge from your 
 newspapers — than on the American slave. 
 Augustine called poesy " the wine of de- 
 mons." Bacon says, " the mixture of a lie 
 doth ever add pleasure." What often ap- 
 pears mountains in the distance to the navi- 
 gator, proves to be vapor as you approach 
 — so the cruelties you picture to the Ameri- 
 can slave are simply the offspring of a 
 willing fancy. "It is ignorance and not 
 knowledge that rejects instruction ; it is 
 weakness, not strength, that refuses co- 
 operation " — so is it envy and not generosity 
 that stimulates abuse; jealousy against the 
 white man, not affection for the African, 
 that characterizes your abolition sentiments 
 — envy keepeth no holidays. You would give 
 me strength of memory which I cannot 
 claim, and the powers of debate which I do 
 not possess, were you to expect me to answer 
 all the sallies aimed at me during a five- 
 night debate, but I will show you the ab- 
 surdity of one or two similies advanced. 
 
 Mr. Edwards pictured a poor girl in her 
 dirty home in a dirty village, brought to 
 London by some noble lord — educated, 
 dressed in silks and satins — the price of 
 which was her loss of virtue, as illustrative 
 of the negro free in Africa, and a slave in 
 America. All this is beautiful in theory, 
 but its non application will be seen by my 
 asking a question. Might she not have lost 
 her virtue in the dirty home he pictured — - 
 (hear, cheers, and laughter) — without the 
 collateral advantages of education, &c., 
 which he portrayed ? for it is not notorious 
 that the negro had lost his freedom in 
 Africa for centuries ? Negro enslaved ne- 
 gro before the white man entered the field ; 
 and you will find upon the records of time 
 that Africa holds all the patents for the 
 original institution. (Hear, hear.) He 
 asked also if the education of the Jew boy, 
 Montara, was a justification for the crime of 
 kidnapping. Now, Mr. Chairman, I ask of 
 you if the education of the Jews and prosti- 
 tution — however able Mr. Edwards may be 
 
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 to discuss these points — have anything to 
 do with American slavery? (Hear, hear.) 
 I answer them by relating a negro conver- 
 sation under a hen-roost. "Pompey! don't 
 you tink dat it am wrong to steal chicken 
 belongin' to odder people?" '"Cifisar! dat 
 am a great moral question, dat you or I hab 
 not de time nor de brain to lucidate. Pass 
 down another pullet." (Cheers, and loud 
 and continued laughter.) I have read all 
 the authors quoted and more — Lord Mun- 
 caster, Grosvenor Smith, Major Gray, Cap- 
 tain Morseby, Major Denham, Clapperton, 
 Commodore Owen, Mr. Ashmun, Laird, 
 Rankin, Colonel Nicholls, Mr. Oldfield, 
 Captain Cook, Canot, and Dr. Livingston, 
 and others, all of whom described the 
 wretched state of the African, and the low 
 state of civilization there, proving beyond 
 dispute that there is a much wider field for 
 Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Brougham, E.xeter 
 Hall, and Mr. Edwards in Africa, than they 
 would ever find in America. (Heai', hear.) 
 I appreciate Mr. Lee's honest views of abo- 
 lition more than I do his argument, that the 
 death of a friend of his increased population 
 — the man while living opposed his daugh- 
 ter's marriage — he was killed, the daughter 
 married and had children — hence increase in 
 census ! (Hear and laughter.) This would 
 hold good were we not aware that in Scot- 
 land, and some other Christian countries, 
 population had enormously increased with- 
 out any marriages appearing in the records. 
 (Loud laughter, and "That's so.") You 
 must admit the African is not as intelligent 
 as the Englishman — there are types in man, 
 degrees in nature. Wilberforce, Clarkson, 
 Romilly, Channing, Wayland, Darwin, Phil- 
 lips, and even Mr. Lee — (hear, hear)— must 
 admit this ; they cannot believe the African 
 equal to the Caucassian. Can you make a 
 pointer out of a poodle ? Can you get a 
 peach out of a crab-apple ? Can you grow 
 an oak from a pea-nut? Can you change a 
 carrot into a melon ? Will a donkey pro- 
 duce an Arab horse ? Can you bring a 
 chicken out of an egg plant? Can you 
 make an eagle out of a duck ? or breed a 
 lion out of a pole cat? (Hear, hear.) No, 
 gentlemen, but under the Christianizing in- 
 fluence of modern science, it is much more 
 reasonable that England will introduce a 
 new trade of manufacturing silk purses out 
 of sows' ears. The Roman Novelist Petro- 
 nius, in Nero's time, described two literary 
 men, who wished to hide a robbery they had 
 committed on board a Levantine ship, by 
 covering themselves with ink, in order to 
 pass as Ethiopians, and thus escape detec- 
 tion : — if color alone could transform our 
 shape, said Griton, it would be easy — arti- 
 ficial color besmears the body — but can we 
 fill our lips with an ugly swelling? Crisp 
 our hair with an iron ? Mark our forehead 
 
 with scars ? distort our shanks into a curve ? 
 and draw our heels down to the earth ? We 
 must do all these things or the lie will not 
 succeed. (Hear, hear.) But the hand of 
 time points towards the midnight hour, and 
 I must hurry on to my plan of abolition — so 
 emancipation must be gradual. (Applause.) 
 Of the fifty millions now in A.frica, some 
 forty millions are still slaves. It was no 
 unusual thing in former days to see the pens 
 where the war prisoners were stored to fat- 
 ten preparatory to being eaten. They were 
 stall-fed for the market, and hung up and 
 cut up as you would sell a sheep or an ox. 
 Young girls were considered the greatest 
 delicacies, but when tough with age they 
 became beasts of burden. Guilty of all 
 crimes, accustomed to the lowest acts of 
 barbarians, always at war, strangers to 
 education, civilization, and Christianity — 
 brutalized by the lowest depravity — the 
 question arises, no matter what the motive, 
 has not his removal to America bettered his 
 condition, improved his morals, elevated his 
 mind? (Cheers.) Has not that been the 
 first step towards regeneration ? There can 
 be but one response ; and I have already 
 proved my case that American slavery to the 
 negro is a stepping-stone from African 
 Barbarism to Christian Civilization ! 
 (Cheers.) In conclusion, you are impatient 
 for me to prove myself an abolitionist. 
 (Yes ! and time!) I shall not do it by hav- 
 ing a servile war — or as you did it in the 
 West Indies — to quote the Times : " You 
 not only emancipated every negro in the West 
 Indies, but pretty nearly ruined every plan- 
 ter to booty Cochrane went too fast in his 
 New York speech when recommending the 
 arming of the slaves — and Cameron was 
 mistaken in dwindling down the glory of our 
 nation to an abolition war — and that dis- 
 tinguished statesman, who never held an 
 office, — that presidential politician, who 
 never made a speech — and that great gen- 
 eral who never fought a battle — Fremont, 
 — came within an ace of running the ship 
 upon the rocks in the breakers at St. Louis, 
 by pledging the Cabinet to a servile war. 
 (" Hear, hear," and applause.) Robespierre 
 and Brisso, in 1791, tried the equalizing 
 principle in St. Dimingo — and Alison has 
 vividly painted the massacre, speaking of 
 the Haytian drama, " That negroes" said 
 he, "marched toith spiked infants on their 
 spears, instead of colors ; they sawed asunder 
 the male prisoners, and violated the females 
 on the dead bodies of their huslmnds. The 
 Cameron-Fremont policy would have pro- 
 duced similar anarchy on the Palmetto 
 plantations, had it not been summarily 
 checked by the strong arm of Lincoln, and 
 the wise policy of the Secretary of State — 
 and I cannot better express my sentiments 
 on this question than by using the very 
 
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 words of Earl Russell three nights ago in 
 the House of Lords — I am — (said the noble 
 "Earl in reply to Strathden) — sure that we 
 "are all anxious that the sin and stain of 
 " slavery should cease ; but there is nothing 
 " that we should look at with greater alarm 
 " than an insurrection of four million of peo- 
 "ple — the devastations, the horrors, the 
 " pillage, the murders, which in the name of 
 " liberty would be committed! We trust, 
 "when the present contest shall end, the 
 "emancipation of the negroes will be 
 "brought about by peaceable means without 
 "the loss of life or destruction of the pro- 
 "perty of their masters. (Cheers.) It is 
 " not owing to their masters that slavery now 
 "exists in the Southern States; it is an 
 " inheritance which they derived from this 
 "country." (Hear, hear.) Such sentiments 
 are worthy of this great statesman, who 
 assisted by Argyle, and Gladstone, and 
 Gibson — in carrying out the wishes of his 
 Queen in checking Lord Palmerston from 
 plunging England into an uncivilized and 
 unchristian war with America. (Cheers, 
 and " Where is your plan of emancipation ?") 
 You shall have it, gentlemen, so plainly that 
 you cannot misunderstand it. — If you wish 
 to reclaim the swampy morass, cut off the 
 fountain that supplies it. — I classify my 
 plan under four heads. 
 
 First— Abolish the African slave trade. 
 We have done evil that good may come. 
 Gordon is no more — the President has had 
 the nerve in showing his honesty in suppress- 
 ing that traffic, by baring his breast against 
 powerful combinations, and hanging the 
 first slaver ever executed under the laws of 
 piracy. (Hear and applause.) Second — 
 Having stopped the stream, we must drain 
 the swamp, and fence in the pool — don't 
 allow another foot of slave territory under 
 the Union. — draw a line of fire around the 
 scorpion, by strong laws, so that he may 
 burn to death if he attempts to cross it — 
 these points cut off its supplies and fence it 
 in. (Hear, hear.) Thirdly — Under this 
 head I propose to emancipate the white 
 people first, the Oligarchy must be destroy- 
 ed. . Now the Oligarchists are passing away 
 with every victory. (Applause.) The only 
 way to destroy this Oligarchy, and emanci- 
 pate the millions of white people it has kept 
 in check, is to cut off the political power of 
 slavery. (Cheers, and that's good.) Five 
 negroes must no longer give three votes to 
 the platner, in order to give him a position 
 in the councils of the nation, to hatch a plot 
 for its destruction. (Not Constitutional.) 
 Liberty was the acorn, and the Constitution 
 was the flower pot in which it was planted 
 — the sapling has out-grown its boundary — 
 and the Constitution can easily be amended, 
 so as to give the tree wider limits, now it 
 has arrived to manhood, (Cheers.) The 
 
 Seceding States have already lost their 
 charters through their treason, and as ter- 
 ritories might again be admitted as States 
 under an amended Constitution. (Hear, 
 hear.) I now come to the fourth point — 
 having dammed off the streams, drained the 
 land, emancipated the white people, the 
 morass already begins to be a garden for 
 the African. Now let us emancipate him. 
 (Cheers.) Let the States pass a law under 
 the guidance of the Constitution, compelling 
 the planter, as a slight tax upon his treason, 
 to give the slave his own labor one day in 
 the week, to work out his own freedom — his 
 price fixed at a fair value, and arranged 
 under guarantees that the slave shall have 
 that day as well as over hours to purchase 
 his liberty — this knowledge stimulates ambi- 
 tion, gives him self-reliance, so that when he 
 has earned his freedom, he is also educated 
 to appreciate it. (Cheers.) The world will 
 have before them a plan — public opinion 
 will so act upon the planter that many will 
 emancipate such slaves as can take care of 
 themselves at once, the strong and active 
 negroes should be made to work out the 
 freedom of their parents and children where 
 they are unable to do it themselves. This 
 would strengthen the social ties, and, before 
 a generation passed over, all the slaves may 
 have educated themselves for freedom — the 
 loss of the slave's labor to the planter for 
 that day may raise the value of the cotton, 
 so that the consumer pay a portion of the 
 bill, and abolition England by purchasing 
 that cotton will have earned the credit she 
 has worked for so long, of bettering the 
 condition of the negro slave. (Cheers and 
 applause.) The swamp, gentlemen, will 
 soon be fertilized by the enterprising Yan- 
 kees, who will pour down to guide the 
 negroes in their labor, and by superior 
 industry make the Southern desert blossom 
 like the Northern rose. (Applause.) And 
 the Southern Cross will receive by this 
 means its fairly-earned Northern Crown. 
 (Cheers.) Delaware and the District of Co- 
 lumbia should emancipate their six thousand 
 slaves on next Fourth of July — (cheers) — 
 Missouri and Maryland follow suit on the 
 next Anniversary of Washington. — (cheers) 
 Virginia and Kentucky must keep pace 
 with public opinion, in order to join all the 
 slave States in the great celebration of 
 Eighteen-seventy-six, of General Emanci- 
 pation on the First Centenary of our 
 Glorious Union. (Loud cheers.) 
 
 In reply to one honorable speaker, who 
 asked, if the slaves were set free at once, if 
 they would not organize a system of their 
 own — I thought that I had before proved 
 that the African will not work without a 
 master. The European combines and suc- 
 ceeds. The Asiatic race, also, understand 
 the power in part of working in concert. 
 
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 But the African has no idea of a joint-stock 
 enterprise. They were always bondsmen — 
 but they must not be called slaves. The 
 work stinks almost as bad as the negro — 
 not quite — for the negro's pores are always 
 open ! EusUxving delDases, I admit, the 
 enslaver — (hear, hear, and "That's so") — 
 but, thus far, has elevated the slave. " True," 
 and hear.) The Africans never combine. 
 Persians, Asiatics, and Tartars have had 
 armies, but who ever heard of such a thing 
 as an African army, an African regiment, 
 an African bank, an African joint-stock 
 association of any kind? Be assured the 
 negro is a one-horse mind, with a one-story 
 intellect. (Laughter.) Under guidance, 
 they will work — alone, they wallow in idle- 
 ness. Nature never intended the negro to 
 be our master, or even our equal, but our 
 servants. Nature's plans are simple ; her 
 results are sublime. Every infant born is 
 another link in Nature's chain. Progres- 
 sion is her first law. The sun comes on, 
 and leaves us at the horizon, but is always 
 moving. Little things make great things. 
 Day breaks by degrees, and night comes on 
 under a regular law. Barbarism always 
 precedes civilization — (cheers) — mythology 
 comes before theology — superstition before 
 religion — ideal before the real — natural 
 before spiritual. The superior follows the 
 inferior throughout history ; so freedom 
 must succeed slavery. (Loud cheers.) Asso- 
 ciation succeeds progression, and develop- 
 ment follows association. Creation is a 
 study. Man is linked with everything in 
 the animal, mineral, and vegetable world. 
 The grain of corn is planted in the spring — 
 it progresses, it associates, it developes. 
 Man eats it in the morning — at night it 
 becomes part of the blood, the flesh, and 
 the bone, and the next day a portion of the 
 brain — perchance a human thought working 
 out some 'patent reaping machine. (Loud 
 applause.) The world is worked on a won- 
 derful system. The Creator made the negro 
 as well as his master, and in making him he 
 gave him bodily strength to make up for his 
 mental weakness. (Hear.) The old kings 
 and patriarchs of the Bible were bad men. 
 In our day such crimes would have sent them 
 to the gallows. (Laughter, and " Question.") 
 Who questions it? (Renewed laughter.) 
 Madame Tussaud would have had them all 
 in the Chamber of Horrors. (Applause.) 
 Their bondsmen did not fare so well as our 
 slaves. Good comes out of evil. Astrology 
 prepared the road for astronomy — alchemy 
 preceded chemistry — soothsaj'ing foresha- 
 dowed prophecy — and priestly traditions 
 came before the wonderful realities of 
 modern science. What then prevents Ameri- 
 can slavery from showing the door to general 
 emancipation ? (Cheers.) Where there is 
 now land all was once water — and where 
 
 there is now water all will sometime become 
 land. Time is the leveler. Time will emanci- 
 pate the negro. (Cheers.) The Almighty's 
 ways are all his own. Corn and flowers 
 may yet grow abundantly in the African 
 desert. The gospel of Jesus will yet Chris- 
 tianize the heathen. Perhaps as it is doing 
 through American slavery. (Hear.) The 
 lion and the lamb some day will lie down 
 together. Electricity will perhaps conduct 
 the locomotive at two hundred miles the 
 hour, as easily as it now sends messages as 
 many thousands at a flash. Some invention 
 will yet be made for this mysterious agency. 
 Lightning may yet conduct away all disease 
 from the home of man. The air itself may 
 be controled with as much facility as the 
 navigator sails his ship upon the waters. 
 Time is the greatest inventor, and having 
 convinced you — (No)~that American slavery 
 was one stepping-stone, it may turn out that 
 the American civil war will become another, 
 perhaps the great and last stepping-stone 
 which will bring imiversal freedom to the 
 slave. (Loud Cheers.) 
 
 Will you give me two minutes more? — 
 (hear, hear, and yes) — it is only to ask Eng- 
 land to assist me in carrying out my plan — 
 charity begins at home, and I want to get 
 the Victor Hugos, the Sutherlands, and the 
 clever George Thompsons, and John Brights, 
 of abolition, to get England to pass the fol- 
 lowing resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That from this day we will not 
 wear a slave-grown cotton shirt — sleep be- 
 tween slave-grown cotton sheets — (hear) — 
 wipe our faces with slave-grown cotton 
 towels — use slave-grown cotton clothes on 
 our children — or slave-grown cotton hand- 
 kerchiefs ; that we will not wear a particle 
 of clothing — walk on a single carpet — or 
 have anything to do with any article that 
 requires a particle of slave-grown cotton in 
 its texture. (Cheers.) 
 
 Resolved, That we and our men-servants, 
 nor our maid-servants will not drink another 
 drop of slave-grown coffee, or put another 
 lump of slave-grown sugar in our tea. — 
 (Cheers.) 
 
 Resolved, That we will eat no slave-grown 
 rice, or corn, or grain. (Applause.) 
 
 Resolved, That we will never smoke an- 
 other slave-grown cigar — take another pinch 
 of slave-grown snuff — (laughter,) — or use 
 another pipeful of slave-grown tobacco in 
 the " Forum ;" (cheers, and bad for (>omber,) 
 — that the five and a half-millions sterling 
 revenue received for these articles be abol- 
 ished by prohibiting them altogether. — 
 (Cheers and applause.) 
 
 This will be consistency — I asked it for 
 my cause — for you cannot be consistent and 
 pay a direct premium in slavery, by buying 
 at high prices the product of the slave. 
 
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 (Hear, hear, and that's so.) My argument 
 is closed. I thank you, gentlemen, for your 
 courtesy and your attention, and ask you if 
 I have not gone further than you have done 
 in my abolitionism? (Hear, hear.) If not, 
 I will conclude by saying, once for all, that 
 I would do away with the Christian mode of 
 civilizinij the J/eathen (loud cheers) ; and that 
 you may thoroughly appreciate how much of 
 a reformer I am, I may mention that I would 
 go fui'ther — I would also do away with the 
 rumshops— close the opium-dens — 1 would 
 abolish courts and prisons — I would have no 
 bastards — no paupers — no Cyprians — no 
 
 drunkards — I would do away with dice-box 
 and cards — with envy, hatred, jealousy, slan- 
 der, and all uncharitableness — I would seek 
 to improve mankind by sweeping away vice 
 and crime, and substituting virtue and hap- 
 piness ; and most assuredly I would do away 
 with this accursed plan that England has 
 introduced into our country of elevating the 
 black-man by a system which has debased 
 the white race, until it finally culminated in 
 the most damning treason (loud cheers) ever 
 recorded on the archives oF time against the 
 grandest Republic humanity has ever wit- 
 nessed! (Loud and continued cheering.) 
 
 GEORGE ERAXCIS UkU OX "PARDOmXG TRAITORS." 
 
 "WOULD CIVILIZATION BE ADVANCED BY THE SOUTH 
 GAININa THEIR INDEPENDENCE?" 
 
 [From the London American of March 12, 1862.] 
 
 " "Would civilization be advanced by the 
 South gaining their Independence?" was 
 the question discussed on Monday evening, 
 March 10th, where Dr. Johnson once held 
 forth : — "Sir," said he to Boswell, "let us 
 take a walk down Fleet street." 
 
 even him for feeling annoyed to see England's 
 apparent forgetfulness of slavery, in sympa- 
 thizing with the slave oligarchy that sought 
 the ruin of our empire. (Hear.) 
 
 RISE AND DECLINE OF SECESSION 
 IN ENGLAND. 
 
 Mr. Train : — Nine speakers have already 
 spoken for the North, and none for the 
 South. Whence this change ? A few 
 weeks ago, and you were all Secession ; 
 now, everybody is for the Union. (Hear.) 
 As no one has touched upon the question in 
 the paper, why should I ? All you can ex- 
 pect is, that I should talk America, and 
 •wander from point to point as others have 
 done — (laughter) — but I bail this change of 
 tone as a happy omen. (Hear.) If a few 
 salaried writers form public opinion in the 
 Times — making England despise America — 
 why should not the clever debaters that fre- 
 quent this hall be allowed to represent the 
 masses of your nation ? (Hear, hear.) 
 
 ENGLAND HAS TURNED ENTIRE- 
 LY ROUND. 
 
 England has turned completely round — 
 the Trent has drawn all her fire — Mason 
 drops down here like a spent shell — and 
 our lands are bound to be more friendly 
 than ever. (Hear.) ■ I speak the voice of 
 our people, when I tell you that none of us, 
 disgusted as we may have been at your 
 neutrality — (laughter) — endorse the strange 
 speech of Lovejoy. (Cheers.) A pupil of 
 the Shaftesbury school— and remembering 
 that his brother was shot over his Abolition 
 printing press in Illinois — you will not blame 
 
 I am glad to see that Secession is dead 
 in England ; Russell settled it in his block- 
 ade letter — and its rise and progress during 
 twelve mouths is noticeable by Gregory's 
 motion last year to acknowledge the Con- 
 federacy — and this year vainly trying to put 
 a question as to the blockade being effective I 
 — Yancey's advocacy was weak as water ; 
 but Mason's letter was water diluted. It 
 turns out that the six hundred ships that 
 run the blockade were a few filty ton 
 schooners on the inland estuaries, and 
 steamboats between Memphis and New 
 Orleans! ("Oh," and "question.") Civi- 
 lization was the point, and as every speaker 
 has dodged it, you, of course, expect me to 
 take it up. Well, then, the South does not 
 possess the elements of civilization. (Oh.) 
 
 THE SOUTH UNABLE TO STAND 
 ALONE. 
 
 If they cannot get on with the North — 
 what can they do alone? They want a 
 standing army and' free trade ! — that is a 
 paradox. They want an oligarchy and im- 
 migration — that is a contradiction — for emi- 
 grants will not go where they have no 
 representation. (Hear.) They want open 
 ports and manufactures — that is also an- 
 other impossibility. Even let them carry 
 out their plans, and the Government is at a 
 
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 dead lock for revenue — an export duty on 
 cotton is an import duty in another form. 
 (Tliat's so.) 
 
 IT IS WITHOUT THE ELEMENTS 
 OF CIVILIZATION. 
 
 Besides, as I said, the South has not the 
 elements of civilization. (Oh — and hear.) 
 Where are they then ? Let the gentleman 
 ■who interrupts me take all the advantage of 
 his interruption and answer me if he can. 
 (Hear, hear.) Is it in jurisprudence ? 
 Where are their Storys — their Kent.s — their 
 Wheatons — their Parsons and their Bige- 
 lows ? (Hear.) Is it in Finance? Where 
 are their Bateses — their Peabodys— their 
 Browns and their Sturgesses ? Is it in 
 Commerce? Where are their Goodhues — 
 their Taylors — their Forbeses — their Apple- 
 tons and their Grinnels. (Cheers.) Is it 
 in shipbuilding ? Where do you find their 
 Webbs — their Mackays, and their Wesler- 
 velts. Is it scidpture ? Where are their 
 Greeuoughs — their Ilosmers — and their 
 Powers. (Applause.) Is it in painting? 
 Where are their Alstons— their Stuarts, and 
 their Benjamin Wests? (Cheers.) Is it in 
 manufactures? There are no Mauchesters, 
 and Walthanis, and LowelLs, and Lawrences 
 in the South. (Hear, hear.) Is it in his- 
 tory ? Wh«re are their Bancrofts — their 
 Prescotts — their Sparks, and their Mot- 
 leys? I can see nowhere in Secessia the 
 elements civilization requires. Is it in ro- 
 mance? Where are their Washington Ir- 
 vings — (Cheers.) — their Fennimore Coopers, 
 and their Hawthoraes ? Is it in poetry ? 
 Show me where to find their Holmes — their 
 Willises — their Lowells and their Longfel- 
 lows — (Cheers.) — Is it in Inventions ? W ho 
 filled the Exhibition of Fifty-one with im- 
 provements that still live in England ? 
 (Hear and applause.) Where did McCor- 
 mick hail from ? where Colt ? whence came 
 the Enfield Rifle ?— Was Hobbs a South- 
 erner ? and who furnished the Secession 
 Times and Telegraph and three-fourths the 
 Journals in London with presses to abuse 
 America during the Reign of Secessia, 
 but our Northern Colonel Hoe. (Cheers.) 
 Where was the Niagara built? and was 
 the Yacht America a Southern Institution ? 
 (Hear, hear.) No — gentlemen — these are 
 some of the elements of our Yankee civili- 
 zation — peculiar to our Yankee climate, 
 and Yaukee habits not yet appreciated in 
 Secessia. (Cheers.) Is the common school 
 system of New England an element of 
 Southern civilization ? The South alone 
 benefit civilization ! — Why, Mr. Chairman, I 
 have proved its absurdity. Bearing in mind 
 the debate on previous evenings, I will 
 answer one or two Secession fallacies. The 
 gentleman from Australia says that no black \ 
 
 man in the North would be allowed to enter 
 a room like this for public discussion, and 
 this in face of the fact that there are two 
 negroes admitted at the bar in Boston, and 
 have practised there for several years. 
 
 WE DO NOT WANT CANADA. 
 
 He also spoke of America's intentions re- 
 garding Canada. — America wants nothing 
 from Canada. — The two lands are as differ- 
 ent as the two people — one is day — the 
 other night. (Laughter and hear.) One 
 is going to a funeral — the other a wedding. 
 One is the old world without any progress by 
 assimilating with the new. In Canada they 
 can't even make a barrel. (Laughter.) — 
 The only great thing accomplished there is 
 about the grandest swindle of this, the nine- 
 teenth century, the Grand Trunk Railway. 
 (Ob, and hear.) Another spoke of unjust- 
 representation, citing Rhode Island — Con- 
 necticut — Vermont, and New Hampshire, 
 with a small population having so many 
 electoral votes ; and yet he omitted to men- 
 tion that Arkansas — Texas — Florida pur- 
 chased of Spain — Louisiana bought of 
 France — and Texas of the Mexicans — have 
 equal representation in the Senate of the 
 United States. (Hear.) Original Secessia 
 entire with its six hundred thousand square 
 miles of country, has but two millions seven 
 hundred thousand white people — while New 
 York, with but forty-seven thousand square 
 miles, has a population of three millions 
 eight hundred thousand, and Pennsylvania, 
 forty-six thousand square miles, has a popu- 
 lation of two millions nine hundred thou- 
 sand. (Applause.) These two States alone 
 have more population than the Two Seces- 
 sias, andten times the wealth. (Cheers.) — 
 Little Massachusetts has a bank capital of 
 fifteen millions sterling, while all Secessia 
 boasts of but thirteen millions ! (Applause.) 
 
 THE REBELLION A GIGANTIC 
 HUMBUG. 
 
 I tell you the Rebellion is a gigantic hum- 
 bug — (laughter) — a gigantic sham ! — where 
 are their successes? (Bull Run, Ball's 
 Bluff^question, and laughter.) Must I 
 again tell you that the nation was sold 
 at Manassas, by treachery, as General 
 Stone sold his country at Ball's Bluff? 
 (Shame.) But are we alone in reverses? 
 Look at England I at Peiho ! at Cawnpore ! 
 at Cabul and at the Redan ! (Hear.) Look 
 at Russia in Circassia — France in Algeria — 
 Austria in Italy, and now the Spaniards in 
 Mexico ! Surely we are not alone — The 
 Pretender with two thousand Scots frighten- 
 ed all England a century ago! Our seven 
 hundred thousand soldiers only allow — so 
 
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 gigantic is our territory — but one man to 
 every mile and a half of border. 
 
 AMERICA MERELY HAS THE 
 YARIOLOID. 
 
 Lamartine eloquently observes — every 
 Revolution has its birth- — every birth its 
 pang- — every pang its groan ! All nations 
 have their diseases. — We are just going 
 through the varioloid — (laughter) — having 
 passed the scarlet fever, measles, and chic- 
 ken-pox on the heights of Abraham— 
 (laughter) — and the plains of Saratoga. — 
 (Cheers.) Our tree of liberty is sound at 
 the core. — Wc are only shaking off the cat- 
 terpillars that have so long disfigured its 
 branches. (Hear, and applause.) 
 
 WASHINGTON AND CROMWELL 
 VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 I am tired of listening to England's sneers 
 about our volunteers. You seem proud of 
 your hundred and ^fty thousand men — 
 (cheers)- — let us take the same ratio of glory 
 for our volunteer millions. (Laughter and 
 applause.) Sneer not at the volunteers — 
 Washington was a volunteer — so was Robert 
 Clive at the battle of Plassey — and Oliver 
 Cromwell was not educated at the Horse 
 Guards. (Laughter.) The two-spot is too 
 much for the ace of clubs if it happens to be 
 a trump. 
 
 SEPARATION NOT NECESSARY. 
 
 One speaker thinks that civilization would 
 follow separation, on the ground that States 
 become too large to be prosperous. Hence 
 he agrees with Bulwer in breaking America 
 into parts. England, to say the least, has 
 never followed that plan. (Hear.) She went 
 to India in Elizabeth's time, and put Prince 
 against Prince, until she was enabled to 
 absorb the entire empire of two hundred 
 millions. (Cheers.) Had she gone on your 
 theory — India would be off the reel long ago 
 — and Australia — and Canada — and Ireland ! 
 — Again, what a spectacle of weakness the 
 petty Principalities of Germany — Central 
 and South America present — compared to 
 the consolidated strength of seventy millions 
 in Russia — and forty millions in France — or 
 even England herself, with an empire on all 
 the oceans ! (Cheers.) 
 
 REBELLION, FIRST PALSIED, 
 
 NOW DEAD. 
 No, Mr. Chairman, the revolution is dead. 
 
 It received its first attack of paralysis — • 
 when Congress voted five hundred thousand 
 men — and five hundred millions of dollars ! 
 (Cheers.) It experienced its second attack 
 when, after the Trent affair, England and 
 France refused to acknowledge their inde- 
 pendence. (Applause.) And now comes 
 apoplexy and death, when the Commander- 
 in-Chief of the Army and Navy sounded the 
 bugle and gave his order to his Lieutenant — • 
 Charge, McClcllan, charge ! — On to Ma- 
 nassas, on ! — were not the last words of 
 our Presidential Marmion ! (Cheers.) The 
 world will shortly see how gigantic has been 
 the success of the North — (Oh, and where) 
 — and how gigantic the failure of the South ! 
 Secessia was a sham at the start, and has 
 been a sham all through the revolution. 
 (Oh, and interruption.) 
 
 AMERICA CAN AFFORD A GIGAN- 
 TIC PARDON. 
 
 Now, as America goes to war in a gigan- 
 tic way, I am prepared to show for once in 
 our great strength — gigantic clemency! 
 (hear) — and suggest that as we have killed 
 Secessia that we still keep our originality in 
 doing things differently from Europe — by 
 giving our erring fellow-citizens — a oigantic 
 PARDON ! (Loud cheers.) England sends 
 her rebels to Tasmania — France to Cayenne 
 — and Russia to Siberia — but let America 
 follow out the good work she has begun in 
 liberating all the State prisoners in Fort 
 Lafayette — Fort McHenry, and Fort War- 
 ren — and pardon all the traitors, without 
 any security for the future but the sentiment 
 of Union. (Cheers.) Hanging is really too 
 good for them. (Laughter.) They ought 
 to be compelled to live among those they 
 have deceived, and obliged to associate with 
 their own kindred. (Laughter) — No more 
 terrible punishment could assail them. — If 
 a man has a fault, trust his own .family to 
 find it out. (Laughter.) Let one sister go 
 astray, and there is no more happiness for 
 her in her father's household. — Let one boy 
 at school have a patch on his breeches, and 
 every boy will chalk the place, (Laughter.) 
 Pass through a village and they will tell you 
 where the Gambler lives — where the Cyprian 
 receives her guests — where the mnrder was 
 committed — all these haunted spots are 
 pointed out with scorn to be shunned by 
 honest men. (Hear.) So let the President 
 pardon all the traitors and compel them to 
 reside in their own localities among the 
 Union men they have been kept under by 
 the strong arm of powder and ball, and jus- 
 tice will soon find its proper measure in tar 
 and feathers ! (Laughter and question.) 
 
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 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON CANADA, AND ITS RELATION 
 TO THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 [From the London American of July 2d, 1862.] 
 
 So many absurd theories have been set 
 afloat regarding America's hankering after 
 Canada, we are glad to see that Mr. Train's 
 opinion coincides with our own. Americans 
 no more think of absorbing or invading Can- 
 ada than they do England. 
 
 The defeat of the Militia Bill gave rise to 
 the recent debates in the discussion halls, 
 and Mr. Train argues to prove that the (Ca- 
 nadians care really as little for England as 
 America does for the Canadians. 
 
 Mr. Trai.n : — Large bodies move fast — at 
 least England lost no time in showing her 
 affection for her dear cousin during the 
 Trent explosion. (Hear.) Small bodies 
 move slow — at least Canada makes no haste 
 to pass the Militia Bill. England said to Can- 
 ada, Arm. Canada, wishing to get England's 
 money, burst into the full bloom of a loyal 
 colony. I'Jngland asked the world to look 
 and behold a loyal people. Look at the Ca- 
 nadians — what affection — what valor! Out 
 went the troops, and back came the rebel 
 ministers. (Hear, hear.) Parliament meets 
 — the fifty thousand Militia Bill comes up — 
 the French minority combine with the En- 
 glish, and the bill is lost — Cartier over- 
 thrown. The English journals remain silent 
 for days and weeks. The Times speaks at 
 length. If Canada cannot appreciate our 
 friendship let her go. England don't care. 
 Other journals follow, and all are disgusted. 
 England stopped the tap, and Canada's loy- 
 alty fades away. (Hear, and Oh.) Colonies 
 are like human beings — money is the test of 
 friendship — loyalty consists in an open bung- 
 hole. (Laughter.) England finds time to 
 lecture America on taxation — why not talk 
 to Canada? Their tax-bill covers all that 
 grows and all that lives. Canada is not a 
 free-trade pupil. I can readily understand 
 why the Canadians overthrew the Militia 
 Bill. They know that war between England 
 and America means making a battle-field of 
 Canada. (Cheers.) With England Canada 
 is M'eak — without her, strong. Let Canada 
 set up business herself, and slie will hold up 
 her head and be somebody — (oh, and hear) 
 — but let her hang on to England's apron- 
 string and copy Ireland in progress! Cana- 
 dians should ponder over England's seces- 
 sion doctrines. So should the Irish. If 
 secession is justifiable to the South, why not 
 equally so to Canada and Ireland? (Hear.) 
 Lower Canada likes France better than 
 England. (No.) Did the French Canadians 
 
 show any hospitality to the Prince of Wales ? 
 (Hear.) Certainly not ! But when Prince 
 Napoleon was there every door flew open at 
 once. Lower Canada is French in language, 
 customs and religion. Their associations 
 are all with France. (No.) How can you 
 say no, when Frenchmen discovered the 
 country — and Frenchmen founded the colo- 
 ny, England's connection with Canada is 
 comparatively recent. (Oh.) Who first 
 made the Canadian shore? An Italian, Se- 
 bastian Cabot, in the Seventh Henry's time, 
 Dennys was the next, a Frenchman, in 1506. 
 Arbort followed — also a native of France — 
 and took back with him to Paris some of the 
 natives of Canada in 1523. Then the First 
 Francis sent out his four ships — and the Ro- 
 heval Expedition was lost and Cartier died. 
 This was in 1549. During the next half 
 century Frenchmen made the coast, but the 
 colony of Quebec was only founded in 1 608, 
 to be conquered by Britain in 17G1, and 
 finally ceded by the Treaty of Paris to En- 
 gland in 1763, since which Canada has been 
 a colony of this empire. So you see I was 
 right in saying it was of recent date. (Oh, 
 and hear.) Canada has a thousand miles of 
 shore along the lakes without a fort — and 
 in case of war all her cities could be taken 
 by our armies in six weeks. (No.) Let 
 Canada cut the painter and she is safe. But 
 it was a pitiful sight to see her bluster in 
 the invasion excitement. The outbreak of 
 the Canadians during the Trent affair re- 
 minds me of the active wife who drove her 
 husband under the bed, and venturing to 
 look out she told him to put his head back. 
 ''Never," said he, "so long as I have the 
 spirit of a man within me." (Laughter.) My 
 principal object in rising to-night is to cor- 
 rect an impression that seems to have sunk 
 deep into the English mind — and that is, 
 that the Americans want Canada. Now, if 
 you want to insult the American people, that 
 is the most sensitive way. (Laughter.) I 
 never yet heard an American say that he 
 wished to have Canada. (Oh.) Who ever 
 heard of a prosperous city wishing to annex 
 the town poor of a neighboring city. (Hear.) 
 I have seen a strange sight, where the alms- 
 house a nation wished to be set off in a field 
 by itself, as in the case of Secessia — (cheers) 
 — but annexation of a bed-ridden land is 
 another thing. You have only to cross the 
 line to see the difference between indolence 
 and industry, adversity and prosperity. — 
 
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 One is the Old World, the other the New. 
 One is going to a funeral, the other to a 
 wedding. (Laughter.) Americans are not, 
 and never have been ambitious to be bur- 
 dened, as England is, with such a thriftless 
 communitj^. All our treaties have been to 
 Canada's advantage. Canada has intro- 
 duced Federal currency— dollars and cents — 
 and the Reciprocity Treaty has begun to 
 instil a little enterprise into the people. The 
 climate is cold — Americans prefer their ice 
 in hot weather. (Hear.) Canada and the 
 United States started about the same time — 
 the one has thirty millions ; the other, three 
 — the one has poets, historians, and states- 
 men ; the other, a Grand Trunk Swindle I 
 Canada's course towards the United Stat' s 
 has been contemptible during our troubles ; 
 and I hope that the Americans will remem- 
 ber it when Canada comes to Washington 
 begging to be annexed to our Great Repub- 
 lic. ("Oh," cheers, and laughter.) When 
 you hear any one say that America wants 
 Canada, please deny it. There is a wide 
 difference between stealing green apples and 
 having your neighbor present them to you 
 after they are ripe. Canada rings herself 
 into notoriety by always saying America 
 wants to annex her, and it pleases England's 
 vanity to keep up the delusion. How aston- 
 ished that negress was, when, asking for a 
 pair of flesh-colored stockings, the thought- 
 ful shopman handed her out a pair of black 
 ones. (Loud laughter.) America would 
 not accept a colony that did not possess 
 enterprise enough to make a barrel ! — 
 (Laughter.) Never believe all you hear. 
 England is always giving Canada good ad- 
 
 vice. Chesterfield's son must have been a 
 stupid ass to have required so many letters 
 telling him how to act when going into com- 
 pany. (I'hat's so.) Canada was foolish to 
 flare up so on the Trent. " What did you 
 take that tobacco out of my chest for," asked 
 the sailor ; and his mate quietly replied, " I 
 did not." "Then I am a liar, am I," follow- 
 ing up the movement with a blow. (Laugh- 
 ter.) England was equally active on the 
 Trent. 
 
 If Canada behaves herself, some day we 
 may consent to let her have the benefit of 
 some more of our institutions. (Oh, and 
 hear.) But England ought not to calculate 
 upon the Canadians being loyal. " There is 
 a horrid rumor," said a frail and lovely 
 countess once to a noble earl, " that is being 
 circulated to my disgrace at the West-end, 
 that 1 have had twins." " Give yourself no 
 uneasiness," replied his lordship. "I never 
 believe more than half I hear." (Laughter.) 
 Canada is five millions short this year — and 
 the Grand Trunk Railway is making her 
 shorter. If Canada will keep on her side of 
 the fence — America will promise not only 
 not to molest her, but will not even mention 
 her name or give her another thought. 
 Ci^nada's sympathy with the South will not 
 make one hair black or white, nor will Eng- 
 land's. America is beyond the reach of 
 Europe, Neutrality now has lost its sting. 
 That couplet of Lord John Manners has 
 become famous. 
 
 Let truth and honor, God and justice die, 
 But give us ever our base neutrality. 
 
 (Cheers and laughter.) 
 
 GEORGE FEANCIS TRAIN'S DEFENCE OF mELAND AND 
 
 THE IRISH. 
 
 THE LION BEARDED IN HIS DEN! 
 
 From the London American of June Uh, 1862. 
 
 One of the chief points in the events of 
 late which have come under notice in the 
 Discussion Halls is the state of Ireland. 
 The recent agrarian murders have alarmed 
 the landlords, and England and Ireland 
 stand face to face, each calling the other 
 bad names. Mr. Train, availing himself of 
 repeated attacks against the United States, 
 made a decided hit on Saturday night, in 
 turning the argument on Ireland, and al- 
 though the interruptions were frequent, he 
 kept his ground, he undoubtedly having a 
 great advantage by being so frequently 
 called for before he rises to speak. 
 
 Mr. Train said : The two features of 
 to-night's debate are misrepresentation of 
 America and abuse of Ireland. America 
 has many champions — Ireland none. I have 
 spoken for Americans ; I intend to say a 
 word for the Irish. It chills my senses to 
 hear you jeer and sneer and throw contempt 
 on that gallant race (hear). Two millions of 
 Irishmen are countrymen of mine (cheers), 
 — and I will not sit quietly and hear in an 
 English audience, Ireland trod down and 
 abused. I like the Irish race. Ireland has 
 done much for England ; but what has Eng- 
 land done for Ireland ? What a record of 
 
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 crime, despotism, and tyranny ! (Oh !) What 
 a page of violence, injustice and bloodshed. 
 
 (Cries of no, no.) Mr. says no — show 
 
 me then an oasis in the desert of her his- 
 tory ; show me a ray of sunshine in the 
 darkness of her horizon. Poor Ireland ! — 
 rich in nature — in mountains and in rivers 
 — with fruit in her gardens and fish in her 
 streams — the unhappy mother of a brave 
 people made humble by despotic and cor- 
 rupt Government. Poor Ireland — the land 
 of Curran, and Grattan, and Shiel (cheers). 
 Where Power acted, and Moore sung his 
 sweet melodies — (cheers) — and Sheridan 
 Knowles wrote some of the finest dramas 
 in our language — (cheers) — who last week, 
 in his seventy-eighth year, made a beautiful 
 speech, full of affection and tears of his 
 native mountains (hear. hear). Poor Ire- 
 land ! -what has she done that England 
 should have treated her so? The land 
 that furnishes England with so many brave 
 armies, whose sons to-day are leaders in the 
 ■world — Premiers of two nations (applause) 
 and Generals in them all (cheers.) You 
 produced but one great name in your Napo- 
 leonic wars — his pictures are in your galler- 
 ies, his monuments in your squares. That 
 man was Arthur Wellesley — the Irish Duke 
 of Wellington (cheers). Who rules to-day 
 in Spain? An Irishman — Marshal O'Don- 
 nell. Who won the great Italian battle ? 
 Stand forth MacMahou, the Irish Duke of 
 Magenta! (cheers.) Who won the battle 
 of Winchester, but the twice senator, the 
 shot-proof Irishman, General James Shields ! 
 (loud cheers.) And who rules supreme in 
 England — beloved by his people ? Have 
 you forgotton that Lord Palmerston is a 
 son of Ireland ? (Loud cheers.) Poor Ire- 
 land ! How sad is the story of thy wrongs 
 — every page of thy history is a record of 
 robbery, pillage, and conquest ! (Oh bosh!) 
 The gentleman has twice interrupted me ; 
 let me say to him, that when he applies 
 that word to my remarks, it signifies talent, 
 brain, and intellectual power (cheers and 
 laughter) — neither of which will any one 
 accuse him of possessing (loud laughter, 
 cheers, and some dissent.) All the speakers 
 to-night have been arguing that the South- 
 ern Confederacy ought to be acknowledged 
 (hear). Observing this, I am disposed, for 
 argument's sake, to agree with you, and 
 apply the rule to Ireland (Oh ! and ap- 
 plause). Ireland would be better by herself 
 — more independent, more free, more happy, 
 and would open her ports to all the world. 
 You have no right to interfere with her 
 customs, her laws, or her religion. When 
 the Romans made war they adopted the 
 habits of the conquered people — England, 
 on the contrary, tries to make them English, 
 She is not happy — not contented. Vegeta- 
 tion grows in her streets and misery broods 
 iu the faces of her people. Let Ireland go 
 
 — let America acknowledge the Irish con- 
 federacy. As Woods was historian of the 
 Prince of Wales, so Giraldus Cambrensis 
 recorded the incidents of Prince John in 
 his Irish tour, calling the peasants goats 
 and sheep, which would become capital 
 game for English sportsmen. Cambrensis 
 Eversus was more caustic, yet equally un- 
 generous. One was Trollope the First, 
 villifying the Irish people. The other was 
 Trollope the Second, piling on the agony 
 (hear, hear, and loud laughter). Centuries 
 have gone since the armies of that old 
 coquette, Elizabeth, cut through your pea- 
 santry. Long is the time since that old 
 idiot King James — (laughter) — overran that 
 unhappy land with his perambulating scaf- 
 folds and his ready made executioners. 
 Poor Ireland ! — what a life of conquest. 
 Then Charles came with his packed juries 
 and confiscation, followed by Cromwell 
 expatriating eighty thousand of thy sons, 
 and knocking down all thy Churches — 
 followed by the Second James and his 
 excesses and the Treaty of Limerick — and 
 then comes the destruction of thy individu- 
 ality. Thy Parliament Houses turned into 
 barracks — thy custom houses into stables 
 for the King — thy squares filled with monu- 
 ments to illustrate the overthrow of thy 
 religion, and thy eyes blinded by giving 
 your eight millions a hundred representa- 
 tives to Parliament, while England's eigh- 
 teen millions have over a thousand. And 
 this is the land where Robert Emmet told 
 Lord Norbury his country's wrongs, and 
 Daniel O'Connell stood boldly up, and 
 Smith O'Bi'ien banished, and The O'Don- 
 oghue threatened, if he dare to speak of the 
 wrongs of his native land. (Oh.) You say. 
 Let the South go. I say. Let Ireland go 
 (cheers, and a voice, "Ireland is now pros- 
 perous"). Yes, said Mr. Train, but what 
 has made her so? — America (cheers). Who 
 have added wealth to our land ? — the Irish. 
 Who built our factories, our canals and rail- 
 ways? — the Irish (hear). And in their well 
 paid labor, because well earned, they find 
 large sums of money, which they have been 
 sending their people for many years. Ten 
 millions sterling since the Famine. A 
 noble trait of the Irish character. I like 
 the Irish people, and your attacks on Ire- 
 land on account of the recent agrarian 
 outrages are most unfair (hear). Look 
 over your criminal record and you will find 
 more brutal murders in England during the 
 last year than in Ireland (no). Have you 
 forgotten the Stepney murder, and the Road 
 murder, and that of Nottingham Forest and 
 Coventry ? or even last week that at Man- 
 chester and another in London ? (hear). 
 You have as dark deeds on your calendar 
 as Ireland has, and I cannot bear to hear a 
 land 1 like so much so unkindly spoken of 
 as she is in England. Let me say to the 
 
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 Irish people — Come to America — (cheers). 
 M'here you are appreciated — come over in 
 thousands and hundreds of thousands, where 
 a welcome shall await you — for Americans 
 cannot forget your deeds of bravery in the 
 dark pages of our war (cheers.) You have 
 fought nobly in our army, you love our 
 Union, and we like your noble devotion to 
 the land of your adoption, Ireland for the 
 Irish. Meagher is now one of us (hear), 
 and Judge M'Lean was a native of Erin — 
 that land of fair women and brave men. 
 Edmund Burke was also an Irishman. 
 AN''ould that you had some more Burkes 
 and more O'Connells to speak for you in 
 the nation's council (hear.) The O'Don- 
 oghues, the Maguires and the Hennessys are 
 not asleep to your wants — but Irishmen 
 must band together to win their rights. 
 My plea for Ireland, to-night, is more just 
 than yours for Secessia (Cheers). If you 
 think disunion in America beneficial, how 
 much more so would be disunion between 
 these islands (hear). Let me candidly say 
 to the brave Irish Regiments who are fight- 
 ing our battles what one of their country- 
 men said on another occasion — 
 
 Whether on the gallows high, 
 
 Or in the battle's van, 
 The fittest place for man to die, 
 
 Is where he dies fur man. 
 
 (loud cheers). Hurrah then for Mulligan 
 and Kennedy, and the gallart Corcoran — 
 the worthy countryman of the shot-proof 
 hero of Winchester (hear). Americans 
 begin to be less sensitive. TroUope says, 
 we copy France in manner, speech, dress, 
 and cooking. He should have added, 
 Americans begin to care as little for Eng- 
 land's opinion as France does (hear). France 
 laughs at England — America must do the 
 same. England used to pinch France, now 
 France pinches England — America is copy- ' 
 
 ing the habit. England is now thin-skinned 
 as well as thick-skulled (oh !) M. Assolant, 
 in the Courier de Paris, cuts deep — Eng- 
 land shakes with rage. M. Trexler, in the 
 Steele, is equally happy with his dissecting 
 knife — how the English squirm ! Ridicule 
 is a good thing when based on truth. When 
 you joke always joke on facts (oh ! oh ! oh ! 
 and prolonged laughter). The French wri- 
 ters say the English are put in stalls at the 
 restaurant by themselves, like vicious horses, 
 to keep them from biting each other (laugh- 
 ter),— France is emancipated — so is Amer- 
 ica. Our people will never again cringe 
 before English public opinion. Write what 
 you please — misrepresent — exaggerate — lie 
 — swear — bear false witness. (Oh, " We 
 don't.") No matter what you do ; for 
 America, like France, will be no longer 
 sensitive. England must now take her 
 turn. American writers are coming over 
 to describe England ; and when four o'clock 
 comes, we hope the sentry will find All's 
 well ! (hear.) America will continue to be 
 the shrine for the emigrant. God bless our 
 foreign citizens. Open wide our gates. 
 Let them come — the more the merrier. 
 
 Prom the Vine land, from the Rhine land, from the 
 
 i^hannon, from the Scheldt, 
 From the ancient lands of genius, from the sainted home 
 
 of Celt; 
 From Italy, from Ilungary, all a^ brothers join and come. 
 To the sineW-bracing bugle and the foot-propellihg drum ; 
 For proud beneath the starry flag to die and keep secure 
 The liberty they dreamed of by the Danube, Elbe, and 
 
 Suir ! 
 And they who, guided by the stars, sought here the hopes 
 
 they gave. 
 And all aglow with pilgrim fire their happy shrines to 
 
 save ; 
 Here Scots, and Poles, Italians, Gauls, with native em- 
 blems Tricht, 
 There Teuton corps, who fought before, Fur Freiheit und 
 
 fur Licht. 
 While round th flag the Irish lilcea human rampart ifo, 
 Thi-y found Cead ilille Failthe here, the.>'ll triv(: it to th« 
 
 foe ! (liOud cheers.) 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S REPLY TO THE REVEREND 
 BAPTIST NOEL'S LETTER. 
 
 From the London American of July Qth, 1862. 
 
 TO THF. EDITOR OF THE " LONDON AMERICAN." 
 
 18 St. James's street, July 7, 1862. 
 
 Dear Sir : — The Reverend Baptist Noel 
 says that the subscriber is doing all he can 
 to make Americans and Englishmen hate 
 each othei". He is wrong. One-sided love 
 never pays. America's affection has not 
 been reciprocated by England. Forgive 
 our enemies is divine law, but where is it 
 written that we should Forgive our 
 Friends F When I discovered that Eng- 
 
 land's abolitionism meant America's destruc- 
 tion, I made speeches to expose the foul 
 plot to ruin our nationality. Words of 
 friendship annoy me. I prefer actions. All 
 1 have done to arouse the censure of your 
 reverend correspondent is to give blow for 
 blow, which is scriptural. America was 
 struck and turned the other cheek, little 
 thinking that England would strike that 
 also ! She did, and we were ill at the time. 
 We are better now. If the Rev. Baptist 
 Noel wishes us well why did he not write 
 some of his high and noble relations to show 
 
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 less animus to the Americans in their 
 troubles, instead of censuring me ? The 
 clergymen met to pray for peace at Exeter 
 Hall during the exciting days of the Trent. 
 Lord Shaftesbury refused to preside. Why 
 did he not write a letter then to prove his 
 friendship for our people ? Lord Brougham 
 recently made a shameful attack upon our 
 nationality. Why not remonstrate with 
 the aged libeller of ourcountry ? The Times, 
 on our American holiday, wrote the most 
 insulting of its leaders. Does he think that 
 such things tend to make Englishmen and 
 Americans love each other ? So few in this 
 land have the moral courage to examine 
 into England's social, political, commercial, 
 and financial position, I kindly volunteered 
 my services, which do not seem to be ap- 
 preciated. America has furnished English 
 critics with subjects for ridicule for genera- 
 tions, "i'he topic is worn out. A little 
 change I thought desirable, so I shifted the 
 scene. When England says that America is 
 
 bankrupt, I do not now, as formerly, argue 
 to prove that she is not. I simply say that 
 England has been bankrupt for years. When 
 told that America is corrupt, I respond, so 
 is England. And simply because I put the 
 burden of proof on England I ought to be 
 commended instead of blamed. The moment 
 I found out that the old stereotyped expres- 
 sions of Common law, Common language, 
 Common literature, and Common worship 
 of our International Social Re-unions were 
 only hypocritical words spoken to cover up 
 England's animus that laid beneath, I 
 thought that I was doing England a service 
 — and if the Reverend Baptist Noel would 
 use his aristocratic influence upon those 
 who have the power to make them revoke 
 the acknowledgment of traitors as bellig- 
 erents, he will do our people more good than 
 by firing Revolvers against the Parrott guns 
 of your much-abused and unassuming cor- 
 respondent, 
 
 GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. 
 
 GEOEGE ERANCIS TRAIN AND THE IRISH. 
 
 From the London American of July %th, 1862. 
 
 Mr. Train's speech on Ireland seems to 
 have gone like magic throughout the island. 
 St. Patrick Societies are passing resolutions 
 to his honor, and Irishmen are flocking 
 around him as to an old friend. Mr. Train 
 h^ now the hearts of the Irish in both 
 lands. His letter to the Dublin Society 
 awakens some new thoughts on Ireland's 
 future. 
 
 18 St. James's street, 
 Independence day, 1862. 
 
 My Dear Sir,— The Fourth! What 
 glorious recollections ! — what a world of 
 history since that day ! Thanks — and many 
 too — for your generous and patriotic invita- 
 tion. How kind of you to remember the 
 national birthday of my people — yes, of 
 your people too — for Irish blood circulates 
 in our veins more and more each genera- 
 tion. Already millions of your countrymen 
 are mine, and millions of my countrymen are 
 yours. Is it not singular that the Americans 
 should love the Irish better than the Eng- 
 lish do? Our land is full of Irishmen. 
 Your Irish Shieldses — your Corcorans — 
 your Kennedys — your Mulligans — your 
 Meaghers — are now among our American 
 heroes. America has paid millions for Irish 
 labor, and the laborer has sent millions back 
 to Ireland. (Fifteen years ago I established 
 the first Irish agencies throughout New 
 England and the Western States for the sale 
 
 of prepaid passenger certificates and small 
 bills of exchange ; and the thousands of emi- 
 grants taken to America in Train & Co.'s 
 line of Boston packets leads me to suppose 
 that the name I bear, and the commercial 
 house in which T passed my boyhood, is still 
 kindly remembered by the Irish emigrant, 
 the Irish post-poffice, and the Irish banker.) 
 Irishmen in America are welcome, happy, 
 and contented. How could we have built our 
 forty thousand miles of railway without the 
 Irisn? Our canals — our factories — and our 
 public works all bear witness to Irish indus- 
 try. Who helps to dig our mines — build 
 our ships — rear our cities — and work their 
 way up the ladder of fame to make our 
 judges and our statesmen, more than the 
 hardy, honest sons of Ireland? In this ter- 
 rible rebellion that convulses a portion of 
 our empire, Ireland sided with the right — 
 England with the wrong ! — your land is 
 known to mine. My land is known to you. 
 Our Irish clubs and Irish regiments cele- 
 brate St. Patrick's anniversary in all our 
 cities. — Our Patrick Donohue's Boston 
 Pilot — Mullaly's New York Metropolitan 
 Record — the Irish American — and other 
 Irish journals, are the newspaper links that 
 bind together our respective countries. All 
 that passes in your country is made known 
 through these channels in my country. 
 Your religion — be it Protestant, or be it 
 Catholic — so long as it continues Christian 
 
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 — is as free in America as the air we breathe 
 and the water we driuk. And Irish children, 
 like American, are educated by the State. 
 England refuses you permission to raise 
 volunteers — America is more generous. The 
 American Government have no standing 
 army quartered in our capitals to keep 
 down the Irish ! One more word, in which 
 is all the point of my letter. The Home- 
 stead Bill has passed both Houses, and is 
 oiow the law of the United States. Tins 
 century has produced no Governnieid Act 
 so important to European millions. Do 
 you know its meaning? I will tell you. It 
 
 offers a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
 in any part of the public domain in any 
 State selected by the actual settler — en- 
 tirely free 1 Irishmen, take my advice. 
 Pack up your household goods and go to a 
 country where every Irishman can become 
 a Landlord free of expense, and where, in 
 five years, he may have a vote and make 
 the laws that govern him, which he will 
 never be allowed to do in Ireland. 
 Yours Truly, 
 
 GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. 
 D. H. Hayes, Esq., Hon. Sec. National 
 Brotherhood of St. Patrick, Dublin. 
 
 CELEBRATIOIi m LONDON, OF FOURTH OF JULY, 1862. 
 
 BEING THE EIGHTY-SIXTH AXNIYERSARY OF AMERICAN 
 
 INDEPENDENCE. 
 
 \_From the London American of July 9th, 1862.] 
 
 A desire having generally been expressed 
 among Americans resident in England that 
 the Anniversary of American Independence 
 should be recognized by some demonstrati9n 
 in London or in the vicinity of the metropo- 
 lis, a committee was appointed to make the 
 necessary arrangements. The committee 
 consisted of the following gentlemen : 
 
 D. J. Macgowan, M. D., Hon Freeman 
 H. Morse, A. W. Bostwick, Esq., Hon. 
 Henry M. Lord, Hon. Sidney Sweet, R. 
 Hunting, Esq., Hon. Frederick Smyth, Rev. 
 J. H. Rylance, J. S. Prettyman, Esq., AY. 
 Lee, Esq., W. J. Valentine, Esq., B. F. 
 Brown, Esq., II. B. Hammond, Esq.. John 
 Young, Esq., L. A. Bigelow. Esq., Henry 
 Starr, Esq., Dr. F. Coar"^ W. B. West, Esq., 
 Thomas H. Dudley, Esq., George Francis 
 Train, Escj., Sewell Warner, Esq., C. R. 
 Schaller, Esq., Professor Charles A. Lee, 
 M. D., George Starbuck, Jun., Esq., Nathan 
 Thompson, Esq., J. H. McChisney, Esq., 
 James Smith, Esq., Professor Charles D. 
 Cleveland, J. F. Cropsey^ Esq., W. G. Crea- 
 mer, Esq., G. W. Belding, Esq., Benjamin 
 Moran, Esq., Perkins Bacon, Esq., L N. 
 Fowler, Esq., Hon. L. Eastman, Hon. John 
 M. Marshall, Charles L. Wilson, Esq , Jas. 
 McHenry, Esq., Col. B. P. Johnson. George 
 P. Bcmis, Esq., N. MacLaughlin, Esq., P. 
 J. Derrin, Esq., Thomas W. Fox, Esq., J. 
 R. Maltby, Esq., M. Nason, Esq., James 
 Wilcox, Esq., Thomas Silver, Esq. 
 
 After due consideration it was finally de- 
 cided that a dinner at the Crystal Palace 
 would be the most fitting demonstration for 
 the occasion. Consequently on Friday after- 
 noon, Americans and their friends sat down 
 to a well prepared dinner in the south wing 
 of the Palace. 
 
 The table was handsomely decorated with 
 flowers, confections, and the national colors, 
 one of the chief ornaments being a beautiful 
 silk flag, presented by Margaret Blount to 
 the Editor of the " London American," for 
 the occasion. 
 
 Among the distinguished persons present 
 we noticed Hon. Freeman H. Morse and Mrs. 
 Morse, Charles L. Wilson, Benjamin Moran, 
 G. F. Train, Dr. Macgowan, J. S. Pretty- 
 man, H. B. Hammond, C. F. Adams, Jun., 
 G. W. Belding, R. Hunting, L. A. Bigelow, 
 Hon. Frederick Smith of Manchester, N. H. ; 
 A. W. Bostwick, Thomas Silver, Miss Sil- 
 ver, Mrs. E. S. James, formerly of Detroit, 
 Mich. ; Miss Plaister, George P. Bemis, 
 Boston, Mass. ; W. J. Valentine, B. F. 
 Brown, Jonas Smith, New York ; Jonas 
 Smith, Jun., do. ; Mr. Pangburn, do. ; B. 
 C. Hall, do.; H. A. Lyman, do.; Mr. 
 Kirsch, Chicago; Miss M. A. Drew, New 
 York ; Prof. F. W. Newman, University 
 College, London ; Henry Vincent, London ; 
 Messrs. Shields, San Francisco; Joseph 
 Moshimer, Nevada Territory ; Mr. and Mrs. 
 J. M. Rae, Indianapolis, Ind. ; J. H. Red- 
 stone, do. ; Sewall Warner, London ; Mr. 
 and Mrs. J. F. Cropsey, do. ; Jas. Beale, do. ; 
 George W. Chipman, Boston; Mrs. Chij - 
 man, do. ; Mr. Chipman, Jun., do. ; Mrs. 
 Richards, London; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 
 Taylor, do. ; Mr. Lockwood, do, ; Dr. Eph- 
 raim Cutter, Massachusetts ; W. N. Wilson, 
 do. ; Miss Eastman, do. ; Rev. J. H. Ry- 
 lance, Mr. T. D. Part, Mr., Mrs. and Miss 
 Williamson, Mr. Samuel Marshall, W. 
 Cook, J. S. Prettyman, Mr. Stalwick, Mr. 
 Gilmore, W. IT. Baden, T. M. Eller, John 
 Aldfield, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Stone, Captain 
 Washer, J. P. Howard, Edinburgh ; Dr. F. 
 
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 Coar, London ; Mr. and Mrs. W. Churchill, 
 Robert Stokes, John Stokes, Mrs. P. E. 
 Rogers, New York ; J. M. Earle, Philada.; 
 J. Coats, London ; J. Randolph Clay, do. ; 
 Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hope, do. ; Mr. Robert 
 Mai tl and, do. ; Mr. and Mrs. L. Hyatt, Edin- 
 burgh ; Col. R. M. Hoe, London ; Dr. C. A. 
 Lee, New York; Mr. Henry Hart. Louis- 
 ville, Ky. ; Rev. Frederick Frothingham, 
 Portland, Me. ; Edward Mason, London ; B. 
 B. Whisker, do. ; Jacob Hoffner, do. ; Dr.' 
 R. Hills, Ohio; Mrs. R. Hills, do.; C. B. 
 Hotchkiss, Paris ; Julius Ives, N. Y. ; Al- 
 fred P. Putnam, do. ; Abbot C. Krittridge, 
 Charlestown, Mass. ; R. Offden Doremus, 
 M. D., New York ; C. R. Schaller, London ; 
 J. H. Wilson, do.; Mr. and Mrs. L. N. 
 Fowler, N. Y. ; S. R. Wells, do. ; J-. R. 
 Maltby, Calcutta; Henry Pollard. W. P. 
 Dewey, E. E. Dewey, do. ; E. P. Dewey, M. 
 Breaster, Henry Hunt, Charles Ryland, Jun., 
 Jas. Wilcox, London ; Jn. G. Aveny, do. ; 
 Jas. Hall, do. ; Jno. Wilson, do. ; Mr. Mozier, 
 do. ; T. Mason Jones, Dublin ; Rev. J. J. 
 Kelley, Detroit; Mr. La Plaine, N. Perry, 
 Jun., G. N. Abeel, F. Franklin Durant, and 
 others whose names and addresses, unfortu- 
 nately, are not in our possession. 
 
 A large number of letters had been re- 
 ceived by the Secretary, from various parts 
 of England and the Continent, from various 
 dignitaries who had been invited, that could 
 not attend, which were read. 
 
 After dinner the Chairman arose, and 
 after signifying that the time had come for 
 the intellectual part of the repast, said — 
 Whether it is tossing upon the rolling bil- 
 lows, or journeying in foreign lands — whether 
 at home or abroad, this day returns to me 
 full of joy and pleasure. (Cheers.) Now, 
 my friends, the first thing to be done on an 
 occasion like this, is to turn our thoughts 
 back to the land of our birth or adoption, 
 and to remember our country when abroad. 
 (Cheers.) I will therefore propose for the 
 first sentiment on this occasion. " Our 
 country, one and indivisible ; may peace 
 a,nd harmony speedily prevail throughout 
 its entire dominions." (Immense cheering 
 — and "Hail Columbia," by the band.) The 
 chairman then introduced the sentiment. 
 The President of the United States"— [great 
 cheers) — as follows: — lam sure no Ameri- 
 can need utter a complimentary word con- 
 cerning the President of the United States, 
 for there stand his acts ; history will record 
 them, and future generations will speak of 
 them. Allow me to introduce to you an 
 English gentleman who has kindly consented 
 to respond to this sentiment. I will call 
 npon the Rev. J. H. Rylance, who rose, 
 amidst the cheers of the assembly, and said : — 
 
 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: — 
 The honor is committed to me of responding 
 to the name of Abraham Lincoln, the Presf- 
 
 dent of the United States ; a name which i.s 
 the embodiment of patriotism, integrity, 
 justice, and entire devotion to the good of 
 his country. (Cheers.) This day eighty-six 
 years ago, the United States became a nation, 
 the day on which we meet finds her in what 
 we may call her second birth agonies. Eighty- 
 six years ago she gained her independence ; 
 now she is struggling for an independence 
 without which that first independence was 
 rather a pretence, or a mockery, than a re- 
 ality. (Cheers.) She is struggling for an 
 independence from that dark, huge evil which 
 bung upon her like a great drag-weight. 
 When she comes out of this terrible ordeal 
 purged from this dark stain, as she without 
 doubt will do, she wilt stand before the world 
 and command the respect and homage of all 
 who are just and honest enough to accord it. 
 (Cheprs.) I am happy to say that I know 
 the United States, not through information 
 derived from those who have been to New 
 York only and back, but I know the people 
 from actual intercourse, dwelling among 
 them, in their homes, schools, colleges, chur- 
 ches, and in all the departments of their 
 individual and collective life ; and I know 
 them but to love them. From the first hour 
 that Abraham Lincoln grasped the reins of 
 government — no, not grasped them, but re- 
 ceived them at the hands of a willing and 
 confiding people, from the first hour he so 
 modestly and yet in so magnanimous a man- 
 ner accepted the direction of national affairs, 
 Abraham Lincoln has i.ot belonged to any 
 political party — (cheers) — but from that day 
 to this, the Constitution only has been his 
 guide, and his name has not been mentioned 
 as belorging to any party. (Cheers.) All 
 minor considerations have been forgotten, 
 and all party distinctions have been sunk 
 beneath the grand name of Nationality — 
 (cheers) — and Abraham Lincoln is a national 
 Piesident. (Cheers.) I need only to refer 
 to his acts ; they speak his character and 
 pronounce his worth. (Cheers.) I will so 
 far refer to the sentiments of my own country 
 as to say, that there is no more sorrowful 
 indication of the slowness of many to do 
 justice to the Washington Cabinet than 
 their neglect to notice the bold, humane, 
 and straightforward measures of that Cabi- 
 net. It was said, "show us that the bearing 
 of the struggle is in the direction of liberty, 
 and we will sympathize with you ;" but what 
 are the facts ? With a mind crushed beneath 
 the cares and burdens of a struggle greater 
 than any recorded in history, Mr. Lincoln 
 has done deeds which will immortalize his 
 name as a great, wise, and sagacious states- 
 man. (Cheers.) The foundation of year 
 capital rests for the first time in soil conse- 
 crated to liberty ; and territory now or here- 
 afterbelonging to the Government is declared 
 now and forever free. If Enjfland wishes 
 testimony of the right feeling existing at 
 
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 Washington, wbat does she need more than 
 the treaty for the suppression of the slave 
 trade ? (Hear, hear.) These are facts which 
 ought not to be ignored, nor should the time 
 be delayed which is to bring forth something 
 more than promises, seeing that this struitgle 
 tends both to humanity and liberty. Truly 
 this recognition by England of her deep, 
 earnest, warm, cordial sympathy for those 
 who are carrying on this struggle should not 
 longer be deferred. (Loud and prolonged 
 cheers.) 
 
 The third regular toast: " The Queen of 
 England" when after some appropriate re- 
 marks by the Chairman : Three cheers were 
 given for her Majesty, and " God .Save the 
 Queen," was played by the band. 
 
 The fourth regular toast : " The Fourth 
 of Jidy, 1776. An era in the history of 
 liberty. May it he remembered and ob- 
 served as long as human rights are acknow- 
 ledged among men, and the love of civil 
 liberty remains" which was responded to 
 by the Rev. Fred. Frothingham, of Portland, 
 Maine. 
 
 The fifth regtdar toast : " TJie Constitu- 
 tion of the United States," which was 
 responded to by the Rev. A. P. Putnam, of 
 Eoxbury, Mass. When mention was made 
 of the " Old Bay State," the whole company 
 rose en masse and gave three hearty cheers. 
 
 The sixth regidar toast: "Our Free 
 School System, the Republic's necessity, 
 guide and protection," which was ably 
 responded to by Professor J. W. Hoyt, 
 Secretary of the Wisconsin State Agricul- 
 tural Society, and editor of the Madison 
 Farmer. 
 
 The seventh regular toast : " The Army 
 and Navy of the United States — humane, 
 patriotic and brave. While their deeds 
 pass into history, let them be suitably 
 rewarded, and their memory cherished by 
 a grateful country," which was responded 
 to by Rev. Mr. Kittridge, of Charlestown, 
 Mass., as follows : 
 
 "Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen — 
 There is something, sir, peculiarly appropri- 
 ate, and which appeals to our emotions of 
 duty as well as of pleasure, in the language 
 of the sentiment which has now been given 
 — The Army and the Navy ! Had that 
 toast been given two years ago to-day, it 
 would have failed to have excited any en- 
 thusiasm, for the simple reason, that the 
 good providence of God had not then dis- 
 covered to us, a peaceful, prosperous people, 
 the necessity of this arm of the national 
 strength, nor had them linked closely to- 
 gether, as now, by the dearest of ties, the 
 homes of America with its army and navy. 
 But, sir, in these words to-day there is a 
 deep, thrilling meaning. Who, sir, are the 
 more than half-a-million that stand on 
 American soil at this hour, in the soldier's 
 dress, and armed with the weapons of death ? 
 
 Are they, sir, the regular standing army of 
 the United States ? No, sir ! Are they 
 hirelings, bought to fight our battles, while 
 we remain quietly at home ? No, sir ! Are 
 they from the dregs, the scum of society — 
 from the dens of our large cities, as some 
 would have us believe ? No, sir ! Have 
 they then been forced to enter a service, 
 not sympathizing in the great purpose of 
 this struggle? Sir, I afRrm to-day, in the 
 face of many statements to the contrary in 
 foreign periodicals, that not one individual 
 man of these 700,000 has entered the service 
 of the United States, except from his own 
 free, voluntary desire. Why, sir, (if you 
 will pardon a personal allusion,) the last 
 public duty which I performed before leav- 
 ing^America, was to speak farewell words 
 to two companies from my own city, who, 
 at the unexpected call of our President, had 
 sprung joyfully to arms. And yet, sir, so 
 universal had been the response to that call, 
 that before three days had elapsed, they 
 were pursuing their daily avocations at 
 home. — Not loanted. — Who, then, are these 
 soldiers? They are the bone and sinew of 
 the North. " As clouds and as doves to 
 their windows," they have flocked from every 
 city, town and village to the defence of our 
 sacred trust. The delicate yo'uth has grasped 
 the hand of the farmer's boy, and the student 
 from our universities has shouldered the 
 musket with the same eagerness with which 
 the plough and the bench have been for- 
 saken. What is that army? Industry, 
 learning, honor, true soul nobility are its 
 elements. The soldier is the citizen, the 
 Christian, the man. That is our army and 
 navy. "Are they patriotic?" said one to 
 me, a few months since. Never shall I 
 forget my emotions, when standing on the 
 balcony of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in the 
 city of New York, with thousands below 
 me, stretching far as the eye could reach, I 
 heard at the hour of midnight the tread 3f 
 Massachusetts men marching, the first bat- 
 talion to the field of battle— fair hands 
 waved their tokens of affection — old men 
 clasped them in their arms and blest them, 
 while from every lip rose the shout, " God 
 bless old Massachusetts." That scene has 
 since been repeated in every city and town 
 throughout our land, as from Maine to the 
 farthest log-built village of the West, patriot 
 men have been marching on, not only to 
 Washington, but from victory to victory. 
 Do you ask for the proofs of their bravery ? 
 Patriotism makes brave men — for it is 
 founded, not on excitement, not on a tem- 
 porary enthusiasm, but on principle, on 
 right, on the broad and glo^ous corner-stone 
 of the truth. I need but remind you of the 
 names of the lamented Lyons, Greble, Win- 
 throp and Putnam ; of Siegel and his little 
 band at Pea Ridge — and of the Cumberland, 
 firing her last broadside when her guns 
 
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 ■were even at the water's edge. But, sir, I 
 cannot but call your attention to one glorious 
 characteristic of our army and navy. It is 
 a common declaration in many papers of 
 this and other cities across the water, that 
 the American war has now degenerated into 
 a mere struggle of hatred and revenge, in 
 which the worst passions of our sinful nature 
 are called into exercise. Sir, as far as the 
 army and navy are concerned, this charge is 
 wholly and totally false, for of no one fact 
 may we so well be proud to-day as this, that 
 while compelled to fight for Government, 
 for liberty, for the truth, that yet with no 
 spirit of hatred or of revenge, with no bitter 
 animosity, are our armies marching on from 
 city to city, and from State to State. No, 
 sir ! sorrowfully do they perform this neces- 
 sary task. They know so well, sir, that the 
 South have been deceived by the words of 
 the traitor as to the true spirit of the North ; 
 they feel so deeply that North and South 
 are one by the closest of ties, that they 
 cannot hate the South, nor fight one momertt 
 longer than is necessary. But where the 
 weapons of rebellion are laid down, the con- 
 test is ended — and though now they stand 
 with sword and cannon around the altar of 
 liberty, because with such weapons that 
 altar has been assailed, yet they bear also 
 the olive branch of peace and love, as the 
 language of a nation's heart, and by this 
 they will conquer in the end. Mr. Chair- 
 man — I cannot forget, you cannot forget, no 
 one at this table can forget, on this of all 
 days, the martyr patriots who sleep this 
 evening on many a battle-field throughout 
 our beloved land. "We would drop the tear 
 of sorrow, and love, and peace, and our gar- 
 land of remembrance and gratitude upon 
 their graves— We, did I say, sir? Has not 
 One higher than we, said to each true loyal 
 soul, as He has welcomed it to His presence, 
 ".Well done, good and faithful servant," and 
 the wreath of immortal flowers has been 
 placed upon his brow by the Saviour's hand. 
 I cannot close these few hasty remarks 
 without repeating those lines which I know 
 will be the language of every American 
 heart : — 
 
 The wine cup, the wine cup, hring hither, 
 
 And fill you it up to the brim ; 
 May th« wreatlis they have won never wither,^ 
 
 Nor the .etar of tbeir jclory grow dim, 
 May the service united neVr sever, 
 
 But each to their colors prove true, 
 The Army and Navy for ever, 
 
 Three cheers for the Ked, White, and Blue. 
 
 Long before the conclusion of the list 
 of regular toasts, there were loud cries for 
 Mr. Train. The Chairman begged that the 
 order of the day might be observed, intima- 
 ting that no doubt Mr. Train would appear 
 in the volunteer toasts. This stopped the 
 impatience of the company for a time, 
 although many seemed annoyed that he was 
 not among the regular toasts. When the 
 
 list was completed, the large hall having 
 rung again with "Train, Train," the Chair- 
 man asked if Mr. Train was in the room. 
 The more determined he seemed not to speak, 
 the more anxious they were to hear him. 
 He, no doubt, had his reasons for holding 
 back so long, as he is not usually diffident 
 on such occasions. 
 
 Mr, Train (who was loudly cheered, and 
 two or three hisses) — Mr. Chairman, ladies 
 and gentleman, — Silence is Science, said 
 Napoleon to the son of Josephine — and wis- 
 dom is in few words, is an older adage. I 
 did not intend to speak to-day, nor did the 
 committee intend that I should, judging 
 from the number of their regular toasts, 
 from which my name was omitted. (Cheers.) 
 I have many chances of speech — others few 
 — and knowing that some here objected to 
 seeing my name prominent, I kept in the 
 background — and you are to blame for for- 
 cing me forward. (Cheers.) I heard a hiss 
 as I arose, and am not surprised — but for- 
 tunately I am as independent of my own peo- 
 ple as they are of me. (Hear.) I know full well 
 the snarling envious crew that compose the 
 human drift wood of American society abroad 
 — men who cannot appreciate talent and 
 honesty — who, jealous of their superiors, and 
 weak in the upper regions — (laughter) — ex- 
 ercise their feeble brains in sneering at men 
 of intellect — imitating their web-footed com- 
 patriots in speech as well as knowledge. 
 (Oh, laughter, and cheers.) But let them 
 pass into that obscurity which they are so 
 fitted to ornament, and pardon me for seem- 
 ing annoyed at interruptions which were as 
 ungenerous as they were uncalled for, and 
 let me comment upon some of the remarks 
 made by the other speakers instead of speaking 
 myself. First, I am amazed to see so many 
 distinguished men — in this memorable epoch 
 of our national existence — dwarf our great 
 struggle for national life down to the ques- 
 tion of slavery. (Cheers.) 
 
 I am surprised that you, Mr, Chairman, 
 and Mr, Rylance, should think so much 
 more of negroes than you do of Americans. 
 (Applause.) This fault of our people is be- 
 coming a vice. For many years I have had 
 a strange partiality for white people, espe- 
 cially the citizens of the United States, 
 (Hear.) And no wonder that it pains me 
 and others to hear the everlasting black 
 man brought in for eulogy in every speech. 
 (Cheers.) I am as much an abolitionist as 
 you are, Mr. Chairman, but the crisis in our 
 land reminds me more of the thousands of 
 my white countrymen who are perishing to 
 save the empire than the system of freedom 
 you describe in Liberia. (Hear.) Enough 
 of this ! One other remark. I miss, to-day, 
 some familiar faces. There are Secession- 
 ists in London, Secessionists from our ranks 
 to-day, yet we number two hundred stcong. 
 Some time ago I intimated that a leading 
 
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 89 
 
 American banker was a Secessionist. He 
 certainly has seceded to-day. I did not ex- 
 pect to see him here. But let me ask where 
 is the American Minister? (Cheers.) Is 
 he ashamed to meet the loyal Americans on 
 the birthday of the nation at a time like 
 this? (" Shame," and applause.) And does 
 he prefer to share the hospitality of a neutral 
 banker ? (The Chairman said he did not 
 think that Mr. Adams was dining to-day 
 with Mr. Peabody.) Mr. Train continued : 
 It is generous in you to excuse him, Mr. 
 Chairman, but it is a serious thing for the 
 American Minister to be absent from our 
 ranks to-day, and be present at another cele- 
 bration. (Cheers, and "That's so.") You 
 are misinformed. I have the best authority 
 for stating that Mr. Adams has seceded from 
 our party to celebrate the Fourth with Mr. 
 Peabody and his English friends at Rich- 
 mond. I say English friends, for I cannot 
 think that any loyal American would be 
 guilty of introducing this unhappy element 
 of Secession, by being absent from our an- 
 niversary banquet to join a neutral company. 
 (Cheers.) The Minister should not forget 
 that he is the servant of our people, not 
 their master. (Hear.) American legations 
 are paid for by Americans to represent re- 
 publican, not monarchical customs — demo- 
 cratic ideas, not aristocratic exclusiveness. 
 We, the people, rule in America — not we 
 the Legation. (Cheers.) 
 
 Mr. Train here started off into an elo- 
 quent apostrophe to America — cheering Mr. 
 Seward for his diplomacy — Mr. Lincoln for 
 his firmness and his honesty, and showering 
 commendation upon the army, the navy, and 
 Mr. Chase. Although commencing his 
 speech by criticising the committee — cen- 
 suring the chairman for speaking of the ne- 
 groes — and lecturing Mr. Adams for his 
 want of patriotism in being away — he seemed 
 anxious to make up for his ill humor by 
 praising all done by the Administration and 
 the people. We think that Mr. Train was 
 too severe in his remarks — simply because 
 two or three insignificant persons hissed 
 him. He concluded his speech by a happy 
 comparison between the first Napoleon when 
 returning from Egypt and Mr. Lincoln de- 
 livering his inaugural at Washington. 
 
 Bonaparte (said Mr. Train,) conquered 
 Italy and France. Full of glory he invaded 
 Egypt — to fight under the deep shadow of 
 the pyramids. That forty generation proc- 
 lamation still rings in my boyhood's memory. 
 Abookir was fought. Ten thousand Turk- 
 ish corpses floated along the shore where 
 Pompey's mysterious pillar gives interest to 
 the city of the Needles, where that dis- 
 tinguished courtezan Cleopatra wound her 
 Egyptian influence around the virtue of 
 General Mark Antony. (Laughter.) Moreau 
 and the Army of Italy were smarting under 
 defeat, and anarchy reigned once more iu 
 
 France. Presto ! a ship is in si<rht — and 
 Bonaparte arrrives in Paris. That year 
 Washington died. Sixty-three years ago, 
 Bonaparte stood out upon the balcony in 
 the Rue Chautereine, and such a shout was 
 there from thousands. Gentlemen, (said 
 Napoleon), Will ynii help me save the Re- 
 public? Swords flashed from a thousand 
 scabbards. We siuear it I shouted the ex- 
 cited crowd. The Empire heard the cry 
 and France was saved. (Cheers.) Scott, 
 and Bourrienne, and Abbott, representing 
 different nations, have embalmed the thril- 
 ling episode, and all agree that Napoleon 
 was the master of his position. (Cheers.) 
 Born on one island — marrying a lady born 
 on another island — this island mind — for he 
 stands alone among Nature's chieftains, was 
 sent away to die on still another island. His 
 name still lives and will. (Hear.) Four 
 Napoleons — but only two dynasties. Napo- 
 leon the First is with the French kings in 
 the tomb of the St. Denis. Napoleon the 
 Second i saw in the metal cofRu the other 
 day beside his Austrian mother in the Haps- 
 burgs' sepulchre in Vienna. Napoleon the 
 Third bids fair to sacrifice his throne in 
 running counter to the interests of Repub- 
 lican France by his bold buccaneering plan 
 of forcing monarchies down the throats of 
 republics — (hear) — and already has preven- 
 ted all chance of the Prince Imperial 
 reigning as Napoleon the Fourth in Paris. 
 (Hear.) Citizens, will you help me destroy 
 the Republic of Mexico ! says the nephew. 
 Traitors, will you help me destroy the Re- 
 public of America ! said Davis. (Shame.) 
 I shut the horrid page. A change comes 
 over the spirit of my dream. Citizens, will 
 you help me save the Kepublic ? was the 
 patriotic appeal that our nineteenth century 
 Washington made from the steps of the 
 White House in his Inaugural address. 
 (Cheers.) Treason was in the capital ! — 
 treason in his audience ! — treason stood be- 
 hind him with a loaded revolver in the 
 bloody hands of the Texan Senator ! Trea- 
 son in the Senate. Treason in the House. 
 Virtuous women, who had prostituted their 
 patriotism into treason, were listening at 
 the windows ! There was treason iu the 
 army — treason in the navy ; yet our 
 brave President — with head uncovered, and 
 God smiling on his honest, manly face, 
 boldly cried, Am,ericans, will you help vie 
 save the Union? (Cheers.) The call was 
 answered. The world rested a moment upon 
 its centre to gaze at the multitude of bayo- 
 nets that glistened in the sunshine — where 
 did they all come from ? — See them, our bold 
 sailor boys, pour out of the coasters on the 
 sea shore and off the great lakes into the 
 iron gunboats, (Cheers.) Mark the wreck 
 they have made of the rebel navy. (Hear.) 
 See our brave volunteers ! — that human 
 avalanche of earnest men — (cheers) — pour 
 
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 out of the factories, the foundries, the ware- 
 houses, and the colleges — in answer to the 
 President's summons — Americans, will 
 
 YOU HELP ME SAVE THE UnION ? (ChecrS.) 
 
 How the tide of living humanity rushes 
 down out of the mountains and pours across 
 the plain, gathering strength and numbers 
 until a human rampart stretches along the 
 battle line — (cheers) — a living fortification 
 of human breastworks connecting the great 
 Western River with the great Eastern 
 Ocean— (hear) — a breathing bulwark of pa- 
 triot soldiers, 1,500 miles in length, anxious 
 to die, if God wills it, in order to let the 
 nation live ! (Cheers.) Americans, will 
 
 YOU HELP ME SAVE THE REPUBLIC ? HoW 
 
 the words spread ! How the patriot hearts 
 fired up in ten hundred thousand house- 
 holds? We swear it. How the spirit of 
 Seventy-Six lighted up at the call ?^ We 
 sivear it ! replied millions of honest men 
 from the West and from the North. (Cheers.) 
 We sivear it ! with tears on their sad faces, 
 shouted millions of patriotic woman — for 
 our land is full of Florence Nightingales. 
 (Cheers.) We swear it I echoed whole 
 regiments of little children, who drank in 
 whole draughts of patriotism at each cry of 
 the newsboy. Another Federal victory ! — 
 another rebel defeat ! (Cheers.) 
 
 Americans, will you help me save the 
 Republic ? — We will. The call was answer- 
 ed — the Republic is saved — the echo will 
 never die away. We know now who are our 
 friends — who our enemies. God save the 
 Union was our cry, and God has saved it. 
 (Cheers.) Have you never witnessed the 
 gradual dawn of day, when returning home 
 during the early hours of a stormy morning? 
 The darkness of the night when the moon is 
 gone is fearful in its gloom ; but soon the 
 curtain lifts a little — the atmosphere is less 
 dense — the fog clears away — then comes a 
 ray of light, and then another — one at a time 
 as the t'a''kness wears away — you feel hap- 
 pier, brighter, more cheerful — the morn has 
 opened its eyes — the mist has gone — deep 
 blue canopy is full of hope. Victory on 
 
 Victory ! How bright the sky — a little 
 further on, and the horizon lights up as if on 
 fire — it is the rising of the sun — (cheers) — 
 dazzling the universal Empire with its 
 myriad rays of Prosperity and Peace ! 
 (Loud Cheers.) 
 
 Hon. Fredrick Smyth, commissioner from 
 the State of New Hampshire to the Inter- 
 national Exhibition, being loudly called for 
 spoke briefly but eloquently of the devotion 
 of the people of his own State and of the 
 entire North to the cause of the Union, 
 declaring them to be as firm as the granite 
 hills of New Hampshire. He alluded to the 
 kindly feeling with which the common people 
 throughout Europe, where he had lately 
 traveled, seemed to regard the American 
 flag — especially in Ireland and France. At 
 one of the largest and most respectable 
 places of public amusement in Paris he had 
 the pleasure a few evenings since of witness- 
 ing the Stars and Stripes greeted with shouta 
 of applause from an entire audience consist- 
 ing of thousands of people of both sexes. At 
 the appearance of the flag all rose to their feet, 
 repeating their cheers again and a^ain as the 
 beautiful folds were unrolled. The speaker 
 believed that the star-spangled banner was 
 still regarded by the toiling millions of the 
 world as their star of hope, and by the bless- 
 ing of God and faithfulness of those to whom 
 it is now committed, those hopes will not be 
 disappointed. 
 
 The speaker was frequently interrupted 
 by loud and prolonged applause. 
 
 Mr. Morse having left the cjiair, Mr. Train 
 was called to take his place, and a portion 
 of the company remained till the last train, 
 arriving in London at midnight. Song, 
 anecdote, and sentiment made all go merry 
 as a marriage bell. We were presented with 
 a beautiful flag, referred to at the opening 
 of our report, handed to us by the fair owner, 
 an accomplished poetess, whose hands had 
 wrought it for the occasion. Our Crystal 
 Palace Fete was a grand success. 
 
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