The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

MR. G.' F. 7/MIN IN PHILADELPHIA.

Mr. Train, as our readers are aware, not long
since returned to America. On his arrival he was

feted on various occasions, in return for -which he

has delivered addresses, evidently for the express
purpose of abusing and vilifying the English people
and their institutions. A short time since he re-
ceived an ovation at the Academy of Music, in

Philadelphia, on which occasion he made a speech,
the quality of which will be best understood by the

subjoined extracts. The building was crowded, and

Mr. Train, who was introduced by ex-Governor Pol-
lock, on coming upon the platform, was enthusias-
tically cheered. After some introductory remarks,
in ridicule of the practice of calling Great Britain
the mother land of America, Mr. Train proceeded—

I shall now proceed to show how we have been so
deluded in regard to England. I have discovered
it to be a complete sham. The English are not a
fighting people ; they are a nation of cowards, and
have been so all the days of their lives. Where
have they ever fought ? Show me a battle-field.

How did they fight in the Crimea ? How was their

fighting done in India ? Did they fight in China ?

Let me tell you the English battles have been

fought and won by Irishmen all through. The

Irish are a nation of warriors as well as a nation of
orators ; and all the battles of England ostensibly
won by Englishmen were fought by the Irish sub-
jects of that country. I tell you there is more actual
Lraina in ono law regiment from Pennsylvania,
which I recently saw going through Washington,
than in the entire British army. American soldiers
read the newspapers that are carried out to the rail-
way trains as they pass through city and town.
That is not allowed in Europe. Every American
soldier is a thinking man, and I have never seen
such material, such armies, in my life as now up-
hold this nation's flag. I waP glad to see the im-
mense army you, have raised, and let me tell yon
Pennsylvania has more soldiers in this war than
there are in the entire British Empire, taking in
India and all the possessions of that nation. There
are not 40,000 ;soldiers in England; they cannot
get vo,unteers. But how do you suppose they en-
deavour to get, volunteers P Why, a lot of sergeants
go about in the grog-shops, and induce men to en-
list by offering them a shilling a piece. The men,
when they are drunk, are thus spirited away into
the army by means of a shilling in their hands,
when otherwise they would not go. That is the
way that volunteer soldiers are now raised. Now,
we have been too modest. I have always main •
tained that we were the most unassuming people in
the world. (Laughter.) I know not why it is that
to-day we are not, in the opinion of the world, sit-
ting in the dress circle of the theatre of nations. We
are a people in every way superior to the class you
will find on the other side of the waters. But I was
going to say how we were enslaved. We have been
enslaved in this way—in acknowledging, or rather
putting us down as an inferior race to Englishmen.
Now, let me show you some terrible truths. Eng-
land is, I believe, to-day, bankrupt to the centre;
she is a sham; I would not to-day give a shilling
to conquer her. Are you aware there are 200 people
in the dress-circle of England to 2,000 in the pit ?
and do you know that the opera glasses in the
dress circle are never pointed to the pit at all? The
politeness of the guard is only extended to the dress

circle. And do you know that the occupants in the'
circle do not own a shilling in the Consols ? I told
this to the working men—and I represent the
working men of England. Six millions of people
in England are not even so high as the American
slave—for the latter has some representation,
though indirect. They are lower down in the scale
of humanity than the slaves themselves—for they
are taxed without representation—the very thing
we fought for in the time of the revolution. There
are in England but one million of voters; but
here the number is not restricted. Here every
man is a voter. An Irishman, an Englishman,
or a Scotchman who comes here becomes, after
five years' residence, one of the country,
and can fill any post except that of President of the
United States. England is, therefore, only a pas-
turage for the aristocracy, in which the masses are
enslaved. This is no exaggeration. I have seen
it. And now comes the terrible result of all this.
One man in eighteen is a legalised pauper ; there
are one million of paupers in that country. You
will find there male paupers marrying pauper
wives; they have pauper aunts, pauper cousins,
pauper nephews, pauper nieces, Sze. The whole
country is pauperised. They are a nation of beg-
gars. Mr. Train next referred to the manner in
which estates were divided, and the summary trans-
fer of the younger nrAe members of the family to
occupations or professions to which they are not
fitted. Yet (he said) in the face of all her defects,
she presumes to be the superior of more civilised
nations. She assumes to teach us Christianity and
civilisation. She has had the advantage over us in
her abuse of us. We must bear it no longer. To
use a legal phrase, we must change the venue. We
have been defendants long enough ; we must be the
plaintiffs now, and make the truth known to the
world. You call me names, and it takes me a long
while to prove that I am not what you eall me, but
I call you names, and the burden of proof is on your
side. (Applause.) Let me throw mud on the white
breeches of a man for fifty years, and it may spot
them. (Laughter.) England has been engaged in
this business pith America, and I now volunteer
my services as our Thackeray, Trollope, or Diokens,