Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1860-11-30
American Railroads and Amerieanisms in

American Railroads and Americanisms in
London
It is well known that our countryman, Mr..
G. +. Train, has introduced street railroads
into Liverpool and Birkenhead, England,
and he is now in London endeavoring to
introduce the system into the British me-
tropolis. At dinner given to him by
some of the public men of London, he made
characteristic speech, and remarked that
Gas nation" the English language was
more accurately and pnrely spoken in the
United States than in Great Britain. The
remarks created loud laughter, whereupon
the speaker exclaimed:
Il will prove it. Order your dinner
in every village from Maine to California,
and they will understand you for 10000
miles but 60 500 miles, from Aberdeen to
Dover, and you can lose yourself in Ba-
bel of tongues. Remember, gentlemen, the
Americans don't speak Gaelic, or Manx,
or Celtic, or Welsh-Qaughter) -and, |
am informed on good authority, that there
are no professors of Irish or Scotch in our
academies. (Applause.) Lindlcy Murray,
Lord Lyndhurst, and Noah Webster, were
all Americans Our written language will
always be English-our spoken language
is American. The time has arrived to state
that Sam Slick is not an American institu-
ton that American securities are safer,
and pay better, than those Of any other ma
tion-lOh Y-that the almighty dollar is
not so much respected in the social world
by the Americans, as the almighty shilling
by the English-(Oh and laughter y
that Americans never filibuster while Eng
land never did anything else Hear, hear,
and applause)-that our people, as peo-
pie, are more temperate, more moral better
educated, and better dressed, than their IL
lustrious predecessors Hear, and roars
of laughter)-and that the tooth brush sto-
ry, like Arrowsmith S railways and revolv-
ers in Georgia, has turned out to be hoax.
daughter and applause - England
views mankind from q first-class carriage
hence, when few thousand West-End-
ers go to the-sea-side, they say everybody
is out of town! What cgotism! All the
misconception has arisen by comparing the
English dress circle with the American pit
or Oxford and Cambridge against all
America Compare drcss-circle with dress
circle, gallery with gallery, pit with pit,
and then America will receive justice in
Europe. (Applause.) q %
England has always been looking out
of the cabin at America in the forecastle
England has been the pulpit, America
the Acknowledgment the schoolmaster,
Americans the scholars. That day has
past away. Apublished idea is an expired
patent
The London Star of the 10Th ult, says
"the Metropolitan Street Railroad question
was again brought before the Marylebone
Representative Council yesterday. The en-
terprising Mr.. Train attended in support
of his plan, and Mr. Wilkinson, on behalf
of the London General Omnibus Company,
and gentleman named Curtis appeard for
the purpose of urging delay-both of these
parties having schemes Of their own to pro-
mote. The vestry, however, resolved by
a very decided majority, to acccde to Mr..
Trains application. We may soon expect
to see these street railroads as common in
England as they are in the great cities of
America"