The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-06-13
The American Eagle Flaps his
Wings.

The irrepressiblo George Francis
Train, Of Boston, and of horse railroad
notoriety, has made another of his Gu
rious speeches in England on the occa-
sion Of the opening gofthe Ezmouth Rail-
way. Among other things he says:
For fifty years the North was too bu.
sy in making factories, launching ships,
planting corn and educating her chill
dren, Toheers, to find time to govern
the land Besides, the Northerners
could not afford to accept salaries and
wear epaulets, we'll knowing that a Ger
tainty in life was paralysis to ambition.
[ Hear and True Therefore, we let
the South furnish our army officers, our
navy officers, our foreign consuls and
ministers, and for half century, all
our Presidents. Hear.
We treated them like spoiled children,
and gave way to their unmanly com
plants, till at last we found that the
ship of State was allowed to 60 to ruin,
that the timbers we're rotting, that the
crew had robbed the cash box and stolen
the cabin furniture, loud laughter and
applause1 and that the captain was a
pirate and the mates we're thieves
Loud cheers We found that the
democratic party had sold itself to the
South, and demoralized the country,
and then the North spoke, and Lincoln
is now the General Jackson Of our time.
! Hear.
Gentlemen Of England, let me assure
you that cotton is no longer king
! laughter and hearth fact it never
was, is not now, and never will be
king. Hear. We grow in the North
q product that cattle feed and sleep
upon, larger than all the boastod cotton
Of the South. 1 mean the hay crop Of
the free States. Hear, hear 1t was
Of greater value last year than all the
cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice grown
in the slave States in 1860! Loud
cheers The corn crop, also, Of the
North last year was valued atGlOO,OOO
900; the cotton crop was not half that
II I[Applausel
As 1 am speaking to the toast of
agriculture Tcheers and hear, hear, LET
me tell you that while the cotton crop
of the last census was but 100000
the total agricultural products of the
country we're E54O, 100000! and so far
as wealth gives value to a State, little
Massachusetts-my own fair State
that has always been FIRST in peace, as
she has ever been aud will ever be in
war, cheers, is rated in that census as
worth G25, 100000 more than all Vir
ginia, including all her negroes and the
large sum that her traitor son she loves
so well-Floyd--s from the Govern.
ment Golfers. Laughter and cheers.
The State of New York has more wealth
than all the Seeding States together
! Hear
The contest will be short, sharp, and
surprising. The South is without me.
cbauics. Their present munitions Of
war we're stolen from our arsenals.-
Take these from them and what can
they do? They cannot clothe their sol
diers, nor grow their fOod--no gold in
their banks-no corn in their granariec
and only two millions in the South.
ern Pirate Confederation against TWEEN
ty millions Of patriots Of the Union
| Club. [Cheers.
The North commands the sea and the
Mississippi; the Federal Government
has the Fleet, while the South has 5000
miles of unguarded coast and not man,
of-war Secession is repudiatiOn--0
new way Of paying old debts.
Capitalists lending money to the in
solvent firm of the seven pirate States
should not forget that two of the senior
partners were Florida and Mississippi
while the Captain of the pirate gang
was the chief apostle of repudiation.-
TCheers and applause, DespOtism and
anarchy are twins. RevOlvers and bow.
ie-knives, assassination and lynch law
were capital raw materials to manufac
ture into rebels, parrioides and traitors
| |GApplause and hear.
But these words are too weak to dc
Justice to the subject. These bad men
are as much worse than common mur
derers as the man who stabs his owl
wife, strangles his own sister, murders
his own father aud mother, and destroys
his own children, is more vile than th'
man who only wars against the stranger
TLoud cheers But wait little long
er; there is a good time coming. lie
the cohorts and the legiOns of the Nortt
pour down upon the oonspirators anC
they will scatter like poleoats before {
prairie frel Laughter aud applause.
-sot-
MUCH IN A SMALL SPACE.-The Bos