The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-08

f4e Trepreesaoae George Francis Train, OF
horse railroad notoriety, has made another Of
bic curious speeches in England, on the occa-
sion Of the openingof the Exmouth Railway
Among other things be says: .
For fifty yeus the North was too busy in
making factoriea, launching ships, planting corn
and educating her children, (cheers,] to find
time to govern the country. Besides, the North
erners could not afford to accept salaries and
wear epaulets, well knowing that certainty in
life tas paralysis TO ambition. Hear and true.
Therefore, We let the South furnish our army Of.
6cera, our navy officers, our foreign consols and
ministers, and for half q century, Ill our Pres
idents.
We have treated them like spoiled children.
and gave way to their unmanly complaints, till
At last We found that the ship Of State was III.
lowed to 60 TO ruin, that the timbers were rot
dngl that he crew. had robbed the cash box and
stolen the cabin furnit6fess loud laughter. and
applause and that the captain was pirate and
the mates were thieves. We found that the
Democratic party had sold itself to the South,
and 3smoralized the country, and then the North
spoke, and Lincoln 10 now the General jackson
Of our time. Hear.
Gentlemen OF England, let me assure you that
cotton is no longei king Laughter and hearl-
in factit never WAS, 10 not now and never will be
tie feed and sleep upon larger than all the boast
ed CLIFTON of the South mean the hay crop of
the free States. 1t was of greater value las.
year than all the cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice
grow in the slave States in 1850! lCheeringl
The corn crop, also, last year was valued at
ElOO, $50 600; the cotton crop was not half of
that [Applause.]
A. I am speaking to the toast Of agriculture
let me tell You that while the cotton crop of the
last census was but ELS, O00, 600, the total agri
cultural products of the country were f540 900
600 and, SO far as wealth gives value to State
little Massachusetts-my own fair State-thnt
has always been.first in peace, as she hes ever
been and will ever be in war, [cheers,1 is rated
in the census as worth G25, 100000 more than
all Virginia, including all her negroes and the
large sum that her trailer son e'I6ves so'well
-Floyd-stole from the government Golfers
Laughter and cheers The State of New
| York has more wealth than all the seeding
States
The contest will be short, sharp and supris-
| ing. The South is without mechanics Their
present munitions of war were stolen from our
| arsenals Take these from them and what can
| they doI They cannot ciothe their soldiers,
nor grow their food-no gold in their banks
no corn in their granaries-and only tive mil
hons in the Southern Pirate Confederation
against twenty millions Of patriots of the Union
Club. [Cheers.]
The North commands the sea and the Missis-
sippi; the Federal government has thu feet,
while the South has 5000 miles of unguarded
| coast and not man of war Secession is repu-
| diation-a new way of paying old deots.
| Capitalists lending money to the insolvent
| firm of the seven pirate States should not for
get that two of the senior partners are Florida
and Mississippi, while the Captain of the pirate
gang was the chief apostle of reputation.
[Cheers. Despotism and anarchy are twins
Revolvers and bowie knives, assassination and
lynch law were capital raw materials to manu-
facture into rebels PARTICLES and traitors. lap
plause and hear.
the subject. These bad men are much worse
than murderers than the man that stabs his own
life, strangles his own sister murders his own
fther and mother and destroys his own chill
| dren is more vile than the man who only wars
against the stranger But wait little longer,
there is good time coming. Let the cohorts
and legions of the North pour down upon the
conspirators and they will scatter like polecats
before prairie fire.. \ Laughter and applause ]
| Startling From MiAsiss,ppi..The True
Condition Of Things Ia that state.
From the Louisville Journal, May 27th.l
The following letter should be earnestly pom.
| dered by all whose welfare the truths uttered in
| It may concern. The writer does not give his
name, but we know who he is, and we can say that
Mississippi has no truer, no purer, or more sub.
stantial citizen than he. II his warnings were
for her. they would be to late, but Kentucky
may well heed words of warning from one who,
| living in the midst of the consequences of dis
unionism, is well qualified to speak of them from,
personal knowledge Shall Kentucky make her.
self such an unhappy land as Mississippi, Ala.
bama &c, now are!
| MISSISSIPPI May, 1851
| DEAR SIRs The Confederacy takes charge OF
the mails after this month; therefore, we may see
| the journal no more sometime since inform
| ed you that one of our leading men, who was in
the convention, said he had been humbugged.-
| Another complains of all power (alias freedom)
being grasped at Montgomery. They would no,
venture to give their opinion, as matters now
stand they dare not. The few by being organic.
ed have finally and fully tied the hands of the
| many. Read the HISTORY of Alexandria of old
and YOU will see the history of the Confederacy
as it will be, adding that the Confederacy will
| have fallen from more freedom to more despo.
| tism.
The Secessionists are carrying out the princi
| Piles and wishes of the aboitionists. Likely ne
| groes could not be sold here at $500 in good
money. Negroa traders are as scarce here as In
Boston.
see you are trying to keep out OF the Suck
1t is said there is place between heaven and
he'll called paradise. The Union is heaven. II
you keep out of the suck you will be in paradise
we are in he'll.
l give my opinion as Southern man, born
| and raised in the South. never had relation
who lived in fee State. oman in Mississippi
has larger portion of his property in negroes
than have, yet am now of the opinion that we
had better have given up every negro we owned
than have gone into secession.
As may be mobbed for expressing an honest
opinion, will not give my name only as
A SOUTHERN MIssssIrPIAN.
eB-Hon. Robert Mallory, who is all uncondi-
tional Union candidate to the Abolition Con.
gress." made speech few nights ago in Louis.
vile. Referring to Gov. Magofin's "warning'
the Government not to occupy any port, post or
place in Kentucky, he said: "The Government
has clear constitutional rights upon our soil. and
they must be respected and maintained The
Government has in Kentucky its courts, its Gus
tom houses, Its arsenals, its barracks, its arms
end munitions, its troops, its officers military
judicial and civil and the Government has u
perfect right to keep them here The Corfed-
crate States have no such rights in Kentucky
Mr.. Mallory went on to say on the general
subject:
JEFF. Davis & Co. have wfully involved them
selves in war; they have deliberately brought on
the war; they have no right or reason to expect
that Kentucky will fight their battles She will
do nothing to avert their merited retributon-
There was no adequate, just or reasonable cause
for the secession, rebellion or revolution of
single Southern State. The pretexts for seces.
sion were all silly, fimsy, groundicss and alb
su.d. The General Government neither injured,
nor interfered WITH nor threatened Southern
rights in anywise. The fugitive slave law was
as faithfully executed any law upon the Fed
eral or State statute books and, with reference
to Kentucky and Missouri, is better carried out
to-day Il all ever before. Southern rights in the
Territories were as well secured and respected
by the laws of the second session of the last
Congress as Northern rights Southern rights
in the Territories and in the States were never
so perfectly guaranteed as they are at this day.
The Secessionists knew they could control the
Administration in the ensuing Congress by
majority Of twenty two in the House and thr-
teen in the Senate, and yet seeded. Secession
is the sum of all crimes, follies and absurdities.
Kentucky will never sanction the conspiracy
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