Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-06-26
"sPREAD-EAGLE TRAIN" ON THE WAR.

| A good deal of curiosity has been felt as Il
what course George Francis Train the indie
fatigable traveller, f1nancier, and introducel
of horse-ralroads into England-would pur-
sue with reference to the present relations o.
the United States Government with those OF
| the seeding States. Though Train is full.
blooded Boston boy, he married the daughter
of President Jefferson Davis, of the Southern
Confederacy, and it was not known how much
the latter fact might have influenced him.
As strong exponent of American feeling, lis
position is worth something TO The cause. AT
the opening of the Exmouth Railway, howev-
er, Train made speech, and we (and Eng
land) now know where to find him. Nothing
braver, more comprehensive or more patriotic,
has been sad during the crisis, at home or a
broad and it is quite as spread-eagle-y as
anything that has previously emanated from
this typc-man of ssYoung America -
s.For fifty years the n orth was too busy in
making factories, launching ships, planting
corn and educating her children, to find time
to govern the land. Besides, the Northerners
could not afford to accept salaries and wear
epauletts, well knowing that certainty in
life was a paralysis to ambition. [Hear, and
s'True''1 Therefore we let the South furn-
ish our army officers, our navy officers, our
foreign consuls and ministers, and for half
century all our Presidents. IHear.1 We
treated them like spoiled children, and gave
ueeu 10 tHelF unmauly COmpialutS TIL dt ldSt
we found that the ship of state was allowed to
GO to ruin, that the timbers were rotting, that
the crew had robbed the cash box and stolen
the cabin furniture Iloud laughter and ap
plause, and the captain was pirate and the
mates were thieves. We found that the dem
ocratic party had sold itself TO the South and
demoralized the country, and the North spoke,
and Lincoln is now the General Jackson of our
time. Gentleman of England. let me assure
you that cotton is no longer king daughter
and hear?-in fact, it never was, is not now,
and never will be king. We grow in the
North product that cattle feed and sleep
upon. larger than all the boasted cotton of the
SOUTH mean the hay crop of the free States.
1t was of greater value last year than all the
cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice grown in all the
slave States in 1860! loud chcers.] The
corn crop also OF the North last year was valu-
ed at fl00, 600; the cotton crop was not
halt that. Applause
As am speaking to the toast of agriculture
[cheers and hear, hear, let me tell you that
while the cotton crop of the last census was
but f2S 900 900, the total agricultural pro-
ducts of the country Were f540, ,000, 900 and,
so far as wealth gives value to a Satellite
Massachusetts-my own fair State-that has
always been first in peace, as she has been and
will ever be first in war, is rated in that census
worth f26 900 900 more than all Virginia,
including all her negroes, and the large sum
that her traitor son she loves so well-Floyd
stole from the government Golfers Laugh
ter and cheers.] The State of New York has
more wealth than all the seeding States to-
gether. THear.1
The contest will be short, sharp and surpris-
ing. The South is without mechanics. Their
present munitions of war we're stolen from our
arSenals. Take these from them and what can
they do? They cannot clothe their soldiers,
nor grow their food-no gold in their banks
corn in their granaries-and only two mil
lions in the Southern Pirate Confederation a.
gainst the twenty millions of patriots of the q
Mon Club. [Cheers.] The North commands
the sea and the Mississippi; the Federal Gov
ernment has the fleet, while the South has s.
600 miles of unguarded coast, and not a man
of-war. Secession is repudiation-a new way
of paying old debts. Capitalists lending mon
ey to the insolvent 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
apostate of the reputation. DespOtism and
anarchy are twins Revolvers and bowie knives,
assassination and lynch law, were capital raw
materials to manufacture into rebels, parri-
cides and traitors. [Appause, and cries of
sHear, hear,''1 But these words are too weak
to do justice to the subject. These bad men
are as much worse than common murderers, as
the man that stabs his own wife, strangles his
own father and mother, and destroys his own
children, is mere vile than the man who only
wars against the stranger. loud cheers.]
But wait little longer, there is good time
coming. Let the cohorts and the legions of
the North pour down upon the conspirators,
and they will scatter like polecats before a
prairie fire % IApplause and laughter.
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