Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-06-07

| accidentally shot at Washington FIN
| by the careless use of arms By comr1de,
| one ball passed through the calf Of ones lo=,
and the other through the other knee pan
it is supposed that the latter Will have 70 be
amputated.
A Trnin of ThonGht for John Ball.
Our English brethren are not wholly con-
fined to the editorials in their badly posted
papers. ior views of the question Of the day
on this side of the water. Mn. GEORGE
FRANCIS TRAIN. the American who is intro
ducing Horse-Railroads in the English cites,
displayed the American Eagle extensively,
the other day, in speech, on the occasion Of
the opening Of the ExmOutl R1.ilway. Among
ether things he san
For fifty years the North was TOO busy ~
making factories, launching ships, planting
corn and educating her children Tcheersl to
find time TO govern the land. Besides, The
northerners could not afford to accent salaries
and wear epaulettes, well knowing that q
certainty in life was a paralysis to ambition.
Hear, and True I Therefore, we let the
officers, our foreign c0usuls and ministers,
and for half a century, all our Presidents.
Hear. We treated them like spoiled chill
dren, and gave way TO their unmanly com
plants, TIL at last we found that the ship
of State was allowed to 90 to ruin, that the
tlmbers We're rotting, that the crew had rob
bed the cash-bOx and stolen the cabin tUrnl-
ture [loud laughter and applauseI, and that
the captain was a pirate and the mates were
thieves Loud cheers.
Then the North spoke, and Lincoln Is nCw
the General Jackson Of our time. Hear.]
Gentlemen Of England, let me assure you
that cotton IS no longer king laughter an
hear in fact it never was. Is not now, AID
never will be king Hear. We grow m
the North product that cattle feed ami
sleep upon. larger than all the bOasted cot
ton of the SOUTH mean the hay CROP -
the free States. Hear, hear It was Of
greater value than all the cotton, tobac eco,
sugar and rice grown in al the slave states
in lS60 loud cheers. The corn crop Of
the North last year was valued atE 100 ,OUO,-
600 the cotton crop was not half that
Applause. As | am speaking TO the toast
Of agriculture Ieheers and hear, hear, let
me tell you that while the cottln crop Of the
last census was but 42S ,000,0 900, the total
agricultural products Of the country were
E54O, 900, 600 and, SO far as wealth gives
value to a state, little Massachusetts,
own fair state-that has always been first in
peace, as she has ever been aul viii be in
war cheers. is rated in that census as worth
f25 900 more than all Virginia, incluiiuZ
all her negroes and the large srm that her
traitor son she loves So weil-FlOyj-st1la
from the government Golfers Laughter yuG
cheers The state of New York alone Das
more wealth than all the seeding states To-
gether. Hear.l
The contest will be short, sharp and sur
prising. The South is without mechanic.
Their present munitions Of war were stolen
from our arsenals. Take these from tn.
and what can they do? They cannot elothe
their soldiers, nor grow their fo0d-nJ gold
in their banks-nO corn in their granariss-
and only two millions in the Southern Pirate
Contederacy against the twenty millions Of
patriots of the Union Club. TCheersl Tie
North commands the sen aad the Missis-
sippi the federal government has the fleet,
while the South has 5 900 miles of unguard-
I'd coast and not a man OF war. Secession is
new way of paying Old debts.
Capitalists lending money to the insOlyent
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 re-
pudiation. Cheers and applause.i Des-
Dotism and anarchy are twins. Rey0ivers
and bowie knives, assassination and lynch
law were capital raw material to mlnuiac-
ture into rebels, parricides and traitOT5.-
Applause and hear. But lkese 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 sister, murders his own
father and mother and destroys his own chill
dren is more vile than the man who only wars
against the stranger. loud cheers But
wait a little longer, there is a good time com
ing. Let the cohorts and the legiOns Of the
North pour down upon the conspirators, and
they will scatter ike pOlecats before prai-
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