Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-07-16
The American Difficulty in Eng
land.
UNION DEJEUNER IN LONDON.
SPEECH OE G. e. ZRALN

people OF Great Britain, on the pending deplo-
rable calamity pervading the United States Of
America, took place on the 18th of June at
sumptuous Union DGeuaer, given by Mr.. George
Francis Train of Boston, U. s., the well-known
protector of Street Railways in England, at the
Westminster Palace Hotel, Victoria street, Lon
don, in commemoration OF the anniversary of
the battle Of Bunkers Hill.
The cloth being removed, Mr.. Train rose
TO propose the first toast, and was received
with enthusiastic and prolonged cheering. He
said d;-Gentlemen,- dispensing with formality,
red tape, and i'll nature, and admirng freedom
of thought and freedom of action, as well as
the society of men OF letters, have gathered
you about me to-day in this informal way for
two reasons-both OF course selfsh-irst, the
pleasure | always derive in having so many
clever men my guests; second, to show my
countrymen at home how many good friends
the Union can number among the true-hearted
Englishmen of the land. tllear and applause)
We meet on n memorable day, and | thought
could not pay the English people higher com
pliment than by celebrating the anniversary
OF a battle where, if my memory does not fail
me, the Americans got handsomely whipped.
(Laughter.) We are here, not to show hostili-
ty to England; not to express sentiments of
bad feeling towards you not to endorse the
strong language OF my Paris friends the other
day at the Lonvrei but to obtain from you a
free expression ofopinion of what's passing in
the New World. We will have a free debate,
and TO make it so we will not be too parln-
mentary. There will be but two toasts and
in order that there may be n base for argu-
ment propose to fire oil, with your permission,
my revolver now, while you are loading your
Whitworth guns England will be surprised
to hear that intelligent Americans do not esti-
mate that there are six hundred Conspirators
in the League. One drop of poison may color
q glass of water-one thief may arouse an en-
tire town-one house on fire may alarm viii
lage-the report of pistol in crowded thea
/ tire may startle the entire audience, so few
bad men in Buchanan's Cabinet contaminated
all their rebel relations and made men believe
that they were the law and Davis was their
prophet, Many fire has been lit upon the
Western prairie for the evening camp or for
sport but when the wind rose, the flames
| spread, and sheet OF flame ran through the
! land, burning down the wheat as well as the
tares-green grass as well as dry-so in this
ungodly revolution the bad men overshadow
the good, and the thousands devoted to the
| Union dare not speak; but when the prairie
fire has been extingushed the green grass
starts up alresh, and all that was bad was
swept away by the raging stream-all that
was good remained-and when the summer
returns another year the green shoots spring
out in the sunlight, and the Union men of the
Southern country will again come into the
councils ofthe nation, and sit once more among
the patriotic statesmen of the land The Pi-
rate Leader should not be called the Southern
President. (Hear, hear.) l ignore his right
of claiming that noble name. (Renewed cries
of hear hear.) Expelled as II boy from Yale
College tor theving-the disowned son-in-law
| of President Taylor-the chief apostle of Mis-
sissippiau repudiation--he has exactly fitted
himself by dishonest life to end us q traitor
on the gallows.
Who would be a traitor knave?
Who would fill an Arnolds grave?
Who would basely drive a slave?
Scoundrels turn and flee 2
The Sepoy leader based his power on repu-
diation and piracy--hls lieutenant Stevens on
negro slavery; for did he not say the stone
| the builders rejected had become the corner of
the edifice. These two men have brain but no
stamina-both have bad digestions and no
successes on battlefield or couneil-board can
be won with bad digestion. Virginia, the
mother ofPTesidents, and the breeder ofslaves,
aspires TO be the mother of traitors. Thank
God, we shall hear no more about the +. +. VS.
unless to signify that Eelon-Floyd's Villany.-
daughter and hear.) Macmillan has forcibly
described to us that Carolina and Virginia
were settled by thriftless adventurers-disso
lutte gentlemen who shirked their debts in
England as they have ever continued to do
since, in the United States. The Confederates
are using Virginia to pull the chestnuts out of
the fire. Cobb assures his friends that the
horrors of war will be confined to the border
States--make Virginia the battle ground, and
her bonds are not worth the paper on which
they are printed. (Cheers.) What resources
have the South Davis boasts of 100000 vol
unteers. They cost GlOO a-year, hence G2O,-
000, 900 will be required the first year He
hos eurrendnd in rpttinB alout 70 000 u00 b,-