Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-06-27


Reid and Raey Defence Of tho Uaitsl
states a1d Irelanl.
fFron the London American, Jane 4th.
- Ooe Of the chief points IN the eyents
| Of the week which have Of late come
under notice 10 the Discussion Halls is
the State OF Ireland. The recent agra
rian murders have alarmed the land.
lords, and EDgland and ireland stand
face to face, =sseh calling the other bad
names. Mr.. Train, -ava,ling himself Of
repeated attacks- against the United
States, made decided hit on Saturday
night, in turning the argument on Ire
land, and although tho interruptions
we're frequent, be kept his ground, he
undoubtedly having great advantage
by being 90 frequently called for before
be rises to speak.
FRIeNDsHIP OF ENGLAND.
Mr.. Train.-A lie oft repeated 10 twice
told. SANDER 10 the dipping Of small
minds. Jealousy arises from doubt OF
| ones own position. Small minds never
| praiee. Large minds never forget q
kindness. America's alleged adversely
is Eugland's happiness. Burns has
blasted many . young mans progress IN
life by his oft-quoted proverb, "See
ourselves a. others see u.s." Humanity
is wiser 10 this age. Others see rs
about two feet high. Hope and alnbi-
ton are blasted by friends. England is
laid to be our Motherland, our near re-
lation, our brother, our cousin, our
friend. That friendship, dear relation
chip, has been strangely shown of late.
ls England our stepmother /! Several
gentlemen see defeat. disaster, destruc.
ton to the Union armies. Where,
pray? All your wishes are fruitless oil
your prophecies arc in vain.
BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF TIE UNION ARMS.
Is the slight repulse Of the guu-boats
before Richmond sufficient to point the
morall You have made the most of
Bull Run, Ball's Bluff and Big Bethel !;
that was before our army was on its
feet; since then our flag has never been
struck. Napoleon's victories in Italy
and Germany were not more rapid or
more brilliant. Success follows success,
victory succeeds victory. Lyon 10 Mis-.
souri,; Sigel 10 Arkansas; Mcclellan in
Western VirginiA-paved the way for
the battle ofSomerset. The fall OF Fort
Henry and Donelson; the capture OF
Nashville, Columbus, Bowling Green,
New Madrid, and the Tenth Island ; the
taking of Fort Pickens, Pulaski, Macon,
Jackson and Pillow; the capture OF
New Orleans and the fall of Y orktown.
The battles of Pea Ridge, of Pittsburg
Landing, aud the pursuit of runaway ar
mics past Williamsburg, at the bayonet
point, up the James River, and on to
Richmond, are incidents IS worthy your
remembrance as the fact of our Govern
ment Securities standing firm at one
hundred and four, after raising one hun.
dred millions sterliog-the largest war
loan ever contracted since men used
firearms. l am obliged to keep these
facts before Secession England and the
Secession speakers of this hall.
ENGLISH DELAY IN CAMPAIGNS.
All this in half year, and yet you
sueer at our delay. First thirty days,
then sixty, thon ninety, aud now you say
we ask you again to wait. Be it SO.
Davis rested eight months before Wash.
ington, and yet you complain If we
stop eight days before Richmond. Eng.
land is the last nation to talk of dis.
patch. The only energy l have seen
you show was on the Trent question.
You say we ought to have closed the
war months ago. Look over your own
shoulder at George the Third. You
were longer reaching Concord, Lexing
ton and Bunker Hill, than you were in
leaving those places. With your drilled
veterans and hired Germans, it took you,
in revolutionary times, seven years to
evacuate city after city, and finally, your
English Lord surrendered to an Ameri
can General at Yorktown. You were
seven years in accomplishing what We
have done in seven months. The differ.
euce simply is this: You retired with
defeat, We advance with victory. The
gentleman said that Mcclellan would be
doubled up like perambnlotor; as the
American armies, on two occasions, have
doubled up England in the manner he
indicates, can sec where he found the
happy smile.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SECESSION AND
sN REVOLUTION. m w
You see analogy between Americas
secession from England, and Americas
secession from America. / don't. /
see no comparison betw zen the battles
of our youth against your manhood, and
the battles Of your manhood against
ourselves, unless it is, that you employ
ed Indians to scalp our people; so has
Davis. You tyrannized against us; so
did the South. But we rebcled against
your taxes, they against the laws they
made themselves. Such dishonest citi-
zens as Davis, Floyd, Mason, Slidell,
Beauregard aud their bad associates,
bear no analogy to the heroes of Massa.
chusetts-Hancock, Adams, Otis and
Frankin-or such great Virginia names
as fatrick denry and George Wash.
ington.
You say we are too long closing the
war, and yet it took you twenty years to
send Napoleon to st. Helena. Too
long! Napier was longer in doing NO.
thing. He boosted that he would be IN
Constadt or in . warmer atmosphere
within six weeks. All can say, is that
he did not get into Constadt. Too long
Yetyou have been two years 10 trying