The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-01-28


an English man OF war hesitate about thel
cap,ursi H"ar.] WHO were the two me
about whom they talk d Of going to war;
Mr.. Mason was the author Of the fugitiv
stare aw, and Mr.. Slid u had been for
q.arter ofa century making hostile speeehe
ogoinst this country Did they think tn
Americans when they bosrled tn. Trent, an
took these rel els prisoners, wanted to insul
the English hagl They never thought o
the EuglIsh flag. They were after the viii
scan ps that had dragged the emblem Of thci
own fair lani in the mire. The captain o
the Trent had no business in the face of th'
pr claua'ion of neutrality TO take those mer
on board his ship, and onght To b" discharg
ed. No, and dsapprobr,ion. Has Euglmd
forgotten that she has some of her black sub
England forgotten the South Carolina law o.
1885, taking negroes (Br tlsh SUI j"c,s) out I"
Brilish ships and selling them, in case ihe
master did not pay the finei Again, in 1913
no hoJeos corpus allowed 1851. thirty srv
en- British were imprisoned. In 1852. forty.
two! Shame.1 Here is an Outrage on En-
glands flag worthy Of action. tirar.
Turning to the chairman, Mr.. Train asked
what proportion Of your exports go TO Ameri.
ca?
Chairma Two thirds.
Yes, said Mr.. Train. two thirds Of their ex.
ports wen; TO America, and how then could
they rise up to fan this nation into a war
hsme-how could they knock down man
they were making money out off, To say the
least, men whose bread aud mea, and cinthing
cam from their prol fic trade with the Uni.
ted Sta'cs, ought to b. ashamed Of them.
selves. Laughter aud ch ers, ov"rpnwcrin
f." hisScs. How co III they deal with this
cas-" before they had heard how he Cab net
n Washington had d"crd"d? How did they
know that tn" prisoners would not b" given
up? Bu, he would teI' them what he would
have done with them Che pr soners). He
would hav- tried them in the prize court Of
New York, he would have convicted them of
high treason, and sentenced them to be hang.
ed. Hrsss. Yes, TO he hanged. and then
put them on board Cunard steurn,r aud
presented them 10 the mutton they had ul,fei
for quarter Of a century. III ar.) Some
years ay" he saw on the gales of Canton and
Shanghai the h'a'ls of several rebels IT, d ffr
ent stages Of decay, hanging high in air in
cages rs = warning to traitors. But Amrri
ca ne, d. n such example. Let the raricides
he laulshed from the land. where they can
corrupt no more American iloo Let rham
hc oxl"d VIII, re the Il ger OF sc"rn will p,,n,
to them in every house and street and cry
So tia, house and street and civ shall b..
come known To- tn" passi' 9 travele- "a the
,,lac, whr'e the convict. Mason and Sil"Il rp-
sided when a generous Government allowed
them to escape the galows. (Cheers and
aisscs.) (Not noticing the interruption, Mr.
Train, by entertaining anecdorcs, CONTROLLED
the attention Of his audicnce.) "Guilty, or
not guilry!" asked the Judge. " ow can |
saw unt hear the evidence" replied tie
Irish prisoner at the bar. (L,ugh,cr.) "And
then again villa, are YOU place I'tbore fnr but
to fnd out by our larningT CLaughter.)
Let ia have the evidence that Wilkes has bro
ken the law. The future historian will find
material for volumes in the press Mark we'll
how the d s"ase spread. Tie fist day the
Times said all right; the second, all wrong !;
the third brough, cry for vengeance-coll,
fever, and then dclir'um! Positive, bn /: CON
parative, boiler; superative, hurst. (Laugh
ter.) England's cause, therefore, is like the
I'ish committee, who
Resoiped, That we do have now Jail
ResoIred, 'rha, the new Jail stand whore
the Old Jail now is.
Resolved. T"at the old jail ! g not removed
till lh new Jail is built G.oui laughier)
OUTRAGE ON THE BRITIsH .FLAG-tiRoss
INSULT TO TIE BRIrIsu NATION -rhcse
words. repeated one hundred million, of times
during the past week, have lash"d the nation
into military madness. II, then, in Englands
love for tire Cross of ST. Georg" she tirI,
cause " involve tlis noble conn'ry in the hru
tai horrors of war for an all ged insult. how
can she defam" the Americans fr plnngirg
the sword deep into the b, art Of the assassin.
who, in the darkness Of the night crrpt
through the path Of friendship. Of omnlument,
and honor, oulraging all tanv tvs. public
obligations, slcre "a hS and dom site priys.
CIV, ia order to he muie sure of the traitors
blow with a weapon gHngrrn"d with tim"
AMI stopped in talS"h"o is poison. VII b the
prrare envo's aimed Al the life of anrion
Wherein Gnl, Tor 80. q all.wiS reason. has
! l,nte'I the IRE" Of bpry. "a pIau.o)-
Let us refer the dispute. aud pa, a small curu-
mi,>i N to the Government brok r. TO arrange
it. (Laugh,er.) England is not the nation
tn arhrra," alone. Who thinks Of putting
ReynarA on the jury for poultry triaI9-
daughter II each would sweep hcfor" his
own door, we should have clean street -
Saith the provrrb-" hatred of an enr
my is bad enough. bu no earthly poison equals
in its intensity the hatred of friend" We
must chan !e all this. The world is improving
-harbarsm is neutrality-suspicious. Is
gring out-inastodnns arc &c tie past-r,v-
onons animals are growing .carce-posonou'
wecs and roots are dtfirult to be found--th"
devil himself has been depo>cd Ualgher)
Surely, then, the time has arrived ,o do away
with the afr cities of wa'l (CneerS) War,
writes Charming, is a g,"at mural evil. The
Fl III of battle IL " theatre got up ~ immens.
cost flr th" exhibition OF crime on o AMI
scale. Brother h"ws down brothcr-the coun
tenancc flashes rage, and thousands are sent
in the awful moment of crime to
meet their Maker! (Iear, hear) told
them at Aldershot that no outrage was con-
tempiaied mo insult intended-lhai AmeIi-
CO was TOO busy with enemies at home to
u"edl ssly estIange her friends abroad. She
would rather
Join the stars and stripes and cross,
In one frntprna band