The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-04-03
A Union Mans Speech i'm England.

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We learn by a private letter that Young
America, G.. F Train. is lecturing in England
on America, and is doing good service for the
Union cause by the plain matter of fact style
with which he deals with treason, rebellion
and foreign sympathy.
He appears to be wei posted, and Judging
from the appreciation with which his speeches
are received. there is more sympathy with
the North among the people of England than
we had been led to suppose from the tone of
the press.
In the summary of news received by Rem
ter's Telegram the following paragraph oc-
ours" Mr.. George Francis Train has adj
dressed a letter from London to the New
York Herald, declaring that a number of
vessels are fitting out at English ports with
ammunition for the South. He makes a
violent attack on the British Government,
and declares that English neutrality is con-
temptible." 1t would seem that Mr.. Trains
opinions are of importance enough to be
te~legraphed To the London press. People
cannot make him out here. He has any
quantity OF invitations to lecture upon Ameri-
can affairs throughout England. Last even
ing he gave a lecture before the English
camp at Aldershott, Col. Pennifeaiher in the
chair. Mr.. Train, after talking 20 the assem-
blage present for some time in a general
manner, then announced that he wished TO
soy a few words, upon his own account, upon
a war between Great Britain and the United
States,-said he did not come into the camp
as a spy. bur came under a flag of truce;
and he was only one, he had no friends, no
supporters, inside or outside. For two hours
he pitched into England right and left. and
talked to them like 4 father; they took his
Temarks good naturally, and testified their
appreciation by frequent applause No young
man ever had brighter prospects before him
for making a gigantic fortune than George
Francis Train has now in Great Britain, but
his frank. o~ut-spoken opinions may be the
means Of ruining him entirely he considers
his country, and the stars and stripes, of
vastly more importance than {. 5. d., or
horse railways; and, IN the words of the
He will speak his mind if he dies
for it,
We make a few extracts from Mr.. Trains
speech delivered at HawIey in StafTordshire,
on the 9th of December, as reported in the
London Times. Referring to the course of
England, Mr.. Train said-But YOU have not
been true to us-be not surprised then If 4
speak in earnest-if / talk with emphasis
for l feel every word | say. You call us
proud-we are. You call US sensitive-you
are right agIin. So proud we will receive
no dictation from other nations-so sensitive
we will support our flag or perish IN the at
tempt. (Applause.) England did not I'M
derstand us before the rebellion. she does not
understand us now, but the time Is not far
of when she Will know more of our geogra-
ply, our history, our agriculture, our manu-
~factures, our politics, and Inc extent of our
army and navy. Let me tell you what this
rebelliop is not. 1t is not a question of aboli-
ton as against slavery-it is not the tariff
agitation by protection against free trade
neithe is IT for ~subjugation, for conquest. or
for power-(hear, hear,)-but we are fight
ing for national life. (Cheers.) TSere is
something terrible in the death of a great
nation. We are fighting for our flag, and
before we drop the weapons, we intend to
prove to the world that we will nave one
Constitution, one Congress, one Country, and
n flag to float over its capitol. (Cheers.) To-
night l shall call things BY their Christian
names, a shovel will be named n shovel-a
crate n crate-and 4 secessionIst, n rebel. n
renegade, and a traitor. (Hear, hear.) The
question in America was not one of aboli-
ton or of slavery. They must pardon him
when he told them that they in the North,
when they talked of abolition. were no more
in earnest than they (the English) were.
EIdu uleE HOt LOT lOftN years Uttl Studying
the doctrines of Wilberforce 10 graduate in
favor of slavery, Ask the apostle of Exeter
Hall why he makes such a clamor against
slavery, when he wears n s~lave-grown cravat,
slave-grown hose. a s~lave-grown shirt, sweet
ems his coffee with slave-grown sugar,
smokes slave-grown tobacco, and makes n
chimney of his nose with slave-grOwn snuff!
He believed that all of them had partaken
of slave--cown corn, and about five and a
half millions sterling of their revenue that
went towards paying the expenses of this great
empire, was obtained by a protective tariff
on slave-grown tobacco. With such facts
before them, how they dared speak TO an
American in opposition to slavery he did not
kncw,-it was the very sublimity of check.
They took everything that was good in
American Institutions and said it vas Eng
lish, while everything that was had was
purely transatlantic. Their idea of n poll
ished American had been taken from the
stage or from Punch. They fiacicd n long
wiry fellow with striped trousers, u bowie
knife in one hand and n revolver IN the
other, a guild Of tobacco in his mouth and
brandy smashers in his pocket-(oud laugh
ter)Ewith no spittoon on the floor, and with
his feet not upon the hearth. That man, he
assured them, was purely a Southern Insti-
tuition. They had no such men in the North.
You know nothing of our people. He was
Disguised to hear a lady remark, at 4 west
end party. that an American was below, and,
on inquiry, to find that his distinguished