The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-25

ANOTHER .TRAIN'' SPEECH.
JOHN BULL ROUNDLY SCORED.

The inevitable GEORGE F. TRAIN has
lately made slashing speech before an
English audience on the American Navy,
which we print below. No one can read
it without wondering at bis impudence. We
are very sure that an American audience
would not have listened to anything from
the lips OF an Eng]ishman half so humiIiat
ing to our national pride. The London
american, from which the speech is copied,
says:
We believe the time has arrived in the his.
tory of nations for America to demand her
proper. position in the world; and we cordially
agree with Mr.. Train that the shortest way to
arrive at that Independent position is again to
copy England, and have the largest navy afoat
for the forthcoming struggle for the mastery of
the seas. .
Mr.. TRAINS SPEECH.
Amersca must be the only first class Poacer
IN the aoorld. Our Parrot guns are supe.
rior to those of Napoleon. Hurrah for
Parrott! Dor Dahlgren guns beat Arm
strong and throw BlakeIey into the shade.
Hurrah for Dahlgren! James projectiles
and Sharp's rifles are both American insti-
tuti0ns. Hurrah for the American navy
hurrah! The navy of England is an ark.
The Monitor and the Stevens Battery could
destroy it in less than forty days. (Oh, and
laughter.) Why haveaoe not been a first rate
Poa0er? Because we had no Navy. But
the times are changing year since our
navy was ghost--nOw it is a we'll organ
lob of
its iron fesh-its steel sinews--and put life
into it in the shape of steam. (Cheers)
We must have navy larger than England
larger than France-never mind the
expense. We--the peopze--pay the bills.
(Hear)
Nations are powerful in proportion to
their navies. (Hear.) Peter the Great
was ship.builder-his power was based
upon his navy. Genoa waa prosperous with
navy; so was Venice, Holland, and Por-
tugal. They lost their power when they
lost their navies. Who once owned South
America, Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, and
Gibraltar ?-Spain. The Spanish Armada
was sunk, and Spain lost her colonies when
she lost her navy! Napoleon sighed for a
navy: France wanted ships, commerce, and
colonies, and organized armies. England
had ships, colonies, commerce, and organ.
lied navies. Nelson won the Niles battle,
and Napoleon lost Egypt. Napoleon lost
Trafalgar, and Wellington gained Water
loo. The Third Napoleon saw his uncle's
mistake, and slowly and surely has built
monstrous navy. America must be the First
Nav0I Poner IN the World.
England has become insolent, arrogant
and cowardly insulting through her navy.
(No.) She has controlled the worlds COM
merce. How? By her navy. England
has no army of importance, but has domi.
neered over all nations with her navy. A
few months ago she sent her squdrens to
destroy our empire. (Shame) America
piW neuer forget it (Hear.) England's
bulwark was her navy-her tower her men
of war. Cromwelps navigation laws have
always been cherished by England's mon.
archs--the Stuarts, the Tudors, the
Georges and the Victorias. (Cheers.) If
history is philosophy teaching by example,
Americans are philosophers. The irrepres.
siDle conflict is close at hand-the battle
prize is the dominion of the universal ocean.
Our brakes, Duncans, Jervises, Colling-
woods and Nelson's are all still alive. Yours
are dead. Monuments never fight. Live
men compose our navy. Our Duponts and
Porters and Wordens and Farraguts are
worthy successors of our Decaturs, Paul
Jones, Bainbridges, Lawrences, Perrys and
Porters. Hurrah for the American
navy! A changeis on the world-Amer.
lea has toadied England long enough-our
people, thank God. at last are emancipated.
England can no longer irritate us. Hail to
our gallant navy! Our people must pass
lac compelling ecery merchant ship to
take from foe to ten apprentices Let them
wear the navy buttons-the captain must
be responsible, and the ship owner must pay
the bills. We want militia Of the seas.
(Cheers) Our sailors must be on the
ocean what our volunteers are on the land.
We msust hace macy. Our improvised
gunboats have earned in co. operation with
the Army OF the Constitution, immortal
fame. Who won laurels at Fort Henry?
the gunboats Who at Fort Donelson?
-gunboats. Who captured the islands on
the Great River ?-our gunboats. Who
gave victory to our arms at Pittsburgh
Landing ?-our gallant gunboats. (Cheers.)
Who captured RoaDoke-Pulas-
ki?-our gunboats. Vicksburg fell, Match
ez capitulated, and Memphis surrendered to
our navy.
Our sailors are as brave as our soldiers
are bold. Our gunboats are manned by
regiments of Casibiancas Long ere this
our gunboats have battered down treason
in Mobile, Savannah and Charleston.
(Cheers) America is emancipated. Eng.
land is not our mother. America has pass
ed out of leading strings. Cut the connec.
ting links of the gunboat canal through |
from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Make
a passage along the Lakes and do it at |
once. The people pay the bills. Cut an
other canal to connect the rivers with New
Orleans via Carolina, and ct our gunboats
have race course inside our empire.
(Cheers) The people of America never
call each other the mob. (Cheers) 1t is
not allowed Some say the people here
will not permit the London Times to call
them the mob. (Shame and hear,) We
want two hundred more Galenss, Nauga-
tucks, Ironsides and Monitors We have
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