The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-04-01

SECESSION IN ENGLAND.
Mr.. Train Makes a Speech In Favor Of Secession
Plea Better than the Genuine.


audiences, yielded TO the force of circumstan.
ces short time since, at the Temple Forum,
and consented to deliver speech in favor OF
the Southern rebellion. The question under
debate was: "ls the North or tue South
Right" Mr.. Tain, after repeated calls,
arose, and by his repeated and well.directcd
blows Of whitening SARCASM, and bitter irony,
caused infinite merrimcnt, and hearty cheer.
ing. We have not room for the whole of his
remarks, as published in the London 1meri-
can. The following arc few of the salient
points:
As there seems to be dearth Of speakers
on the side of the South, permit me ten or
fifteen minutes attention for what i may
have to say on that side Of the question:
Hear. The Northcrners think they have
the very best Consti ution in the world, be-
cause they have placed their Temple of Lib
erty on the four corner. stones Wisdom, Mer-
cy, Justice and Union! b VIC in Secessia
have based our Constitution aud reared our
Temple Of De'potism on ono acknowledged
corner .stone-N,gro Slavery.
THE CORNERSTONE OF sEcEssIA.
Now, | never heard Of house with only
one corner stone laught'rl; there must of ne
cessity be four, and these are the other three
-Peuury. Robbery! Treacbery! On these
four columns we have raised that cdifce of
Despotism for which | have risen to speak
. Cheers. The question Of to.nbgt Is very
strangely expressed. 1t asks whether the
North or South is right. This is what call
an open aud shut question-it is difficult to
tell Blucher from Wellington. | can answer
in the affirmative or the negative. Laugh
ter.
IMAGINARY GRIEVANCES OF THE SOUTH.
maintain that the North has acted most
wrongly by us-that the North was wrong in
giving us precedence in all matters of State
hear wrong in giving us, as the honorable
genien an from Alabama says, the power to
elect neatly all the Presidents hear THAT
the North was wrong in giving he South all
the uava oificers-wrong in taking our men
to make all the army officers. ICheers.
! maintain the North was wrong in allow.
ing US to rob the treasury at Washington
wrong in allowing us to absorb all the North
ern spoils-and wrong in allowing us to as
sumo all the civil and military power
ICherrs. | tell you that we in Secessia de.
spse the North. They boast in the North of
their morality and religion-but we desIis
their morality ard religion. Shame" |
tell YOU that the North has acted wrongly by
us in permitting Us to remove all the muni
tons Of war 10 the Southern ports, who're
they could be surrendered into our hands
laughter and cheers Into the hands Of the
far famed chvary of the South. Hear.
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the weaker one. II YOU saw King Charles
pup fighting with bold bull dog, YOU would
take tho pat of the King Charles because it
WI the weaker-aud we complain that you
do not for the same reason, take our part
Cheers and laughter. You take enormous
credit for having SO quickly dispatched men
and munitions OF war to Canada-you take
grctt credit for having suppressed certain dis
patches ["Oh, ,""yes,' and cheers -rcmem-
ter | am speaking for the South. Laugh.
ter You take great credit for avIng sup
pressed those dispatches for three wceks-but
we in the South keep our secrets lorger than
rbat--we keep our secrets not for three weeks
or three months or three years-but for thir
ry years Hear, hear And yet all that
tim, we were aiding in tn" North to the
knights Of the Golden Circle. We keep our
secrets longcr-not for three weeks, but for
thirty years-we kept concealed from the
world our forces.
TIE soUHERN BULL RUNS.
Reference ha, been made to Bull Run. It
proves, rs | told them at Haney, what | have
had much trouble in getting English people
to believe-that the American people are
never troubled with the gout. Laughter J
But the Northerners are not the only people
who have the right Of claiming all such lau.
rels. Hear You ought to give us some
credit on that account also. Look when the
Northerners landed at Port Royal and Beau.
fort; we showed them powers Of pedestrian.
ism, throwing even Deerfoot into the shade.
Laughter and cheers. Wien the Northern
hordes landed, the chivalry of Georgia went
first, South Carolinans next, and the Ger
mans last, until at last there was but one poor
Old niggcr left. Loud cheers never saw
such speed; they reached Charleston in much
shorter time than | should have thought pos
sib'e.
Why did the gentleman from Secessa omit
this prsi-eworthy fact, when alludng TO our
chivalryl Then, again, read the papers of
Ssturday-and to-day. Have you not read
how 10 900 men left the field whereon Law
the bodies of Zollicoffer and Peyton ?-they
went quickly, because they were anxious to
fight the battle in Tennessee Confusion
Don't get excl ed, secessionists, for | am to
night on the side o. the South Applause
and laughter.
Mention has been made to night of our in
tention to march 10 Washington, encomp on
Bunker Hill, and raise our flag on Faneuil
Hall. We did intend to march through, but
not to stop, our object being to pass quietly
through Washington and Boston, on our road
to iberatc the 900 free negroes in Canada
robbed from Il Q South by Canada refusing
to return (uGitives. T"Yes," and continued
cheering, "That's so.
coNCILIAToRY ACTS OF Mr.. SEWARD.
Look at Seward--hoW has he behaved to
you l-what right had he 10 show such friend
ship to England after you had abused him
sol When Lori Lyons asked him to give up
tho men, he gave them up at once; when
Lord Lyons asked him why he didn't give
them up before, he answered: because VIC
didn't know that you wanted them"-and
asked if paying the bill at maturity was not
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