Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-17
Another Patriotic Speech From Geo.
Francis Train, Esq.
&c Defenls the .sYanIsees.',
From the London American, February eel

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He Defends the Yankees"
From the London American, February 2s.J
On Monday evening last Mr., Train was
again challenged by the SecessiOnists on
the question "What chance has the South
to obtain its indepcndence2 rtF
Mr.. Train-Certainly comply with your
call, but more to state fact than make a
speech. The Secession speaker sneers at
the Yankees-ridicules their industry, and
ignores their-wonderfule energy. 1t is time,
Mr. Chairman, to stop this sneering at the
Nortll--this Sam Sticking the word Yam
KEGS. Halliburton, an Englishman, wrote
for an English audience-in an English
colony-and the English mind being open
to accept anything that would satirize
Americans, takes Sam Slick for text
book, when we never use the language at
all which he describes to us. LOh II Ame-
ricaps never use the word Britisher; and
you should know that when you sueer at
the Yankees, you sncer at your own peo-.
pie. t.s.,5
The pilgrims were Englishnen. When
they landed on the Western shore the In-
dians ran down to meet them, cryin "Yen-
| geese Yengeese" which is the Indian
word for Englishmen; and MS Englishmen
| torture language into most uncouth shapes
calling my lordS my lud, Derby Darby,
aud presist in calling CoWper Cooper-so
the IndianS word Yengcese in time became
fengees, Yengee aud Yankee. Thear,
hear. Yankee means Englishmen. So
remember in future when you sneer Mt the
word Yankee you sneer at yourselves and
your countrymen. EApplause. The
New EnglAnder is proud of the name
You compliment me, sir, by the allusion,
| 10 10 NHl,r ha \ al,
flag OF the Union on every mountain in
Ghrlstendom, aud raised its halIOwed folds
over every billow in all the oceans
| LCheers. The secessionist in the winter
carries on its trade on Yankee Capital, and
in summer is obliged to go to Yankee wa
tering places for his vacation; spending
pennies in his mengre plantation fare
where nobody is looking on, but throwing
away pounds in Yankee land in the bar
rooms, gambling and places of evil
repute, whenever he can dazzle the un-
susDectlng with his bank notes. loud
laughter. ~:
The game of Brag is not always game
of cards. ais there any game about
here 2" asked the young Englishman, with
bag and gun, when landing on the banks
of the Mississippi. ayes, plenty" lisped
the negro. 'Whnt ?'' "oh, principally
Poker2" Laughter That is not a
Yankee game or Yankee story. ELaugh-
ter. The South depends upon the Yam
| KEGS for food and raiment-for it's medi-
cines-its necessaries and its luxuries-
The Yankee supplies the secessiouist with
Bibles, though seldom called for, aud
4 printing paper, and ice, and coffins-
4 Laughter The Secession mother sends
to Yankee land for a Yankee schoolmis-
tress to teach her chilrdren, and the Seces-
sion father sends his sons to Yankee West
Points, Yankee naval schools and Yankee
colleges. Many of to-daY's traitors were
taught truth, honor, morality and religion
/ at our Yankee Harvard University, only to
4 return and lie, and swear, and steal, and
breed treason. [Hear.l Remember, again,
sir, when you sneer, that Yankee means
Euglishmau-orz may be translated-as
the true type of such Christian gentle
man. [Cheers. E9EeI
How can the honorable speaker quote
Latin when he knows that none OF us un-
\ derstaud it. Laughter. Said the clas-
H sic Sir james Graham to the honest old
sailor, Sir Charles Napie", after warm
/ argument regarding CrOnstRdt-'tEn medic
II tutiSSiOtWS ibis" Sir Charles, under great
excitement, responded, "You are auotherl'
Il Laughter. "Another what? ;" "Just what
you called me-" [LauglIter.l But even
Latin: won't do to make out a case for Sc
cession. He says, as q rule, the attacked
/ party always deserves the most sympathy
i intimating in the face of what is not true,
that the North attacked the South, when
we all know that Beauregard fired the first
shot at Anderson, That's so. On that
principle he would have been with the Rus
SLAMS 1.-THE Cr:mean war, against his own
countrymen-[ urGndapplause-or, with
better analogy, when discovering scamp
! a
burglary, he would side with the desper-
ate thief rather than the policeman whose
duty it waste arrest him. Hear.
He speaks again of Carolinian chiValryl
l am tired of that now, Whoever heard of
ituntil Brooks brutally crept behind the
back of Senator Sumner, with bludgeOu
in hand with the intention of assassina-
ting him in the Senate Chamber, while his
confederate Keitt stood by with loaded re-
volver, to see fair play? CShame.1 The
chivalry are no longer in Congress. and the
world can no longer witness there arepe.
tition of such disgraceful Secession black
guardism! Southern, chivalrv! Leok at
! eur armies within six miles of the chiyalric
Charleston! Thank God, am Puritan
and no Cavalier-I am a Roundhead aud
no Preteader-I belong to the Cromwellinn
army, and pride myself on being Yankee!
| TCheers. The honorable SecessiOnist ac-
cuses the North of frauds, and says that
from the first to the last President there
has been nothing but robbery aud eorrup-
tion. Now, as have before proved that
the South for twenty years has controlled
the Government and was the Treasurer of
the nation, am not surprised at his state
ment. loud cheers.] 5,.---5s ssr,s.Ff-
The Right Hon. Secessiontst who imme:
} diateIy preceded me disputed my statemen