The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-08-07
The American Champion and the
English Libeler.
Geo. Francis Trains CastigatiOn OF
Bull Run Russell.

IDnes l. receiving, a. might be- expected, I'll
sympathy Of all good Sece-siOnist7 in England
Secession writers, taking their cue from the Sscss
sion article On his expulsion from the Fedora
Army, IN the IhUHd,rer, mourn over his exit
and Secession speakers are - strong III the Lon
don discussion halls, il j. difficult t. find auv on.
70 take up the weapons against him. Mr.. Train
however, who j. generally present at these debate
OF the people, vigorously supports the Union sid,
Di all questions ON American affairs, and i al
ways ready % reply 70 any speaker Or any mum,
Der Of speakers, with facts, figures and arguments
IN patriotic defense Of his country and her insti-
tutIOnS.
The attack Of Russell ON our President and
Secretary Of War, made in the IfDtes on his re-
turn to England, Is one Of the weakest Of his
many ISLANDERS against our people, and it viii BE-
seen by tine following speech, recently delivered
ut one Of the London discussion halls. that Nr.
Train has most ctiectually used the scalIing knife
III showing up tins miserable TeyIlcr Of our iu-ti-
buttons. The question under discussion in the
Debating Hall, VAS UnS PreSihHf LiHcOhl
JHStJted m rJHSfHg PERMISSION 10 the Times CIR
TcSPOHd1lt Ia cHbGrk ruth the FedsrdI ATmy2''
y severe attack was made upon the President Of
the United States and tire administrator by
speakers who preceded Mr.. Train and who took
the negative side Of the question. The following
Is his speech in reply
Mr.. Chairman and gcntlemcn.-No debate can
show yigDr unless there are two sides. Tonight,
rhus far, there has been but one. Russell j. the
pet of the English people, and the rebuke he has
received at NashingtJn has offended you hence
comments have been made tonight too sweeping
IN their censuTe, too severe in their application,
for me 70 let them pass unnOticed
Ii Is u delicate thing for u foreigner to attack
the household gods Of any nation but those vino
know me are aware that | generally express my
thoughts regardless Of the consequences to myself.
] shall look at this question entirely through my
own eyes. hear it through my own ears. scent il
with my own nasal Observation-Disclosures it
with my own tongue, and feel 1t with my own
hands. (ApplaUse.) y corporation, it * said,
has = no soul to save, or body to kick" Nlugh-
teri | do not expect to find the former in the
Times correspondent. but will leave it 20 you 10
say, when | have concluded, whether / have not
discovered some secession spot as Il resting place
for the foot of Il Union man. daughter and
applauSc.j
The Times, for half Il century. as the paid or
gan of the governing classes, has consistently
abused and miSrepresented everything American.
Its policy has been To search the criminal CIleH-
dar for the most obscene and revolving eases Of
crime, IN order to portray them in its columns as
the leading characteristics of the American ueU-
pie. Out of Il hundred leaders in the American
papers, on %ommerce education, or politics. there
might have been one article ON crime-that arti-
Gle was ut once seized upon by the IigcS To prove
to Europe, from our own mouths, how democrat
lied we had become. Vice was always inserted
in loaded type-Nirtue was not a characteristic
of Republics. by constant repetition Of these
ISLANDERS, everything that was vile in the history
of man was stamped upon the American. Aneri-
cans are generous as well as just, and You can
imagine how mortified they must have been, after
the warm-hearted shake of the hand they gave
your future king, To see the Times preach day
after day against the Union and the law.
vt the commencement Of the war, Mr.. Rus
sell was sent out TO describe the yicissItudeS of the
strife. We knew him, as we know all your VIII
tiers, and are first to discover their talents. Thack-
cray was known III every village, and returned to
England with money IN his pocket To be told,
when ne was defeated ut Cambridge, that there
were only three men ON the electoral list who had
ever heard of him. Uaughter.) Russell reigned
supreme as the King of the Correspondents, and
his graphic descriptions of Crimean and Indian
warfare We're familiar To us all. So many errors
have been committed tonight by the speakers
who have preceded me, YOU had better let me
give 4 hasty glance ut his career first stating
three distinct negatives
Russell Is an Irishman. not an E~ngliShman.
clear, hcar) Russell was not the Times Cor
respondent in Italy, and You ought To know as
well ~ !, that II was poor BDwlby and not Rus
sell who succeeded Cook in China. Nobody
seems to know whether Russell was born III 1916,
or 1871 but, graduating 1T Trinity, he COM
mcnced writing for the Times IN 1913. Living
ut a Sensation time. when O'COuncii was the
Sensation leader, Russell became a Sensation let
ter-writer, and. with the exception of the short
period from 1915 to 1917. when tie was on the
Chronicle, he has been chief of the inns staff.
In 1850 he became Il bIrriStar, the literary dodge
often p~rIctiScd u open the door u good society.
(Oh1 The gentleman SAYS OH but II i uJtD-
riOus that he never held a brief. wore = wiz. or
gave q legal opinion. lie did what Carter Hall.
MIkc-Pcacc Thackeray lid before him-paid
the hundred pound arri>Jgr-iiccn>e % obtain the
locus Sfauh OF the West End. In 1851 and 1855
he was the tyrIut of the army ut the Crimca.
and, 80 unfairly did he use the means ut his COM
mand. there are many officers now in the British
army who treat him with the ScOrn me deserves.
His attack upon the COmmiSsary Department did
more - prJlOng the contest than Is generally
| was told. when at 1t. Petcrsburgh
after the war, that the Emperor received telc-
graphic DISPATCHES from London as To the wretch
ed conditions of the allied forces, as described by
our own correspondent, which made the Rus
slams more yindictivc and more determined, more
and stimulated them % make greater
TO pour down troops To the trlmea.
(IIear, hear, and True.) England may thank
Russell for the additions to many 4 Crimean
and many Il noble home in England
has been made sad by this reckless trader in hu-
nan reputation, who yesterday came sniyeling,
ike a whipped Sch0olboy, before the British peo-
in Il three-column attack upon the American
Government, simply because that Government
mas enforced its orders, not against Mr.. Russell
My. but against all the correspondents of the
world, American as well rs European. France,
ne forcets To mention, was the dear ally of Eng
and in the Russian war, yet hc was refused per
mission to enter the French camps, although the
IIied Generals were acting in concert. Gap
,Iause.) The Emperor sent i special order pro-
iibiting his entrance inside the ranks 1t was
nouoh 10 see the Times play into the hands Of
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