Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-04-10

Many OF to-day's traitors were taugh
truth, honor, morality and religion q
our Yankee Harvard University, onl,
to return and lie, and steal, and swear
and breed treason. (IIear. Remem
Der again, sir, when you sneer, tina
Yankee means Englishmen-or may be
translated-as the true type of such q
Christian gentleman. (Cheers.)
How can the honorable speaker quote
Latin when he knows that none of us
understand it. (Laughter) Said the
classic Sir James Graham to the honest
old sailor, Sir Charles Napier, after a
warm argument regarding Cronstadt--
In medio tutissiiinus IBIS Sir Charles,
under great excitement, respon ded
You are another ? (Lsughter.) An
other what?' Just what you called
me- Laughter.) But even Latin
won't do to make out case for Seces.
sion. He says, as rule, the attacked
party always deserves the most sympa-
thy-intimating, in the face Of what is
not true, that the North attacked the
South, when we all know that Beaure-
gard fred the first shot at Anderson.
(That's so. On that principle he
would have been with the Russians in
the Crimean war, against his own coun-
trymen--(Hear and applause )---or, with
better analogy, when discovering a
scamp maltrcating woman, or commit
ting burglary, he wonld side with the
desperate thefrather than the policeman
whose duty it was to arrest him. Cheers
He speaks again of Carolinian chiv-
airy l am tired of that now Who
ever heard Of it until Brooks brutally
crept behind the back Of Sumner with
bludgcon in hand with the intention Of
assassinating him in the Senate Cham
bcr, while his confederate Keitt stood
by him with loaded revolver to see fair
play? Shame The Chivalry are no
longer in Congress. and the world can
no longer witness there a repetition Of
such dsgraceful Secession blackguard-
ism =! Southern chivalry Look at our
armies within six miles of tho chivalric
Charleston Thank God, ] am puri-
tan and no Cavalicr---I nm Roundhead
and no Pretender-I belong to the Crom-
wcllian army, and pride myself on be-
ing Yankee! Cheers. The honor
able Secessionist accuses tho North of
frauds, and says that from the first to
the last President there has been moth
ing but robbery and corruption. Now,
as I have before proved that the South
for seventy years has controlled the
Government and was the Treasurer of
the nation. am BOT surprised at this
statement. Loud cheers.
The Right Hon. Secessionist who i'm
mcdiatcly preceded me disputed my
statement that the South robbed the
North Of the fifty millions sterling of
private debts aud fifty millions sterling
of private property, and said that when
the Stcessionist Commissioners went to
Washington they offered to pay the Ad
ministration all debts, and so forth.
Shades of population protect me- They
pay Why, gentlemen, an anecdote
will best show how ridiculous is that
statement. The first Sccessionist, you
know. was SATAN Laughter and
cheers. He seccdcd from purer
world.--and with iDimitable cheek be |
took our Savior upon high mount. and
offered all the Kingdoms round about if
he would join his Secession party. when
every estate he had was mortgaged, and
the poor devil had not shilling in the
world. Loud cheers and renewed
laughter He should have given Mr..
Seward credit for generosity in permit
ting the scamps to return at all. Oh
You may comment, but had OBrien
and Mitchell. and Meagher, presented
themselves to Lord John Russell at
Downing street in 1s4S. on similar
erraud, how quickly they would have
been incarcerated in the tower. Yes,
md loud appIausc.] The gentleman
wants a monarchy. During the next
'ew weeks he shall have all the military
advantages of such u Government
Hear.
Tho game is up and the hunters are
tarting with the bugIc. Long before
'Ir. Cowper gets bis drive through Hyde
Park, or Sir Robert Peel fights The o. ,
>onoghuc, our mankin traitors will be
10 more The Seccssionist made one {
tatement about Southern courage which 6