Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1862-06-13
GEO. FRANCIS TRAINS CAsTIGATIoN
OF BULL RUN RUSSELL.


two sides. Tonight. thus far, there has beef
but one. Russell is the pet Of the Englisl
people, aud the rebuke he has received a
Washington has offended you; hence com
ments have been made tonight too sweeping
in their nsurs, too severe in their spplica'
ton for me TO let them pass unnotced.
IL is delicate thing for foreigner to at
tack the household gods Of any pation but
those who know nc are aware that general.
ly express my thoughts regardless Of the con.
sequences to myself | shall look at this
question entirely through my own eyes, hear
10 through my own eurs, scent il through my
own nasal organs laughter taste it with
my own tongue, and feel it with my own
hands. (Appause.) A corporation, il is
said, has mo soul TO save or body to kick. -
(Laughter.) do not expect to find the for
mer in the Tunes correspondent, but | will
leave II to you to say. when have concluded,
whether have not discovered some secession
spot as the resting place for the foot Of IN
ion man. daughter and applause.
The Times, for half century, as the paid
organ Of the governing classes, has consis-
tently abused and misrepresented everything
American. Its policy has been to search the
criminal calendar for the most obscene, re-
voting scenes of crime, in order to portray
them in its columns as the leading character
istcs Of the American people. Out OF one
hundred leaders in American papers, on edu-
cation, commerce or politics, there might
have been one article on crime-that article
was at once seized upon by the Times to
prove to Europe from our own mouths, how
demoralized we have become. Vice was al
ways inserted in leading type-Virtuc was not
characteristic of Republics. b constant
repetition Of these ISLANDERS, everything that
was vile in the history Of man was stamped
upon the American Americans are generous
as well as just, and you can imagine how NOR
tilted they must have been, after the warm
hearted shake of the hand they gave your h-
ture king, to see the Times preach day after
day against the Union and the law.
AT the commencement ofthe war, Mr.. Rus
sell was sent out to describe the vicisstudes
Of the strife. We knew him, as we knew all
your writer's, and are first to discover their
talents. Thackeray was known in every viii
lage, and returned to England with money in
his pocket to be told when he was defeated at
Cambridge, that there were only three men
on the electoral visit had ever heard of him.
lLaughter.) Russell reigned supreme as the
king Of correspondents, and his graphic de-
scuptions of Crimean and Indian warfare were
familiar to all. So many errors have been
committed tonight by the speakers who have
proceed me, you had better let me give
hasty glance at his career first stating three
distinct negatives.
Russell is an Irishman, not an Engishman
lllcar, hear Russell was not the Times
correspondent in Italy, and you ought to
know as we'll l. that it was poor Bowlby
and not Russell who succeeded Cook in Chi
ma. Nobody seems to know whether Russell
was born in 1916 or 1921; but. graduating
at Trinity he commenced writing for the
Times in ls43 Living in a sensation time,
when O'Connell was the Sensation leader,
Russell became Sensation letter writer.
and with the exception of the short period
from lS45 to 1857. when he was on the Chron-
icie, he has been chief of the Times staff. In
1880 he became bvrrister, the literary
dodge often practiced to open the door of
good society. (Oh y The gentleman saws
oh but it is notorious that he never held a
brief wore wig, or gave a legal opinion. He
did what Carter Hall, and Make Peace Thack- !
cray did before him--paid tie one hundred
pound barrister-lcense, to obtain the locus
standi of the West End. In 1854 and 1858
he was the tyrant of the army at the Crimea.
and so unfairly did he use the means at his
command, there are many officers now in the |
British army who treat him with the scorn he |
deserves. His attack upon the Commissary
Department did more to proong the contest
than is generally known. was told when
at st. Petersburgh after the war, that the
Emperor received dispatches from London az
to the wIetched condition of the allied forces.
as described by "our own correspondents"
which made the Russians more vindctive and
more determined, more obstinate, and stimu-
lated them to make greater exertions, to pour
down troops to the Crimea Hear, hear,
and True.) England may thank Russell for
the additions to many Crimean graveyard,
and many noble home in England has been
made sad by this reckless trader in human
reputation, who yesterday came sniveling,
like whipped schoolboy, before the British
people, in three column attack upon the
American Government, simply because that
Government has inforced its orders, not
against Mr.. Russell only, but against all cor
respondents of the world, American as well as
European. France. he forgets to mention,
was the dear ally of England in the Russian
war, yet he was refused permission to enter
the French camps, although the allied Gener-
ais were acting in concert (Applause.) The
Emperor sent special order prohibiting his
entrance inside the ranks. 1t was enough to
sec the Times play into the hands of Russia
10y slandering the English army, without Ii.
being the French as we'll. President Lin
coin has only followed the zion of other dis
unguished names. Did not Sir Charles Ma
pier refuse to take a correspondent with him
him to the Baltic (Yes.) Did not the
Duke of Wellington prohibit correspondents
following the army in the Peninsula; Hear
and Nes.) Did he not say that correspon.
dents ought all to be hanged who would com
men. upon generals plans Do you think
the British Government would allow any
newspaper correspondent in the employ of
any other government, to criticize any Of the
movements of the army on the field of battle?
(No) How strange that this same Russell
should ask favor Of the President whom
short time ago he accused of manslauehter in |
hanging the slave trader Gordon. But 10
continue-in 1856 he was sent to Moscow 10
paint the picture Of Alexander coronation.
and will do him the justice to say that he
painted it we'll. (Cheers.) That year his
College dubbed him LII. ID. This next wear
he was in India, and in 1853, established that
lamentable failure the Army and Navy Ga /
zette. And now we come more directly to the
question in debate, was the President justif-