Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-06-20
George r. Train Makes Another Speech
in London.


in London.
The London American, 2lst ult, reports
a speech made by Geo. +. Train, in the Fleet
Street Discussion Hall, upon the question
Ought England and France to interfere in
the American Struggle" a number of
speakers took the affirmative. Mr.. Train,
after being loudly called, took the negative,
and made characteristic speech, from which
We made the following extracts:
FORMER INTERFERENCE OF ENGLAND AND
#- FRANCE -
England and France interfere in the Amer
lean war OE course not-why should they |?
What right have they to interfere Let
England and France mind their own affairs,
and leave America to settle their own dis
putes. The precedents mentioned by two
speakers, where England interviewed in the
South American Republics, bear no analogy
to this case. .-H ..# -,
1t is positively insulting to mention the
three closer powers of Paraguay, Venezuela,
or Central America, with the more or less
OF the United States of America. And why
did England interfere even there? Belgium
and Greece were better preccdents; but
those powers were also too feeble to resist
You say France interviewed in the Reyolu.
ton. Even so; but there is wide ticld be-
tween the revolution Of the colonies against
England and the conspiracy in secession
against the country. A voicc-Whcre is
the dlfference']
Simply, one people revolted on the issue
that tdrntion eithout representation nas rob-
berry! while the other conspircd against the
very laws the Southerners made themselves.
Possessing more than an equal representa-
ton, they went in for more by robbery. ig-
noring taxation altogether. Such men as
Lafayette, and De Grasse, and Rochambeau,
are again well represented in another age by
the Count Of Paris, the Duke of Chartres,
and Gen. Havelock, and dozen great names
who are fighting in the cause of freedom.
ABsURDITY OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE.
Intervention in American affairs with
whom !! The North and the South /? Not
the South, for Yancey says il is impossible.
Besides, it would be declaring war against
the United States. Not the North, for Amer
lea is not so low as to choose an arbitrator in
the hour Of victory. Would Havclock have
allowed Prussia to have INTERVIEWED as he
"S' SOh'S INV IAAthJOW w Oulu france
have allowed America to intervene in favor
of Austria before Solfcrino? Would Eng
land have allowed intervention in the
Crimca as she was walking through the Re.
dan and Malakof into Sebastopoly Not a
mite of it. Let Napoleon do so wild a thing
as to dare to interfere in our affairs, and YOU
may purchase his crown for shilling. Let
England desecrate our soil by invasion or in
tcrvention, and even the crown Jewels of
these islands may as well be offered to the
highest bidder. -....
AMERICA ABLE TO MANAGE HER OWN BUSINESS
Intervene, say you; but hands off, say /!
Europe says to America mind you, own bus
mess. Europe says to America when rogu S
fall out honest men reap their reward. Amer
lea says to Europe when honest men fall out
rogues stand ready to pick up the spoil.
The diplomatic wolves have been bowling
for months, but the nation is not quite dead.
The European vulturcs will have no oppor-
tunity of satiating their appetltes on the car.
cass OF dead republic! Look on if you like.
and commend or censure, no matter which ;
but keep your own side of the fence. We
seek not your friendship, we fear not your
enmIty. Enemies never bctray you-they
ambush - the betrayal comes from yeur
friends England bulIies weak nations and
toadies too strong ones.