Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-03-20
A CUT AT JOHN BULL.

A CUT AT JOHN BULL.
say that the Sou-h has right to COM
plain Of the way in which the question in
debate this night is considered in this coun-
try. tElere Mr.. Train, with biting sarcasm
turned his Southern argument on Eneland.)
We blame you for deceiving us in this great
issue. We have to thank you for Fastening
to acknowledge lis rs beligerents, but we
have right to blame you for giving all your
sympathies to the North. loud applause.)
We blame you because all your press-the
London Times and every other of your news
iournals-has given IFS voice in favor of the
North. loud laughter and cheers, the au-
dience fully entering into the spirit of the
sarcasml You cannot spare one single
Journal to the South We blame you for
not giving every assistance to our vessel Of
war 1.-THE NashuNe) when in Southampton
docks. tAppause and GOOD again. y
Your affections have all been centered an the
Tuscdrora You have never assisted one
half Of our enterprising navy-the Sumter
now in the Mediterranean.
have heard, but | cannot believe it,that
the reason the North has not caught her is
bee iuse the North wishes her left to float on
the ocean to show Europe what the Moth
might do with five thousand similar vessels
afloat. ('Oh. eh," and cheers We blame
YOU. and we have a right to blame you that
you have not long since admitted the claims
Of our great confederacy, as we were led, by
unofficial correspondence, to think you would
| have done long since. (llcar, hear.) Again,
we have to complain that you have not suf-
| fciently acknowledy yed our established val
or: have you forgotten how ten Thousand OF
our grand chivary, after two days fighting,
took ninety of the Northern men out of Fort
SUMTER tApplauso and laughter.) Then
again did we not, in open daylight, assass-
nate in Alexandria their Colonel Ellsworth ?
You give us no credit for these things but
you would, if you acted justly by u.s. give us
some little credit on that account. You
have not done, as was promised in the hrst
instance, and We complain that your Lind
seys, your Gregorys, your Hslliburtons, and
your other members of Parliament, advocate
although feebly, the acts of the North
| (Applause.) ......
You ought to take our side because it Ia
the weaker one. If You saw a King Charles
PIP fighting with bold bulldog, you would
take the part Of the King Charles because it
was the weaker--snd we complain that you
do not for the same reason take our part.
Cheers and laughter) You take enormous
credit for having dispatched 70 quickly
men and munitions of &ar to Canada-you
take credit for having suppressed certain
dispatches--['oh," Eyes" and cheers RE-
member that am speaking for the South.
Laughter.l You take great credit for hav-
ing suppressed those dispatches for three
~eehs-but we in the South keep our secrets
longer than that--we keep our secrets not
for three weeks, or three months, or three
years--but for thirty years. [Heaf. /r.l
And yet all that time we were adding il the
| North to the Knights Of the Golden Circle !
We keep our secrets longer; not for three
weeks, but for thirty years-we kept con-
cealrd from the world our f,rces. Look at
our admirable plan for assassina'ing Presi-
dent Lincoln !--[Cries of "Shame ~ I.
was discovered too soon by some vile Union
man, or we might have asked credit for the
snrcess of our Guy Fawkes plot TO bow up
the President Shame on them We
have le'n deceived.
We have many enemies in the Northern
camp. Our position reminds me of the man
who fired at squirrel when the squirrel
ran away he exclaimed :-"Oh now if you
had been at the other end of the gun you
would have omitted that chirp. Laughter ]
THE SOUTHERN BULL RUN.
Reference has been made to Bu'l Run. It
proves, as told them at Hanley, what |
have much trouble in getting English people
to believe--that the American people are
never troubled with the gout. Laughter. !
But the Northerners are not the only people
who have the right of claiming all such lau-
rels. Hear. You ought TO give US some
credit on that account also. Look when Il Q
n rlherners landed at Port Royal and Beau-
fr'; we showed then powers Of pedestrian
ism throwing even Deerfoot into the shade.
Laughter and cheers. When the North
ern hordes landed, the chivary of Georgia
went first South Carolina next and the Ger
mans last until at last there was but one
poor old niger left. LIQUID cheers.] I
never saw such speed; they reached Charles
ton in much shorter time than should have
thought possible.
Why did the gentleman from Secessia
omit this praiseworthy fact when alluding
to our chivalry? Then, again, read the pa
pers of Saturday and to-day. Have you
not read how ten thousand men left the field
whereupon lay the bodies Of Zollicoffer and
Peyton?-they went quickly because they
were anxious to fight the battle in Tennes-
see. [Confusion. Don't get excited seces-
sionists, for am tonight on the side of the
Coutb CAppIouce apd lonnbtar