Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-06-28
Extract from q Recent Speech Of George
Francis Train.

Era0clS Iraln.
On the 5th of March, Mr.. Train delivered
a speech in London, from which we make the
following spicy extracts:
The South Unable to Stand Alone.
If they cannot get on with the North, what
can they do alone They want standing
army and free trade ?-that is a paradox.
They want an oligarchy and immigration-it
is contradiction, for emigrants will not 60
where they have no representation. They
want open ports and manufacturers-that is
also an impossibility. Even let them carry
out their plans, and the Government is at a
dead lock for rcvenue-an export duty on
cotton is an import duty in another form.
IL Is Without the Elements Of Civilization.
Besides, as said. the South has not tho
elements of civilization. Where arc they.
thenl Let the gentleman who interrupts me
take all the advantage of his interruption and
answer me if he can. Is it in Jurisprudence !!
Where are their Storeys, their Kcnts their
Wheatons, their Parsons and their l'igelows 7
Is it in Finance !-Where are their Batcscs,
their Peabodys, their Browns and their Stur-
gesesl Is it in Commerce ?-Whcro are
their Goodhues. their Taylors. their Forbeses,
their Appetons and their Grinnells Is it in
Ship-buiIdingl Where do you find their
Webbs, their Mackays and their Westcrvelts 7
Isit Sculpture l-Whcre are their Grecnoughs,
their Hoslners and their Powers? Is it in
Painting ?-Where are their Alstons, their
Stuarts and Benjamin Vests Is it in Man
ufacturcs !-Thcre are 10 Manchcstcrs, and
Walthams, and Lowclls and Lawrences in the
South Is it in History ?-Where are their
Bancrofis, their Prcscotts, their Sparks and
their Mo,lcys! can see nowhere in Seccs-
sia the elements civilization requires. Is it in
Romance ?--Whcre are their Washington
Irvings, their Fcnnimorc Coopcrs and their
llawthorncs Is it in Poetry !-Show me
where to find their Holmes, their Wilisses,
their Lowels and their I.ongfellows! Is it in
Inventions ?-Nho filled the exhibition OF
Fitiy-one with improvements that still live in
England Where did Mccormick hail
from where COLT? whence came the En-.
field Rifle.
Was Hobbs Southerncr and who fur.
nishel the Secession Times and Telegraph,
and thrcc-four'hs of the journals in London
with presses to abuse America during the
reign of Seccssia, but our Northern Colonel
Hoe. Where was the Niagara built ! and
No, gentlemen these are some of the elements
of our Yankee civilization. peculiar to our lan-
kee climate, and Yankee habits not yet ap-
preciatcd in Scccssia. Is the common school
system of New England an element of South
ern civilizationl The South alone benefit
civilization Why. Mr.. Chairman. have
proved its absurdity.
Amcrica merely has the Vavioloid.
Lamartinc cloquentiy observes-evcry rev.
olution has it birth--cvery birth its pang-
every pang its groan! Allnations have their
diseases. We are just going through the vari-
oloid-having passed through tho scarlet fc-
yer on the heights of Abraham-and the
plains of Saratoga. Our tree of Liberty is
sound ut the core. We are only shaking of
the caterpillars that have dis6gurcd its bran-
ches.
Warrington and CromvcN Volunteers.
am tired Of listening to England's snsers
about our volunteers. You seem proud of
your hundred and fifty thousand mem let us
take the same ratio of glory for our volunteer
millions. Sheer not at the volunteers
Washington was voluntccr-so was Robert
Give at the battle of Plasscy, and Oliver
Cromwell was not educated at the Horse
Guards. The two spot is too much for tho ace
Of clubs if it happens to be trump.
Rebellion, First Palsied, Now Dead.
No, Mr.. Chairman. tho Revolution is dead.
1t received it's first attack Of paralysis when
Congress voted five hundred thousand men
aud five hundred millions Of dollars 1t cx-
pcrienced its second attack when, after the
Tcnt affair, England and France refused to
acknowledge their independence. And now
come apoplexy and death. when the Com.
mander-in- Chief of army and Navy sounded
the bugle and his order to his Lieutenant
Charge, Mcclellan. charge! On to Manassas.
ON were not the last words Of our Prcsiden.
t;al Marnion! The world will shortly scr
how gigantic has :sen the s::cess Of the North.
and how gigantic the failure Vt the s"a'h'
Sccessia was sham at the start. and has
boon sham all through the Revolution.
HIsroRy or THE ElgrRIc TELEGRAPH N
BsIRP.-1'he first scientific suggestion for the
construction Of the electric telegraph was made
by Ampcre, in 1920. aud he applied the sub
tlr galvanic coil. the principle upon which the
electric magnetic telegraph is based. In 1887.
Prof: Morse publicly described his telegraph,
which was invented in 1882, but Cook and
Wheatstoue Of England first applied the cleo
tric Telegraph to public business in 1888. In
lS4A, the 6rst public telegraph line in Amsri-
ca was erected between Washington aud bal.
timorc, and since then We may truly assert
that the whole world has been electrified by
the invention. 1t is but II years since the
first line ~ miles was erected. and now thcre
are no less thau $4,000 miles Of line in opera
tion in America. What an astounding devcl-
opment Of the agencies for rapid colna,unica-