Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-06-04
Bull Run Russell Trained

/ The question being-"Was Lincoln JUS
/ tilted in refusing permission to the Time
correspondent TO embark Eth the Federal
I army Mr.. George Francis Train rose
TO reply 10 several speakers. who had ia
ken the negative of the proposition He
said
] Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen Node
bate can show vigor unless there are two
/ sides Tonight thus far, there has been
+ but one Russell is the pet of the English
/ people, and the rebuke he has received at
! Washington has offended you hence com
ments have been made to- nj ght too sweep
ing in their censure, too severe in their
application, fer me to let them pass unno-
tied
1t is delicat- thing for foreigner to
| attack the household of gods of any ma
/ ton but those who know me are aware
that generally express my thoughts re
/ gardless of the consequences TO myself
i | shall look at this question entirely
through nv own ewes, hear it through nv
own ears, scent 1t with nv own nasal or
/ gan laughter taste it with my own
/ tongue, and feel it with my own hands
4 Applause i corporation, it is said
has no soul to save, no body to kick
+ Laughter. DO not expect to find the Tor
mer in the Times correspondent, but |
will leave it To- you to say, when | have
/ concluded, whether have not discovered
some secession spots as a restin. place
for the foot Of u Union man Laughter
and applause
THE TINES a SYSTEMATIC vILIFFER.
+ The Times, for half century, as the
paid oT-an ol the governing classes. has
! consistently abused and misgeprt sented
anything American Its policy has been
+ 70 search the criminal calender for tie
most obscene and revolving cases of or me
in order TO portray them IN Its columns as
the leading characteristics OF the Ameri-
/ can people Out oT a hundred leaders in
/ the American papers, on commerce, edu-
cation, or politics., there might have been
/ one article on crime tnat article was at
once seized upon by the Times TO prove to
Europe, from our own mouths, how de
moraIzed We nad become. Vice WAS "a
WAYS inserted IN leaded tvpe-N irtue was
i not a characteristic of Republicans BY
+ CONSTANT repetition OI these SANDERS et-
ervthInr that was vie IN the n.storv ot
man was stamp u up, the American
+ \ Americans are generous as we'll a. lust
/ aud YOU can ImagIne hoW mortified they
must have been, alter tie warm-hearted
shake OF the hand they gave your future
+ king, TO see the Times preach day after
day .fgaiust the | mon and the law
At the commencement o. the war. Mr.
Russell was out TO describe the vicissi-
tudes OF the strife " know him as we
know all Your writer's, and are first 10 dis
+ coz er the talents. Ihackerav was known
IN every village, and returned to En4and
+ with money MS pocket to be- tod when
I he was deiea ed at Cambridge that there
T thras M tF-k
who had ever heard OF him. Laughter
/ Russell rei-ned supreme as the kin oi
: Correspo dents, ana his graphic descrip-
I tions of Crimean and Indian warfare We're
familiar 10 US all 90 many errors have
been committed tonight by tile speakers
who ha preceded me, you had better let
me give hasty glance at ms career; first
stating three Instinct negatives
RU-sELLs uIsroRY-LEKE KEMAsrER LIKENA
/ Russell is an Irishman, not an English
man. Hear, hear. Russell was not
the Times correspondent in Italy. and
YOU ou.ht to know rs We'll as l. that 1t was
poor bowlbv and not Russell who suceee-
ded Cook IN China No body seems to
know whether Russell was born in lSi6
or ISL; but, graduating at Trinity. he
commenced writing tor the Times IN 1913.
Living at 4 sensation time, when . ConueI
was the ensation leader, Russell became
! d sensation letterwrter, and with the ex-
ceptiou OF the short period from 1913 To
lS4T, when he was on the Chronicle he
has been chief IN the Times staff Ia
lS5u he became barrister, the literary
dodge often practiced to open the door to
good society. [Oh ihe gentleman slys
oh but 1t is notorious that de never he'd
10,
ION He did what Garter Hail, mi Make
Peace 1hackeray did before hlm-paid
the hundr. pound barrister-license to
obtain the locuS staHRi OF the " est End
In 1854 and 1888 ne was the tyrant OF
the army AZ the Crimea, and, 80 unfairly
did he use the means at ms commands,
there are many officers now IN the British
army who treat him with the seorn he de
serves Ills attack upon the commissary
did more to prolong the contest than l.
generally known. | Was tod. when at II.
Petersbur- after the war, that the Emperor
received tele4raphic dispatches from Lon
don H. 10 the wreJched conditions or the
allied forces is described by our own
correspondent, which made the Russians
more vindicaIiye and more determined,
more obstinate, and stimulated them To
make great exertIonS 10 pour down
troops TO .le Crlmea. Hear hear, and
true. England may thank Russell Tor
the additions 10 many Crimean grave
yard, and many nobe home in England
has been made sad by this reckless trader
In human reputation. who yersterday
came snIvelin1, ike a whipped scnooiboy,
before the British people, IN a three coz
Umn attaek upon the American Govern
meut, simply because that Government
/ has entorced Its orders, not against Mr..
+ Russell only, but against all the correspon-
dents OF the world, American as we'll as
Europea. France he lor.ets To mention
WAS the dear ally of England in the Rus-
sian war, Vet he was refused permission
+ 10 enter the French camps, although the
allied Generals were acting IN concert
fApplause The Emperor sent Il special
order prohibiting his entrance INSIDE the
ranks TWAS enough to see the Times plsy
into the hands uf itussia, by ~i.gnderIng
the English army, without ilbe uus the
French as we'll President Lincoln has
only followed the a, ton or some other
distinguished names. DO you think ths.t
the British Government would allow any
newspaper cores s,oaudent, IN the employ
OF any other government, to CRITICIZE any
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