The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-09-19
Some Statistics and Tall Boosting.

We take the following extract from a late
speech of G. F. TRAIN of Boston, delivered
at one the public halls in London.
Our coal mines, our iron mines, our lead
mines, are the richest known. Missouri has
mountains of solid ore, and the csal crops
out of every pore. Coal and iron sleep toge'
ther in the beds of many states, The high
tariff prohibits your iron, and will employ our
labor. We have dug out of our gold mines
f12S.0OO.000, since the Emperor of the
French was in your police force. Laugh
ter.) One speaker said that We were bank
rupt. (Hear.) Then We must be rotten in
finance. Uaughter.) bankrupt IN rhat :
Land. We have 100000 square miles, con-
nected by 10000 miles Of rails, and 10000
miles of electric wire. Bankrupt IN rhat :
Shipping! We have more than England
and France combined. (No.) You are not
posted am. The tonnage of Great Britain
is 81 900 vessels, measuring 100000 tons :
France 1900 or 100000 tons: Spain 5000
or 100000 while all the other states in the
world have but forty-four thousand vessels,
measuring three millions tons. "a voice
" You have left out American America has
$4,000 vessels with a tonnage of 5,SOO.OOO.
CHEERS. Over 1000 steamers and sailors
are required for the Lake commerce alone.
America is the only solvent nation extant.
(Oh.) Have YOU 100000 houses, valued at
fl,O00,00O,OOO? Have you $1,000 churches ?
Is your real estate worth f2,OO0,OOO. .OOO? "a
sum only equal to our imports and exports
in three score and ten years. Have YOU s.
600 miles of sea coast, 10000 miles of inland
navigation. and 100000 of farms? Where
are your seven hundred million acres of fertile
soil to offer to all mankind who will come and
occupy it. (Cheers.) The homestead Bill
presents every forei igner with farm of leo
acres free and vote in FIVE years, which he
can never earn in this country. (Cheers.)
These are no mere figures of rheto-
ric like yours, sir: they are sterling facts
patent in the land, proving beyond though:
that America is the land for progressive man.
kind. Where else could you have turned
out five hundred war ships and transports,
and million of soldiers in a year. Cheers. }
1t has taken the Times fortnight to des-
cribe the evolutions of Your 10000 volunteers
at Wimbledon-an army that we could stow
away in the back cellar of Mammoth Cave.
Q.aughter.) Had you been fighting our
battles you would have created one hundred
Dukes. two hundred Marquises, and any
number of Earls, Counts, and knights, and
had all the mints in the country Coming
medals for the soldiers. Cheers and laugh
ier.) America more mOdest-(Oh)-feeds
YOU, clothes You. grows Your tobacco, tells
You how TO make revolvers, rifles, cannon
reapinS and sewing machines-takes twenty
eight out Of thirty-two of your machinery
prizes,- Il Cheer s)-shows You how 10 raise
an army and build navy, turn rivers from
their channels, make imprompiu canals, lends
you grammar and a dictionary (Applause,) }
invented steamboats, for You and telesraphs
-(Oh9-told YOU how to build a watch and
how to print newspaper-furpishes you
with prima donnas and first-class actors
(Cheers.)-and You have the impudence to
argue that America is not the only first-class
empire in the world. loud and continued
cheering.)