Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-07-16
SPEECH BY MR.. TRAIN.
Mr. Train on England's Neutrality and Cen
Buffers Proclamation

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Buffers Proclamation
i We find room only for the following ex-
! tract of one of Mr. Train recent speech
NEUTRALITY
/ Mr., TRAIN-Neutrality signifies weak
ness. All small minds hesitate Lack
of decision shows lack of power Gen
erals who win battles are not neutral
men Neutra Iity on the American rebel
| lion is taking sides in disguise The man
who is soft on the American question is
/ soft on all questions. ! despise soft
Americans as well as soft Englshmen-
/ 1t is impossible for an honest man to be
neutral He who is nos for me is against
me- The Indian Thug is remarkable for
| his neutrality until YOU feel his garotte is
around your neck The Camanche chief
is neutral to your face, while his scalp
ing knife sleeps in his belt. Dumollard,
/ the French murderer, was a neutral before
+ he destroyed his victims. There is no
/ half way between a patriot and traitor
! The woman who permits the least famil-
iarity has already lost the foundation Of
her virtue
/ Let her remain neutral in the presence
of the hbertine and she is lost The
young man counting his employers money
must not be a neutral-if he does not
wish to end his life upon the gallows,- =
/ The coat have made fits exactly the
neutral bankers and leading Americans
abroad-who are waiting for victories
before hoisting secession or Union flags
/ The garment is not out of place on Eng
lands back. Neutrality in England is
treachery. Americans say, England
with ali thy faults, we love thee still p
/ Englishmen say, America, with all thy
virtues, we continue to hate thee Strong
men choose sides-weak men are always
neutral; once an idiot-always an IDIOT
/ The world is packed with fools
| Neutrality is imbecility No man can
serve two masters He must either love
/ the one and hate the other, or hate the
one and love the other. Our Savior was
! tions has been unjust to America He
/ that is unjust in little is unjust in much.
/ The maxim is ir III an ancient and res
pectable authority Unjust in small mat
/ ters for half a century, England was just
ripe for being unjust in great mstters
/ during our revolution. Neutrality is dis
guise-assassins are neutral before they
use the poignard The tiger in the jungle
is neutral before he plunges ON has vic
tim. When you wish to destroy an enc
my, YOU first conceal your plan Error
and injustice are neutral before becoming
arrogan. and impudent
GENERAL BUTLER's PROCLAMATION.
\ love Of fault-fnding is 30 proof Of
wisdom Your criticisms on General
Buffers proclamation arc as just as your
pretended love for America is honest
Critics, says Wycherly, are like thieves
who, condemned to execution. choose the
business Of exccutioners rather than be
hung Your distortion Of the New Or
+ leans proclamation is worthy Of the people
that were abolitionists when they thought,
by preaching that doctrine, they could
break up our Repubic-and proslayery
advocates when they believed that we
should preserve the Union. The procla-
nation YOU have dishonesty translated
Do you mean TO say that you believe that
General Butler issued the order for i'm
moral purposes
/ Do YOU really understand its wording
to signify that unbridled license was given
to the federal army? The very idea is
contrary to the instincts Of our nature
insulting to the American people, and
outraging the senses Of our race Iou
+ 1t was unfortunately worded, but the
spirit Of the order was a proper one
Ladies' hold the remedy. Let them re
main in doors let them behave like wo-
men. not like human tigresses. The ter
+ rible slaughter Of our men viii some day
I lay heavily upon their consciences -
( Women who 90 out of their way to insult
/ federal officers who have treated them
with every courtesy, by pouring hot water
out of their windows when they pass, or
throwing ytriol in their faces on the pave
ment, or so far unseXing themselves as to
strike an officer, ought not to object, when
martial law Is ordered to proclamations
that enforce civilitv where rudeness was
so marked
The municipal law permits no disorder
/ in the street omen breaking it are
sent tc the calaboose Thatis the terrible
order, nothing more-nothing Iess-that
arouses England and provokes this debate
Lord Palmerston takes advantage of 1t to
have another fling AT the Americans and
Gregory and Walsh are mad with delight
LORD Carnorvan also brings out Earl
Russell, and all the newspapers clap their
hands in ioy-and vou, gentlemen, echo
the sentiment Of the land. Do you re
member a picture in the Illustrated NelcS
OtAA az tA-c A1Sl}oN CN04Ntttii bo am
three features were prominent-cannon-
English officers and Sepoy messengers
/ bearing a flag Of truce. The picture
has another side-the officers consult-the
! Sepoys are bound on the muzzle of the
guns-and with their flag Of truce tied
around, they were blown towards the
camp from whence they came.
Did Mr. Seward get up in his place in
the Senate chamber, and protest against
it in the name of humanity? the attroci-
ties of your soldiers in England were only
equalled in their brutality by Nena Sahib
himself When a British officer enters
a Sepoy village and gives the order to his
regiment to ravish the Sepoy women and
then level the houses to the earth, human
ity shudders for civilization Compared
with such fends, General Butler Is a
scholar, a gentleman snd christian
How iorgetful of the rights Of civilization.
Cor our statesmen to remain silent without
recording their Indignation at such brutal
acts England must feel proud OF those
christian officers, and no wonder she is
Indignant at Butler
Have yea forgotten the siege of Liner
lex Is II true that Englishmen rayished
the women before butchering the garrison
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