The Portland daily press., 1862-10-22
Mr.. Geo. r. Train and his Great Effort.

Mr.. Geo. r. Train and his Great Effort.
Yesterday we barely alluded to the great
intellectual athlete of two hemispheres-Geo.
Francis Train-in our New City Hall on Mon
day evening. We referred to his excessive
modesty, and the embarrassment which it must
occasion SO young man, especially SO
modest man, when obliged in public lee
ture on anything connected with Europe or
America, or the worlds history even, to make
could not write history of the United States
Senate for thirty years, without making him
self conspicuous, simply because he was him
sell an important element in that history, and
to a large extent its central figure. No more
can Mr. Train give an impartial lecture upon
rotten monarchies and live republics, or upon
anything else, without making himself conspic-
uous. How could he, so long as he is the
hinge, the fulcrum, the eliminating point on
which the worlds progress turns--the wand
which, when touched to old dynasties, causes
their weakness to appear and converts theirjew-
elled crowns into the merest rotten wood.
But as our object is to convey to our read
ers portion of his divine affatus, and to al
low them to drink from the nectar upon which
Geo. Francis and the gods sake their thirst,
we shall not prolong this prosac introduction,
but rather, as briefly as possible, uncork the
fagon, and allowits stimulating contents to
flow forth for the edifcation and exhiliration
of common humanity.
TICKLE MY BAcK-scRATcH YOUR ELBOW.
The meeting was presided over by Hon. F.
o. j. Smith, editor of the Advertiser, who has
report of nearly two columns in his paper
We shall avail ourself of his report to add in
terest to this article In introducing the
speaker, Mr.. Smith spoke about tenminutes.
Mr. Train, he said, was a true specimen of
Young America. He was known in England
He was known in America. He had travelled
in all lands, and spoke many languages. He
remembered him as a boy going to market so
early that when he returned he met the other
markets first going in Laughter Mr. Train
had sold his load and was back again before the
others were loaded, and in that way he had
moved through Iiie-aways ahead. If not
month or a week, he was at least an hour a.
head of the rest of the world. Mr.. Train said
Mr. Smith. like myself, is sef-made, self-taught.
Colleges and schools did not mould him. He
has been an American abroad, when Ameri-
cans were wanted, and, to the satisfaction of
the nation, was the selfappointed ambassador
of the American people. | now introduce to
you, feIlow-citizens, the lightning Train, the
express Train Of the day laughter and
cheersl-Geo Francis Train. Loud cheers
In the course of his speech Mr.. T. recipro-
Gated the handsome compliment. Says the
Advertisers report:
Mr.. Train spoke of the Chairman, as the
only live man he had met in Maine-a man
who did not ask any body's advce as to his
course. He was one Of those strong fish that
went against the tide, and headed up the
stream. Laughter and applause)
BEAUTIFUL AND CLASSICAL SMILE.
The following gem is taken at random from
the speech as reported:
Go with me into the green field; see that
great fat cold stone on the green sward. Put
your bar under it; dig it up. What sight is
there those clammy bugs, those horrd lizards;
see them scatter to their holes; observe that
black beetle start to its den; those filthy
worms crawl along their slime; that fiat insect
and bloated viper !-how disturbed they are.
The Niger Mutual were happy in their dirty
habitations. The large, fat stone is carried
away.
ed to be the abolition party"-as Artemas
Ward would say, sarkasticaly."
HIGHLY SEASONED WITH AFRICAN PEPPER.
The reporter says, apologizing for giving so
meager report,-the speech would fill ten
columns of the Advertiser. In the brief alb
stract of IL columns which that paper con-
tains, the word nigger"-with its variations
occurs, friend assures us, 100 times; by
the rules Of simple proportion the whole speech
must have contained the pungent word only
nineteen hundred times.
We have before us Train Extra-No. 2"-
an extra sheet containing Mr.. Trains speech in
Music Hall, Boston, on the 18th inst, in which
he demolished the Massachusetts Senator, tore
him limb from limb, disjointed his frame, and
separated his parts as an anatomist would
French manakin; and as that speech was " re-
ported expressly for Geo. Francis Train," and
contains his revisions of their report" and
as 1t appears to be the same thing which he re-
hashed for the Portlanders on Monday even
ing, we will further content ourself by giving
a few of the gems found in that document. If
we are not greatly deceived in the taste of our
readers, they will agree with us that the ex-
tracts quoted below form such a string OF
pearls" as have seldom been afforded to the
American people. We shall introduce the ex-
tracts with the fewest possible explanatory
words.
BOSTON IN RUINS.
Mr.. Summers reasonable course has blasted
the energies of the city and town; blasted our
commerce; blasted our manufactures by his
everlasting negromania; blasted the hopes OF
the white mans labor and the right of voting,
and blasted forever his own title to the right
of Free Speech.
Mr.. Summers treason has proved more po-
tent for destruction than did Daniel Pratt's
Powder, with which DR.. Mellen charged that
he had bribed the Irish to I'LL the gass pipes
during the reign of know-nothingism.
NEGRO EVERYWHERE.
No matter where the Senator wandered, his
sublime picture oil negro occupied the first
place in his national gallery. Did he speak OF
Cato-there was a nigger in the chair. Was
he talking OF Martin Luther-the audience
was composed OF black men. Niger for break
fast, nigger for dinner, nigger for tea. The sa-
cred cat OF the Roman was only brought in to
scratch the sacred negro of Mr.. Sumner
THE ENTHUSIASTIC PADDY.
Oh one occasion, we learn by a note from
the ranorfer.