The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-15

Ho0Ag America n Rng1and.
George +. Train. the young Bostonian, vi
has been introducing the horse railroad sys,ss
in England, lstely made another speech on d
American question, taking the secession side .
it The speech was delivered In the Ieppl
Forum, London, and the following Is speclne
of Mr.. Trains advocacy of the South:
The Northerners think they have the very bes
Constitution In the world, because they hav
placed their Temple on the four corner stones
Wisdom, Mercy, Justice and Union But VI
in Secessia have based our Constitution an,
reared our Temple Of Dsspotism on one acknowl
edged corner stone-Negre Slavery
Il Now, never heard Of shouse with only on,
corner stone flaeghter;] there must Of neces
sity be four, and these are the other three
Perjury Robbery! Treachery! On these foul
columns we have raised that edition Of Despo
tism for which have risen to speak. [Cheers.
The question ofto-night is very strangely express
ed. It asks whether the North or South is right
This is what call an open and shut question
1t is difficult TO tell Blucher from Wellington.
can answer in the Affirmative or the negative
Laughter.
I maintain that the North has acted most
wrongly by us-that the North was wrong ID
giving US precedence in all matters of State
(hear wrong in giving us, as the honorable
gentleman from Alabama says, the power to
elect nearly all the Presidents -(hearl- that the
North was wrong in giving the South all the ma
val oficers-wrong in taking our men to make
all the army officers. lCheersl
/ maintain the North was wrong in allowing
US to rob the treasury at Washington-wro In
allowing US to absorb all the Northern spoils-
and wrong in allowing us..to assume al the civil
and military power GCheers.l tell you that
We in Secessia despise the North. =
say that the South has right to complain
of the way in which the question in debate this
night is considered in this country. Here Mr..
Train, with biting sarcasm, turned his Southern
argument on England. We blame ysu for de-
ceiving US in this great issue. We have to thank
you for Fastening to acknowledge US as belliger-
ents, but We havea right to blame you for giving
all your sympathies to the North. [Loud ap-
plause. We blame you because all your press
the London Times and every other Of your
news journals-has given its voice in favor of
the North. Loud laughter and cheers, the au-
dience fully entering into the spirit of the sar-
casm You cannot spare one single journal to
the South! We blame you tor not giving every
assistance to our vessel of war (the Nashville)
when in Southampton docks [Applause, and
"Good again. Your affections have been cen.
tered on the Tuscarora. You have never assist.
ed one-half of our enterprising navy-the Sum.
ter-n0w in the Mediterranean.
I have heard, but cannot believe it, that the
reason the North has not caught her is because
the North wishes her left to float on the ocean
to show Europe what the North might do with
five thousand similar vessels afoat. ["Oh, oh, "
and cheers. We blame you, and We have q
right to blame you, that you have not long since
admitted the claims of our great Confederacy,
lad hx,v -
think you would have done long since. [Hear,
hear. Again, We have to complain that you
have not sufficiently acknowledged our estab-
liahed valor: have you forgotten how ten thou
sand of our grand cbivalry, after two days fight
ing, drove ninety of the Northern men out Of
Fort Sumter9 Applause and laughter.] Then
again, did we not, in open daylight, assassinate
in Alexandria their Colonel Ellsworth \
Reference has been made to Bull Run. 1t
proves, as I told them at Hanley, what have
had much trouble in getting English people to
believe-that the American people are never
troubled with the gout. Laughter. But the
Northerners are not the only people who have
the right of claiming all euch laurels. [Hear. I
You ought to give US some credit on that ac-
count also. Look when the Northerners landed
at Port Royal and Beaufort; we showed them
powers of pedestrianism throwing even Deerfoot
into the shade. Laughter and cheers When
the Northern hordes landed, the chivalry of Geor-
gia went first, South Carolina next, and the
Germans last, until at last there was but one
poor old niger left. loud cheers never
saw snch speed; they reached Charleston in
much shorter time than should have thought
possible.
Why did the gentlemen from Secessia omit
this prisewor,hy fact when alluding to our chiv-
airy? Then, again, read the papers of Saturday
and to-day. Have you not read how 10000
men left the field whereon lay the bodies of Zol-
licofer and Payton They went quickly be.
cause they were anxious to fight the battle in
Tennessee Confusion.] Don't get excited Sc
cessionists, for am tonight on the side Of the
South. Applause and Laughter The word
Secessia signifies Revolver--Bowie Knife-Lynch
Law-Tar-Feathers, and the noble science of
Repudiation-[ Hear, ,l-while the word Unionist
or Yankee possesses the mean Interpretation Of
Education Virtue - Genius Enterprise and
Honesty. [Cheers You are not perhaps aware
that in Mobile-in Charleston-in New Orleans
are all the manufactures of America. Laugh.
teri That all the shipping of the United States
comes from the South, and can tell you that
the North have no need to boast of their Eli
Whitney and Cotton Gin! Laughter, and good. ]