The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-07-11
Lord BrOugham and the DERBY
Races.
ANOTHER RACY SPEECH FROM GEORGE
FRANCIS TRAIN.

George Francis Train is one OF the most
remarkable men of the dag for business,
travelling, speaking, courage, and patriotism.
He has told John Bull more truth within
twelve months than the old fellow has heard
from bis own subjects for century. On
the 10th ult he attended meeting at Arr
mold Place Hall, Dockbead, London where
the audience insisted upon his speaking,
when be paid his respects to Lord Brougham
after the following fashion:
England worships many gods, but none
more than Lord ougham-[ cheers] land
the Derby-day. CHEERS and laughter.]
The fulsome adulation which you have be-
slowed on Lord Broughaln tonight is as ill.,
timed as the worship you bestow upon the
Derby-day. Oh Lord BrouSha is
the most overrated man in Europe! [Cries
of no, no, and hear. Brougham the Great
has become Brougham the Little. The
peoples champion has sunk into the advo
cate of the aristocracy. Oh, and derisive
cheers. The once pre- eminent lawyer has
changed into the sycophantic Lord. His
speeches twenty, thirty, and forty years
since showed undoubted intellectual vigor
II cheers but his Social Science plati-
tudes are as barren of ideas as they are re.
plete with vanity. Oh, and hear.] On
three occasions have waded through the
many columned essays which the Times
records under the endorsement of a
fulsome leader - and each time l re-
turned my note book to my pocket
without gaining point worthy of record.
lob, and bosh. Any schoolmaster would
give you better essay in q days notice
but any schoolmaster could not get the es
say into the Times. Hear.] The fact is,
Lord Brougham is good illustration of
wisdom gone to seed. Laughter. He
wrote himself out years ago and talked
himself out before l was a schoolboy. His
range of thought is limited-his style is
stif-his mannerisms are painful. Hear
He is an intellectual cucumber gone to
seed--toO ripe for our age-we liked him
better when he was green laughter -
England worships him for what be has been
Ibis Social Science Congress is the weakness
of his dotage-a mutual admiration society
of which he is the mutual admiration--the
sun surrounded by innumerable mutual adj
miration satellites. lob, and hear.l The old,
You tickle me and 1 will tickle you system.
Hear and laughter. You do these things
we'll in England. Lord Brougham was the
associate OF Wilberforce, Buxton, Stephen,
Clarkson and Zachary Macaulay. 10 the
great abolition scheme loud cheers he
was in ct the birth and alive at the death
to graduate as worshipper of treason--[ohl
"a friend of the slave owner-[no1-a
halter of America-[no]-and has been
guilty of preaching secession in the House
of Lords. Cries of no, and voice, That
accounts for Mr.. Trains attack You say
no. and yet you cannot have forgotten his
speech a few nights since to the peers when
speaking of Mr.. Stewards clever treaty on
the slave trade he spoke of it as treaty
made with the Northern Government,
Hear, hear. What does that convey 2
wby-that you have already acknowledged
the Southern Confederacy, and the House
of Lords is in communication with the abo
lition Brougham's personal friends, the me-
gro breeding traitors Mason and Slidell.
lob, and cheers.] Treaty with the
Northern Government! The insult is pal
pable--and the more 80 because made in
the House of Lords. The treaty is with
the United States of America--l cheers -
as whole not as a part. Mr.. Adams is
our Minister, not Mr.. Mason. Hear.
Who doubts that Lord Brougham's intellec
tual power is on the wane when be makes
such mistake. Two years ago be insulted
Mr.. Dallas, in the presence of the Prince
Consort, by personal sllusion to the black
delegate who was present at the Congress
Hear. frue be called to apologize, but
our Minister refused to see the old Iibeler
of our people. Only two years ago be in.
suited the American people because of sla-
very-and now insults them again for try.
ing to abolish it. Hear, and " Shame"
1t is high time that Lord Brougham was
laid upon the shelf. His time has passed.
Lord Brougham, the Social Science toady
OF the Peers, is no longer the once beloved
Henry Brougham of the people. [Cheers
and dissent. There goes Brougbam's car
rage, said noble Lord to Sydney Smith.
You see the B. outside. Yes, replied the
wit, but there is wasp within. Were the
Dean alive today how quick he would observe
that the great Reformer had given up Re-
form--that the leading Liberal was no lon
ger an advocate of liberal ideas--in short
that the wasp had lost his sting. APP
plause Mr.. O'Brien asked, What is con-
servatism? Shall l describe it Yes.
Well-tben conservatism is old monarchies
old nations-old customs-old men and
Lord Brougham. Laughter Conser-
vatlsm is the great fat stone upon the green
sward. Dig it up and what do you see =?
--serpents--lizzards running to their hoes
huge bugs frightened at the daylight
spiders-and cold clammy worms gathering
themselves togetner--and all kinds of I'm.
clean things. Hear Remove the stone
--cart it away. Let the sunshine of
progress fall upon the spot and
pass that way the next year and you will
behold sight to gladden. the eyes of man
beautiful grasses have sprung up--and DEL
icate flowers have bloomed there, and all
is fresh with purity and joy. Loud cheers.
Conservatism, gentlemen is the stone. Pro.
gress is its removal. Cheers The one
represents the loathsome insects that sleep
in the darkness other the buds and
flowers that omen their leaves in the sunlight.