Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-01-04
s,cech Of George II. Trnin in london.


London, at meeting held in that city some weeks
since. 1t is worthy the careful pcrusal of ev-
cry candid mind
Mr. Chairman You are an old friend of mine
and knowing me so well | am surprised that you
cali me up on street railways when the American
question is on the table | admit that am good
for speech on that or any other topic, but TO-
nicbt intend to sink the shop and talk the Sen
ate chamber suffice il to know that my success
Is complete. have run the gauntlet, with all
kinds of weapons aimed at me, but have passed
the Manassas Gap of English conservatism and
introduced carriage for the people with colors
1yipg and lots of money still in the treasury
But no more of that let me talk on America
thank you, Mr.. Wood, and you, gentlemen, for
your good wishes for peace You say England
is with us, and has been from the first. ] say
yes, yes-and the question is, how much plain
talking can you stand from man who loves his
wife. his children and his God, but who loves his
country more than all-for a man without
country is unworthy is unworthy of wife and
children, and poor God forsaken devil, he had
better die-and this, gentlemen, is what England
has recommended.
England's neutrality has already cost five thou
sand lives. She has made great mistake, and
three months hence she will acknowledge it,
viii you let me speak my mind Now beg Of
yOu gentlemen, not to get excited when tell
YOU a few startling facts to prove how unwise,
how ungenerous, how dangerous has been Eng
lands so called neutrality on the American ques-
tion.
Eneand's sympathies are with, and have been
with the South, not out of hate to the North but
because she wished to see us break in two. When
q man is very i'll it is, to say the least of it, in
very bad taste to 90 and order all your mourn
ing, for perhaps he may get we'll again, and how
surprised would he be to see the notices of his
death which were prepared. Eugland's neutrali-
ty consists in standing on the platform and cheer
ing the rebels on.
The Cabinet would declare war at once if it
dared and | am not sure bnt what the Mexican
intervention is war in disguise. Read the speech
es of members of Parliament to their constitu-
ens. You find them secession to the backbone
Is there any question about Lindsay's language,
or Captain Jarvis, or Bulwer Lytton. like the
latter for his frankness aud honesty. lie is no
hypocrte. He talks as he thinks-says he hopes
the country will not break in two, but in four
pieces 1t is already too powerful, and its growth
should be checked. England's neutrality con
siss in giving all her sympathy to the rebels.
Ere many months you may have revolution in
this garden island-the revolution that arises
from a starving population-for is there not un-
mistakabe signs of corn famine in Ireland ard
cotton famine in England? Suppose such to
happen, and class should be arrayed against
lea to Join the rebels, and cry justly for the dcs
truction of this proud nation, as England is con
tinuing to cry for Americas ruin? Here are the
facts | wish to make known.
The South has always been The enemy of Eng
land, as the North has been her friend. Every
act of hostility has emanated from that quarter.
Look along our hisOry's page. What was the
Non Intercourse Act previous to The last war, but
a Southern institution? Was not the Embargo
Act and the war of 1872 itself Southern insti-
tuition? The whole North was against it, and the
Hartford ConventiOnies, to this day, are subjects
of dersion by the Southerners for the sympathy
New England showed for Old England.
What was the High Tariff Act, the twenty five
cent-a-yard duty on cotton goods of 1916, but
Southern institution? All New England voted
against Cahoun's American system. 1t was the
same in 1920 and 1924 but the South having
passed their high tariff, the North showed its en-
terprse by putting up cotton mills, and it was
not for some years after (lS28) that the North
voted for q protection Then Calhoun, in 1882,
wanted to kill the banting he had created in
1917, aud because he could not succeed, started
his hell born notification cry, which was so sum
marily stopped by General Jackson. What was
the Mexican war but a Southern institution to
get new slave lands? What were the fllibuster-
ing expeditions against Cuba but Southern insti-
tutiOns? Where did Lopez hail from? Where
Walker? Where did Lynch law, the Bowie-knife
not reputation purely Southern institution
The Wings were with England, but the Demo-
Gratis cheered the Russian arms These are all
Southern Institutions, and certainly negro slave
ry is not an institution of the North.
Where then does England find food for sympa-
thy with the traitors in this hell born conspiracy
Was it the North or South that sent contributions
to Ireland in her distress Was it the North or
South who put their flags at half mast on the
Ih % II IaoI-o All fnlI- anil
who received the son of your Queen with open
arms, but the proud children of our northern
country? Boiling over with good will to Eng
land we took the Prince and embraced him, be-
cause we loved this old land and its mighty asso
Citations. We loved your Christian Queen and
showed these things in the warm and honest re
ception we gave her sou All this was in the
North, but when he crossed the border into the
slave country he FASTENED away quickly for fear
of repeated insult. Yes, gentlemen, it was in
capital of the so-called Confederate States, Rich
mond, that the Prince of Wales feared the action
of the mob, and saw for the first time that he was
not welcome in the land where once his ancestors
ruled
You cheer one side continu-
ally and hiss the other, and call it neutrality
However it has taught Americans one lesson
not to put their trust in princes, but to rely on
her own strong arm. 1t has opened their eyes to
many things, but none more important than this
namely, that England may war with Russia,
France with Austria, and all Europe may be bla-
zhg away with the flash of musketry, the clang
OF armor and the sound of cannon, without
America being affected
But when America, desirous of showing off
hermlltary nature, gets up little national sham
fight within her own borders in three months
time, with million of soldiers, fires million of
rifles discharges million of revolvers, and has
her artillery booming an every hill say, when
q
war, get up grand review, and kill thousands
of traitors on the Champs du Mars of the Poto-
mas. all the world tremblingly stops to gaze, and
all the worlds commerce becomes deranged. Eu-
rope may fish, but America cares not. America
plays with the firearms to keep her hand in, and
Europe is pale with fear, for it has come to pass
that the commerce of the United States with Eu-
rope sums up each year one hundred millions of
pounds sterling Stop this commerce for twelve
months, and millions here are thrown out of EN-
ployment
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Here is my platform Take Janan and China