The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-06-03

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frakeIs Train.
The question being-"wss President Lin.
coin justified in refusing permission to the
Time, correspond mt to embark with the Fed
eraI army P-Mr. George Francis Train rose
TO reply TO sevesal speakers, who had taken
the negative Of the proposition. He said:
Mn. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN: de
bate can show vigor unIess q here are two sides.
To night, thus far, there has been but one
r. ssell Ia the pet Of the English people, and
the rebuke he has received at Washington has
offended you; hence comments have been
made tonight TOO sweeping in their censure,
too severe in their application, for me to let
them pass unnotced.
1t is delicate thing for foreigner to at
tack the household gods Of aoy nation; but
those who know me ere aware that general
y express my thoug is regardless Of the con
sequences to myself. shall look at this ques-
tiou entirely through my own eyes, hear ii
through my own ears, scent it with my ow n
rasal organ-[lau taste i with my
own tongue, and feel it with my own hands.
lApplause. A corporation, il is said, has
mo soul TO save, or body to kick" Laugh
ter. do not expect to find the former in
the Times correspondent. but will leave it
to you to say, when have concluded, wheth
et have not discovered some secession spot
as . ye.ting place for the foot ofa Union man.
daughter and applause.
TIE TIMES A SYSTEMATIC vILLIFIER.
The Times. for half century, as the paid
organ of the governing classes, has consistent.
" abused and misrepresented anything Amer
ican. It's policy has been to search the Grim
ipal calendar for the II ost obscene and revolt
inc cases of cripe, ir order to portray them in
It's columns as the ieading charactrristics Of
the American people. Oct ofa hundred lead
ers iu the American pspers, on commerce. ed
ucaion, or politics, there might have been one
article on crima-that article was at once seiz-
ed upon BY the Times to prove to Europe,
from our own mouths, how demoralized we
had become. Vice was always inserted IN
loaded type-Vitue was not characteristic
of Republics. BY constant repetition OF these
ISLANDERS, every thing that was vile 10 the his.
tory Of man was stamped upon the American.
Americans are generous ne well as just, and
YOU can imagine how mortified they must
have been, after the warm hearted shake of
the Times preach day after day against the
Union and the law.
At the commencement Of the war, Mr.. Rus
sell was sent out 10 describe the vic,ssitudes Of
the strife. We know him as we know all your
writers, aud are first to discover their talents
Thackeray was known in every village, and
returned to England with money in his pock
ct 10 he told, when he was defeated At Cam
bridge, that there were only three men on the
electoral list who lad ever heard OF him.
Laughter.1 Russell reigncd supreme as the
king Of correspondents, and his graphic des'
Grip, ions Of Crimean and Indian warfare were
familiar to us I'll. So many errors have been
committed to nigh, 10y the speakers who have
preceded me, you had better let me give
has,y glance at his career; first stating three
distinct negatives.
RUssELLs HIsToRY-LIKE MASTER LIKE MAN.
Russell is an Irishmau, not an English
man. Hear. bear. Russell was not the
Times correspondent in Italy, aud you ought
TO know as well as l, that it was poor Bowl.
by and rot Russell who sue aeeJed Cook in
Chine. Nobody seems 10 know whether Rus
sell was Tor, in 1916, or 1921; but, gradua-
ting At Trinity, he commenced writing for the
Times in 1912. Living at sensation time,
when O'Connell was the sensation leader.
Russell became a sensation letter writer, and,
with the exception OF the short period from
ls45 10 ls47, when lie was on the Chronicle,
he has been chief of the Times stall. In
1850 he became q barrister, the literary dodge
olIeu practiced 10 open the door TO good soci'
ETY.. [Ob The gentleman says oh but it
is notorious that be never held brief wore a
wig, or gave legal opinion. He did what
Carter Hall, f., and Make. Peace Thackeray did
before him-paid the hundred pound barris-
ter license, to obtain the locus stond Of the
West End. In 1854 and 1855 he was the
tyrant Of the army at the Crimoa, and, 10 up-
fairly did he use the means at his command,
there are many officers now in tho British ar
nv who treat him with the scorn he deserves.
His attack upon the commissary department
did more to prolong the contest than is geae-
rally known. was told, when At st. Pc.
tersburg after the war, that the Emperor re.
ceived telegrapbic dispatches from London as
to the wretch ed conditions Of the allied for
ces, rs described by "our own correspondent"
which made the Russians more vindictive and
more det' rmned, more obs mate, and stimu-
lated them to make greater exertions to pour
down troops to the Crimea. Hear, hear, and
true. England may thank Russell fol the
additions to many Crimean graveyard, and
many noble home in England has been
mad sad by this reckless trader in human
reputation, who yesterday came sniveling like
whipped scbooll'oy, before the British peo-
pie, 10 ihree-column attack upon the Amer.
lean Government, simply because tha, Gov
ernment has enforced its orders, not against
Mr.. Russell only, but against all the CORES
pondents Of the world. American as well as
European. France, he forgets to m m.nt'on,
was the dear ally Of England 10 the Russian
war. yet be was refused permission to enter
the French camps, although the allied Gene.
rails were acting in concert. Applause. =
The Emperor sent q special order prohibiting
his entrance inside the ranks. II was enough
to see the Times play into he hands Of Rus
Ella, by sandering the English army. without
libeling the French as we'll. President Lin
colu bas only followed the action Of some 9th.
or distinguished names. Do you think that
the British Government would allow any
newspaper correspondent, in the employ OF
anv other Govern m ant IN criticiaa anv of the