, 1862-07-26
SCathtng Criticism on DR. Russel's Ameri-
can Career, before a London Audience.
BY GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.

! The question being" Was President Lincoln
justified in refusing permission to the Times cor
respondent to embark with the Federal army P"
George Francis Train rose to reply to several
speakers. who had taken the negative of the prop
oston. He said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen: No debate can
show vigor unless there are two sides. Tonight
thus far, there has been but one Russell is 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 unnoticed
1t is delicate thing for foreigner to attack
the household gods of any nation but those who
know me aware that generally express my
thoughts regardless of the consequences to my
self shall look at this question entirely through
my own eyes, hear it through my own ears, scent
it through my own nasal organ, taste it with my
own tongue, and feel it with my own hands. A
corporation, it is said, has "no soul to save, or
body to kick l do not expect to find the for
mer in the Times correspondent, but will leave
it to you to say, when l have concluded, whether
l have not discovered some secession spot as a
resting place for the foot ola Union man. laugh
ter and applause
THE TIMES A SYSTEMATIC VIIIFIER
The Times for half century, as the paid or
nan of the governing classes, has consistently
abused and misrepresented anything American.
Its policy has been to search the criminal calen-
dar for the most obscene and revolving cases of
crime, in order to portray them in its columns as
the leading characteristics of the American people
Out of hundred leaders in the American papers,
on commerce, education, or politics, there might
have been one article on crme-that article was
at once seized upon by the Times to prove to
Europe, from our own mouths how demoralized
we had become. Vice was always inserted in
loaded type-virtue was not a characteristic of
Republics. By constant repetition of these SLAM
ders, everything that was vile in the history of
man was stamped upon the American. Americans
are generous as well as just, and you can imagine
how mortified they must have been, after the
warm-hearted shake of the hand they gave your
future king, to see the Times preach day after
day against the Union and the law
At the commencement of the war, Mr. Russell
was sent out to describe the vicissitudes of the
strife. We know him as we know all your wri-
ters, and are first to discover their talents
Thackeray was known in every village, and re-
turned to England with money in his pocket to
be told, when he was defeated at Cambridge, that
there were only three men on the electoral list
who had ever heard of him. Russell reigned su-
preme as the king of correspondents, and his
graphic descriptions of Crimean and Indian war
fare were familiar to us all. So many errors have
been committed tonight by the speakers who
have preceded me, you had better let me give a
hasty glance at his career first stating three dis
tinct negatives.
RUssELL's HIsToRY-LlKE MASTER LIKE MAN.
Russell is an Irishman, not an Englishman.-
Russell was not the Times correspondent in Italy,
and you ought to know as well as 1, that it was
poor Bowlby, and not Russell, who succeeded
Cook in China. Nobody seems to know whether
Russell was born in 1916 or 1921; but, gradua-
ting at Trinity, he commenced writing for the
Times in 1S43. Living at a sensation time, when
O'Connell was the sensation leader, Russell be-
came a sensation letter writer, and, with the ex-
ception of the short period from 1915 to 1S47,
when he was on the Chronicle, he has been chief
of the Times staff In 1850 he became a barris-
ter the literary dodge often practioed to open the
door to good society. [Oh1 The gentleman
says oh bat it is notorious that he never held a
brief, wore wig, or gave legal opinion. He
did what Carter Hall and Makepeace Thaokerav
did before him-paid the hundred pound barris-
ter license to obtain the locus Stapdi of the West
End. In 1854 and 1855 he was the tyrant of the
army of the Crimea, and so unfairly did he use
the means at his command, there are many Off
GERS now in the British army who treat him with
the scorn he deserves. His attack upon the COM
missary department did more to prolong the con
test than is generally known. was told, when
at St. Petersburg, after the war, that the Empe-