Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-27
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GeOrxe Francis Tram.

CI0uCiS ATAlu HAS Oeen mere, ana SpOke0.-
We supposed he was going to give the public
something powerful, some strong argument,
something that would stagger the Republl-
cans. did not hear him the first time, but
understand that speech was Of the same
character with the second, only limited more
to England. l propose to give you a brief,
rapid sketch of his second speech. I wish it
could be full one, but that would require
the whole day. ...
He spoke an hour and half He began
by paying you some attention; said your Latin
phrase, "ad captondum oulgus." is not cor
rect. But say it is correct
Well, he began by telling the audience that
travel is the royal road to knowledge He
had travelled, and implied that he understood
the whole thing. We must keep our eyes
and ears open when we travel. He called on
the audience to name any subjects they wish
ed him to speak on-manifestly implying
that he was ready to speak off hand on any
subject they pleased to name. He suggested
several subjects, and six or seven were named,
as French Intervention, the negro, the procla-
nation, peace, &C., &c.
He would take them up in order, but first,
he would make preliminary remark, then
some on travel and the royal road to knowl-
edge" then how he outwitted some English
gentlemen in getting admitted to see the Mar
quis of Anglesey's palace, and. how he man.
aged to see the Duke of Devonshire and talk
with him, and see his palace and all about,
and was invited to 60 and see Chatworth, q
may get some names wrong, for he talked with
great rapidity and often very indistinctly,)
All this was managed by his shrewdness, alias
fowardness and presumption. He agreed
with the quotation in the JOURNAL, that ''mod-
esty is cowardice," &c. Well, he ratified on
about these things and others. Then went
to MISUNDERSTANDING land wonderful things
everything reversed, p-side down. poor
man found large nugget of gold, and died at
once in the excess of his Joy. He (Train)
made 100000 in fourteen months - was
the head of the House of Train, Bros. & Co.,
Tor whatever it may beg - built business
house costing $50, 900 - another somewhere
else, at SAC, 900. Everything strange in Aus
tralia-the birds don't sing, they talk-the
parrot and the parroquette, &c.-story of the
nobleman and sailor. Went to New Holland;
all strange there, up-side-down, and the other
side about. he swans are black, the trees
shed their bark instead Of their leaves. Went
up through the Indian Archipelago, touching
at many of the Islands, came to the spice
country and aromatic breezes, to Hindoostan,
up the Bay of Bengal, Calcutta, Madras, the
Ganges, on eastward to China, up the Kan,
the Kan Kiang, Yellow, &C., and down the
Yang, the Kiang, &C., visited Tientsin, Lu
Chau, Nng-Po, Yang Chaw, Shanghai, Nan
kin, Pekin, &C. Wonderful people not 20
million as in Britain, not 80 million as in
France, nor Is million as in Prussia, but 400
million; dense, industrious, working all night
to terrace the hills dressed in silk suit worth
81 90, another suit at home, making s., 90
for both, then 400 millions, make 800 million
dollars just for the usual dress, immense
wealth, wonderful people, never saw such,
everything reversed, begin at the bottom of
the page to read, read from right to left and
from bottom and top, long nails, cramped feet,
strange people.
! At Hong Kong introduced to a Chinese
merchant; twenty minutes consumed in de-
scriblng the curious manners on introduction.
backing Oft, bowling and shaking hands with
himself instead of the stranger, signs and
motions taken to mean 'be off, when they
mean ''come here;" then the dinner-chop.
sticks; food served in one dish; no plates, no
knives or forks food, cats, dogs, rats, mice,
&C.. cut into little pieces no larger than a pea
or bean difficulty of using the chop sticks :;
continually dropping the food - can't get it
into the mouth; it drops, and yet can't find
it and can't tell where it goes; then comes
the rice, in bowls etiquette to take pint at
mouthful; can't get in more than half pint.
can't swallow; all waiting and looking at him !;
irresistible impulse to burst out of the
mouth, can't hold it, spirit on this old fellow
with hJO CnQnf0oloc cnsrf an, <bo al l..
spirit, spirit on one side and then on the other.
hit every man at the table
Off to Africa and Egypt; the Pyramids !;
Pyramid of Gizer; wonderful piles! the
builders negroes just the people, made for
labor, have double stock of bone and mus
Gle, but wanting in brain, and then that curse
of God, all right; have been in Africa and
seen the negro-slavery just the thing, the
best thing that ever happened; III all cases
save one the native has given way before the
white man and perished-the aborigines, the
Indian, the East Indian, &c., they would
not civilize, but perish before the white but
the African, brought over here and in slavery,
is civilized, humanized, Christianized; why
shall all other races-the Chinese cooley, the
Indian and others - be brought here and
used, and the negro put under glass case to
be looked at?
He would open the slave trade in the Great
Eastern, and not in small vessels where one
half perish. This subject finished, and some
OF the others are called for, but Cooks at bis
watch) it is getting late, and remember this
is the ninetieth night he has spoken, must
60 to Galesburg, St. Louis, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, then to Louisville and Knoxville,
snd then into the Southern lines, give him
self up, talk to the South, convert them to the
Union, and settle the whole difficulty. Here
l left, but am told he concluded with q speci-
men of negro sermon
Now sir, this is a true and faithful sketch
of speech of over an hour and half, after
the advertisement p; omising something differ
ent, and when sober men invited him to come
and give them matter for thought; an argu-
ment; sound reasoning! Not ten minutes
given to the object for which he came!
democrat told me before hand had bet
ter 60 and hear him, for it was as good as the
theatre. And so it was had my moneys
worth. never saw such specimen of ego
tlsm and vanity. If any one says he had no
suoyect. deny it, for the great /, was his SUBJ
!ect. Give US more such arguments. Repub-
licanism can stand it. &.
W Train essayed to quote Scripture in
his lecture at this place last week, viz "Bless-
ed are the peace-makers," &c. A little further
along he might have read-"Blessed are the
meek, for they shall inherit the earth :" but
instead thereof he uttered this sentiment of
his own, in justification of his sickening van
ity: II tell you, humility is hypocricy and
modesty cowardice" This is fair sample
Of his ad ccptondum vulgus oratory. Very
eloquent, very profound hep Cabbage
heads work to the top of load of potatoes
as well as the larger potatoes-don't they?