The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-12-07

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justice of which the Democratic party Is
guilty in keeping man of so brilliant parts
| in the background, while everyday sort of
| fellows, like Seymour and Pendleton, who
| never built or kept hotel in their lives, are
allowed to strut at viii upon the political
stage and air their crude notions of finance
| and the public veal, whenever and wherever
it pleases them we shall here give a brief
resume of some of Mr.. Trains late speeches.
1t is probably well known to the gentle read
er that the great Scourge of Britain is now
making a starring progress through the
western portion Of these States in company
with Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Eliza
| beth Cady Stanton. Instinctively chivalrous,
our hero has leaped into the arena, and chal-
lenged mankind to forensic battle with him
on the subject of womans rights and female
suffrage. With his two lady coadjutors he
| holds delighted audiences spell-bound night
after night by the witchery of his eloquence.
Hal we time and ability for an analysis Of his
eloquence we might point out that its success
is not dependent upon the observance of any
of the ordinary rules of composition. It may
be doubted IL he ever heard OF the dramatic
| unities = that universal dovetailedness of
ideas" which has such value in the minds of
ordinary people; but il he has, he treats them
| with the contempt which they deserve. We
should say, not TO dwell upon the matter,
that Mr.. Trains oratory is of the disc,rsive
order, disclosing, on the whole, 8 versatile
rather than logical intellect. fsa5
A few nights ago the grand combination
performed in Buffalo, New York. In the
course of the evening Mr.. Train, who acted
as master ofceremonies, made three speeches.
BE began his first BY complimenting the Ia
dies present upon the courage they had dis
played in daring to invite the scofing COM
ment of the unregenerate by coming to such
meeting. He then proceeded to indulge in
personal "reminiscences of Buffalo and of the
gigantic business enterprises be had there in
itiated, not scorning to mention in an off
hand, incidental way that he had recently re-
ceived 100000 In gold from railroad cor
poration he mad put on its feet. He next
gave some account of the big hotel he had
built at Omaha in sixty days, and 'rented to
Cozzens for $10,500 year." Then came the
episode of the editorial excursion to the
Rocky Mountains, coupled with discussion
upon the subject of national capitals. He
holds that our capital should be at Columbus,
in the center Of the country, "like London in
England and Pekin in China" To persons
dependent for their geography solely upon
maps, the force of this observation is measur-
ably lost, for to such the situation of both of
the famous cities mentioned seems palpably
open to the objection of being rather up in
one corner; but Mr.. Train has been there, and
ought to know. The somewhat inconsequen-
tial conclusion of this particular part Of the
| discourse was to the effect that in America
we have "new thoughts and new ideas, wom-
ans suffrage and greenbacks." Returning to
the editorial excursion he said: -sIiaasa -sa
started on this expedition with the editors.
got them to Columbus, took them to Pawnee
village and addressed great audience there in
Indian: -ef-. r-.-TF~ ~ -s-~.l
III va Hona- soinkctum Ka t,lsh Ke sna gte
ia, ughr kitnnd- Lendpe-Uit; ughi [Applause ]
never saw an audience so surprised when
addressed them in Indian. You should have
seen Spotted Tail and Big Month. They
were perfectly astonished to see any
man talk as the Indians did. took OF
their style exactly. 8 Then we went to
| the end OF the track Of the Union Pacific
Railroad, and Tshowed them how to build four
| miles of railroad in ten hours 1t was never
| known before We have made 525 miles of
railroad, and now carry the Pullman sleeping
car from Buffalo right to the Rocky Mount
aims. Then 1 went way back to Chicago.
They asked me if I would not stump Kan
| sas. 3er TaaT 9~A 1idlI 9l'3 - -af1--la'ni
asked, what tor?" -is ~ -
"WOman."
saysI "Count me in.' [Applause.l
His Kansas experience was then given with
great fnllness of detail. He told how Mrs.
Stanton and Miss Anthony were left to fight
their own battles by the faithless Republican
chiefs of that State, how he started more ho-
| tels, went on buffalo hunts, donated money
to various good objects, and finally how he
was nominated for the Presidency, at Chey-
enue. This portion of the speech Is thickly
sown with epigrams of which the following
must serve as specimen:
The Garrisons, Phillipses, Greeleys and Beech
False prophets, false guides, false teachers and
l preachers, a t4as4g8li lsts4ss-5. 3
Left Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Brown and
To fight the Kansas battle alone; t.
While your Rosses, Pomeroys and your
Clarkes, .sa. --If
Like neutral Englands pirate barks,
| Stood on the fence, or bdseiy tied,
| While WOMAN was saved by Copperhead.
In his second speech Mr.. Train said that
Miss Anthony was an intensely practical
woman and that he was not practical man
he had given away $4,000 since he came
from Europe, not being good man like
Cough or Beecher, who keep the proceeds OF
their lectures he never took hold OF any
thing that didn't succeed, and he should con-
vert every man and woman in the house
to female suffrage before he concluded =
Congress had smashed the President and
the President had smashed Congress; and, f.
nally, the corruption, venalty and drunken
ness of officials was wonderful.
The third speech was so long that not even
full summary can be given here. He spoke
of his education "by godly grandmother
I in the backwoods Of Massachusetts,,
of the time when the Emperor o
Austria "was introduced to him. and whel
he fought secession two years in England
holding Lord Russell in one hand an'
Yanecy in the other" and Of the immens'
sums of money he had made IN a,A1, !
ent parts of the world. He glor,eu !
being an egotist. Impudsnce' no, 'u, genius
is the secret of success. &c 10.
policy of contracting the cu'ieny' &
,isted in. would break every iiau ~ Du
s.,o 90 that he would not recover rom y
.e, ~, wears. The greenback currency is thu
IN n one. He should run as the Greenbacl
candidate for the Presidency in 1858. When
at the Rocky Mountains, two years ago, h
) wrote an impromptu history Of the world il
twenty-five lines. The poem was given, an
the curtain fell. -,.-r.- I. r--... =
A WASHINGTON DISPATCH says that Mr.
:. Frances Lord Bond has filed with I'd
Y President an application for an appontmei
as Minister to England. She claims to repr
sent the female suffrage element" Perhd