Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-31
TRAIN ON GRANT.

hhIN YIN UhhNl'
Grave Head-shaitng won't DO-He
Thinks the General IS a Gigantic
Sell.
George Francis Train made speech in
Boston one night last week in which he
dissected the 'great reticenf' after the fol-
lowing style:
"The moment man goes into Training
llaughter1 for the White House, as Grant
has been since Shiloh, he courts criticism.
The otice-holders are now after him like
the pilot fish after a shark. Grant at the
head of the army was safe, but Grant for
President is the most gigantic sell ever put
off on an intelligent people. Laughter,
or and dissent. Whenever j meet him,
have the inclination to say, General, /
have only five minutes time, tell us all you
know Laughter.] The dress. circle may
be fooled with this head-shaking business,
under the proyerbthat young people should
be seen and net heard ; but the pit remem-
bers the other proverb, that gravity is a
mysterious carriage Of the body 10 cover
up the defects of the mind fI.aughter
and applause. The man who wac gem
Grafton planning a sidewalk from his
pigeon-house at Galena to the railway
depot, will never be President of the United
States. Loud laughter. Bennett only
praises him to kill him, as he did McClel-
Ian, and when he became Secretary of War
to help johnson slide Stanton over his
back into the ditch [laughter], the cork
was out of the bottle, and out came the
politicians aiming at the White House.
Judge Sancho Panza, at Barcelona, sagely
remarked that the higher the witness
climbs, the more he shows his-siateSman-
ship. Loud laughter. Grants name is
famous on account of his wonderful facility
for macadamiZing the road from Washing
ton to Richmond with skulls Of American
citizens sensation and for his daily die
patches TO Stanton, Send down 10000 more
men TO start another graveyard Sensa-
ton. Socially, / like the General, but |
cannot vote for Washburne
"Pat picked ont the owl-being some,
thing of phrenologist-whens selecting a
parrot, on account of the size of his head.
will he talk ? said Pat Like a book.
Put him in dark room, and feed him on
meat Some weeks after, the bird fancier
met the Irishman: Does he talk, PatP
The divil bit of it but remembering
his large eyes and intelligent shake of the
head he keeps up a divil of thinking.
Loud laughter. In a word, we Father
Mathew men, Good Templars and Sons of
Temperance, can never vote for Gen.
Grant, because we have resolved TO elect
cold-water man for the next President
Mr.. Train recited the following epigram,
which, he said, would expose the greatest
sham of our time. He said he dedicated
il to the solid and 8toiid men of Cooper In
stitute and Faneuii Hall. Laughter.
The Cops were caught in sixty-four, the RAIDS
By using Mcclellan and Gen, Grant for Presi-
Dental bait.-Oid Plan.
In Cooper's sea of Continental dams
Political hacks, and military shams
Brobdinnagian wealth and LilIiputian brains,
Ctysses is launched bVG teio great naBes,
Laughter.
Flsating into notice on the wars red waves,
Proud Of his million new-made graves,
A hundred journals record his every nod
A hundred LeagUers cheer him as a God
In freeing the blacks have we enslaved the
whites
And lost forever our manhood's rights2
Gu. American eagle surely cuts up rough,
Or sneezes when Washburne takes the snuff.
lLaughter.l
Is our national Independence entirely dead.
To huTrah when Ulysses shakes his head
In knowledge the wisdom Of an owl;
In politics, neither fish, nor flesh, nor fowl.
Laughter
Wendell calls him the great American riddle.
While the party use him as "A Jeremy Diddle.
That's So
tioed at a race, says Chase, or at a horse trade
lie, him stand in the balance, he hasn't Ben
Wade.
When you meet the General wherever you 20,
Say, Only five minutes, tell us all you know
Hurrah for our volunteers. we cannot state less
Our greatest General is our General Greatness %
Loud and continued applausel