New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-20
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of Assdom, George Francis Train is the most
charming. IL does no good to put him IN
prison. Stone walls cannot prison make, nor
iron bars cage, for him. Though he is now
immured in a British Bastile, as he calls the
Dublin Marshelsea, the tyrannieal Government
which Furnishes him for not paying his debts
has not yet subjected him TO gagglng, ana so
long as it does not gag him he might as well
be mt large. Out OF the darkness OF his DUN
geon he bellows most unsteady, and not being
handcuffed as we are inclined to think he
should be, he writes the longest, most extrav-
agant. most amusing letters that have been
indited since the days of wilkins Micawber.
The latest, we are happy to say not the
last. cpistle of this delicious nuisance is an
other edition of his own biography Train may,
it ia within the bounds of human faith to be-
lieye. get tired of boarding the British tyrant
he NAV become weary of chanting what he
calls "the grand music of the Irish Marseil-
"laise - but he will never tire of talking about
George Francis Train. If he paints the Pyra-
mids he places himself on the extreme pima
Gle of the biggest. Is it Liberty Train Is her
great apostle. Is il Oppressionf Train is her
most wrctched victim. " / have only one pas
" son,n he says in this recent letter. Born
an egotist. | believe in self, and self alone.
al feel that could have crossed the bridge
" of Lodi. and would have provided against
" the burning of Moscow. I would not have
been four years, with million OF
"mcn back of me, making Lee surrender
" ten thousand. as Grant did Humility, he
adds, is high-art swndling, and OF that crime
he Is resolved not TO be accused His mature
greatness is founded on his experience in child
hood. At twelve years OF age he went to mar
ket alone. Strange as it may appear, he did,
aud sold his sausages and fruit before noon,
returning with ten or twenty dollars IN his
pocket TO his grandmother. And yet to-day
lac cXclams. after reaching this climax, " men
"who edit newspapers call me a fool a lu-
80 matte charlatan,' a mountebank men
" who never went 10 market alone before they
" had arrived ut the age of puberty" Then
hc burst out with this characteristic deduction:
"Who wonders feel such terrible seit-rcl-
ance in my manhood "
OF Mr. Trains religious opinions we prefer
to say nothing it is enough THAT lac says.
MY impressions of the Bible are not good
and speaks of that volume rs the National
Police Gazette of jerusalem 1t is far more
pleasant TO hear him talk of his grandmother
lone Of the best of women" who taught him
TO put the best peaches always on top OF the
basket in his market days; of the times when
he did not know that George Washington
FUSED to swear like pirate; :" or of those
when Lola Montez, latter dancing the Taran-
"tula, threw her leg over my head in the
"green-room with astonishing grace These
things arc in Trains best style and so is the
way in which he anticipates our surprise
that man who is greater military
genius than Napoleon or Grant should
suffer himself to be imprisoned for debt
with yacht at my disposal at Newport,
half-a-dozen horses or more III the stables,
as many servants in the cottage, and car
riages in the coach house, &c, do you sup
pose that | remain here six months in q
British Bastile without an object, aud that
noble one 7 Some time shall be understood
"by my countrymen.n Certainly he has an
object as well as a yacht, and could at any
time leave his dungeon, either by the door on
the chimney, just IA certain men Of immense
intellect, unjustly confined as lunatics, possess
the power of flying and could soar to the
moon, if they should choose to- which they
don't. We know his object. 1t is to remain
in chains aud letters, suffering untold agonies
for the glory of ireland, in order to have the
best material for epigrams on the British
Government, and fresh claims to be dined and
wincd as an escaped victim of monarchy and
q half-flayed Marsyas.
But the most terrible of all the terrible
things that Mr. Train has done or written is
this. Regardless of the peace of mind of his
unhappy countrymen, lie deliberately says; II
think ! shall lice 10 great age, and have
"much TO do with the governing of my
country and the financial, commercial,
political theological, and medical education
"and representation of my people,
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