The Portland daily press., 1869-04-08
Geo. Francis Train.

WoOs FRANCIS TE0lMs
A very respectable sized audience was in at
tendance at City Hall last evening to hear
Geo. Francis Train. The body OF the hall was
occupied by the male sex, while the galleries
were filed with the ladies and their gentlemen
escorts. After the reading of series of reso-
buttons highly complimentary to the lecturer,
Mr.. Train was introduced By Mr.. d. orc.
O'Donoghue who presided.
Mr.. Train commenced by remarking that he
had brought the Fenians over On Irish coat as
a proof that he loved Ireland better than his
audience, since he wore Irish clothes, while
they wore English clothes. He stated he
ought to be sick tonight by all the rules of
health, since it was the seventy-fifth success
siye night that he had addressed audiences
siAce he had returned from British Bastiles.
That he intended to speak straight along till
he spoke himself into the White House in
1872. He remarked that he tod the British
that if they didn't release Castillo and Warren
in sixty days he would lead band of Mohawk
Fenians against the British consulate and tear
it down, and in less than sixty days thew were
released.
He then made remarks on the places where
he had lately been lecturing In visiting
Rhode Island, he found an empire. not a
republic He found 10000 white slaves
there who had no vote because they hadn't
S134 worth of property. He told the people
there he wanted to have Rhode Island in the
Union, but if they didn't allow these 10000
slaves to vote-men who had fought for the
Union-he must kick Rhode Island out. He
referred to the remarks that had been made
upon him by the radical and democratic press
calling him eccentric, demagogue, fool, ass,
&C., and now he said they were calling him q
good fellow and he was afraid there was some
thing wrong. He read the opinion of Mr..
Greeley upon him in the Tribune, calling him
charlatan, mountebank, &c. He answered
Greeley by an epigram, commencing
Studious bashful, honest, coy
Mothers pride, fathers boy,
Enterprising printers boy,
You lie, you villain, you lie."
| the last line, according to Mr.. Train, being 9
favorite expression of Mr.. Greeley.
He then gave humorous history of his Irish
| trip. He said that the occasion Of his going t.
Ireland was his sending to DR.. Durant to e
and see the Mt. Gents Tunnel, and they tool
| passage III tne ocotla. men they got owe
to Ireland he was talking about Ireland ant
he was advised to speak in whisper. He tolt
his adviser an American never whispered
even if detective was standing at his elbow
and consequently when he got ashore he wa
put in Jail. He then continued with the story
that is now familiar the world over, of his in
generation, his speeches, and his epigrams; @
his breaking the popular Irish idols, such a
Wolf Tone, Robert Emmett, etc., and tellin
the Irish that if they really wished to max
Ireland free they must fight. 1t must be b
action, and not by speeches and the passing G
resolutions.
Mr.. Train was able to amuse his audience
the height of enthusiasm, and his points wer
received with thunders of applause. It is a
impossible to report one of his lectures as it i
for man to stop railroad train at full spec
by simply standing in front of it. He skip
from one thing to another like flea, an
when you attempt to put your finger upon hir
he isn't there. But it is as. good as play t
hear him lecture, and some of his sayings wer
smart as steel trap" His epigrams were
most of them, capital, and he deserves to b
called, if he has not the name already, cpl
| grammatic Train