Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-18

rl.e Next President on the Ro.trum.
He speaks again Tonight.

Cork AthenRum crowned me King of Ire
land. Laughter.] Next morning found
myself in British bastiIe, where sowed
seed that will establish not only the Irish
republic but the English republic-as Brad
laugh writes me. The Irish made one Of
their stupid blunders; they put twenty
two inch crown on my head have
twenty-four inch head. Renewed laugh
teri
A few months ago the French people
wished to make me chief of France, and
Gambetta in the south as head of the army
and President of Lyons, where L was
poisoned. / know not why it was that /
escaped the knife of the assassin in San
Francisco, the bullet of the informer in
Ireland, the poison of the Bonapartists and
Jesuits in France, unless it was that was
on the high road of destiny in the mission
of fate to come back to America to be
President of the United States. According
to all the rules of public speaking l ought
not to be here tonight. l ought to be tired
out, worn out. After referring to his re-
cent engaaement he continued:
Going at this fearful specializing night
and day In the cars-enough to use almost
any one up-a clergyman coming from New
York, speaking twice on Sunday and lee
turing week days, would have bronchial
trouble-he would have diptheria-hew would
have to travel abroad at the expense Of his
congregation. Renewed laughter.l am
going at this fearful speed all the time
this is only for three days-I will take a
longer time-four or five weeks.
This is terrible work-going so rapidly
from place to place-jumped aboard the
Baltic-come in eight days-new departure
steamship ne-something superior to Gun
arders, when you can travel without being
sea-sick. Come to New York-spoke in
loversville-astonished to find at last my
ten years labor had struck fire. ! had
fought alone-lOng time-all, all alone
against churches, against parties, against
creeds, against politicians, against the
press, and at last l had struck fire, and
both parties nominated me at Gloversville.
jumped aboard the train--came to Chicago
Saturday night AndI did speak at Farwell
Hall. In that very hall gave my theory
of the breakdown of Chicago. put it on
the blackboard. Then thought it would
be. DESTROYED by water. This is the pro-
g-amme illustrating it on the blackboard
Way up here is the HudsOn's Bay country
-icebergs and glaciers, where they have
been gathering for thousands of years.
Here is Lake Superior in the back ground.
Lake Superior is forty feet higher than
Michigan. There is Michigan. There is
Chicago, down here. Laughter.l Now
wait till the SHOWS begin TO melt, and where
is Chicago? Laughter.l
Here Mr.. Train illustrated his meaning
on the blackboard, and the chalk making
but faint mark, he called to his business
manager who stood near the door, "Mr.
| Tracey, you've been curing hams on this
| blackboard-it won't mark" He then con-
tinued:
This is my theory. Then l said know
| these physical changes going on everywhere
| earthquakes in San Francisco-tornadoes
here and in the South-don't have any In
| dian summer now, since we cleared
out the Indians-where Christianity
eliminated at last in the last ride of Gen.
| Sheridan-where forty old men and forty
| old women and sixty young children dying
of the yellow fever?-every one mastered
in cold blood-another Quaker policy of
Gen. Grant. Laughter.l Turning to the
! blackboard. Here is where these fresh
! SHOWS will melt-come down to these small
lakes and rivers-fil up and slop over-run
into Lake Superior-fill up and slop over
higher than Lake Michigan-fll up Lake
Michigan-higher than the streets
of Chicago; only way to keep it ont
of the lake and keep it up, by rails
! ing it up on jackscrews llaughterl
went to Omaha-started that-helped
! to build the Pacific RailrOad-and then dis
! covered the imposition of Greeley, Phillips,
! Beecher and the rest-fooling these women
out of their suffrage. Then l took up their
| claim-went to Kansas-saw they would
! not get ten vOtes-called the Fenians about
me-Democrats saw they were nowhere
without them, and then got them, to the
establishment of the world, the first nine
! thousand votes cast in six thousand years.
| l then came to Kansas, and said these wo-
men shall have an organ. l took
/ Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Anthony and
paid their bills; and by the way Vie
| busch now claims little balance due, which
! l once paid. | took them on my shoulders,
and tried to get money enough out of the
! lectures to start an organ in New York. l
| didn't know then the hypocrisy Of the Re-
publican party. The Democratic party was
! not sufficiently advanced then to under
stand it. Laughter l came to New
! York; found no money; put my hand in
nv pocket, took out $4,000, gave it to
Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, and started
the Revolution. am the only man who
ever paid dollar for the cause of woman.
Referring to his Imprisonment in England
he said: Go into as many jails as have
been in, and you will discover that to be an
AMERICAN CITIZEN
is to be the meanest thing on the face of the
globe. 1t is the only nation you can insult;
the only flag you can disgrace. Touch a
Prussian, Austrian, Italian, Portuguese, a
Spaniard, an Englishman, little Belgian,
ard there is manhood enough in those cOun-
tries to rise and protect outraged
honor but you can take an Amer
can citizen by the collar and the slack of the
breecheS and throw him into any Jail.
! TGreat laughter.1 This is not just exactly
the time to cheer, TO applaud or to laugh.
| do not quite see where the laugh here
comes in; and that is the reason, when |
hand my speeches to the reporters, that |
duly mark where the applause and the
laughter comes in. That is in order to as
sist the general reader in finding the point.
| [Laughter]
You know that am so constituted that
1 can't see anything to laugh at in dis
graced country and outraged people. l
/. don't knOw-perhaps you may not be aware
that we have ever been protected people.
| ask you to tell me, except in the case Of
Martin Kosta, who was accidentally rescued
by a drunken Captain whom Webster
bought off on political dodge, or any other
American citizen who has ever been pro-
tected from insult. You can point to no
case IL all foreign countries the American
is known only as a second-class English
man. [Laughter.l l only tell you this
because you never have travelled
much, and perhaps may not know it. How
are you all to know this, as you have never
travelled? When was in jail there Seward
telegraphed, "Git that man out Git him
outm l got out, and | stayed there and
fought like lion, as you know did, with
in two inches of England's nose, telling
her she might go to place where they don't
rake up the fires at night. Laughter |
! got INTO another one. l got into three jails.
! l was there ten months. That gave me
! time for reflection. l thought what's the
matter with this cowardly people, the
| Americans?
Having spoken at some length on the
subject of party, he continued: We have
| had seventeen Presidents in the White
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