The Penn's Grove record., 1882-02-04
Americans in British BATTLES.
CONGRESSMAN RoBIEsON's SPEECH.


busAAtest pIoCtthSN W tOiStNel wv
resolution reported a few days ago
from the Committee on Foreign Affairs
requesting the President to obtain
from the British Government, a list
Of American citizens imprisoned in
England.
Mr.. Robinson, of New York, resum-
Ell the floor upon the resolution. The
odore of Abyssinia, he said, had once
taken IT, into his head 10 arrest some
Englishmen who were travelling in
his territory. England had interfered
and by English force those prisoners
had been r, leased, the capital Of Abys-
sinia laid in ashes and the King kill
ed. He (Mr. ROBINSON did not ask
for anything more IN this case than
that America should do the same
thing. Laughter. 1t was a good
precedent.
'If we have,n continued MI. Robin
son, 'any respect for American citi.
zenship, if we have ears to hear the
groans above the tinkle of goblets OF
champagne. by which the representa-
tives of our Government are deafened
50 that they cannot hear-then, if our
ears can hear them, / ask no more
than that we follow the example of
ENGLAND, send over troops enough to
-
take these men out of prIsoD, an a.
London in ashesby u artillery. Ao-
miral Porter is idle General Grant is
out of the armyand wantsto get back
Sherman is a pretty good general.
Let us send these men over with
enough force of American cannon to
take those prisoners out of the English
bastiles.
Mr.. Hazelton, of Wisconsin, in
quired the names of the prisoners.
Was Parneli one?
Mr.. Robinson No. Parnell is not
one of our citizens but it would be
our duty to make him one. He is
the son Of the noblest woman
in this country. He is the grandson
of the noblest An ericsn Commodore
who fought on the ocean that flag
which was shamefully hoisted a few
days since at Yorktown.
In the course of his further remarks
| Mr.. Robinson referred to Ireland, and
then, stopping, begged correspondents
| and journalists not to say thst be was
talking about Ireland, when he was
talking about this great American
subject. He referred to his OWL ser
vices as a correspondent, and created
a burst of laughter by stating that he
had been expelled from his seat as a
correspondent In the House of Repre-
sentatives in consequence OF making
some slight allusion to Ohio sausages.
Referring to the case of Michael p.
Boyton, Mr.. Robinson characterized
the action of the State Department in
that connection as a ~cowardly crawl
ing out of the contest. Boyton linger-
ed in Jail until he was sick and dying
and lost his sight. He was 10Y seek
ing around for some hole in which his
| uIdElCliOtd DBhl NOhAN OV bNAtGN
out of sight. ooh! that the United
States had q vessel off the coast of
England with powder and ball enough
to open a way for American citizens
to come home! Here there was, in
the nineteen.h century, a big bully of
a man trampling on a ~defenceless
woman. Ifany member present We're
to see on the street a man trampling
on a woman, even if he knew he
would be whipped, would he hesitate
for a moment to take the ruffisn by the
throat? Great Britain was this brutal
man who had the female by the
throat and in the mud, and America
lacked the manhood and hardihood to
interfere.
Mr.. Robinson ridiculed the actions
of our foreign ministers, declaring that
about their only business was in learn
ing the tricks of monarchies and arts
tocracies, and bringing them home
and inocculating u system with
them-poisoniDg IL blood with a pc.
litical py@mia. "We are all gone, or
going" he exclaimed, ito the devil"
CLaughterl. He referred to the conduct
of one of our foreign ministers Whom
hedeclined to name in ridingdowR the
streets of a European capital, accom-
panied by a liverisd lackey, and pie
tured the ar,azed aristocracy standing
aghast at the sight of the representa-
tive of a republic parading in such a
style, and exclaiming: Look at
those breeches and that jacket. They
are utterly too too" Laughter. If,
he continued, you get a Secretary of
State, however good, involved in the
meshes of the English aristocrscy
with the eloquent tinkling of goblets
sparkling with untsxed champagne,
with INTAKES cigars from Cuba, amid
the blaze and beauty of Washington
society, where eyes sparkle brighter
than diamonds and where signs are
sweeter than the breathing of i'm.
prisoned American citizens, what
chance has come poor fellow who
fought at Antietam or was wounded
at Gettysburg-what chance has he
for justice with that tinkling of COB
lets and nonsense and frivolity going
on? daughter
Referring to the salute rendered to
the British flag at Yorktown, he said /:
81 am going to ask the House to say
that they did not join in that disgrace;
to say that whatever it might have
been done for-whether in a moment
of gush and folly or esthetieisIu-it
was not done by the sanction of this
House. If any member of this House
will march through his district next
election holding up the English flag,