or slavery, free trade or protection, but a
question of treason ! — vile, unblushing trea-
son. ( Hear, hear.) But he would give them
an illustration of the situation. Suppose
Lord Palmerston ai/ the head of a Liberal
Government — a Liberal cabinet in power —
saw by the signs of the times that a dissolu-
tion would take place, and he should be
ousted from office. He accordingly made his
arrangements, and placed men of his own
party at the head of every department in the
country. He distributed all the arms in the
Tower among his partizans, he placed his
own friends at Woolwich and Portsmouth,
he seized all the government funds, tampered
with all the government offices, and when a
dissolution came in the country by a unani-
mous vote said they would have the Conser-
vatives to rule them, but the Liberal party
said nay, we will not give way to the ma-
jority, but will have Manchester, Liverpool,
Ireland, and other parts of the Empire.
( Hear.) That was just what the Southern-
ers had done in America, and he wanted to
know how they could endorse such senti-
ments. ( Hear, hear.) They had not un-
derstood the position of things in America.
The Northerners step by step and year by
year had always been their friends. Who
had consumed the enormous quantities of
manufactured goods which had been sent
from this country ? There were twenty mil-
lions of people in the North, and but ten
millions in the South, and it was the North
that had consumed them, and the North had
also furnished the money to plant the cotton
in the South. ( Hear.) The North had all
the manufacturing interests of the country.
The mechanics came from the North. They
could not get a bale of cotton from the
Southern plantations, unless it was moved by
Northern capital, and when it was in a
Southern port it coidd not go further with-
out the aid of Northern ships. ( Hear, hear.)
The thousands of miles of railroad had been
built by Northern men and paid for by
Northern money. They cannot make a lo-
comotive, nor brooms, nor car wheels, nor
steam boats, nor shoes. (Hear.) Whisky
that bears the same position in the Southern
country that beer does in England, wine in
France, arrack in India, all comes from the
North. They cannot even get drunk Mith-
out Northern assistance. (Loud laughter.)
Their bacon, butter, beef, and pork all come
from the West. They do not even raise
enough corn, or hay, or vegetables, for their
own use. Exchange is always against them.
Cotton is bought by draft, usually at sixty
days. They get cash for raw material, while
the North trusts from six to eighteen months.
They are now fighting on Northern capital.
They owed £40,000,000 of private debts,
which they repudiated. (Shame.) The first
basis of a gentleman is mercantile honor.
( Applause.) About Fort Sumter days, a New
Orleans' merchant telegraphed to his old cor-
respondent in New York for 1,000 barrels
of ilour. "Eat your cotton, darn you," was
the emphatical reply. ( Laughter and oh!)
What has the South accomplished thus far ?
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Did they not commence as Napier did before
jroinf? to Cronstadt? — yet they have not ac-
complished even as much as the old admiral.
(Laughter.) In forty-four fights the Gov-
ernment have fairly won thirty -nine. ( Oh !)
The South cUiim that lO.UOO men took ninety
at Sumter, and assassinated Ellsworth at
Alexandria, and a Bull Run. (Here Mr.
Train was interrupted for some time with
hear, hear, hiuffhter, cheers, and "What of
Bull Run ?) At Bull Run the great fact was
proved that I liave always failed to convince
Englishman, that the Americans were not
troubled with the gout ? ( Loud cheers and
continued laughter.) No — the Bull Run af-
fair was a desperate battle. The Federal
troops marched fifteen miles without food,
before the battle, and fought like demons
all day — (Hear, and applause)— and had
won the victory when a portion of the army
not engaged were broken by the baggage
wagons galloping through for ammunition —
and hence the panic. ( Hear.) I believe
the rebel army were going at the same pace
towards Richmond — ( loud laughter ) — and
in charity to our troops that moved back-
ward faster than the laws of brave men al-
low, I believe that they thought that some
of the rebel army had got behind them, so
they rushed back to the attack. ( Loud
laughter and oh ) Munchausen Russell was
the first to get to Washington in order to
give an eye-witness picture of a battle that
he not only never saw, but was not within
some miles of, (Hear, hear.) Like the
hound sent to clear the field of wolves, the
latest report was, by the old farmer, who
said they were going about forty miles an
hour: but if anything the dog was a leetle
ahead ! ( Loud laughter.) Davis, himself,
thought it a drawn battle — see his dispatch
that night. Again, take Ball's Bluff, there
was some terrible fighting. The Massachu-
setts boys faced death in every way. Rifles
to the right of them, rifles to the left of them,
rifles in front of them volleyed and thun-
dered, but they sought death rather than dis-
honor — ( applause) — and fought one against
ten. I claim Ball's Bluff a great victory for
northern bravery. (Hear.) Yes, wherever
Northerh patriot has met Southern traitor
he has won the victory against great odds.
( Hear.) The South commenced with loud
boasts, but have been penned up like so many
rats — yes, pi-rates in a cage. ( Laughter.)
On the other hand, what has the North not
done ? Heenan and Sayers trained for many
months before the fight. They were eating
raw meat and striking sand bags for weeks,
and so America has only been putting her-
self in sparring trim. The Southerners
being our own people we commenced with
gloves, but wait till we commence the mill.
( Hear, hear.) They say that we have done
nothing ? It is nothing to improvise an army
of 500,000 men out of our farmers, me-
chanics, and tradesmen in three months ?
( Hear, hear.) Is it nothing to cut a navy of
.500 vessels of war out of the forest since
Sumter? ( lioud applause.) Is it nothing
to make 4.000 miles of coast air-tight anvl
shut up every bale of cotton ? ( Hear.) Ig
it nothing to draw a line-of-battle 1,500 miles
from Hatteras to St. Louis, so that no rebel
can pass except as a prisoner of war ? ( Ap-
plause.) Is it nothing to take up £30,000,000
Government loan, and £20.000,000 more
State loans in four months ? ( Loud cheers.)
Perhaps England is right — it is nothing —
nothing like what the United States can do
when aroused to action against a foreign
foe, instead of crushing out domestic con-
spiracy ! ( Hear, hear.) Wait till you hear
from the fleet, the largest the world ever
saw. That Norman party at Hastings was
nothing, and the Spanish Armada was com-
posed of one-horse frigates. ( Laughter and
cheers.) Caesar's Donkey Expedition over
the Rubicon was a disgrace to the civilized
age in which he lived. ( Hear and laughter )
England's neutrality in this matter consists
in assisting in every way the rebels. It was
on the 23rd of April that Fort Sumter
surrendered, and on the 6th of May England
I showed such unnecessary haste to acknow-
ledge the South as beligerents. That was
j what he objected to on the question of neu-
trality. If they were neutral, why did they
! not show it in a practical way ? The other
day he went to the American minister, Mr.
Adams, and asked him if he knew the ship
Gladiator was in the London docks, loaded
to the brim with 1,000 cases of rifles and
amunition, with cannon and blankets, and
shots and powder. The goods are shipped
in broad day-light— English ship, English
captain, English crew, you may go any day
and see the goods go out from Isaacs, Cam-
bell & Co., German Street, marked ^^l
Did not the Bermuda take 90,000 pairs of
shoes, 90,000 blankets, and large quantities
of munitions of war? Has not the Fingal
sailed with a similar cargo ? Is not the
Pacific now loading at Southampton with
another death cargo? (Hear.) And yet
this is England's neutrality. ( Hear.)
In the Canadian rebellion all arms were
stopped by the American Government on
the frontier. Why, then, does not I^ord
John Russell take similar action ? No, the
fact is England, ignorant of our position,
thinks she can sell more goods to two Gov-
ernments than to one. Yes, Lord John
Russell said he covdd not prevent it, they
must catch her if they could, and that was
their neutrality. (Shame.) They ought to
stop the vessel on their shores, and they
might save 10,000 lives. England is Seces-
sion ; her army is Secession, her navy is
Secession, her church is Secession, and her
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bankers vote for treason ; her merchants
cheer for traitors, and her statesmen endorse
all, and even laud the sentiment. (No' and
hear.) So as England cheers for treason, let
me vary my discourse and cheer with her.
Hurrah for treason ! Ireland awake — arise
— strike again, O'Brien and your compeers,
for England decides for treason ! Chartists
©f '48 leave once more your hiding-places
and create anarchy in this fair land, for
England offers up her prayers for treason !
Where is Papineau and M'Kenzie? Lose
no time Canadians — you are nobody now —
J)e up and doing, for England believes in
treason ! Nena iSahib come forth from the
jungle, and seek another Cawnpore. and be
successful, since England has decided that
treason is lawful and should receive support !
Yes, Mr. Mayor, what is wrong with us con-
not be right with you. (Hear, hear.) You
love your country — I love mine — and it chills
my heart to hear your leaders all siding with
the traitors, who. when they found they
could not reign in Heaven determined to rule
in Hell — (hear) — our Government stands
almost alone among your statesmen. The
Duke of Argyle says some brave words for
us, so did the China member for Brighton ;
and Mr. Baxter spoke kindly, and the Daily
News befriends us, and the Morning Star ;
but what are these few advocates and friends
among so many enemies ? Sir John Bowring
dares to compare such men, as Davis, Cobb,
and Floyd, with the nation's benefactors,
Washington and Jefferson and Madison —
(shame,) — and Beresford Hope disgraces all
the rules of fair debate in calling the North
a hot-bed of anarchy ! — General Scott a
second-rate soldier ! — Secretary Seward an
unprincipled politician, and the President of
uur nation an incapable pretender ! (Shame.)
How singular that all these gentlemen(?)
volunteer their advice to the North. No-
body has any counsel for the rebels. What
they do must of course be proper. They
can rob and violate and murder — they can
repudiate and lynch and lie — and their base
metal, forsooth, can pass for the purest gold.
("No," and hear, hear.) This same Beres-
ford Hope is the man M'ho testified before
Mr. Yardley that the flange of the Bayswa-
ter rail was two inches high, while the rail
itself was about a foot and a half! (Hear,
and laughter.) On e.xamination, I saw that
he carries an eye-glass — hence his short-
sighted view of American politics. (Hear,
and laughter.) It is sufficient for our peo-
ple to know that this slanderer and libeler
is about the greatest failure that ever lost
his seat in the House of Commons. (Ap-
plause.) Is not England a model nation ?
(Hear, hear.) Does not the Englishman
look upon his Island home as the ne i^lus
ultra of kingdoms — (applause.) — the sine
qua non of all his hope, the ultima thule of
his desire? (Hear and laughter.) Yet Eng-
land recommends peaceful separation ! In
this case we prefer England's example to
her advice. (Laughter.) The way to make
the church triumphant is to make the church
militant. She puts down rebellion with the
bayonet. 'Twas the sword gave England to
the Norman. 'Twas the bayonet that con-
solidated France. England subjected Ireland
with the sword. 'Twas the sword that con-
quered India. 'Twas the sword that forced
China into treaties. 'Twas the sword that
compelled George the Third to release his
grip from the throat of the thirteen colonies
he had outraged. (Hear, hear.) The ballot
box is good — -the council chamber is effec-
tive, but for strong di-seases. what remedy is
there like the sword? (Hear.) AYhy make
an exception in the case of the American
devolution ? Secession is separation — sep-
aration is dissolution, — severance between
North and South is severance between East
and West — State from State would be fol-
lowed by city from city — and England, in-
stead of dealing with one strong Government
and one custom-house, would have her vexa-
tious diplomacy with a dozen petty powers.
(Hear, hear.) England says that North and
South are composed of different elements ;
so are parts of all nations. Scotland is
Presbyterian and England Episcopalian, yet
are they not yet united? (Hear.) Does
not Catholic Ireland's minority give way to
Protestant England's majority ? A word on
Cotton. Mr. Train said they did not get
their cotton from the South ; they got it from
the North, and if they wanted to get cotton
they must give their moral sympathy to the
North. Applause.) The civil war had been
about the best thing that could happen to
England. Their Lancashire and Yorkshire
spinners had been going too fast, and I saw
when looking into the Hongs of the East in
my travels, that they had completely macad-
amized the world with cotton manufactures,
and what would have been the consequence?
He believed nine out of every ten of their
cotton manufacturers would have been ruined
— the Southerners had done the most stupid
thing in the world. They had kept their
cotton on the plantations, so that they will
have two crops in the market at once. ( Hear.)
The Lancashire and York.shire manufac-
turers by economy, by working half or quarter
time, would get rid of the old stores and
have a clear market, and before another
year — (hear and applause) — if not sooner,
would be able to get cotton at 3d. or 4d.
per lb. (Applause.) The English talked
of being independent of America for cotton,
but they could not. (Hear, hear.) They
had never been known to employ their own
capital when they could get others to em-
ploy theirs for them, and did they think any
prudent merchant would order cotton from
India to arrive six months hence. Fibre
too short in India — sugar pays better in the
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West Indies than cotton — China won't —
Brazil cau't. They could not get it from
Australia for want of labor, and they would
not have the Chinese in the country, and
they could not get it from Turkey or Egypt,
because the natives were too indolent to
cultivate it. (Loud applause.) After six-
teen years talk, what had they done? If
they intended to do anything, why did they
not send out money to India ? The Ameri-
cans had got cotton, and they intended to
sell it to them. (Hear, hear.) He wanted
them to be the friends of America, and buy
their cotton at good prices. (Applause.)
England can't get loose. 'Tis absurd to
hear her talk about getting supplies else-
where. (Oh!)- The Manchester Cotton
Company (£80,000), Jamaica Cotton Com-
pany (i;5,000), British Cotton Company
(£2,900), are powerful competitors, are they
not. to the American Cotton Company,
capital £^^00,1100,000? (Cheers and laugh-
ter.) To be sure this capital goes to bed at
night and gets up in the morning, and being
on legs may walk off some day. (Hear, hear,
and laughter.) He maintained that Mr.
Yancey talked treason the other night at
the Fishmongers' Hall, while the American
Minister was talking moral treason at the
Mayor's dinner. He talked of peace. There
is no peace. There can be no peace with-
out submission to the Federal power. Mr.
Adams is clever, accomplished, and made a
beautiful speech ; but how could he talk
peace when the country is at war — when the
President and Cabinet are daily fitting out
expeditions? Peace enervates — corrupts —
ruins nations. War purifies society and
makes it stronger. You all know how im-
portant it is for a married couple to have an
occasional shindy before going to bed —
(loud laughter) — it makes them always so
happy in the morning. (Hear and applause.)
I have always thought Adam and Eve were
fortunate in being snaked out of Paradise —
(laughter.) — before their honeymoon had
terminated in the usual matrimonial row ?
(Laughter.) Too much prosperity would
send any happy party before .Sir Cresswell
Cresswell. (Hear.) Nothing, as Brougham
says, like economizing domestic felicity to
prevent satiety. Love in a cottage is ab-
surd. (Laugher.) So I hope, next time, ]Slr.
Adams, instead of being all sunshine, will
fire away a little, in order to show that he is
capable of ruling the tempest and riding on
the storm. Mr. Yancey only begged that
he might not be called a rebel, and for the
North to give him belligerent rights ; and,
for once, admitted his Southern negroes
superior to his Malta jackasses ! — (laughter)
— for did you not sec in his speech that he
said there "were 10,000,000 of us in the
South ? (Yes 1 Yes I and hear.) This is
the first time that he ever saw the negroes
placed upon a par with rebels. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Yancey's speech was feeble, and looks
very much as though the "Knights of the
Golden Circle," who have created this foul
conspiracy, would shortly belong to the
Band of the Hempen Cord ! (Hear and oh !)
The contest must be short. General Drunk-
enness, General Bragg, and General Bank-
ruptcy are not powerful enough to cope with
General Banks, General Hunter, and Gene-
ral McClellan. (Cheers.)
Ye sons of Liberty awake,
Your hearths aud aUars are at stake ;
Arise ! arise ! for Freedom's sake,
And strike witli George McClellan !
(Loud applause.) Mr. Train here became
enthusiastic for his young chief: —
Behold, the hero now appears,
The chief of fire-and-thirty years —
On wliom there rests a nation's cheers:
Hurrah for George McClellan !
(Cheers.)
Our Western Eagle is not dead ;
Again his giant wings are spread.
To sweep upon that traitor's head —
That traitor Jefl'erson Davis !
(Laughter aud loud applause.)
What soil but spurns the traitor slave —
Oh! Liberty is for the brave ;
Our cry is IJnion or the grave,
And on with George McClellan !
(Mr. Train spoke two hours with great en-
ergy, and concluded amid loud and continued
cheering.)
A distinguished gentleman from the South,
whom Mr. Train introduced as a good speci-
men of a Southern rebel, gave a most elo-
quent exposition of affairs in the Southern
country. We would give his speech had he
not requested, for cogent reasons, its omis-
sion.
Mr. Train asked the Chairman to invite
the meeting to express its opinion, in refer-
ence to the civil war, by replying to the
following question : — " Who are the most
worthy of the sympathy of England, the
20,000,000 Unionists in the country, or the
few hundred traitors who would destroy it?"
(Hear.)
The Chairman said he did not think
Englishmen had gone into the question on
its merits. They looked upon the fact that
there existed a bitter feeling between the
North and the South ; they looked upon the
quarrel rather as that of an ill-assorted
couple who were not living comfortably to-
gether, and, as they were not living com-
fortably together, they had better part. That
was the feeling with which the question was
regarded by Englishmen. They knew that
there were many grave reasons why
America should have continued to be
united, and they would wish it to have re-
main so ; but they did not look upon the
question of secession on its merits, but
rather regarded it as a family quarrel,
which could be best settled Ijy those im-
mediately concerned. (Applause.) He
hardly knew how to put the question pro-
posed by Mr. Train to the meeting.
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Some objections being made to putting
the question at all.
Mr. Train said he wished to know the
feeling of the meeting — whether their
sympathies were for the Unionists or for
the Secessionists, freedom or anarclw.
(Hear and applause.) They had humored
him by meeting there to-night, and he had
humored them — (cheers) — by accepting the
invitation. (Applause and laughter.) He
had seen a vote at Birkenhead in Dr. Black-
man's church, which was in favor of the
rebels, and he did not intend to leave the
platform until they had expressed an
opinion. (Loud applause.)
The Chairman said he thought they all
wished that the Americans should have
what would best serve them. The question
now in dispute was one that the Americans
could best deal with by themselves, without
foreign interference.
Mr. Train, nothing daunted by the Chair-
man's remarks, put his question in this
way: — "Would you prefer the United
States as a whole or in parts ?"
The Chairman : As a whole, of course.
The question was put to the meeting,
which expressed approval of the resolution
by a unanimous show of hands and loud
and prolonged applause.
THE AMERICAN PIEATE.
[From the London American of November 27, 1861.]
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE LONDON AMERICAN,"
Sir. — "What is the meaning of belligerent
rights ? Is it to legalize piracy ? How long
will England allow a pirate to lay alongside
her quay ? If neutrality can be stretched so
far, where is it to end ?
Several American ships with British
cargoes, are bound outward to India and
Australia. What prevents their being
burnt, if England permits the Nashville to
goto sea? Has not Lloyd already raised
the rate of in? arance ?
The Nashville herself belongs, or did be-
long, I understand, to a New York firm.
Have not their agents here a right to seize
her?
Some of the New York packets are owned
in part in England. May not Pegram have
destroyed British property in this case ?
What analogy can the Times see between
the James Adger, United States man-of-
war, the property of a friendly power, calling
at Southampton, and this pirate? Pegram
took the oath of allegiance as officer of the
United States Navy, and is, therefore, not
only a rebel, but a deserter !
His so-called commission from Davis does
not establish the character of the vessel as
a legal man-of-war according to the law of
nations, even if it established his own po-
sition, which it does not — she is therefore
an illegally-armed privateer or pirate.
He evades the blockade, which is a crime
against the law of nation.
He professes to have come over to bring
an .envoy on a mission. An envoy cannot
be received by a friendly nation at peace
with the Government from which he has re-
belled.
But admittintj that he could, he has no
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authority as an armed policeman on the
seas.
The vessel captured and burnt had no
cargo on board, but was an inoffensive
merchantman on a legitimate voyage, and
there was no proof that she was not in part
really owned at the South.
It is not customary to maliciously destroy
where no direct benefit arises to the cap-
turer,
Pegram refuses to allow the crew to
take all their effects, but gives only an hour
and a half before firing her. Before so doing
he takes, or his crew or officers take for him,
certain property from the burnt ship ;
among other things a chronometer and a
barometer, which is the property of the ship,
and is now in his possession. The Queen's
proclamation forbids prizes to be brought
into the Kingdom by either North or South.
The chronometer is as much a prize as the
whole ship would have been — therefore the
Nashville is liable to seizure by the Queen.
Be the recognition of belligerents what it
may, the Queen as yet only recognizes the
legal Government of the United States —
therefore she must side with her, or it is an
act of hostility to harbor a vessel manned
by rebels and deserters, the more so after
she has committed an act of piracy almost,
if not ACTUALLY IN BRITISH WATERS — long.
9.50 West, and 4'J.6 North is within 100 or
200 miles of England, and therefore the
Harvey Birch may be assumed to have been
literally in British seas though not British
WATERS.
Even if a vessel find anything on the high
seas or save any property from a wreck, is
there not an Admiralty law called " Flotsam
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et jetsam," which obliges the master of a
vessel who makes the finding to report the
fact to the Customs, and deliver over the
property ? Has the Nashville been entered
at the Custom-house ?
Let England issue a warrant for arrest