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Show TRAIN'S FAREWELL. From a lengthy epistlo written by George Francis just as he was bidding his native iaod farewell, we clip the following exuberancy j Or Board Steamship Oceanic, Wuitr Star Flau Siiip, New York, Sept., 7, 1S72. To all the American Pe ip!et and As-pccially As-pccially those who Labor: Citizens! Not Democrats nor Republicans Re-publicans Northeners nor Southernersrebels Southern-ersrebels nor patriots Greeley men nor Grant men Protestants nor Oath-olics Oath-olics but American citizens! Is it not tine to build a nation? To haul down the British flag and establish an American Ameri-can Republic on this rotten old English monarchy? Are wo not twenty-one? Why not discharge our wet-nurse:-? Two English hails rule us Fzrter, London Free Trade, Manchester. The one takes snuff Rtpubticans sneezt! The othr lays an egg Democrats cackle! Is it not time to cac&t on our cnan eggs sneeze on our men mvjfj In our infancy ('76), and boyhood ; (1S12), we were men, and kicked Ec-, gland into the sea. It is only in our manhood, when forty millions strong on our million acres of soil, we 1 have graduated a raoe of slaves. Once i I thought it manly to be a Democrat, I but I never was, a Republican, but never have been. I was satisfied in being an American citizen. A terrible 1 ha? tile experience convinces me that a citizen of America is the meanest Lhing above ground- Touch any other race if you dare ! but you can throw Houard into a Spanish gailey-pcn, or Congdon into an English bastile, while 'Grant and bis hell-hounds are too busy buying vp National Convention to pwluatt the Dent dynasty, to attend at-tend to the honor of the nig. |