| Show 6 deor eor amai tosas is r irs ins LECTURE LAST liast night mr train train gave his finst first lecture in the theatre in this thia city to a mo moderately good house the speaker made his appearance at a very few min past eight and was received with hearty applause A verbatim report of one of mr trains speeches it would probably be impossible for any one to give therefore we do not pretend to give one mr train commenced by saying that according to all the rules of debate and public speaking he ought to bo be laid up lip in bed with T a pretty severe sickness were he a politician twenty or thirty speeches hes would be sufficient to lay him up with diphtheria dip therla theria or bronchial trouble but this was the lecture he had given since he lie was delivered from a british bastile when he gave three tiree groans for england and three cheers for the irish R republic epu apu alic in the presence of the military at cork there was a secret connected with the reason why he was enabled to speak BO so continuously and he thought it was no more than fair that his audience should know it the secret was that he never polluted his system in any way nor never had he had never tasted wine gin brandy whisky or I 1 any intoxicating beverage smoked a cigar or chewed a piece of tobacco in ill his life hence he was able to speak day after day for weeks and months together and sald said he 1 I expect to do so until you send your card to me at the white house in 1872 1672 V ho he then spoke of the terms in which he and his lectures were spoken of by the press generally he had been styled a mountebank a charlatan a lunatic fd and an ass and and his lecture was termed incoherent rambling erratic eccentric etc and the people in most places turn out to see him with the curiosity they would some curious animal he wanted his audience to know that he was no one horse lecturer from massachusetts who goes around the country to pick up the money of tho the people ho he had never le lectured c without donating the proceeds to some charitable purpose or institution mr air train said he had announced that the 91 gas asli asly would be turned on at the visual gour tour hour but he complained that too much had been turned on at the foot of the stage and requested that some of the lights might be extinguished his request bequest not being immediately complied with he ho repeated it when president young stepped forth and extinguished them using his hat as a fan for the occasion well said mr train for ong once onee I 1 consider consider myself beat I 1 might bave have done it myself I 1 am very glad for once onee to bo be thrown entirely in the shade he continued 1 I am very glad giad to hase have met your president for many a long year rear chaye been desirous Z i seeing the president of this very wonderful institution here in utah butali in 1863 december ad I 1 telegraphed to utah inviting president brigham young to be present at the banquet when I 1 broke ground for the pacific railroad I 1 was v astonished to get a reply that very night cheering us on and saying he would do all he could to build the Pacific Rai ral broad I 1 am very vec sorry lie he has done so much as our people have not paid promptly promptly and I 1 am highly ashamed of them this called forth thundering applause from the audience the lecturer then gave a humorous description befi between veen a coherent and incoherent lecturer the coherent lecturers lectured on one subject only year after year charles sumner and wendell phillips are among the coherent lecturers edward everett was of the same school charles sumner has delivered liis ills lecture on the I 1 barbarism of slave siave Slavery for thirty the fasttime last time he gave it was in the senate in his speech on the alabama claims the only change made was the suba subs of the word alabama chapin aas as given his lecture on columbus hundreds of times edward everett used to deliver his lecture on washington oie ole all the year round and wendell phillips on the lost arts horace greeley does the same aline thing lecturing Ln turing of this kind lind max may bo be very coherent but tit the idea A nis nin ade delivering heiing suc sue sueh such h I 1 lectures t r put him liim in mind of the man who somewhat intoxicated entered a dar dark room am and seeing a lady sitting there dressed in deep mourning he said god G o d bless biess b 1 c s s my m y s o li ii I 1 how liow gloomy oye eye everything I 1 hythin looks here gyes yes I 1 1 said baid ad tho the lady 71 my husband is dead I 1 do you zou OU I 1 mean to say said mid he scarcely able fa to articulate his words do you mean to say lie he ia is dead will you permit me to ask alk vou you you how long he has kas been dead about CZ eighteen eteen months replied the lady god bless biess me replied the tho man then ho lic must be b e vary vers ay iy dead by this time this is what 1 thought C said baid the lee iee lecturer when ihben I 1 heard Chapin chapins ls lecture on columbus it seemed to mo me that a man who lived as long back as 1492 must bo be very dead he merely referred to these things to show how easy it was to be a coherent speaker he asked them if they would have a coherent or inco incoherent horent speech all in favor of the latter were to say aye 11 the decision was unanimous the speaker next said 1 I have stated to you that I 1 have never never drank wine or liquor or intoxicating beverages nor indulged in other othen evil habits you may be curious to know how it happens that one who lias has traveled all round the world as I 1 have leave does not happen to be dissipated in these respects I 1 was brought up by a kind old grandmother in the backwoods of massachusetts balassa ausetts hu when about three years old my father and mother took me and my sisters down the atlantic ocean to new now orleans 1 I was such a little fellow when there that I 1 can only remember there was much sickness and death from yellow fever I 1 can remember the death cart coming round and a man with a hoarse voice crying bring out your dead and they took out in my y little sister and placed her in that damp grave yard A week after in answer to the summons abrin bring out your dead my little sister jose josephine chine was carried out ont and a week later my sister ellen as frail fiall a little flow flower eras as over bloomed was carried I 1 had no eistert sisterly A month after that my dear mother was taken and then my grandmother wrote for george to come arnd arid live north I 1 went aboard the tiie ship my father 1 kissed isad me and bid me good bye iye ise lse and I 1 was on that great ship without friends or relations a little boy only four years ears cars old and I 1 remember floating down n the S mississippi 1 is s is through the gulf of mexico u up p t the tho h e atlantie atlantic ocean and I 1 have been floating ever since I 1 was reared as I 1 h have ave s said baid a d I 1 in n th the e backwoods baek back woods wooda of massachusetts in the old style with the 0 old oid I 1 d fashioned sunday commencing on the friday night and continuing to the tuesday morning during which time the curtains were let down nothing but whispers were aci through the house when they tied up the cat plugged up the vinegar and would not allow the sweet cider to work Iwas I 1 was brought up in that faith by that kind old christian lady now she appealed to my ambition to become a great man but her stupid idea was that to be great I 1 must be good what could be more absurd I 1 think she gave me fifteen commandments among which were these ill gei 1 I must not drink smoke chew swear gamble lie or cheat I 1 grew u up to the age of eighteen years old and ha had broken none of these commandments I 1 was then ambitious to see great men and went to washington and there I 1 saw webster clay calhoun and the rest of chett but bub kub but imagine my astonishment to bee aee all of the great men in the world drinking smoking chewing gambling swearing lying cheating stealing and doing the very things I 1 had been taught not to do I 1 of course said my old grandmother had swindled me in my education or else eise she dont know w hat hut passes for great men however said 1 I it is all right and I 1 am sure i must come out right for as the twig is 13 bent the trees inclined scar sear the sa ling in its youth and the gnarled oak wall will tell you of it centuries to come so powerful were the impressions made on the tr tablets of my mind by the education I 1 received in my youth that though I 1 have traveled from one side of the world to the other have traveled mies been in cities hav seen 1 gu uhe below stairs and low life eu a ove ovo 1 ve talked with every kind of pepie been in every gambling den opium house and brothel on the globe have dined with the president and been down in the rat holes of life and believe I 1 have seen more looking through the keyholes key holes in the night time than most human beings in broad daylight day light yet BO so powerful was the impre slon Fion lon ion made on the tablets of my mind by the education I 1 re received from my grandmother that so help me god I 1 have never tasted wine intoxicating drinks never smoked a cigar chewed tobacco t gambled neither do I 1 lie cheat or st it 0 0 o wonder they think I 1 am crazy i i tarlatan aar latan for I 1 do none of these things hiu gd and I 1 dare to say what I 1 think in spite of church party home kindred man or woman the speaker then said he made up his mind to travel he thought by so doing the world would praise him as a traveler he went into the world and learned languages but got no credit for books which lived only in the libraries no one seemed to think he had doneane done anything remarkable he was wag an american patriot patriotic patri otin in london when americans were scarce and for two years while there here he be holding yancy yaney by one band and lord john russell kussell by the other preached this text men have made railways to run cast and west but the almighty lity the greatest of 1 cal engineers made the rivers rivera to run north and south and what god had i put together let no abolitionist dare to put asunder while base traitors in the states were preaching disunion throughout the land he there felt for fr the union let us live and for the union let us die he returned to boston and was received with a carriage and six horses at the station ladies th throwing bets bouquets and carried through the streets in trl triumph but only six days after ho he was knocked down and his life threatened and henceforth compelled to carry his life in his hand because ho he would not join their infernal political parties referring to the city of omaha mr train said 1 I saw that omaha was the half way station to china and it would be the great central city of the conti nent the new chicago of the new northwest north west and I 1 it is connected with fifty thousand miles of lahe lake and river navigation and railway and a hundred thousand miles of telegraph in a very short time it must have a population of fifty thou thousand gand he went to that city and opened negotiations for the purchase of land and said he I 1 now I 1 own half the city of omaha five thousand lots when I 1 bought it it had only four thousand inhabitants now it has twenty five thou and pano in five years it will have fifty thousand and in ten years a hundred thousand a humorous account of his ian lan landing ding in ireland of his arrest as a fenian and his detention in british prisons told about his letter of twenty pages on and denouncing the hypon ricy and corruption of british diplo matises and commercial men written to the temes times n newspaper e r afterwards reduced to twenty lines of epigrammatic writing which had not been fashionable since the middle ages after his liberation from the arish prisons in three of which he was confined he hel hei heli 0 lar large ge and enthusiastic mee meetings tings of the ir irish ish people at which in spite of the warning of friends ho he spoke ills his feelings in plainness to the tho people although for seven hundred years before no man had dared to speak in that nation above a whisper while therece the rehe great Britain through exeter hall hail hallan in london and Free trade hall manchester govern the united states slates and though he left this thib country a native american amerlean he returned an adopted citizen of the irish republic feeling that to be an amerl ameris can citizen was the meanest thing on the face of the globe he told about afterwards effecting the liberation of warren and costello through his hib threats of mauling the british lion llon if within sixty days they were not free the result was that they were free in forty five by the clock the lecturer talked at considerable length on other topics during which some not very complimentary remarks were said of san ban francisco referred to the principle of sustaining each other now being practically carried out in utah and said it was the grandest system ever introduced and that he wanted to do for the tho whole countis what brigham young was doing for utah the american people were the most corrupt on the face of the globe and utah is the only place in which lawyers doctors and clergymen cannot thrive and where you cannot find gamblers drunkards and prostitutes after talking an hour and a half mr train said he had only got through the preliminaries and had not commenced the lecture which ho he would defer until tonight to night if t he the people would come and hear bear him the sense of the meeting being taken it was unanimously decided that he should deliver ills his lecture this evening the price of admission at his suggestion being I 1 so as to give all a chance to at attend ted in this brief outline nothing like j justice jus eus has been done to the speaker his peculiarities rendering such a thing impossible george francis train to be appreciated must be heard no representation in print prin t can do him J justice just his manner is not so graceful as it is ls is 19 full of animation his powers of mimi rv are good and he tells a story with ca cai i al il effect keeps the audien audience ce in continual good humor by his lively sallies of wit and sarcasm on appearing he hadon badon bad had on an overcoat and gloves of which he divested himself before commencing to speak he was in full dress having a dress coat with gilt buttons white vest and black pantaloons talo taio ta olas on the left breast of his coat he wore the badge of the fenian legion of honor |
