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Mr.. Butler attended the meeting of the New
York anti-Nebraska men held in the Park a
few days since. He was one Of the big guns
Of that meeting, and was the first man called
on for speech. He did speak, and he uttered
sentiments that reflect anything but credit on
him. He reviled the best men and patriots of
the country. He denounced the Nebraska bill
as "a work of infamy and fraud and those
who sustain it as Hconspirators." He encour-
aged fanatics and incendiaries, and, instead Of
endeayoring to still excitement, he attempted
to foster and increase it. He did more and
we call on those democrats who refuse their
support to the Nebraska bill to mark it.
He threw off the cloak of democracy, which
latterly he has so loosely worn, and declared
himself ready, in the event of the passage of
the Nebraska bill and the repeal of the restric-
tive clause Of the Missouri compromise, to
make the restoration Of that clause the issue
in the next election, without any regard as to
who may be the candidates. He said:
What, then, are the people of the free
States to do? Speaking for myself, as before,
say they are to rally and organize for the
purpose of electing senator's and members of
the House of Representatives between this and
1856, who will prove senators and representa-
tiyes, who will approve bill repeating the re-
pealing clauses, and restore to the statute
book, from which it is now about to be blotted
out the glorious eighth section Of the Missouri
compromise law of l820--that section which
declares that slavery, except as a punishment
for crime, that involuntary servitude, THAT is
the phrase,) except as a punishment for crime,
shall be forever prohibited in the Territories
lying north of go 3O< of north latitude--in
other words, pass law that shall put back in
the statute book, in letters of gold, this eighth
section, which our faithless representatives
from the north in the Senate have already per-
mitted to be expunged, and, by their voices
and votes, have assisted in expunging. | am
a firm believer in the ultimate triumph of truth
and Justice, and / feel as confident that, if this
law passes, the people of the north will be true
to themselves, true to their country, true to
humanity, and true to the God of truth and
righteousness-the will succeed in the effort to
bring into power between this and 1856, a
Senate and a House of Representatives, and
PRESIDENT have already told you / do not
care who the candidate may be, so he be true
man--to bring back to the statute-book this
eighth section of the act of the 9th of March,
1920, to bring back to its proper place in the
honor, and the affections, and the reverence of
the people of the United States this glorious
ordinance of freedom which faithless represen-
tatives from the northern States, from the free
States, are about to expunge."
Our space to-day is SO limited that we have
but little more room for remarks on Mr.. But.
Ter and his speech. But there is one feature
in it that we cannot pass over After argu-
ing to show that northern democrats ought
to prefer awhig opposed to Nebraska to demo-
crat in favor of it, he says that, if obliged un-
der such circumstances, he would vote for
William H. Seward in preference to Stephen
A. Douglas
This is the declaration of man who was a
democrat, and it met with acceptance at the
hands of the meeting he addressed.
We call upon the good, honest, old-fashoned
democrats Of the north, in Congress and out of
Congress, to mark what is going on, to note
the freesoil amalgamation that is taking place,
and to tread the serpent under their feet. If
they give way to these men, if they grow timid
and falter, they themselves will fall. But if
they keep their ground with the great army of
true democrats, they can crush, and crush
speedily, the organization of run-mad abolition
lists, ranting freesoilers, recreant democrats,
and unprincipled wings, which is now forming
in the north with the view and the hope of
carrying the next elections. 1t is time for the
wavering to choose whether they will abide
with us or go over to the piebald regiment
oficered by such men as Greeley, Butler, and
company.