The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-05-25
Mr.. Butler and the Iowa Senators

9pbi1pSds "tsfhc 1'Sh tH'st N''S No'se
rial skirts of eur friend L. ID. Eagal, in the
las, number Of the Banaer, tr, $ to turn the
political tergisersations OF the chivalric
Senator from South Carolina, Hon. a, T.,
Butler, into a personal matter, This qnes-
ton i one Of seracity, affecting that great
Southern leader in the Democratic party.
While We give Mr. Butler credit for candor
in the expression OF his political! sentiments
with regard to foreigners, as an editor, we
claim the same privilege. Politically scs
personally Laosr no distinction bt,eeea The for
eiqs-bosn aad tae aattr. ciii,ea, 50 tong as each
'slarss aimSsf lie, that suffice Is or po-
litical creed, touching foreigners.
With regard 10 this Butler he stands W
in his place in Congress aud proolaims a
sentiment which the public knows is uni.
gersal in the South, among the Democratic
party. In order to show the exceedingly
tight place" into which Senator Dodge
and his nmbra Jones have 90, the honorable
gentleman, and the very good grounds the
writer in the Baaasr has for trying 10 turn
attention from the matter at issue, We place
the two extracts from the respective
speeches of Senator Butler side by side,
and il nybodv can show rs aught OF n
playful remark" in the solemn opinion
enumerated in the first extract. We will cen
fess 10 ignorance Of the import OF cur own
language:
"Some d my friends had supposed that
in playful remark which made Yesterday,
assimilated the German population com
inr from Bremen and other ports OF Ger
many, to the black men, and regarded them
i as equal Ms intention was exactly the
reverse. What | did say, what | intended
to say, and what as southern man, will
maintain. is, that an intelligent and judi
! cious master, having his slaves around him,
Z IN Missouri or Nebraska, would be as nc
ceptable neighbour TO me, and. as though,
+ would be to Iowa, as one IF those new EN-
irrants. hope now that am understood
on the Natter
.Whv. sir, the Shareholder. with his
slaves well governed, forms a relation that
is innocent enough and useful enough.
believe it's a population which Iowa to-
morrow would prefer 70 an inundatlon q
those men coming emigrants from for
eign country, wholly unacqnaintei with the
Institutions Of this country-and nearly ali
continental Corners are OF that class. The
same remark cannot be made OF those who.
+ like the Irish and English, have lived
under the administration Of the common
law
Since writing the foregoing We have mel
with lengthy reply in the National Era,
to the sthree columns of editorial type,
published in the Washington IHiaH, for
electioneering purposes by Do3ge and Jones
Of Iowa, which pretty efectua!iy shows UP
those gentlemen. We have not space for
that portion bearing upon the declaration
90 solemnly made IN the Senate, BY \. ?.
Butler, Of 5. Carolina and quoted above.
that the people of Iowa prefer negro slaves
to the German population. The Era says
and we direct particala. attention TO is re-
marks:
The foreign immigrants specified are
Germans. and Mr. Butler aYows his belief
that Iowa Tomorrow would prefer n slave
population 10 such immgrations This il
what NJ. Butle- i'd on the cath. in set
speech occupying more than eleven columns
Of the G'o5s. In the presence Of the two
Senators from Iowa, and standing close by
one or them he agowed his belief that Iowa
would tomorrow prefer slave population
10 the influx Of German imHigrants-and
neither OF those Senators, sent TO represent
tho freelabor Institutions of Free State.
denied or even questioned the correctness of
his belief. Their silence under such cir
cumstances was diseracetul To themselves
and disioyai to their State and the iar~e
explanation Of Senator Butler on the 18th,
made doubtless at their instance. cannot eX
tcnuatc their conduct.
'lf the people Of Iowa are not Ike their
Senators they will take care in their Au-
gust election t. show these gentleman that
they have sagacity enough not to BE- hum
bugged, and selt-respect enough to prefer
freelabor to slave labor, or 4 free 10 a slave
population