The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-11-08
speech Of Major General Du,ler.

Major General Butler made q
speech at Roxbury, Massachusetts. =.
lSst Friday evening. After stating
several r.asoDs why il was imposs'- :
ble TO make peace with the Southern
retels, he said:
There is one peace, | know, that
the minds OF so;ne men are appre
bcnsive OF, that Of military despo.
tisin arising ont OF this immenee mill
tary organization. II was a well
known iavorite idea OF onr fathers TO
keep the army entirely 10 suhjeclion
TO the civil power, for fear tiias the
army, like the P,e'orian Guards Of
Rome, might at come time dictate
The law to the people. But ii may
TO so lar didactic. on this occasion, |
desire TO disabuse the minds OF many
well meaning men whom have met, =,
npon that euhject. Were this a
standing army, yon nigh. reason
from a premise. But il is an army
which is obliged TO lay down its
arms and retire TO its homes upon
The moment when this wsr is ended
Not only ihat--it depends for its
very existence upon the people at
home-upon your t"wn meetings
and city councils. that vote its sup.
plies aud vote relief to the families.
That is III element which never exist
ed IN any other country. The little
municipalities, the town meetings all
over this country, settle the question
forever npon this side OF Democratic
institutions and free government; and
there can be Do)>daDger from any
army, however large, or from any
Chieftain, however ambitious.
In fine. let me say, that the whole
result OF all our action should be at
once to conquer glorious peace. =
For there can be no peace, whatever
may be the wishes OF the politician.
there can be no peace whatever may
be the desire OF tho coward and the
can be no peace, what.
ever may be the loss Of blood, the
or the pouring ont OF treas
ure-until the one great question is
settled whether the red blood which
aows in tho veins of the Northern
men is as good as pure, as trne, as
brave, as courageous, as the blood
that flows in the veins of his Suu.h.
arn brother--or enemy, as they
choose to call themselve ves--untilI
Sumter is avenged and Manassas is
forgotten. [Deafening applause and
checre.
And when the full equality of the
North with the South shall have been
demonstrated and acknowledged,
we not only will have peace. but we
shall have 5rotherly love. Yrs. my
friends. even il we carry on this war
TO confscation--to devastation--if
we exhibit tho qualities we ought to
there will come reconstruct.
ion of the country and brotherly love.
For proof OF this, we need only turn
to history-the history, too, of like
race. This peopl" have not seen, and
shall not see, such civil war as has
been waged on English soil; yet in the
short space OF fifteen years after the
excess OF the Crom wellian revolution,
al! those wounds were healed, in Ihc
good mother country, and they 60 on
like band Of brothers. qnarreling
with nobody but outsiders. Zap.
plause and laughter So it will
make no difference with what degree
Df energy this war is carried on
Time. the great healer of all things.
will bring us together; because it
cannot be the destiny of this country
o 20 apart; for, while it might be-
possible that a great empire, a mill.
AIRY despotism, might rise upon its
'uins, it never ran be broken mp into
little. snarling imbecile Republics.
Loud and long continued applause.