Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-06-08
Speech Of Gen. butler at washington,

the National, received complimentary
serenade, at night, from bis Massachusetts
friends then in Washington. The music
was by the Marine Band who never per
formed IN better taste and spirit. .',f5
IL having become known about town that
Butler was at the National, crowds throng.
ed there TO sec him, and his room was he
sieged by visitors until late in the nigbt
Although much exhausted. he received them
kindly and heartily Some two thousand
people collected IN and abont the hotel
In response TO the serenade aud cheers of
the crowd Gen. Butler spoke as follows
FELLOW CITIZENS Your cheers for the
old Commonwealth Of Massachusetts are
rightly bestowed Foremost in the rank of
those who fought for the liberty of the
country in the Revolution, were the men of
Massachusetts 1t is an historical fact to
which take pride in now referring, that in
the Revolution, Massachusetts sent more
men south Of Mason aud Dixon's Line 10
fight for the cause Of the country, than oil
the Southern Culones put together and in
this second war, if war must come, to pro-
claim the Declaration of Independence
anew, and as necessary consequence estab
lish the Union and the Constitution, Msssa-
chusetts will give, if necessary every man
ia her DO ders-aye, and women Cheers
trust | may be excused for speaking thus
OF Massachusetts, but | am confident there
are many within the sound of nv voice
whose heart beats with proud memories of
the old Commonwealth There is this diff.
terence, will say, between our southern
brothers and ourselves, that while we love
our State with the true love of o son. We
love the Union and the country with an
equal devotion. Loud and prolonged ap.
plause. We place not States right" be.
fore, about, above or bey ound the Union.
lCheers. To US our country is first be-
cause it is our country, Three cheers1 and
our State is next aud second, beause she is
part of our country aud onr State. 1Re-
newe1 applause Our oath of allegiance
to our country, and our oath of allegiance
10 our State, are interwreathed harmoni.
ously, and never come in conflict or clash.
He who docs his duty to the Union does
his duty to the State, and he who does his
duty to tn State does his duty the Union.
tone and inseparable, now and forever"
Applause.
AS look upon this demonstration Of
yours, believe it to be promoted by love
oil The common cause, aud our common conn-
| try-a country SO great and good a Gov.
| ernment SO kind, SO benefcient, that the
hand from which We have ouly felt kindness
is now for the first time raised for chastise
ment. Applause Many things in
mans life may be worse than death. So to
a Government there may be many things
such as dshonor and disntegration, worse
than the shedding OF blood. Cheers. I
Our fathers purchased our liberty and our
country at an immense cost of treasure and
blood. and 10y the bright heavens above us,
we will not part with them without first
paying the original debt and interest 10 this
date Loud cheers.] We have in our
veins the same blood as they shed we
have the same pow er of indurenae the same
love of liberty and law. We will hold as
brother him who stands by the Union we
will hold as an enemy him who would strike
from It's constellation single star. Ap-
plause. But hear some one say, "Shall
we carry on this fratricidul war ? Shall We
shed our brothers blood and meet in arms
our brothers of the South 7" l would say,
"As our fathers did not hesitate to
strike the mother country in the defense of
our rights, so we should not hesitate to
meet the brother as they did the mother"
Sensation. If this unholy, this fratricid
al war is forced upon US, l say, "Woe,
woe to them who have made this necessity.
Our hands are clean, our hearts are
pure but the Union must be pre-.
served I"
Gen. Butler was interrupted here by an
intense cheering. When silence was again
restored, he continued
At all hazard of money, and, If need be,
every life this side the Artic regions.
[Cheers.l Ii the 25, 600 Northern soldiers
who are here are cut off, in six weeks So.
900 will take your place and if they die
by fever, peStilence, or sword, quarter of
a million will take their place, till onr army
of the reserve will be women with their
broomSticks to dive every enemy into the
Gulf Cheers and laughter. have
neither tear nor doubt Of the issue. feel
only horror and dismay for those who made
the war. God help them ! we are here for
our rights, for our country, for our flag
Oar faces are set South, and there shall be
no foots,ep backwards. Immense ap-
plause lie is mistaken vino supposes we
can be ntimidated by threats or cajoled by
compromises. The day of compromise is
past. Ha4 a
The Government must be sustained
[cheers, and when it is sustained we shall
give everybody in the Union their rights
under the Constitution, as we always have,
and every body outside the Union, the steel
of the UnicR, till they shall come under the
Union. Cheers, ind cries Of "GoOd, go
on."] Il is impossible for me to go on
speeeh.making butif you will go home to
your beds, and the Government will let me,
l will go South lighting for the Union, and
you will follow me- e.r
Gen. Butler closed amid loud cheers the
band played some national airs, and Home
Sweet Home" and after more cheers the
crowd dispersed. Gen. Butler, on retiring
to his room, was warmly congratulated by
numerous friends. IN y Times.
slavery aud the Laws OF war
Since some of our army officers have set
m the rule that the right of property in men
/ a. haR