The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-11-13
speech Of MaIor-GeneraI ButIer.

speech Of MaJOT-GeneTal Bntlers
Major General Butler made a speech
at Roxbury, Massachusetts, last Friday
evening. After stating several reasons
why it was impossible to make peace
with the Southern rebels by acknowl-
edgeing the Independence of their Con-
federacy, he said
There is one peace, l know, that the
minds OF some men are appreheasive OF,
that of military despotism arising out
of this immense military organization.
IL was a well known tavorite idea OF
our fathers to keep the army entirely
in subjection to the civil power, for fear
that the army, like the Pretorian
Guards Of Rome, might at.some time
dictate the law to the people. But If
may be so far didactic, OH this occasion,
] desire to disabuse the minds of many
well meaning men whom | have met,
upon that subject. Were this a stand
ing army, you might reason from pre-
mise. But it is an army which is oblig-
ed to lay down its arms and retire to
its homes upon the moment when this
war is ended. Not only that-it de-
pends for its very existence upon the
people at home-upon your town meet
ings and city councils, that vote its sup
plies and vote relief to the tamilieS.-
That is an element that never existed
in any other country. The little nm
inequalities, the town meetings all over
this country, settle the question forev-
er upon the side of Democratic insti-
tutions and free Government; and there
can be nc danger from any army, how
ever large, or from any chiettain, how
ever ambitious.
In fine, let me say, that the whole re-
sult 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 desires
Of the coward and the timid-there can
be no peace whatever may be the loss
of blood, the suffering or the pouring
out of treasure-until the one great
question is settled, whether the red
blood which flows in the veins of the
Northern man is as good, as pure, as
true, as brave, as courageous, as the
blood that flows in the veins of his
Southern brother-or enemy, as they
choose to call themsclves-untilS Sum
ter is avenged and Manassas is forgot
ten. Deatening applause and cheers. ]
And when the full eq,tality Of the
North with the South shall have been
demonstrated and acknowledged, we
will not only have peace, but we shall
have brotherly love. Yes, my friends
even if we carry on this war to contis
cation-to devastation-it we exhibit
the qualities we ought to exhibit, there
will come reconstruction Of the coun
try and brotheily love. For proof Of
this we need only turn to history-tht
history, too, of like race. This peo
pie have not seen, and shall not see
. such civil war as has been waged or
e English soil; yet in the short space o
E fifteen years after the excesses of the
Cromwelan Revolution, all those
wounds were healed, in the good ole
$ mother country, and they go on like {
band of brothers, quarreling with no
, body but outsiders. Applause ant
> laughter SO it will make no differ
, ence with what degree Of energy thi:
war is carried on. Time, the grea
:, healer of all things, will bring us to
gethcr; because it cannot be the desti
+ ny Of this country to go apart; for
= while it might be possible that grea
empire, q military despotism, nigh
rise upon It's ruins; it never can be bro
6 ken up iuto little, snarling, embociIe re
IS publios. Loud and long continued ap
plause.