Litchfield enquirer., 1861-11-07
AN EARNEST SPEECH BY GENERAL
 RITPT ER

| General B. F. Butler addressed war meet. ing in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Friday evening, in furtherance of the enlistments for his brig. ade, making spirited and effective speech. In the following passages he made several good points :-
 Now. while we are fighting to re-establish for ourselves and the rebels. for our and their posterity the good institutions we enjoy, what becomes our dnty? In my judgment, unless this rebellion can be queled, and that within a short period, we shall become involved in war such as this world has never yet seen, not only with the South but with those powers who, by lust of gain, will be induced to take part with it. Therefore it becomes every man here at the | North with care to examine, with candor and determination to judge and act upon the state of facts this crisis presents; and trust we may soon fight, not only upon the banks of the Po- tomac and the shores of North Carolina, but even on the shores of and in South Carolina, lighted by smoking and rebellious fires. Good, and applause.) Whether again along the Rox- bury Neck shall pass an army to drive out the invaders of the soil of BostOn-that is the ques- ton we are to settle in this hour. Still greater sacrifices are called for on our part, than have yet been made because we cannot but see that | the enemy still, in every conflict, outnumber us It is because they have been preparing for ten years for this very contest, while we were quet-
 
 that in six months we have had to do that which they have been these long years in accomplish. ing; and we have to mourn our brothers and sons brought home dead, or left in what the traitors would make a foreign field, because we twenty millions of people against their eight have not the forces engaged that we ought to have, to meet these desperate rebel hosts Why, we have sent to the field scarcely one in fifty; while they have contributed their people one out of every ten, in their great struggle for the wrong. In the revolutionary war, one quaftes of the population was called in some way, to the field, in Massachusetts. Let us not fail, in the light of that glorious example, to yield our tithe to this war; else arc we degenerate sons of noble sires
 "Ths war ought to be ended before the snow melts away in the spring. We must never have another summer campaign. We must prepare at once to finish it before our annual April Fast, finish it so that our brothers can come homo and do their summers work. And never mind what it costs, either in blood or treasure. For, let me assure you, however large debt you pile upon posterity in any form, they can never cred. it us with the amount of good we shall do them. We are fighting our battles and theirs--for long, long time we shall have demonstrated to the world, that in six months can raise ar mics by the half million, navies by hundreds ot ships, and in the same time money by millions and feed the world beside. Great applause) And when we have solved, beyond all question, the great problem of political science, whether government resting solely on the affections of | the people IS stronger and more elhcleht tnan any despotism has ever been conceived to be-; when we have taught the world that lesson yet unlearned, that the great will of the people can, be as firm, as direct as united as single in pur- pose, efficient in action, as can be the will Of any one man power, the lesson we are teaching the world to-day; we shall hear no more of the weakness of a republican government, and that which is sneered at to day in the old world, as an experiment, will be tested forever, and pro- nounced-as are the other works of God--good (Applause Let us then have no doubt no fear for the future-there need be none no hesitation for the present--tlere should be none; but the East answering the West in men, in arms--as we have answered to the West in money-and the West answering to the North let us sweep down over the southern cities :. not for the purpose of subjugatiun, but for the purpose of re-establishing the government of the United States And if. in that march south ward, 1t amounts to subjugaton, let those that sowed the wind only repent because they have reaped the whirlwnd. (Applause,) Yes, wniie we did not commence and do not carry on tnis war with the purpose of subjugation, ye' mn necessary to re-dstrict every state anu open new land office in every capital, the government of the United States must De maintaihed' ana its supremacy verified"
 A good anecdote is told of Mrs. Patterson Of p.1t;9,ore the lady connected with the Bona narte family by marriage Being in Italy, at an party it % her os tH SasaS be hSndsd ns in man who had good share of the puppy in his composition. rlu Thinking to quiz the old lady, he said .a.
 "You are acquainted with the Americans, I believer"
 "Very we'll"
 "A monstrously vulgar people, aren't theys" Yes, but what could you expect when you consider that they are descended from Englishf Had their progenitors, now, been Italians or Spaniards, we might look for some breeding among them" g ..s.s The nobleman did not venture to address Mrs. Patterson again that evening.