The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-09-27
eirnrl4,I ,IutIcr on ,I,c WAR.

Wclt Thursday evening, 90 welcome back
home Gen. Butler, that distinguished
gentleman spoke as follows:
MA. MAYOR AND FrLIow CirizrNs:I
Your words of welcome are most dear.
Homo has brought 60 my mind all those
associations OF childhood, youth, and
manhood that cluster around that sacred
name, and In my absence have known
that hero at least my motives would not
be misunderstood, my acts ID worthy
would be appreciated, and my reward
would be most dear In the appreciation
OF these my ncighbors-if in any thing
have deserved well OF my country or have
been enabled ~ render a service to tie
glorious cause for which uo all labor and
to the Constitution which we all love-
have received more than my reward 70.
night. Tho appreciation of my neigh
boru and townsmen is fit reward for
greater services than mine.
| hayo cndoayorod to do my duty, and
with the noble Massachusetts soldiers
who leit this town with me, and so far ~
action and purpose are concerned,
think we can say you have nothing of
which you need be ashamed. Lowell
has sent out the best regiment that has
len the Commonwealth, and therefore
the hrsti the United States. Tho first
to be baptized in blood at Baltimore, aud
tho fret martyrs in this second revolution
which is greater than the first, was the
SiNth--the Lowell regiment.
And when one day the 9th marched
into Baltimore Oguin about this time in
the evening, with the rains of Heaven
falling upon us, aud the lightning FLEA
ven cleaning upon our guns, | saw a
spectacle more splendid than had ever
before behcld, or than usually falls to the
lot OF man 10 witness - spectacle Of
moral sublimity. Treason had done it's
work aud driven tho soldiers from the
town, but another power had brought
them back, and claim Tor Massachusetts
for tho 6th-that no man shall sag that
the soldiers Of Lowell are not to have the
tho foremost honors Of the war. Ap-
plouse.l
More than that, you sent after them
other companies, and OF one j have the
right TO speak a word, a. il came under
my own command. Tho Richardson
Guards" was better equipped and better
cared for than any other company that
had marched from Massachusetts, or into
Virginia, and am glad TO say here pub
licly that At the request of the officers of
tho regular army at Fortress Monroe,
that company was made n part Of the re-
gulur garrison at the Fortress COM
plimcnt that has been paid 10 no other
company by the officers of the regular
army. Applause.
say again that Lowell has reason to
be proud Of her soldiers; and have not
her soldiers reason to be proud Of Lo-
well 7
You say well, Sir, there are no parties.
We have country torn at the present
hour by intestine war, and until that
country is put In peace, in quiet, there
must be no party and no thought of party
No compromise Lapplousc,l no yielding,
nothing but tho strong arm, until the
glorious flag Of the Union floats over
every inch Of territory which belongs 10
the United States ol America. Loud
cheers aud applause.
For one, trust that thcro may be no
attempt at peace, and after remaining u
few days hcrg, | am ready 10 return TO my
duty, and never return tu Lowell until
the last time, or until the work is accom-
plishcd We must hayo peace, but a
peace In which tho power Of the Co
vernment is acknowledged; il must bo a
peace which secures tho constitutional
rights Of all men under the Federal Co
yernment, and no other government.
Loud applause. With my fellow-sol-
diers, whom | have left for the hour,
there is no other feeling, aud we havo
heard with pain and regret that there was
any other feeling cherished even by a
few. Why, Sir, let us make peace for
tho hour, and il would not be sixty days
before we would be involved in war
again, II the result Of that peace was the
separation of this Union into two confc-
dorHcies. We must have the whole OF
This country under one government, OF
else no government at all. Applause. I
There is no middle ground. We must
pour out blood and troasure-tho first
like water, the last like sand-until that
is accomplished. lfyou have no country
what have you LEFT Nothing We
should be base TO give up the rich inhor-
itanco bequeathed to US by our fathers,
and lenyo to our children only broken
and ruined country,
Mr.. Mayor, | have been lod into di.
gression from the more appropriate duty
OF tho mOmuht, 10 return 10 you nv sin.
cefe thanks for this too great honor, [
receive II, not for myself but for tho
brave troops under my command, and the
gallant navy 10 whose exertions we are
mainly TO attribute tho recent victory.
] receive It for the gallant Commodofe
(applauso), and | would call
your attic ntioh 10 the fact that he is a son
Of Massachusetts that majority Of his
fleet fitted out in Massachusetts so that il
was on the whole pretty much a Massa-
chuset's enterprise. Whom wo are
abroad we do not echo that prayer with
which all our Official documents are clos
ed, "God save the Commonwealth of
hassschusetts!" but say with fervor ev-
eryWheFo, "God bless the old Common
wealth" prolonged spplSuso).
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