The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-02-21
jJublir Agairs.
Maior General fuller at Home.


reception on arriving at his home in
! Lowell. The meeting was presided
over BY Mayor llorstord. The wei.
/ coming address vas made by the Hon.
John a. Goodwin, t. which General
Butler replied, by giving some account
| of what Lowell regiments had done in
the war : he then went on to speak OF
the cause of the Union, saying that who
ever believes in God mus believe III
ultimate victory lie had changed no
principle since he had lief, them, but he
had learned something. lie added:
81 have found that this rebellion is a
rebellion against the working classes,
without distinction Of color. The rebel
lion was begun and is carried on for the
purpose of eating a landed aristocracy,
which shall give to four hundred ,hou
sand the government of eight millions of
whites aud four millions Of blacks. |
is for that hat Jeff Davis and his con-
| fedora es have undertaken rebellion
which hey claim is to secure he rights
of he people.
1t Is to correct his idea hat the
| Northern man, with red blood, blue
eyes, lighl hair, aud al! hat Gud gives
to this image Of hiu,self, i, no equal to
| he slave-drivcrS, with their tim lips
and pallid brows. | is to correct his
idea. i say, that we are engaged in this
nomcntous struggle. That is the qucs-
ton before US aud he who does not
side with lis on thai que ,tinn says that
! he desires to kiss the feet of hose
masters
went to Louisiana desiring to do
every :hing to restore 1t as 1t was 20
see ii, BY any possibility, might bring
the principles, the laws, and the in, i,u-
iious which govern har STATE into har
mony wi h he Union but found there
no disposition to have tina, dunc.
found that the ar,tocracy looked upon
the working and middliny classes looked
upon Us as friends.
Within the frs. month fourteen thou
sand of those who compose the bone and
>inew of New Orleans had aiken he
oath of allegiance, rot by lip service
only, bu from their hearts and from
that day found no man owning slaves
who would axe the GA h of allegiance
rxccp for he purpose of saving his
properly. That was the rule there
were some exceptions | tound the
morkin ymeM true to the Union, ind /
| .tound the slaue-hoidcrs taiSe TO the
GM1oa. | dealt kindly with the work
ingmcn, and | dealt har,hly wi h ;he
Slavesholders. Loud applause.
recognized my friends, and my enc
mics, and made as wide difference
between the one and ihe other as here
WAS between Dives and Lazarus. APP
pause. undcrs aud tina you have
sen forth your sons and brothers, not
ior the purpose of making peace, but
war, wherever hey found enemies.
believe tina you sent out your SONS and
bro hers for the purpose of insisting tina
the flag If the Uui.ed States should
wave everywhere in sympathy with the
powers of the t'ni,ed States, aud upon
ha thesis | have acted.
encouraged the laboring men. A
thousand were employed every day by
the United Sta es; $4,000 were fed
every day by the United States, and
over 1000 Of these were foreigners,
whose consuls assumed to represent
them, bat who did not represent them
truly, because the consulS represent COM
ncrce and property, not men.
Blu those men had no voice in the
newspapers abroad or at home, and the
consequence was. their hanks and their
applause were never heard, while the
complaints of he property men, who
felt that when hey were struck slavery
was struck, flowed all over Europe and
the Nor h and every misrepresentation
tla he malice of enemies and traitors
could devise was rcsorted to in order o
eubarras>, aud, if possible, defeat my
pla,i>. But there is cne thing | have ii
'ight to Say--ond hank You sir, for
atverting to it-and tina from the first
week when our soldiers entered New
| Orleans un il | lief there, was as safe,
a> qule and as convenient o at end TO
one business, by day or by nigh as
ever 1t was i'll the hes, governed ri ic,
of the Aoi,h--cven our own Loud
applause.
BE 10 deceived. BE not weary !,
Remember this that while we may feel
this war Is hard for us, it is the effort of
desperation for hem. | have seen the
consclip' law of the South taking the
toy of six cen and The old u,an OF sixty
tile school-n'aster not excepted and
nrce them into the ranks. While it
eos Us labsr, it cos them desperation
Waite it cos us effort, it costs them
life blood. | wish that they might be
won back withou this; but So hey
have no, chosen. As long as life lasts,
as long as any power remains, ~e must
and by he Union, one and lndiyisihle
lnpplanse.
Every ream, every lake, every river,
every mountain, that ever belonged 10
the flag of the United Sta es must still
remain under the flag of the United
5 a,es, cost what will, cost what i.
ray. Enthusiastic applause. If, as
you fla eringly observed, | shall 60
back to ano her field of duty, | shall 60
back with the determine lon never to
compromise, renewed app.ause,] never
to have anything but hat flag Of ours
as he symbol of our ma ionaity' Who
ever differs from that le' him 90 south