Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-04
Gen. Butler i'm New York.

my OF Music was thronged to its utmost the
boxes, dress circle, and balconies "blazing'-
to use the intense style of the reporters
with the beauty and fashion of the city,
while the deep aisles of the parquette and the
more remote recesses the amphitheater were
relieved from the sombre colors OF male ATTIRE
by the waving plumes, the ruddy ribbons ana
the glittering jewels of New Iork's talrest
ladies'" 1t is wrong, however, to assume that
all the honor is paid to his military success.
Gen. Butler has done very well, as generals
go-but the time has not come to celebrate
him for that. There is no reason yet
why he should wear emerald spurs while
other soldiers of his rank wear only steel.
The secret of his strength and his popularity
is that he thoroughly comprehends 1.-THE sit
uation," and has the courage-in defiance of
the political associations and trammels of his
whole life-to advocate war upon war prin-
ciples. He is one of the few major generals
who advocate fighting not with view to
peace, but to the complete subjugation and
and overthrow of the rebellion. He is just
now the antpodes of the copperheadism of
his party. Ii he were not, he might trav-
ell from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf with
all his military laurels without exciting
ripple of applause. We commend the fol-
lowing brief extracts from his speech, both
for the pertinence of the sentiments they con-
tain, and the spirit and vigor with which they
are expressed
Ny friends remind me of my constitution
al obligations" When the rebels resorted to
war TO rend the constitutions to destroy the
rich heritage of which il was the pillar and
deteuce, call all men to witness that they
abrOgated, abnegated and forfeited all their
constitutional rights, and released me from
every constitutional obligation, (applause.)
And, when l then was called upon to say what
shall be my action in regard to slavery? why,
was left to the natural instincts of my heart,
as prompted by a christian education in New
England, and l dealt with it accordingly, as if
l was no longer bound by constitutional obi
cations. The same sense of duty to my con-
stitutional obligations and to the rights of the
states-S0 long as they remain under the con-
tuition, that required me to support the system
OF slavery-that same sense of duty and
right, after they had gone out from under the
constitution, causes me to follow the dictates
of my own conscience. We accepted
speak of my democratic frlends-that its
right to hold slaves was part of the compro-
misses OF the constitution by our fathers, and,
like every other state right, was to be respect
ed because OF our allegiance to the cOnstltu-
ton, and our respect to state rights. But,
when that sacred obligation which bound US
was taken away, and we, as well as the negro,
were disenthralled, why should we not follow
the dictates of Gods law, and of humanity.
THE ''UNIoN AS IT WAS"
The very moment we are at war-as l IN
p1rpois;esAi6%' can any y'1 man stand up here
and say he is on the side of that foreign coun-
try. A man must be either for his country or
against his country. He cannot be throwing
impediments all the time in the way of the
progress of his country under the pretense
that he is helping some other portion Of his
country. If a man thinks that he must do
something to bring back his erring brother,
let him take his musket and go down and try
it in that way. (Applause.) If he still is Of
different opinion and thinks that is not the
best way to bring him back, and that he can
do it by persuasive talk, let HIM come down
with me to Louisiana, and will set him over
into Mississippi, and if the rebels don't feel
for his heart-strings, and not in love, |
will bring him back. But let him not stay
here. (Great applause. A Voice-'Send
Wood d. an tirst.") Let us say to him, choose
,
thy God be Cod serve God. If Baal be God
serve him. No man can serve two masters
God and Mammon. applause. Voice
''That's sou If they are alien enemies, l
am bound to them by no ties of party fealty.
They have passed out Of that l shall hold
them to the bond, but l shall not look to
them for conditions BY this | give I'D no
territory of the United States. Every foot
that wa ever circumscribed on the map, all the
lines around the United States belong to US,
and this is to be the ground under our laws
and our government as soon as the power of
the United States can be eXacted for that pur-
pose. We have no occasion to carry on the
fight for the constitution as it was-I beg
your pardon, the constitution as it is. Who
is interfering with the constitution as it is?
Who makes any attack upon the constitution?
We are lighting with those who have gone
out and repudlated the constitution, making a
constitution for themselves. ('"That's it,
and cheers.) And now, my friends | do not
know but shall use some heresy, but as a
democrat as an Andrew jackson democrat,
am not for the Union as it was. T"Good."
and loud cheers. | have the honor to say, as
a democrat, and an Andrew jackson demo-
crat, l am not for the Union to be again as it
was. Understand mel was for the Union as
II was, because l saw, or, thought saw, the
troubles in the future which have burst unon
US but having undergone those troubles
having spent all this blood and this treasure.
do not mean to go back again and be cheek
by Jowl as was before, with South Carolina,
If can help it, Applause. Mark me-
now; let no man misunderstood me; and /
repeat, lest / may be misunderstood, flor
there is none so difficult TO understand as
those that don't want to- Mark me again, |
say, do not mean to give up single inch of
the soil of South Carolina. Loud cries of
"Never, never" and great applause fl
had been living at that time, and had the
position, the will, and the ability, l
would have dealt with South Carolina as
jackson did, and kept her in the Union at
all hazards; but now she has gone out, and
l will take care that when she comes in again
she will come in better behaved; cloud
laughter, "Good," "That's the talk and
cheers;) that she shall no longer be the fire.
brand OF the Union-aye, that she shall enjoy
mna' her people never yet enjoyed, the bless
tIss Oh republican form of government
Nnene"ea applause,) And therefore, in that
am not Tor the reconstruction of the
Snloh "s II was. have spent treasure and
Dloou enough upon it, in conjunction with NV
fellow citizens, to make it n it'll - ~" ~
l think we can have better Tnio,, ouu
good enough ii it had been let alone re
old house was good enough for mo h.. ~. ne
south pulled down the ell part, and n Duv 'ne
when we build it up to build it up with al &C.
modern Improvements. (Uproarious In se