The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-05-02
GEN. BUTLER.


tanner in New York, last week, was an i'm.
mense affair, and the Academy Of Music
was filed 10 OVERLOOKING upon the occasion
of his speech, which is in that terse, vigor-
Gus style one would imagine from the man.
The remarks were rather extended, and we
can make room for only one or two points,
recommending the entire speech as one of
the best war documents yet issued:
HIS POLICY JUSTIFIED.
81 have been thus careful, sir, in stating
the various steps that have taken, because
l am here answering before the country for
acts which have done, and answering too
every charge of inconsistency or of wrong
Wrong in judgment / may have been; bat
wrong in intention, or inconsistent, never.
And on the same theory feel obliged, as
loyal to the Constitution and laws, to put
down instruction in Maryland, whether by
black or white, as by the same law feel
myself compelled to confscate all the slave
property in the rebellious State of Virginia.
l am little sensitive on this subject.
Il am an old fashioned Andrew Jackson
Democrat of twenty years standing. APP
plause, and three cheers fer the second hero
of New Orleans. And so far as l know, I
have never swerved-so help me God
from one of his teachings. Up to the time
when THE rebellion took place, I went as far,
! sir, as the furtherest, in sustaining the Con-
stitutional rights of the States, however bit
! ter, however distasteful to me were the obi
cations that my fathers assumed for me in
the compromises Of the Constitution. But
among them all, it was not for me to pick
out or reject-I took them all. Fellow
| Democrats, | took every one, because they
were all constitutional obligations; and TAX
! ing each and all, l stood by the South, and
! by Southern rights under the Constitution,
until l advanced so far as to look into the
very pit of disunion, and seeing what was
the prospect l quietly withdrew, and we
went from that hour apart. How far apart
you shall Judge, when l tell you that on
the 28th OF December, 1860. l shook hands
in terms of personal friendship with Jeffer-
son Davis, and on the 28th of December,
! 1869, had the pleasure of reading his
proclamation that l was to be hung at
sight.
THE UNIOE-BUT NOT AS 1T WAS.
"And now, my friends, do not know
but that | shall commit some heresy; but as
a Democrat, and as an Andrew Jackson
| Democrat, say that am not for the IN
ion as it was. I have the honor to say as a
| Democrat, and as an Andrew jackson Dem
ocrat, that l am not for the Union to be again
as it was. Understand me. was for the
Union as it was, because / saw, or thought
l saw In the future the troubles which have
! burst upon US; but, having undergone those
troubles, having spent all this blood and
treasure, do not like to 60 back again and
be cheek by jowl as we were before with
South Carolina, ii l can help it. Let no man
misun derstand me; and repeat it lest /
might be misunderstood. l do not mean to
give up single inch of the soil of South
Carolina. If had been alive at that time,
and had the position and the ability, l
would have dealt with South Carolina as
Jackson did, and kept her in 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. l will take care
that she shall be no longer the 6rebrand OF
the Union-yea. and that she shall enjoy,
what her people never yet enjoyed, the
blessings of republican form of govern
ment. Therefore, in that view, / am not
for the reconstruction of the Union as 1t was
have spent tears and blood enough upon
it, in conjunction with my fellow citizens,
to make it little better. 1t was good enough
fit had been left alone. The old house was
good enough for me, but as they have pulled
down the early part, propose, when We re-
build it, to build 1t up with all the modern
Improvements.
/ DUTY OF THE PEOPLE.
81 desire to say here that it is tie duty o.
every man to be loyal to the Government
20 sustain it. to pardon it's errors, and helE
it to rectify them, and to do all he can tc
aid it in carrying the country on in the
course of glory and grandeur in which i
was started by our fathers. And let me say
to you, my frlends-to you, young men
that no man who opposed his country IL
time of war ever prospered. That's So"
The Tories of the Revolution, the Hartford
i Conventionists Of 1919, the immortal sever
who voted against the supplies for the Mex
Ican war-all history is against these men
Let no politician of our day put himself il
the way of the march of this country To glo
~ aud greatness, for whoever does SO vii
surely be crushed. The course of our nation
is onward, and let him who opposes it be
ware. The mower moves on, though III
adder may writhe and the eopperhead5 cur
around the blade of the scythe. Loud ap
plause-
''It only remains, sir, for me to repea
the expression of my gratitude to you an
the citizens Of New York here assembled
for the kindness with which you and the
have received me and listened to me, 70
which please again accept my thanks.
Prolonged cheering.
We hear an anecdote concerning a soldie
: laddie on one of our gunboats. The vess,
: was OOinO into action and one soldier Wa