The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-11
Buffers Reception in New York

Buffers Reception in New York.
We extract the following graphic
description OF Buffers reception at q
radical meeting, held in New York,
last Saturday. It is we'll worth read
ing:
Mr.. Greeley and his friends adver-
tlsed there would be a mass meeting
on Saturday afternoon, in the CITY
Hall Park Citizens. retrospective
OF party, " We're invited, Accordingly,
citizens, irrespective of party, came
out. There were about 4, 900 people
present, OF whom, apparently, about
q third We're Republicans. The object
was to listen to Mr.. Benjamin f. But
Ter, late Of Dutch Gap, Governor
Andrew G. Curtin, Mr.. Greeley him
self, and others, who were to advo-
cate radicaiism and Mr.. Greeley's
election from the Fourth District.
The crowd We're massed between a
wooden stand and the City Hall steps.
The stand was erected in front of the
anonymous stone pile, supposed to
represent General Washington. On
the stand was a band of music. The
band played ''Sally Come Up," at 3
o'clock. Accordingly, Horace Gree
ley, Governor Curtin, Walbridge,
Mr.. Butler and others sscame up" on
the stand Mr.. Hiram Walbridge
was declared chairman. He handed
the reporters printed speech a CO.
lumn long, and then advanced to the
front of the platform, and spoke about
twenty lines of the address, praising
Mr.. Greeley as man of large ability,
q working man, and SO on, and eulo-
gized him with q studious avoidance
OF any mention of Mr. Greeley as
being either partisan journalist or
nominee of a partisan convention;
after which, Ben. Butler was intro
duced. The reception of Butler was
one that was hardly expected, and it
was noteworthy that the crowd were
willing to listen to any other man
than him. They groaned, hissed,
hooted, cat-called, cried out the cpl
thets which referred to Buffers ante
cedents, such as ''spoons," "gold
thief ''banls deposits - 'swoman-
whipper," and other unpleasant his
torlc reminders, which did not at all
appear to surprise the memory or dis.
concert the composure Of the speaker,
who took it all as matter of course.
After some pause, Mr.. Butler sue
ceeded IN proceeding with an address,
containing the appended illusions to
those who We're opposed to his speak
ing:
Those men are towards, who, un-
II n. Of j
interfere with the rights of others.
If such are the teachings of Demo
cracy, if such are the teachings of the
Democracy of New York, the sooner
such Democracy is cleared out, the
better. Yells from the Democracy,
and cheers from the Republicans. If
there be any church, Catholic, or
otherwise in this city, which teaches
Its communicates such conduct, the
sooner such a church is banished from
the country, the better. Great con-
fusion, and groans for Butler. If
there be any set OF men attempting
to govern this city, who bring it into
dlsrepute, the sooner they are made
to pay the penalty of their crimes,
the better hisses those organized
tnleves, those systematic plundcrcrs,
with their hands up to the elbows
iiilching from the means of their sub
lects, and who employ hired rufians
to attack those they dare not meet in
aS2y other way. [Great tumult. And
while one can easily pardon the poor
deluded men who do their masters
bidding, yet an indignant people will
not pardon those who set them on.
Why, here and now, 1 charge this
mob upon Hoffman, precisely rs, here
and now, L charged the murdered
babes and children on Horatio Sew
mour. Kisses and applause Both
are equally responsible, and both will
sooner or later meet the reprobaton
OF an indignant community. One has
gone out, and the other is following
him. Great uproar. Why, what
else would you expect from some of
this crowd? In 1868, the men who
are now hallooing and shouting, ap-
plauded the killing of negro children
and numbering babies, when they
dared not look a man in the face.
And when the armies of the United
States came here, these same baby