The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-09-11
Inctndiary Speech of B. +. Butler, SC.

BosToN, August 26.-At political
meeting at Gloucester, last evening,
B. Is. Butler, was one of the speakers.
Butler, on being introduced, said:
The issues.now before the country
were the same substantially as those
of 1860, and in this conviction he pro-
ceeded to trace the causes which led
to the rebellion and the part taken by
the Northern States in the attempt to
overthrow the government. He CON-
tended that by their rebellion thew
lad forfeited their property their
rights, and their lives, if rebels were
hanged, which, unfortunately, he said,
they were not. Passing on he spoke
of the failure of the Southern repre-
sentatives to secure their seats in Con-
gress, and said that ifany portion of
the Southern States had sent o loyal
man to Congress, it was only to get him
admitted, and when they had secured
representation they would send dis
loyal men. Referring to the Phila-
delphia Convention, he said it was
composed of a set of men who proposed
to settle war which they did not
fight, but which they opposed. in all
possible ways, and it is the intention
of loyal people to know by what right
they arrogatc to themselves that privi-
lege. 1t is the men who did the
fighting, he said. who are to do the
setting. Butlercharaoterized thatb ody
as the most remarkable that ever as
sembled, and said that the delegates
from neither section of the coun.
try. represented their constituents.
He then referred to the New Orleans
riot, and read portion of the CORES
lipondenee relating to it, aud said the,
whole tenor of President Johnson's
dispatches to General Sheridan was to
gloss over the terrible affair. If this
state, of things cannot be altered, But
Ter continued, we will march once
more, and woe him who opposes us
In considering the Constitutional
amendments recently adopted by Con-
gress, he said he was not in favor of
the one relative.to negro suffrage, but
accepted it as tho bcst,he could get.
He was in favor of full and impair
tial suffrage, and he would try, by
every means in his power, in what
ever position he light be placed, to
secure it. In concluding his speech,
the general said that unless tho peo-
pie of the North were firm in uphold
ing their Congress, they would have
their work of the last four years to do
over again.
Tho general was frequently ap-
plauded during his speech, and at the
close was honored with three cheers
A WAR ON y wosSN,-During the
war, the Roman Catholic Sisters of
Charity in the Border States minis
tered to the comfort of Confederate
and Union soldiers alike--whether in
hospital or camp. Their Christian
education and training prohibited
them from making any distinction.
Now the radicals out IN Missouri
have placed under arrest some of
these Sisters for not taking an oath
substantially affirming that they have
never given aid and comfort 60 an enc
my-in other words; that they never
gave cup Of cold water to a dying
Southern soldier that they never
cooled his fevered brow, never wrote
letter for him to q friend or relative
far away never said prayer for him
onhis dying bed--never, in short, did
any act of Christian kindness to fell
low mortal in extreme distress. Of
course, the nuns. spurned that oath,
and have given bonds to appear and
answer at the next Circuit Court of
Cape Girardeau. AS the radical
seem to have pretty much the control
of judges and jury all, in, unhappy
Ntissouri, it wodld not be at all sur
Using if the sisters should be
found guilty, and dealt with accord
ingly. As Methodist, Episcopal, Bap-
tist and Presbyterian Ministers have
been sent to jail, why should Sisters Of
Charity escape ?
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