The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-29
The Nomlnation OF GeneraI Rutler.

SALEM, Sept. 2S.-GenCral Butler, after his no m !
inatton by the Republican Convention for Congress
to-day. was called before the Convention and made
a speech. He was frequently interrupted by ap-
plause lie said; BY thus cordial greeting, by your
personal Kindness, by the high honor OF nomina-
ton as representative worthy of the support of
the Republican partyof the district conferred with
such uhanimity, am made so deeply your debtor
as TO be too poor In thanks ever TO repay. / can
acknowledge the obligation only by renewed eff
forts in your service in the duties which you have
dev9lved upon me. For do not permit myself TO
doubt that in Massachusetts, in Essex district
nomination SO unanimously made by the delegates
of the Republican party, chosen by its primary
sembles in every town and city in the district isan
election "'
In so believing ! am not unmindful that the
names of some one hundred and fifty persons, OBJ
tained after the most persistent drumming, have
appeared attached to call asking "All their fell
low-citiZens opposed to returning Gen. Butler TO
Congress, and who cannot in honor sanction or be
responsible for the issue he has himself raised, to
meet in this city on Monday next" If all should
come who would be eligible and sympathetic under
such call, should, indeed, fear the result not
withstanding your hearty and efficient support.
Seymour and Blair, Lee and Beauregard, Wade
Hampton and Forrest, Wise, Mumford and Booth,
all the rebel hosts living and dead, will fraternize
with the signers of that call in movement to OPP
pose the return of General Butler to Congress- and
each Of them will lay his hand on the place where
MS heaTt ought to be- and affirm upon his tratorous
honor that he cannot sustain the issues Gen. Butler
has raised.
For himself, during the last seven years he has
been in the service of his country The safety of the
Republican party of this district lies in the fact
that there are too few men of that mind in Mas
sachusetts, and especially in Essex, to make
meeting inconveniently large, nor am frightful Of
the common rumors that these gentlemen and their
coadjutors have raised SAC, 900 with which to pur-
chase the defeat of the Republican party in this
district.
He stated that the sum was too small, and that
forty millions could not accomplish the defeat of
the Republican party and himself in that district
He admitted the right of men to vote for whom
they chose; but said no who belongs to the
party and claims to act with that party and for its
good, has right to organize his own views and
wishes against the properly expressed will of the
70 do SO is to rebel, and by so doing he puts himself
outside the party.
He continued to denonnce the action of the gen.
tlemen who have opposed his nomination, and
charged that his financial views were only the pre-
text, not the real of their opposition. These
financial opinions harmonized with those of Sena-
tors Sherman and Morton, and other members of
the party. Upon this question he announced him
self as agreeing fully with the Chicago platform
"that the national honor requires the payment of
to all the bondholders at home and abroad, not
only according to the letter. but the spirit of the
law under which it was contracted" am not con-
scious of having uttered anything which contra
venes it.
He agreed with the platform also that the time
for paying the debt should be extended over long
period, and that it should be funded at lower rate
of interest. While he had said the letter of the
law would permit the payment of the debt in green
backs he believed the latter should be paid in gold
as soon as the resources of the nation will admit of
1t. With the election of General Grant assuring
peace in the south, prosperity would return and in
crease throughout the whole country, rendering
this question one of no Importance
At the close of his speech General Butler pre-
sented resolution embodying the general princi-
was unanimously adopted, and the Convention ad-
journed.