The Portland daily press., 1868-09-29
mAssACHUSETTs,

DENOMINATION OF GEN. BUTLER.
BosToN, Sept. 28.-The Republicans OF the
Fifth Massachusetts District, in convention to-
day, nominated b. E. Butler for Congress-. He
received one hundred and seventy-five votes =
four scattering. The nomination was subse-
| qIently made unanimous. s. E1s l5
| SPEECH OF GEN. BUTLER ACCEPTING HIS NOM
Il "a INATIoN. astes.-
| SALEM, Sept 28.-Gen. Butler made speech
to-day accepting his nomination to Congress.
He briefly referred to those who had opposed
| his nomination, CHASING them with Lee,
| Beauregard, Foresl aud Booth and charging
them with raising 10000 men TO defeat his NOM
| ination, which he considered equivalent to his
| election. He recommended these maleontents
| TO send their money into some doubtful district
| in some doubtful State, if such could be fonnd.
| He considered those who now opposed hIm,the
Iegu ar nominee as no longer Republicans,
| aud said party can only be carried on as an
army is governed-wecome recruits and shoot
down deserters. He continued on this subject
at length and in response to alleged rumOrs
that Grant does not favor his (Butler's) cleo
ton, he said he was too much # IA friend of
Grant not to brand such runners as unauthor-
lied, and offered to resign the nomirat GA if
letter could be produced from Grant or Colfax,
desiring the Republicans of the district not to
vote for him. r..H- e-r -..sf-
On the finance question he claimed to stand
win Senators Sherman and Morton, and on
the only test question in the House, he voted
with 81 Republicans on that subject. He said
he fully concurred in the portion of the Chca-
60 platform requiring payments OF public debt
in utmost good faith, not only according to
letter, but spirit of law. 1t was true he had
said the letter of the law permitted payments
of bonds in some legal tender notes authorized
to be issued at the same time with them; but
he nowhere said or thought government should
not pay those legal tenders in gold as soon as
The prosperity of the country will permit with
out financial distress. He predicts a brilliant
future for the country under the prosperity
consequent upon Republican rule, closing by
saying God speed the time when greenbacks
and gold shall be convertible and reconverta-
bic. He then offered a serie, of resolutions,
endorsing the Chicrgo platform and congres
slonal reconstruction, which were unanimous
ly adopted The convention then adjourned.
MASS MEETING AT CHARLEsTowN-spEEcH OF
GEN. BANKS. f,---,t.--.
BOSTON, Sept. 23.-Gen. Banks delivered a
long address 10 the working men of Charles
town this evening, in the new tannery. The
structure was completed this afternoon, and
accommodates thirty five hundred people, 1t
was crowded and two or three thousand peo-
pie are collected outside Gen. Banks review
ed some OF the acts of the last and present
Congress, especially treating of the eight hour
law, which he said was but preliminary step
toward cooperation between the employed
and employer. The time would soon come
when the laborer would receive part of the
profits of his employer as his compensation
be held that the national debt must be paid in
gold and silver as promised when the loans |
were created. and if the people repudiated this |
they repudiated their won interests. During |
frequently interrupted by loud and prolonged |
applause.