Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-08-12
sPeeehIby Gan. Busls1.

.-I' -. speech By e.n. B.s,ss.
General Butler addressed the Eigh
MASSACHUSETTS, Regiment, at Newbury
= Mass, ON rhe 2dinst. The Eighth wa
O Ithe regiment which he led TO Basitimoi,
in 1851. s.
>, The 4eneral went ON to sketch
min vivid manner, the stirring event.
e with which the great conflict began
/ and in which the Eighth Regiment tool
= such prominent part. The many Incl
- dents of its progress from New York [,
e the Capital were brought up in fresi
= and full de all, among the most interest
ing of which was the rescue of the ole
ship Constitution, whicn was in grea
: danger of capture. Many other instance,
of patriotic fervor and achievement,
were mentioned by the speaker, aftei
which he concluded as follows: And te
: you, under God, it was given TO save
!, the National Capital from traitors. i,
, there higher, Is there nobler, is there
! a braver record to any regiment on earth
: regular, volunteer or militia? No!-and
? you were only militia. l have given
= this portion OF the campaign because in
the events that followed it was swal-
lowed up for the moment. / again re-
peat, you opened the way to Washing
;; ton, you secured Annapolis and the
Chesapeake Bay to the country and to
the Union, which required the basis OF
the rebel operations TO be on the Poto-
; mac and not on the Suseuehanna.
Without you the fight had been carried
on upon the Susquehanpa, and not upon
the Potomac. Philadelphia would have
been threatened, and not Washington.
1t was by your efforts-throwing aside
all pleasure, all business, all hope for the
future and memory of the past, in fealty
to the country's laws-that Washington
was saved; and doubt not that, under
God, the result of this war was changed,
for If the Conlederacy had once taken
Washington, and been acknowledged
by all the nations of Europe, AS they
would have been glad to acknowledge
it. what would have been the result2
But that Providence which rules all
things for the best ruled Il AT you should
have the opportunity; and ii would seen
that He that knows the hearts OF men,
knew that the Sth Regiment of Massa-
chusetts, having the opportunity, were
the men to improve it, and the capital
was saved. Comrades, eight years have
passed away. Remembering all we did |
in the early part of the war, and the his |
tory of what you did afterward, of which |
1 can not speak, because was called to
anOtACt bp1ClC vi uuty-Dut Has
been recOunted to you by the gentleman
who has given the history of the regi-
ment, and which has become a portion
of the history of your country-have yon
reflected, as you may well reflect, what
has been the result of our labors? Have
you reflected that because of that march,
some of the incidents of which I have
been detailing, no slaves foot presses
the soil of any portion of this country
to-day? Have you reflected that here
after there on this continent exists a
stronger, nobler, better, more efficient
than ever yet existed on :
this earth? Have you reflected, as one
Of the consequences of your march, that I
hereafter the rights of man on the West
ern Continent are to be forever respect
reflected that in the future the Western :
Continent, under the flag of the United
States, for. which you fought, is to give
liberty and law to the world? And
hese are some and but few of. the II
esults of that grand old march of fyours. II
Now, my friends and comrades, / am fc
Isked to speak for the United States, for el
he Union, for that Government which OF
8 to-day stronger, more powerful, more et
rec than any other Government upon q
'arth-for the Government whose foun- II
lations are laid deeper than anv other; to
whose superst. ucture has been cemented 10
" the blood of our friends and our COM OF
AIDES, but whose beneficient missionary, II
and freedom-carryingl ca
'ower shall extend not only over the te
'ounds of this continent but of the &c
arth. Hark! Hear from Spain; the u,
truegle goes on there-what Is 1t? 1t is hi
he struggle between freedom and tyr 81
my. Hark! Nearer home, in Cuba; til
here the struggle goes on-what is it7sul
be struggle between freedom and tyran fcc
y. Hark again! from our .Mothertsu
'ountry; what is it the sound, what's
ews do we hear from thencr? 1t is that sy
4 Ireland, oppressed Ireland, the 1s
'hurch is disestablished, aud every man of
left, as we are, free to worship God di
ccording to the dictates of his ewn con- ed
,ience. Hark again! from the plains of
ne far West, from what in years past as
'e were taught was the great American on
esert. where, as you now remember, be
he iron horse now travels his way to y,
ne Pacific-what do we hear? From de
here, even, we hear that China, the TIC
lut nation, which never received do
trough the long ages any impression an
ON the outside nations of the earth. se'
as heard the soun o. American free SO
nm and American laws and equsl M
ghts, and her children are cunning 10 to'
e US. And have not said we'll. there. .foi
ire my friends, that the United States ga
ave become the great missionary na,ian er;
I the Earth? And then, fellow >ol:lies %
am glad further To say that w-lcom.-l 8, 8,
lis association; that [ welcome tLes,. he
of the past; that I welcome sn
lese friendships whi h grew upon .ti,.,
attic field, aud which, trust, are To !
main tosus through life. Let us each RAJ
ear renew the old associations that ha
Ime from the march and the bivouac. SCI
ct US be in the future what we were in mi
le past-comrades-and our success in tic
fe as men will be quite equal to the fcrs
Iccess we have had iu the field as SOL cal
ers. OF
he.address of General Butte was fol- th'
wed by applause. and the band played ON
Hail to the Chiefn IAN
wi
Democratic Electisn Frauds. sol
A fresh illustration of DemocraticI tn,
,nesty in conducting elections was die
ought to light on Mond ~ last, in the thu
'urse of the investigation of the al ha
ged frauds at the general election in by
last fall. At the sixteenth crs