The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-30
BOUTWELL, AT THE "HUB."
A Very Ordinary Lecture to Very Intelli-
gent Audience Financial Matters but
Lightly Touched Upon-A Great
Deal About Slavery and Ter
ritOrial Expansion.

BOSTON, Dec. 90 1902
Train ana Boutwell, have been the rival lecturers
IN Boston this week. The first seeks the Presidency
ana the latter Is content with tho Treasury both
seem 10 think that the birth and perpetuation or
ther Mv0rite powers Is invested IN the SURFACES OF
the Bostonans. and hence it 49, perhaps, that they
potn put their best foot forward here. Train spoke
TWO nights. The first evening he had nearly a
hundred listeners and the second night there
were about 500 present. Boutwell,, the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury followed In success
sion AFTER Train. ana he had an audience
OF some 1880, comprising more representatives
OF wealth than were before assembled in Music
Hal. All tho merchants OF tho Club" were there
In the front seats, and every drop and dripping
from the mouth OF the Treasury Secretary they took
IN, expecting tue preliminary a sort Of Demonico
soup to the substantiais which were to follow the
meats however, were not forthcoming; for when all
gos warmed up by the soups. only partially savory
the real bill OF fare seemed to have been skinned
and the entertainment was most unceremonousy
ended As before described the Boston mercantile
community SAT IN front seats each ana all eager and
expentant Tor such char and wheat the Chief ma
chinery OF the Treasury min might grind ont.
The lecturer stated at the outset that he had come
without preparation to fulfil an engagement In
cautiously made long ago. and proceeded In a
general way to review the causes and the results OF
the late war; with particular regard TO the future
OF the country. He said that II the years of our
national life were divided into periods OF ten years.
the decade now closing would undoubtedly prove
the most important The seventy years previous TO
1850 had been constant struggle between two
hostile Powers Of civilization In the nation. lie had
reason TO believe thar hau there been Der.
sons OF eminence to defend slavery before
the adoption OF ..aas federal constitution, the
systeH would have been Destroyed Every.
body believed that 1t would die out that
II had been local IN ITS character and destitute OF
It gave political power In the government the intro
duotion OF cotton as the staple OF the slave section
soon gave IL new Importance. Slavery was not
denounced but tolerated at that period. Suisse
quently 1t was attacked and defended, when t pre.
sented new aspect 1t was Inevitable tnar In a
people would end in It's destruction In the contest
for the mastery each section In It's way succeeded-
the south by It's wealth, centred "a few aided by
the constitution In gaining cortr5i OF the govern
ment; the North, by its industry aud enterprise in
developing Its vast commercial, mercantile and in
dustrlal resources. Thus when the war came the
North was rich In MATERIAL and had the
South been compelled to rely on It's own resources
sw s M2a years. o' ws ys Ss sa more than
OF the South reiinquisned their seats IN Congress-
they abandoned the power they had gained. The
result was the destruction OF slavery, the adoption
OF the thirteenth constitutional amendment and the
subsequent ratification Of the fourteenth to secure
n
cation OF the nfteenth amendment viii secure TO all
the equal right TO elect and be elected to Offices not
shes the distinction between the Citizen Mv and dpS the
serf excmpliiyng the great truth that 'all men are
created equa.' Mr.. boutwell, said there was a mis-.
understanding In the public mind TO the snplii.
cation OF the words right to be elected to public
employment" II was simply that by law 4 citizen
10 elect him who best able perform the duties
There were men VINO threw themselves upon the
i9r se5 " ~ openly Or
were sought Tor by the people TO meet great pubic
sm.ergsnclos Popularity gained, as In the first
latter category the lecturer classed ,he late MIR.
stanton, VINO, he claimed did much to secure the
tysburg, ana whose Character should be held up for
the ,mi.atioa Of me coming men The great events
and South white ana black equality OF opportunity
instruction Tie advantage Or Which could not bc
adequately estimated Tue public sentiment or the
North, aided BY the aunitceace OF the late George
Peabody, was opening schools which, by their
si,sT years, the sustaining she
withdraw their children 1t VIII not pr JUDGE the
system. The labor question had oeen agitated re.
Gently TO great extent In tie North. Something
had been done for il by opening up ;.s south, Ech
IA It's agricultural, mining and river resources al
ready revealed, or their use made possible by the
events OF the war. 1t was Impossible that there
should be equality OF condition, though something
nad a. been accompisled toward it, The revolution
put IT lett subject class The last revolution ele-
waited all.
THE FINANCES AND TERRITORIAL EXPANSION.
IL was tru0 the Secretary Remarked that the
events OF the past ten years had left their cuitles
in the loss OF commerce, the creation OF vast public
deemed burdensome. Placing whatever estimate yon
please upon these dcuitie., the largest anounr
there still upon the ledger large balance to the
credit Of the nation. " the country remained at
peace and there was no indication TO the contrary
the public debt would DO soon considerably reduced
and its nnal liquidation would not be very remote
1t mad been asserted, Mr.. boutwell, said, that the
americans % nation were grasplng-anxious for
extension Of territory tbs assertion he desired To
emphatcaily contradict Tor within the past twenty
ave years the government has repeatedly rejected
pronered territory. He iusianeed MEXICO w6ieh
was once In possession OF the United 5ta les tloops
out the government accepted only le y outlying
Islands, he had reason to knoa, had been rendered
years ago; and other Islands nave from time 10
time been offered and rejected. We take no
thing by oppression. Other nations take Nv
ioroe OF arms ours BY force OF doas. n nv sucb
force others desire TO join we win consider their
proposals. There should be nothing ia our public
means. We should so reduce it during neace that
In The event OF another war our credit would hold
good Taxation is an evil that should be reduced as
, y Is uos ~. ,eon re are creator evils
ropean nations tue support OF standing arniiog
In alludln@ to the destruction Of American COM
doubted what the remedial course should DO, thousl
no platform could be devised to accomplish ia re.
storation-the UNION OF government aud people. In
closing ne SAID that there was future Amer
lea that could be better campfebeuded now |
than In 1852. England'A American colonies are vet
TO accept the American idea which has spanned Tho
Continent, bringing tue Pacific under commercial
the better. Tho dl5bandnent or her armies when
the war ended, was an important proof OF her sta.
blty as was Their assembling when 1t first begun: !
ana the world WILL s0oa learn that government by
the people FOR the people u far preferable than a
government OF the people against their wishes.