The Portland daily press., 1870-11-24

SPEECH OF GEN. i. f. BUTLER AT MUSIC
HALL, BOSTON, Nov. %, 1870.
In response to an invitation from large
number of influential citizens of Boston
Gen. Butler delivered an address last evening
before the Boston Lyceum on the ''Duty OF
the Republican party to adjust the questions
with other nations brought out by the rebel
lion, and to protect American fisheries against
British aggression" In opening Gen. Butler
remarked in.substance that by the results OF
the war and the growth and expansion of the
country quite all distinctions of party doc
trines and party watchwords have been
abrogated, save the single dogma, still adj
hered to by the Democratic party, of
Stale rights. The Republican party, in its in
ception held but one cardinal principle in
common-the extinction of slavery,-and
that distinctive idea has been taken from it,
leaving it, as patty, no popularity of doc
trine for its future ASPIRATIONS; and the mis-
sion Of the party at home is ended. The
Democracy has dwindled into an opposition
only, and the Republican party, composed
largely ,of war Democrats, has but one
thought IN common,-a determination that
the government ought not and shall not pass
into the hands of those who sought to divide
and destroy it:
GRANTS ADMINS rRATIoN STRONGER THAN
ANY SINCE JACKSON.
Herein lies the secret Of that admirable vi
tallty OF tie Republican party which has be-
come the wonder OF the politician and the
dread Gf The nan0araau
OF all true men, shown in every canvass, ex-
pressed by every ballot has enabled the Re
publican party, after ten consecutive years of
administration, after three times elcctine its
President Notwithstanding the apostacy of
one, in spite of the many corrupt IONS that
necessarily creep into party so long holding
power, to do, as it is now doing, what no 9TH
er administration has been able to do since
Jackson-elect-t to the first House of Represen-
tatives, chosen after the Inauguration of its
PRESIDENT, majority of nearly two-thirds.-
Save in the case of Lincoln only in 1862,
when the war united all parties at the North,
ana the whole South had thrown itself of,
VINO was enabled to carry small majority,
tnls mas not been done since jackson. Every
other PRESIDENT but Grant has found an op-
positioh speaker in his first House of Repre-
eehtatlVes. Even Pierce, who carried the
wncle country save five States. is not an ex
eeption. ~
Loyalty to freedom is the secret Of this
continued success, as Gen. Butler thinks
This is the only shibboleth; upon other ores.
tions the widest latitude Of opinion is ALLOW
ed in the Republican ranks. Gen. Butler at
this point reiterates substantially what was
reported in the Tribune about divisions in the
Republican party on the question Of the tariff
and in all financial topics. Some believe that
the national currency is the best in the world
and the most advantageous for the country,
while others hold that the national banking
system is pure robbery; some believe that
greenbacks should supplant The notes issued
py the national banks, and that the national
deot should be paid in currency But the
speaker did not say that most of the heretical
doctrines, savoring strongly of reputation are
entertained by few Republicans excent him
SELL ana ne boasts of the failure of the effort
to excommunicate him from the party two
years ago ON account Of his adoption of a
modified Pendletonism. He also refers with
evident satisfaction to the failure of tho 3D.
ministration measure to keep up the taxes in
order to pay off the debt, and to the action of
Congress in cutting down the revenue some
eighty millions in spite of the recommends
ton Of the Secretary of the Treasury, though
to the latter officer he pays a singuarly en-
lhusastic compliment. lie AYERS that taxa
tlon Will be cut down another eighty millions
at the coming session of Congress,-which is
very gratifying.
zen. Butlers address is so Unfortunately
long that we shall be obliged to omit all his