The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-12-01
urx. urrLER.s LaSr SENSATION.

Reipath and Fall are entitled 10 our
thanks for a copy of the speech delivered by
Benz. +. Butler on the 2Sd inst. Ii is Il
pamphlet edition, and must have been
printed before its delivery. From the fact
tina; il has reached as far as Kansas We sup
pose il has gone all over the Union. 1t is
Ben, Bnlier's hid for "lorieiy. There have
been reports that Il. Il. WIS Ia Succeed Sec
Rotary Fish in the Cabinet, but We utterly
diS:rust them. The country can get along
with the not very distinguished Borie, Eel
KNAPP, Robson, Delano, Akerman, &c, &c.,
but the less il has la do with the positively
disreputabIe men the better il will be for us
all.
The notorious Ben SAYS in this clap-trap
speech that "quile all of the distinctions
of party doctrines and party watchworls
have been abrogated, save the single
dogma still adhered to by the Democratic
party, as to the rights of the States" Ifthis
means that the disreputable Ben. has left the
Republican party, then God be praised for
his many mercies. Butler was one of the
meanest pro-slavery men in the country,
and one of the most disreputable. He was
in the Charleston Convention, and voted for
JEFF. Davis And all through 1860 he chung
to the Breckenridge Democracy. 1t was not
until war actually broke out that he became
Union man and an aDti-slavery man. He
then espoused these principles sufficiently to
dupe Republicans into electing him to Office.
The sooner he appears in his old and true
colors the better il will he for the country
and for all honest men. Butler began to
advocate reputation as soon as the war was
over, and now he repudiates the stupid Re-
publicans who gave him his position.
In this speech Mr.. Butler says the Repub-
lican party is left with emo peculiarly of
doctrine for its future aspirations upon which
to rally its partisans. Its record Is of the
past alone" OF what can a record he made
save of the past? If man or party has
been honest, he is proud of the past and of
the honorable record he has made. And We
can only predict manly and honorable iu-
ture from a manly and honorable past. Ii
is safe to say that the record of the Repub-
lican party has been such as to give i; at least
as good chance for the future As the Demo-
cratic party-we should say much better.
We have less to regret and repent of; more
to feel proud of and build upon. 4 strong,
substantial, honest foundation good record
is the best thing to build upon-the best
guaranty for the future.
Butler proposes to reconstruct parties on
the basis of the Alabama issue. He wants
to steal Canada and fight England. That
will make the basis of a new party, with
Ben. Butler As leader. He says the South
would fight with us in war against Eng
land, and soft-soaps them rs follows:
81 cannot but recall the truth that our
Southern brethren, many of the best and
bravest Of them, who fought against the gov
eminent, with vain attempt to md them
selves Of the glorious memory of its history,
are impatientiy longing to fight once more
under the starry folds OF the old flag. Give
the privilege To the brave sons of the South
to defend their country again in foreign
war, and specially one one with Great Britain
NOT loved by them any more than by us
and it would bring us all together again,
uniting us with one flag. one county and one
destiny"
The South will lie very apt To answer this
plea Of partisan demagogue with the two
words" silver spoons"
And the Irishmen in this country are also
about to rally under the sixty-siay Gag oi
Ben. Butler. Hear him:
"But do remember and cannot forget
tina, We have sixteen hundred Thousand
naturalized Irishmen in this country, every
one eager to avenge the wrongs done his
mother-land, the Green Isle OF the ocean, by
British tyranny, which drove him frOm her
soil. l cannot but remember that they
require no urging to join our armies in q war
with their oppresors, but are prevented by
the repressive hand Of our government, in
the interest of peace and in sacred regard for
our treaties of amity, from making war on
their own account, and that if We did not
hinder them they would take Canada by con-
tra4 in sixty days."
Gas party man do not fail to remem-
Der that Of the twenty odd hundred thous-
and votes of the Democratic party now in
opposition, twelve hundred thousand II least