St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-12-02
How to Settle the Alabama
Claims.
SPEECH by B. r. BUTLER.
He Uants a War rith England.
THE sorrusrRY OF A DEMAGoGUE.

iiiI- SUI lh1 Ot \ DE.MAtOGlE
Gen. Butler delivered his speech az
Boston, Wednesday night, as expected,
| IA speech designed to serve the double
object Of . lyceum lecture, which will
put 500 IN his pocket, and 10 set him
rr"ht beiu-e the world as regards his
opinions upon the ii herie- question and
our foreign policy generally, and defend
nm from the aspersion> of the ln!ervicw-
IuE c. respondent OF the NV York Her
aid. Tue general was i'll fine condition,
notwithstanding his great and un,.,a>ing
labprS and the fatigue incident to hi
late hurried trip 10 Washington, aud
his audience was large AID select lie
BEGAN 10y declaring that the close f the
war had aOrogatcd party dislir ctlons,
and thai the mission of tie republican
party at home is ended, while the oppo-
slliUn has dwindled into AN opposition
merely. Then he went on to say that
the members of the republican party
hold but a single thought in COMMON
the Determination that the government
of the country ought not, must not, pass
INTO the hands Of those who sought to
destroy 1t, or who were passively willing
| that 1t should be divided. In passing,
he threw compliment to Gen Grants
| administration, showing how it is strong
er and more popular than any since
jackson, and then went on to speak of
how the existing parties, particularly
he republican, are divided upon the
questions OF a tariff, finance and currency.
giving an airing. of course, to his own
peculier views of finance, declaring that
1t is unwise 10 exhaust by taxation capi-
tai needed to develop the country, and
promising that Congress at tie coming
session will take off another eighty mil
lions from the burden of taxation.
Upon questions Of finance, he said, both
parties in the country are substantially
divided by Il line rInning north and
south along the backbone of the Allegha-
MES Those on the easterly side, where
capital abounds, believe that it should
b. exempt from taxation; those on the
westerly sidr, the debtor portion of the
nation, believe that rapital should bear
equal il not a greater share of the public
burdens.
TIE DUTY OF TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO
ADJUST FOREIGN QUESTIONS.
We have also seen that the republican
party has adjusted all the questions raised
| 10y the war, SO far as they affect the in
tcrnal policy Uf the government, and so
lar IL it--lf Is concerned. There now re-
mains TO it only to adjust the great in
ternational and foreign questions that
were euyolved 10y our late terrible civil
contest. And as We have reconstructed
: the states lately destroyed by the rebel
lion, so we should reconstruct our com
e merce likewise destroYed in the sam,
: war. As We have adjusted tie claim
! Of our citizens tor damages done III til,
war by our own government, so far Il
. we have thought them Just and equita
, be and not iaIutc with rebellion, 50 W,
-hould now adjust the claims OF our citi
. zln- and the claims of our nation upor
those nations who took advantage o
/ our crippled condition to show a hoStiI,
spirit followed by unfriendy acts. Tn,
: chirt offender against the national digni
ty and honor in this regard is the gov.
ernment Of Great Britain. | rue, inl-
pcrial France was quite As curly in til,
, recognition of the belligerent rights OF
: the rebels, quite as unfrieudy in its spirit
in lis attack upon the neighborlng re-
public Of Mexico; but in the latter il
tailed to do US any injury, and the for
mrr was followed by no act of which we
cgu.d Justly complain. No rebel cruiser
was fitted out or entertained and refied
i'll amy French port No pirate was let
loose 10y Napoleon to prey upon our COM
mcrce.