New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-05

our hands get into it. We the world To
tering has had its millennium. Wesay to England which
was disturbed at our magnitude and wished to see US
| cut In tWO-and France, who held the babe In
hand while England raised the sword TO sever It's head
no foreign soldier on her SOIL and she will put no soldiers
on theirs Peace Tor them peace I9r us Tor we hod
nod III which we are to share the higher grades OF civil
| cation with the nations Of the Garth Let US edu-
consistently with the rights of the other, give full
liberation In religion, give boundless freedom to com
merce freedom of thought, of sentiment freedom OF be-
lief, freedom Of trade freedom everywhere, and that is
man carping there-pontng to man in the crowd-
and putt me IN peril t viii shut up II nger ger any
ginning about Gen. Butler and know already by adj,
vance that he ia getting impatient at this long speech OF
mine and therefore, proud as am to be associated with
Cen Butler this PLATFORM and joyful as should be to
stand on that platform he one day expects TO reach
profession already aud have got along pretty well in
life, to stand in his way want him to have fair hear
ing aud good chance and will stop now although the
most eloquent part of speech was that which was yet
Mr. Beecher's speech being concluded Senator Buck
ngham introduced, with some audatory remarks OF the
Russian Government, Baron Catacazy tho Russian
Mr. Henry A; Bowen coming forward called for three
cheers for the Imperial Government Of Russia.
These were given with enthusiasm, and the Russian
Minister acknowledged the compliment by respectfully
The Chairman then introduced Gen. Butler, who spoke
as follows:
GEN. BUFFERS ADDRESS.
Met here to commemorate the birthday Of the nation
made in the declaration of human rights this day read
and renewed TO many millions of freemen, has been
fulfilled in what's trust but the very youth
OF its manhood Our Government, born In revolution
against parent State and kingly power, founded by
men Who in their own person or immediate ancestry,
had fed from the expressions and religious thradom OF
other lands TO establish for themselves freedom and
equality Of right I'm the savage vilds OF world,
Qured the very law Of its existence 10 welcome as To an
asylum, whoever, fleeing from tyranny and the exacons
II,
srants at home and therefore, it became its very car
dinl principle that whoever came 10 us as our fathers
here should become part of us to share with us
not only the benefits OF our laws, but the power which
enacts them Ihus an experiment IN goEereIhI wa5
begun hitherto unried in the history OF the world ana
has been carried on with unparalleled success until we
have peOpled and brought under our cOhtrOl an area oi
the globe greater than occupied by any one Govern
ment where all it, subjects anenaDe to the laws en-
acted by central power wherein all nave VOICE.
The Distinction betUeeh our Repnouc ana Hd'V ho"e
IN Extending our Territory. $3.50
The peculiar individuality Of our system, and which
cannot De too carefully examined Is that with the eA-
tension OF powers and our civilization over TINS ter
r0ry we have also gwen 10 every man. from "Iat lahu
soeyer he comes, and under Whatsoever institutions ne
may have been reared, an equal part OF the power tbat
We possess OF governing ourselves Rome rom pel
sular city, in ancient times, by her arms her laws %
the then known world AS all magnitudes are to be
judged Of by comparison only we may pause mere 10 con-
arms, reduced TO subsection by Roman power, ar
ranged contiguousy in compact form ana placed te
with its palace cars containing more OF elegance ana
luxury OF travel than the most sybaribc OF the Roman
miles the hour continuously for than two days from
either exterior boundary OF jurisdiction to reach the
outward limits OF the Roman empire when thus placed,
when she claimed to be mistress OF the world Inc
distinctive difference In the extension Oh Roman power
and is in this While she subjected 80 many eoun-
tries to her laws she restricted right OF cltlzensp OF
share i'm the governing power to the people of Rome aud
Latham only parted with that franchise OF citizenship
AZ AN almost priceless BOOM later by sale on the most
exorbltant terms OF purchase so that her chet captain
said Paul. With great price obtained TINS lree-
DOM" TO which the Apostle could proudly reply But
Nsc York City's PceuIiarities. III,
On the contrary, from the first We bestOw equality OF
right and equality OF power In government on whoever
comes until the prncp.l commercial city of this couI-
world, the largest Irish city in the world, the
largest African Ethiopian city in the world,
i'm one; each nationality clothed with full power OF self
government never before enjoyed by either saSe III ths
ment in the government of the most extensive empire on
which the sun shines HOW lar st
ton preudces interests and religions can OF ther own
voiion sssimate together and govern themselves and
assist To- govern others under republican form OF gov
ernmeut is the untried question OF the future Oh LUIS
country undeveloped by any theory OF statesnanshlp
unascerained by analogy underlined by precedent ana
untaught by history. To the success OF this grand en-
deayor TO invest with equality OF right ana eIny ~
power all precisely they come equal mo the W9id
there was but one antagonsm Because oil the eupldy
OF the merchants OF the mother country anu tue
of the landowners the then capitalists OF our own;
system Of serye labor was htrodneeds w a va ia
b0 from the first and the unsOund spot ia their Oganlz
ton OF government Ss nfcev two genera
lions had passed away-but an hour IN the nle Oh
bic with the theory Of free representative repnDeals
bedded I'm the very framework Of our Government, ana
its endrs entwined in every creNice OF our social anu
and war OF greater proportions than any other ever
waged, whether we consider the territory IL
money III carrying III on, 10
exrpate human bondage from the only tru! Tree cou-
try on earth.
For n, First Time IRE are Truly Equal aud Free People
From the consequences results or seqet0 OF that con
test we have lately emerged that to-day for the hrs
.I,rata Tho Uiy
dependence under Constitution when gives equany
OF right to all men before the law ana equay Oh POSJe
so under very benefcent provisions OF our Jaws anu
the ink scarcely dry the pen OF our CHER Executive
Magistrate who honOrs meeting with his presenee
with which he signed his approval OF the nrst law en-
tIn in behalf of ali men The existence OF Slavery
or Of class held in bondage, unequal IN right OF elze
ship has been therefore incontroyerby shown 10 DC
deadly IA the upas tree to free institutions. ,
Even with this so great drawback, however the prob
lem 81 making our country the home OF every man VINO
sba voluntarily come to it, OF absorbing men by nations
has achieved most triumphant solution: we cUuu
stop here and the nation pause In s career OF honor
usefulness aud glory the future would be as secure as
the past been successful but not TO 80 NV res
true TO the principles of liberty and just our
career Il val o anS aoR oWard to- still greater growth
and attainment in material resources ana Wealth anu
no greater progress I'm political science to insure
freedom and protection to all men can De msde II we pu1
tain s any future event in the disposition OF Providence
can be that before the end of the present century IRON
the necessity of our expansion shall absorb all lands
on this continent to the north of far that on our
eopfnes the gnec needle shall no longer point noItn
ward downward, to the center OF attraction, anu 80
far south that ship canal crossing the isthmus oI
Darien' making the Continent Of South America an
island sbal he our southern boundary while the green
iIands OF the seas on our borders, like the sparkling
gems in the necklace of fair bride shall come 70 US as
sdnr1mensi Even now the action OF our Executive has
naeed nj our disposal the first land the goodest OF the
a that greeted the longing sight of the great dscoyere
as he sailed on his weary voyage westward over usck
80 seas like vision from Heaven-San Domingo, as
our own II we had but the wisdom TO take H.
We haze Bought Territory NOT Acquired oy con-
mi, .,.,ht snransts no ms another difference in prin