The New York herald., 1871-09-10
BEN BUTLER.
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A Few Bold Truths for Haverhill
Digestion.
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The Essex Statesman SINNERS
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Newspapers the Bane Of Buffers
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How Massachusetts lis Mis-
governed.
HAvERKlLL, Mass. Sept. O. 1871

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retired Congregationallst clergyman, met MIN at
the depot with carriage and took him about the
town, or rather the city. There is no use OF
describing Haverhiil, and 1t is already well
known to everybody. Probably no one cares
q bo0tblack's maledictOn whether 1t Is well
known or not. The General was In good trim, ana
looked fresh ana vigorous like q warrior from the
hunting grounds, and ate as hearty supper as the
Eagle House could get up. Then he waited fop the
meeting 10 begln FIRST at seven O'Clock the doors
OF the City Hall were opened, then the Haverhlll Cor
net Band stationed itself outside, and then the yec
manry of Essex county crowded in. 1t was big
crowd, and IL filled the place to overflow
ing, cramming, aud rammlng, and sitting
on the railings, and piling up like husks IN corn.
field about the entrances. In half an hour no more
could set in, the full capacity somewhere near two
thousand beng IN at eight O'Clock. The band in
the gallery struck up pot pourri Of Through
Georgia." yankee Jim" "lome and Mother"
yankee Doodle" "Dixle," ana 81 Wish Were an
Angel" During the performance of
81 WISH WERE AN ANGEL"
the General made his appearance. accompanied
by DR.. Kelly and few OF the citizens Of the place.
few minutes more were then taken up
in letting the audience In part swarm over
the platform, and then the reverend gentle
man introduced Mr.. Butler in the following
language:-"Ladies and gentlemen we ore assem-
bed this evening to listen to an address upon poll
tical affairs from one who has Tong enjoyed high
distinction in our courts Of law and our halls of
legislation and who IN the hour OF our country's
extreme peril (and we will always gratefully remem-
ber) promptly came forward like true patriot
drew his sword in her defence and fought under
her nag like brave and faithful soldier, until the
rebellion was finally overthrown (Applause.) l
therefore take great pleasure In introducing to this
large audience General b. r. Butler, of our own
county or Essex"
THE GENERALS SPEECH.
The General was greeted with applause and spoke
substantially as follOws:-After first repeating the
usual preliminary, "Now l desire II any person
in the audience shall have any points which he
may wish to explain he VIII acquatnt me with It, and
as rar as can will answer any proper questions
that may be proposed but don't propose the ques-
tioDs IN the body Of the audience. Sometimes that
creates little confusion which Is represented in
the newspapers uproar, confusion, cat-calls, &c.
desire thar anybody who has any question to ask
viii simply put 1t oown on o slip Of paper, pass it to
the messenger at the rear doOr, and the messenger
will then hand it to me and l will answer it;
otherwise i trust that may not be interrupted by
questions. desire to meet everything that can be
asked me, but l also desire that the meeting may
not be disturbed. Now, then. we have as
sembled upon the most important concern of
to have made and how those laws ought
to be enforced No higher graver duty belongs
to man than this, and in no other country are men
allowed TO have any part in this duty,
only princes and kings. We are now upon the
eve Of general State election, ana there are uues-
tons which address themselves to US as very vital
and mOmentous. The first one have any abuses crept
Into the State government through the long cOntin-
ance OF party IN power, or otherwise, which re-
nuira farm
penses that ought to be lessenedP Are there any
useless offices that ought be curtailed2 Is there
anything that requires any changer Now my friends
l have examined these questions somewhat. /
desire calmly and briefly to give you the cOnclu.
siOns to which ! have come. We all know that
long continuance in power leads to something
very like corruption: and with these observations
the General began and told what he had done
subdued and the southern confederacy emaclated.
Now, he said Just take look at that Legislature OF
ours. That Legislature has been sitting as many |
as ninety years making laws under the constitution
and we have oeen making laws ever since; |
we began, and one would think it was easy to get
n on without ~ having LegsIatnre SIT every year SIX
months to laws Here last Gs er six
ceeded to enumerate the cost OF loEg legis.
ave Ia I'VE. sessions after nv which ne took the press
statistics he said, was said in newspaper called
the Boston Jonnal, and II was that they were
General proceeded to get at that little paragraph
"a LIE WE'LL STUCK TO-"
This seemed to please the meeting hugely. The
lie pored over the leaves OF scrap-book which it
Is the custom @ Of his worthy secretary Keep aea
the table, anS S"' .nen emu closed @ his eyes
he said, BY way oi dvertng attention, III They syyd do
say 1Humpn, and he rapidly pulled the leaves
(ApplauseJ Finally the General drew back whip.
ped out his handkerchief ana slowly wiping the
nd rom sa MS Srow swept MS eye over the
friends; but the paper was pinned on and 1t has
dropped on. SO you nave lost the advantage of that
ment was that General Buffers figures were all
wrong; that they were not TO be depended upon
and that they had peen proved to be wrong by
the Journal. Reading a long list of statistics the
General stepped back and said the Jou,naI won't
publish the statistics that ! have. can't get
give in my speech, because they couldn't sell
heir papers II they didn't daughter and applause)
But the General was ANXIOUS to settle the question
)f veracity anu the old Salem programme OF his
reading from one auditors report while another
gentleman looked over another was proceeded witn
while az each point the General would look up, and
Wat aa think Of than enSs Il WAS
)rOvOcat tive or much amusement and the meeting
sat down. sos up s weP laughed and
somebody tired to ask a question, "dont interrupt
when am wrong and M then you won't have TO inter.
ourse OF this he turned IN the direction of the re-
,orters' table ana recited that Tea. and-coIe
pisode once mole. n
STATE FINANCES. "a
Just as he branched OF INTO the subject OF the
essty for a change In laws he continued, II mean
usncss and want TO show you now ali this gets f
is into debt What shall we thiak OF town OF 334 y
ebt was In debt, and where cnly twenty \
we OF the poorest that could not get y
nt0 debt, were out OF deoty I.aughter.) Well, :
hat Is Just the way three hundred and thirty u
our cities and towns are situated now, ana our
ebt Is $4,000, ,000. There are plenty of men who
ct money ana plenty OF men VINO earn money, but
% one makes m0ney-it all comes down to and out
the iaborng man at last'' The General next
assed to consideration OF the question OF n
and said that he thought 1t had got De
Drry thing iOr the Commonwealth when our farms | a,
ave got to be abandoned, and all snch expenses as
lese have been nard our neghbOring state OF o.
reased IN population. In Massachusetts, the ~
ew Hampshire that she has In the last ten years de-
ties and towns have not decreased In population. M
ut we have only increased 100000 In 100 cs
WINS, and that Is very small increase | u
mar a M pYQnertY hean. ALI | 81