Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-26
BEN BUTLER 3.
dominates Himself for Gov
-ta ernOr. .
His Differences with the Repub-
lican Party. ..a-5T
Gen. Haw1ey DenOunces Him
as a Liar and Blackguard-


Gen. Hawley DenOunces Him
as a Liar and Blackguard.
1 SPRINeFfELD, MASS, Aug. 24.-Gen.
Butler addressed large audience at the
City Hall this evening. He said: Al
though Republican after the straitest
sect, am called upon to defend myself
by newspapers calling themselves Repub-
lican, from unheard charges. Kisses and
applause.
Gen. Butler went on to say that he ex-
pected abuse from the Democratic press,
but why should Republican papers malign
| and abuse him9 Because he led the first
troops through Springfield and Annapolis
to Washington or because he brought
back the first thousand of prisoners from
Hatteras9 or handled the traitors at New
Orlesus? OF refused to swing around the
circle with Andy JohnsonG or managed
his Impeachment? or, later, buried his
Butler's) difference with President
Grant, with whom he had some cause of
difference or had, in the Reconstruction
Committee, insisted on protection for the
loyal men of the South2 And yet said
Butler, they would read me out of the
Republican party. That fellow who ran
away when he got John Brown into trou-
Bile, and would testify before the Senate
of the United States in favor
General Butler was here interrupted by
Mr.. Sanborn, one of the editors of the
Republican, who asked if Mr.. Butler
referred to him.
Nc. Butler answered, 81 do"
Mr.. Sanborn replied, amid great con-
fusion, ''thst statement is false"
Butler then yelled, "Why did you run
out of back door, and leave your sister
TO face MANI"
Sanborn attempted to reply amid yells
of 'tPut him oul!" Speech" and the
audience being wild with excitement; but
Sanborn was finally refused hearing.
After quiet had been restored, Butler
reiterated his assertion at length, and
said that twenty five years ago he had
personal collision with Warrington, the
Boston correspondent of the Springfield
Republican, and had been abused by
HIM since, and because he had in New
York put the owner of the Republic in
Ludlow street jail nobody by the name
of Butler can get fair play in that paper.
As for the Hartford COuTant, that paper
maligned him because he (ButleI) dis
placed Gen. Hawley from his Command
for inefficiency and inc :mpetency. The
Boston Journal abused him because of
his speeches. Jewell, who wants to be
Governor, is one of the trustees of Rog-
ere, and the Sumner Republican Journal
charged twelve dollars for printing the
report of the Republican caucus at Bev-
erly, because Butler delegates were nomi-
mated. N.....-.-
Butler claimed that the Republican
party, having accomplished its work for
the emancipation of the slave, should go
forward to adjust, settle and define the
exact relation of labor and capital and
product of the ill-paid OF oVer-worked
laborer from the exclusions of service, as
well as from its own greed as from the
greed of the employer. He condemned
strikes as illogical and indefensible, and
beneath the dignity of American working
men. The ballot is in their hands. They
can enact their own laws and choose their
own rulers. They can compel the State
to do its duty in this behalf, and give TO
labor its rights and restrain capital within
the bounds of its privileges.
Mr.. Butler also spoke at length on the
state of the finance, and in the course of
his remarks took occasion to allude TO the
editor of the Springfield Republican as
his vindictive and mendacious opponent
for the Office of chief executive of the
Commonwealth. He asserted that while
he (Butler) and his comrades were in the
field fighting for the Union. that gentle
man remained at home vilifying others
better than himself. Butler condemned
the extravaganza of the system of govern
ing the State by Boards and Commissions,
and said it must be reformed. This
could be done inside of the Republican
party, but if it is no; so done it will be
by the people of the Commonwealth IT.
respective of party. One set of men, said
Butler have ruled in these matters in your
state-house substantially for more than
twelve years, ever Increasing in their de-
mands for places and pay. If you do
not change them they will change you,
fellow Republicans and all the people
shall say amen.
The Boston Advertisers enmity was
accounted for by his (Butler's) threat to
sue that paper for hbellirg Anna Dickin
son, when she, poor, ftiendless girl,
gave her frat lecture in Boston.
Butler then rehesrsed his differences
with the Republican party. He declared
that the bOndhOlders ought not to be paid
in gold until the soldiers pensions ar SO
paid.
In reference to his political career, he
acknowledged that he voted fifty-seVen
times at the Charleston Convention for
jefferson Davis as the Presidential nomi-
nee. He did it to save the Union, but
when his Southern friends became trait
oTs, he was ready to beat down secession.
Butter rehearsed and defended his Con-
gressional career, and told how he had
been urged by his friends TO be candl-
date for Governor. He had concluded to
do SO, would announce it openly and
boldly, and not get committee of damn
rum taverns somewhere to say it for him.
The remainder of Buffers speech was
devoted to an attack on the Msssachu-
sets Board of Charities and lengthy
discussion of the labor and tariff ques-
tons.
A Pungent Letter from Connecticut.
The following dispatch was received
from Gen Hawley, but the Chairman re-
fused TO allow it to be read:
HARTFORD, Aug. 24.-If Butler, in his
speech, said l was dismissed or removed
from my command, or was ever rebuked
for my conduct as an officer, beg some
friend to read this dispatch, in which
say the charges are an infamous falsehood,
and the maL who uttered it liar and a
blackguard. The last written commune
cation from Butler concerning my con.
duct was a copy sent me of his recon.
mendation for promotion.
j. r. HAwLEY.