Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-31

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! OF light Dragons IN 1872, Sod dby jam = Me- =,
| son alss Mas0htc DIPLOMA, nv lT tile se
! 81 the grand lC1"e OF Nelson's, comn anG'lg his
| father TO all good men, and esp cially working
| Masons, There was another document tIder
| the seal OF the state OF New Haipshire COM
| mending him as Il ,nierchaht-laud I'll as fdf
| back rs Nnt' 1910 HE speakersaid some sharp
| lhltgs about the newspaper attacks upon hun.
| Every hatoni he sald, had its idol. Here 1t was
| the prcssi and everybody who does not Bow
| down to 1t is ground betW zen the upper and
| neither mlStones' Well Rs eaid, lbt
| Their grind AWAY! He had nothing
| further to say about the Springfield p
publican, because it has put itself outside the
| pale OF civilization. WAR ngt M while pro
| Tossing TO he on fiendly terms with him, was
stahhin9 Hin under the fifth rib. lie said his
| inner ailuslOn to this correspondent was incor-
| rect lnaSmuch as the hand to hand collision ip
| lowell some years AGO, should have read hand
| 70 nose collision. But, said he, bringing his
| fist down heavily u2On the desk, and alluding
| to the Republican and its editors and corr
| SpondentS, have done with them forever He
next turned his attention to the Boston journal
animadvertng severely upon the conduct of
Mr., Steckweil and the Unutst Of the ratei in re
| gard th the Beverly caucus Next tui ling to
| the Boston Advertiser, he said that paper pub
| lished IN obscene, dirty libel on a lady miss
| Anna Dickicson) and after much urging be
| made them wife and publish an apology To
| show what The la " herself loHght Of .lic mat
ter, he read a letter recently received from Miss
Dickinson adding that he would put Anna
| Dictinsou's word against all the editors this
| side of where they will all 90 to if they don't do
bette; In this letter she trititiscs the Adycr-
tiser sharply f2r Its report Of her lecture on the
| occasion in question, She says she asked them
for only rctraciion; she besOught its managers
with tears, but was treated with rudcness, inso.
| lencc and diSdan. 1t was from the 9th to the
| 18th of November before ] got them to rctract
| and apologize, said Gen. Butler but they uuallcd
| and did it, and have not mentioned me kindly
| since.
| In regard to the matter between himself and
| Gen. Hawlev, he said that more than five years
ago the attack upon him by the Hartford Cou.
rant Oegan' Cen Hawley says never received
| anythn" put Kindness from Ten Butlerj then
| why docs ne SO repay that klndneSSF asked the
| speaker. IN thc report OF ms speech at SpIlng-
| ilcu ne SAD ne was represent as saying that
| ne remoV tlawlcv IRON command under him
Tor cowardcc and incompetency; and Cou+
| ram report imm9dlately tcicglaphed the same
| 10 ueh' HaWley' lie would not blame the gen
eral iof Dclhg mad at a statement Ike that, but
| what nc sald was YelJ p'Icreht. tie sand that
nc displaced Gen Hawley Tor lnelllclency and
| nlcompetency, ana that was WIDELY different
| from "Fem0Cm9 MIN Tor cOwardice" The
cnafgc, as actually nla!lc, ten. Butler sad
| Hawley had never 1emed. gE2s
| When Hawley dehleS that nc displaced MN
| from his position under him in the Amy OF the
l
| pun that was not an; u u was, why dld Hawley
| follow MN ike a Slcuth-houndf he bhm0 d
| Hawley Tor not ap0los Eng when 1t became
| known tbat ne WIS mlSrepOrt 1, las he claim 1
| u Was,) ana le'1 inc dlSpaf IN calling him
| liar ana DlackSuarIj GN'h@ Ms answer
> the dlspatch whch was handed him
| by the C0urant reporter, which he said
was TO the erect that any one sending him
| dlsDat n branding MN as q mar and blick-
| guard, he regarded us L~yond the pale OF gen
| Il
nothing 10 90 WIN either MN or MS representa-
| tive; but the Courant did not publish the reply,
| nor had Hawley man.'neSs enough to retract
| the slanc9rs he had utter d, even after knowl-
| edge of the fact that he hal been wrongly r
| ported; even when New York He'Gld reporter
| interviewed Hawley at oyo columns length, Il
| denial OF his dlspla cement had not been draw II
| from him, but the interviewed tuil-d inter-
| viewer ana the ST ct2cle oil two newspaper
| men trying 10 cat each other up, was seen.
He read several quotations from the SPRING
| field Republican, in which he was call i SANDER
| GUS names and desclib as cock-eye, remark
| ing that 1t was lar better % have the twist in
the eye than in the hear"
He next proceed i to answer the attacks me lie
| upon him as II soldier, by those who said that
the members of the ai,ny Of the James would
| have nothing - do with him. He explained
| that ut the tlrSt meeting OF that association he
| was absent from the county on public business,
| and that on the two subsequent occasions he
| had been unable - be present. al
THOUGH he had been urgently request /
to ne present and kc part, and1r cciy i
| letter in answer to his letter o. eXplana-
| ton on the occasion of the last meetin., which
was fall of the kndest assurances Of friendship
| for his old comrades. Go any where among
| good soldiers who were under my command
| said he, and You VIII find my friends you will
| find them here in Worcest-r-those who were
| not in the Guard shouse or displaced Co
| south. he adncd, and you will find me sus-
| taincd in thousands Of froeimcn's cabins by
| more prayers than would he offered for FL the
| other commanders in the atmy; and he would
rather have those prayers than those of all the
men who ever went 70 the legislature or ever
would go there.
| Now, said he. nv friends come and ask mo to
| be governor aud | saw to Them that I win if
| they want me. and can he elect ! without ,ro.
! ing through an the caucus machineIy and
without holding dark meetings and whisperinr
one thine in one mans o9r and onotber in onotL
| eI3s He was n frank, blunt man he sniJ and
because he come out oncnly and ?,J thc neonie
| of The commonwpoifh tb3t - theIy choose the
| wonId ba tbeir %ove, ,or WIN should IT, ~
"ontIemn,, Of tho S,ouysnnn5r h,,sn ~ 'iSS -
nrnce-J to talI who shonl5 ond o s hlni' 's'lu
be tho condn, h2 not " o Wiz Snou l M ,I
in thcir own way who tbcy want '' p'o''o 'e'i