Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-30
ON THE RAMPAGE,
Ben Butler Addresses the People OF
Worcester. Massachusetts.


Ben Butler Addresses the People OF
Worcester. Massachusetts.
On Tuesday night Ben Butler opened
the camnaign on his own behalf, for the
Republican nomination Tor Governor OF
Massachusetts, by a speech at Worccs-
ter, Mass. A large part &C his address
W s devoted to abuse of Representative
HOar, wlo Is one of his nost earnest
opponents.
lie opened by the quotation of what he
declared was the first seurrilous newspa-
per attack upon him after he entered the
service OF his country land 1t purported to
be an item from the New Orleans
Picdy,ine, declaring that he (Butlcr) was
a native of Liberia, son Of an old negro
who omigrated fromlNew Orleans. The
next newspaper publication that con-
cerned him was Jer Davis pr0cl unntior
declaring him ftlon and an outlaw. and
offering $4,000 for his head. " Did any
body ever oiler half as much as that for
Mr.. Hoar's head l' he exclaimed.
lie continued Ia substance a, follows I;
am told by Mr.. Hoar that ny life ns
been "a failure. BE IL so; hut think cod
there is one thing cannot he said. that /
did not try to do my best, ami If | failed
was IL not better than to stay NJ home
and try to do nothing lie says be- never
heard 80 much good of me before shnit
memory, Mr.. HOar, or else you have not
read the history Of your country. | hold
In my hand parchment engrnssed by
the Thlrty-seventh Congress Of the United
States, which gives inc the thanks Of the
House for my able and energetic admins
tratiun IN the command Of the Department
of the Gulf. cloud aDplause.) But he
said Governor Andrew didn't like MIR.
Butler--never did he always thought
him a bad man. In the year 1868 the
senate and House Of Representatives OF
the State OF Massachusetts resolved that
thanks be given to Major General Butler
for the energy, ability and success of his
administration of the Department OF the
Gulf This Is passed January %, 1868
and ends up, "Approved-JOh A.
Andrew" cloud applausc.)
He then went on to read similar vote
by the General Assembly Of the State ol
| Ohio. Another Of the objections of yonl
Representative 20 me WA that, IN lsii
outhlackguarde1 mob in New York
| Here Ia a paper sigued hy one hundred OF
| the first merchants of New York, thank
/ Ing me for my services to the country. IN
| 1864, by the command of Prcsidcn
| Lincoln and at the urgent request nj
Secretary Stanton, j was sent to NewYorl
at the time that the whole life of TIN
Nation hung trembling in the balance a.
to whether we should be able TO 20 ON Il
that time. Mcclellan was in the field 70
President mob had burned an orphan
asylum at New York aud murdered sol
diers, and the question was whether the,
would not seize the city and carry it b.
storm, so that there could b. no legl
election, or 30 that the whole vote nigh
be counted for Mcclellan. | was sen
there with small command, and the re-
salt was what YOU know no Orpha1
asylum was burned while | was there
no man, woman or child was murlcre
while | was there no disorder Or rio
was had while ! was there. applause.
MOI New York had for the first time
and almost for the last up to this timc,
fair and just election ; aud the city wa
carried for Lincoln, and the country save
from bloodshcd and civil war. (Al
plause.) For that man not unknow
, to fame, Henry Ward Beccher, at III
Fifth Avenue Hotel, at levee given b
the citizens of New York in my homo
2 nominated me for President of the Unite
States. This ia the occurrence which NJ
? HOar, in his letter, refers to as 0uthlacl
T. guarding a New York mob. lie cOu|
not have done il if they had all bee
lloars. cloud and renewed applause.
When Mr.. lloar can show such teslim'
mails as these, coming from any SQUIRE
D for his services 10 the country, then ! wi
4 put myself on an equal fUOtiug with hin
, but not till then. (Crics of "Gnot
; Good - and applause.) But | forget,
= am quarfelsome.
1 Did ] quarrel with the gentleman on
: | lloar) I BY no means hui there one
d them,called me an opprohlous namo-tl'
y of a criminal now having hi7 trial
c England and said they would nave !
d lichhOrne claimant for Governor.
n Therefore, | have stood ali the new
- paper abuse because, with great re-le
h to these reporting gentlemen below me
Ie have got quite indifferent and used to
Daughter When, however, the
came from these men an attack on 7
for What they choose to all the hac
, pay grab-thc salary steal thought
was time to speak, and / did speak, ,
no actly the truth, with one cXccptiC
4 about your representative, and that "
y when said that he took his money "a
A. put il wherei he thought il would do
Il most good. That was not true.
as He wanted TO buy glory with H.
,c wanted 10 buy butchers meat with mi
"A and for that he comes out and calls ~
4, humber of hard uaine-, accuses ms
No. being a failure and non ct "heirg an
in rclsome." Now, that hrmg the con
ii. ton, tAry say ! took my buck saia
10, Nay, mOic, / engineered the biz thruu
ns the House. Well, did all that co
after l began it, as I generally Ito &
always mean To- do.
looked into the presidents and foi
pay had been raised six times, and oy
~, time il had been raised going back To
'9s beginning of the session Of the Cong
~ which raised 1t.
IN General Butler then went on TO quot
ol mass OF records, showing that in MAJ
~, chusetts for the last twenty years ~
lnS Legislature had raised its pay, and eN
III, man had heretofore taken il. Some Il
~ were who lodged the vote, hut took
}" money. lie named among others,
Excellency William b. Washhurn.
The General here produced II round
hearty applause by deXtcr0ue hit At
NJ Worcester Spy, whose editor, he said.
ne refused to insert n letter of his unlcl
.et- was paid for, and he produced II rec
ing for $1,000, paid for its insertion, zig
We John ID. Baldwin ~ Co. "llurrah for
ms, unpurchascable press" lie design
III the press attack on the grab as /
va from the newspapers, il he did not bel
.hu' tho dog by the comparison.
ION, As have said, thought this iDcr
d Of salary was right, and ! think so
ler' but may be wrong though / believe
has salary is rightfully mine IA much ~
aese coat on my back, yet, If my colleaf
ers, past and present-Mr. TiOar. Mr..
ow- win, Ar, Dawes, Mr.. Gunner. Mr..
well and Mr.. Wasnburn-wil pa
the back salary they have got, ' ii
what l have got. (TreTcr
1--WE applause.)
use -------~S~--
- to The Pennsylvania Domoor
or The Democratic State Convent,
kept Pennsylvania met atWilkesbarre We
fuo- day, was called TO order by Hon. sa
Nuur J. Randall, and organized by cullin
y OIL Nebinger to the Chair. Alter settl
nee number Of contested election case
the permanent committees were apo
pihg Two recesses were taken, and at 4
y oi the committee on permanent organic
'ouI made TIA report, proposing tins
u tnc Milton Spear for permanent Chgiriu
IONS, At this point A. II. SLATE, Of iur
llsh' terrupted, and moved the nOn-cOucuI
leys, Of Convention in tho report Of the
rIe- mittee 20 far a. read, giving A. his