The weekly Louisianian., 1874-09-19
GENERAL BCILER'S GREAT
SPEECH At GLOUCESTER.

The following is the Geographic
summary Of Gen. Buffers great
speech which has electrified the
North:
GLOUCESTER, Mass, September ~
General Butler opened the congressional
Canvass in the Essex district tonight with
an elabosste speech mainly On national
topics. After announcing himsclfa n
didate for Congress and explaining that
the state Of his health had prevented his
appearance until to-day, he proceeded to
consider the outrages in the South and
draw comparisons between the protection
afforded to her subjects by Great Britain
and that given by the United States to
loyal citizens in the South, as follows;
Tho King Of q barbarous tribe in Africa
took FIVE E%nglishmen prisoners who were
peacefully trading in his country and
marched them>to his capital. The whole
English nation was aroused, war was de-
clared and an army was transported half
way across the globe. The army of the
King of Abyssinia was overpowered in
battle, his capital assaulted and demolished
and its treasure brought away by the Eng
l;sh soldiers and their c~ountrymen freed
from imprisonment. And shall it be said
that Union men, good, honest, peaceful
men, pursuing thc| ordinary avocat;onaoi
life upon the American soil, protected by
the American flag and our constitution, and
our laws, whereby they should be unmo-
lestcd, can not have that protection and
safety and redress for their wrongs which
England tan give for her citizens, v
when subjected only to imprisonment,
anid the Wild jungles of Africa2 Is the
rod cross of 81. George 80 powerful to pro-
tect and save its subjects, and the stars
and stripes so powerless in our land, upon
our country's soil. in one Of the richest
and what ought to be tho most peaceful
States Of the Union? Let ma be just to
the men of the South, and the excuse they
put forward in justification. of this out
rage.
They saJ the government Of the State o.
Louisiana has been seized from the old
white residents by votes of negroes, a
State government SGT up Of whites and
blacks, which is corrupt, and eating ur
their substance. We need not stop to Of.
que, or deny the truth of this justification
and that too, not because the corruption
of the government is no justification o.
tie murder Of the citizens By armed VIC
lencc, because other and numberlessm ur:
ders. too we'll authenticated to be denied
have been committed in the States Of Ten
nessee and Kentucky, in both Of which
the negroes have nc power in the govern
ment, nor any power of self-proteetion
but which are wholly under the Demo
cratic rule. So it is clear white mems
leagues have sprung mp all over the South
as lawless and murderous in the STATE
where the negroes are powerless'as wher'
they have power in the State governments
and III their wrongs are done openly ant
continually i'll these States, it clearly az
pears that they are parts OF plans to reneq
the war, crush out the negro, and. deEriv'
himself Of his political rights. Indeed,
read in q Southern paper q notice served
upon the negroes. that they must eithe
be deprived of all political rights. or tn
State will be a military territory.
This tuon, is war, and the men ofEssex
as on the seventeenth Of April, if needles
will again march to save the country from
traitors hands. 1t is my determination
to do all in mypowor, if elected your repre-
caa4a4;ra To COT tho mat4er RIGHT