The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-15
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.rsII,psr,ay SEPTEMBER is, 1871
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Massachusetts Venom.
So hotter evidence need be asked for that
Massreht,setts IL now, rs she has ever sbeess,
tho mall enant enemy of the South. than the
fats that Beast BUTLER decided that the best
capital he could employ asacandidate for re-
election to Congress was abuse Of the souIh'
ern white people. We published yesterday
4 q telegram sta,ing that he lad made the me-
pro The burden Of bis speech opening the
canvass for Congress in bis district. hear
the villain:
g king OF a barbarous tribe 10 Atrlca .o sa
ave Engiishmen prisoners who were peace,
fully trading IN his country ana marensa
them 70 his capital. The whole English ma
fion was aroused. War was declared. An
ar,nv was transported half way across the
piobe, The army Of the King OF A6yssinla
was oyerpowered Id battle, his capital was as
sanlted and demolished, apd Its treasures
{ brought away by the English soldiers as
booty. and their countTymen freed from im-
rrisonmens. Shall It be said that Union
men--aood, honest, peaceful! men pirsu-
inc the ordinary avocations Of life upon
an American soil, protected by our flag
and orr Constitution and our laws,
where they should be unmoiested, cannot
have that protection and safety and redress LOT
their wrongs which England can give 10 her
citizens. even when subjected only to imprl.
soument in the wild giades of AfricaI 'is
the Red Cross OF ST. George so powerful 10
protect and save its subjects and the STARS
and Stripes 20 powerless 10 our lana, upon
our country's soil, in one OF the richest, anu
what ought TO be the most peacefui, States
of the Union? This, then, is war, ana tne
men of Essex, as on the 18th OF Apf,i, II
need be. will again march to save the couD.
try from traitors hands. 1t is my determl,
nation 10 do all in my power If elec'eu
your representative to set this matter rls nt."
This is suggestive speech. ltshows that
q Massachusetts statesman y whilst pratine
about ".he Constitution and laws" OF the
country proposes to override that Consttu
ton and those laws, and send "the men OF
Essex down South to punish offences
known only 10 State laws. The Constltu'
ton provides that the President may send
troops TO any State only when the Legisla-
ture or the Governor shall have called for
them. Butler kicks the Constitution out
of his way, and sends troops wherever Mas
sacbusetts hatred and malice would have
them sent.
This speech shows, too, the progress of
despotic rule. Oh, the unspeakable nom
sense of talking about 6 States rights and
the Limitations of the Constitution" and
the "rights that are still left to u.s." when
this infamous Beast speaks the sentiments OF
the masses Of The northern people every.
where, in daring to call the southern people
TRAITORS because they object to negro
govern ment. The northern people would
Willingly see the army used for the purpose
OF Illuminating the southern whites and ex.
ating the negro. The war has been over
nearly ten GEARS, and yet all that is necessary
10 rouse the hatred of Yankee is to swear
Us BrTLlR does, that "Union men" are be-
ing prosecuted by "rebels." "Is the Red
Cross,' asks be, $50 powerful to pro.
tect and save its subjects, and the Stars
and Stripes SO powerless!" Here this
unbIushipg falsitier has the face to treat
massachusetts audience as if it were made
up of idiots !; for if 1t be true that these out
RACES have become so common in the South,
how did it happen that he never had occa-
sion 10 deuounce them until ne had made up
bis mind TO run once more for Congress 7
"This, then, is war;" said he; war upon
SAMRo; and this is all that it is necessary for
anybody TO say to a Massachusetts crowd i'll
order to excite their prejudices to the high
est pitch. The pride of race seems to be
dead 10 every Massachusetts bosom. The
people there would US soon think OF pre-
ferring an honest man to BUTLER as Of pre-
ferring a white man to black. Their
hatred of the South is passion. 1t is in
grained in their constitution, and they will
probably never get rid of it.
And yet it is hardly too much to say that
the whole OF BUTLER's speech was an infa-
nous lie. The records of the courts would
doubtless prove that there have been ten
times as many violent deaths in the northern
States this year as in the southern. But in
the northern States the victims were white,
whilst in the South the victims were some OF
them LACK. Only think what would have
been the effect if "CuARLlE Ross had been
anegro and had resided in Louisiana or Ten
nessee. Why the whole United States army
would have been sent to search for him.
Such hypocrisy, malice, and unreasoning
hatred, are worthy Of the descendants of the
witch-burners Of the Bay State.
These same hypocritial enemies of the
South profess, too, TO be the warmest ad-
mirers Of the union of the States. Yet their
insensate rawlings against the South, and
their outrageous ISLANDERS upon our people,
coupled with their conduct 10 talking eter-
nally about sending troops to the South, and
whipping Us into submission, have done
more to weaken the bonds Of the union than
kukluX raids could do ia hundred
years. The fact is that these nom
senSical threats are disgusting. They
amount to nothing, especially in the mouths
within range of gun during the whole of
the late war. They scare nobody, aud they
do nobody any good. BUTLER assumes that
his constituents are fools, and they prove
that he knows them by doing just as he
wants them to do. We know that we have
no rights that we do not hold by sufferance
OF the Federal Government, yet we feel no.
thing but contempt for BUTLER and all his
constituents. They are not the men to come
South except for plumber. Ten thousand
Buffers would not capture one kuklux
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