The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-02

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ter to the sentiments Of the assembled
magnates. but on the contrary, was as re-
frsshing as their wine He writes thasiy
The fact is that the ''nigger business OF
the republican party has done the work
of this load 1t did not relieve itself soon
enough. You are happy to-day in the
achievement of right In your state and city,
but cannot appreciate the unallsysd pleas
ure we feel Ia Alabama In the knowledge,
now and forever, that II Is established that
white meu made Alabama for white men,
and that white men must rule Alabama.
Throughout her borders we love TO chant:
The day OF negro rule has past,
The white mans time has come AT last
The hog Will return TO the land once more,
And the chicken roost low, like he used TO roost
before.
Did Henry watterson, of the Coarior-
Journal, miss the mark when he said the
party lacked brains to Improve their oppor-
tunty?
On the same evening there was another
remarkable gathering at Young's Hotel,
remarkable for the central figure,
RENAL kable for his speech, remarkable for
the men there assembled and remarkable
for its object. There stood General But
Ter surrounded by his friends he, as
| it appears, has friends left--who had rs
sembled either to congratulate him GA his
past career or condolc with him on his de-
feat. The General "came up smiling" as
he always does, and wa: as cgotistical as
usual. There around him, were Simmons,
| General Swift and others "of both parties
but Sanborn aud JAYNE were only con-
| spicuous by their absence. The General
with bis accustomed confidence and COM
placency, could tell the cause Of his de-
feat, he was an independent man" and
had said, tsrec years ago, that ''thc people
" needed CHANGE and that IL 1t was not
" made insite the republican organization
ait would come from the outside" Those
who recall the attempt Of Butler TO cap
turc the gubcrnatorial chair Of Massa-
chusctts, of his attempt 10 convert tic re-
publican party from decency 10 Butlcrism,
will smile when they thus hear the General
claim that his own defeat and the change
from scvcnly-fvc thousand majority for
| Waslburn To- some seven thousand for Gas
ton was that which he forccasted. was, In
truth ard fact, the triumph. of Butlcrism
oyer the better clements Of the party-for
if the sentence quoted means anything, it
means This. He comes tp this conclusion
for the reasons that, in his opinion, it
| that is his dcfcat--coud not have been
| caused by tho press, could not have been
because he supported Simmons, was not a
church member, voted for tho ''aalary
grab" and took the money, voted for JEFF
Davis ffty-seven times il was not for any
Of these reasons because men as guilty as
lie had been elected, aud others in dia.
mclricsly opposite pos.ton had been
defeated. This may all hs very
logical, but the orator and guest
fails 10 tell his friends, or an uQuirinc
public, that not one Of these men, &c
elected, possessed all of these defects sup
plemcnted by general cusseduess and was,
in addition, the head .ccntre of Butlcrism.
Butler and Talbot defeated the republican
party in Massachusetts. They, and per.
haps some Others, were the dead weights
which no party could carry and live, II
Butler had reasoned with hs accustomed
accuteness, hs Nigh. have seen that a man
may have one defect and bc tolerated, cvsn
endorsed, but when he combines everything
hateful in politics, ia the fountain head and
synonymc tor all the wOr4. tendencies OF
the times, then the people vii! repudlatt
not only him but the party which supports
him. This was tho trouble in Massachu
setts, and Ben Butler is hard pressed whor
he endeavors to lay his own defeat ant
that of Talbot and others at any other dool
but that of Butlerism. The republican
party of that state has nd itself of some OF
its worst clcnents, has received a check
and lesson which it will heed, and will
soon right itself and march at the head Of
the column as before. Butler cannot hclr
1t the Qualification of his friends canuo
prevent it. The implied prophecy con
tanned in his words that he is ''reliersd t1l
tno years" will not DO fulfilled. He ha
becn "relieyei" and retired, ~ we trust
forever. In this gathering, ~ the other
gasconade ruled the hour, and were withou
practical benefit TO the country, save onl,
as general disgust at want Of brains. shall
tend toward reaction.