Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-22
SENA TOR BOUTWELL, ON THE P0LI7T
GIL SITUA TION.

CAL SITUA 71ON.
Senator Boutwell, of Massachusetts made an
able speech Thursday, an abstract of which is as
follows
Mr.. Boutwell, said it might be reason for regre,
to himself that on the morning Of the 9th Of jan
uary he was not so furnished with facts and SC
equipped with faculties, moral and intellectual
that he could at once form opinion satisfactory
even to himself Of the events and the character o.
the events that occurred In the city Of New Or
leans. The preceding day other Senators WERE
more fortunate and other persons in the country
not having better nor as far as he knew, even diff
erent means of information, were also more fortu.
nate, and with singular unanimity at once
pronounced the President Of the United States a
usurper, and the Lieutenant General of the Army
IN instrument of his behests, guilty of the basest
usurpation of modern times. lffrom this injustice
the South shall reap bitter harvest: it would be
fortunate circumstance in their affairs if they could
see the chief source of those disasters which are
not traceable directly TO their own faults and err.
tors.
At least one-half the misfortunes Of the South
ire due TO misdirected sympathy and criminal sup
port given by the Democratic party of the North
Before the war, during the war, since the war, the
democratic party, either by its promises or by its
policy has encouraged the rebellious and unsub-
dusd spirits of the South. This encouragement
has led to new acts Of violence and to new scenes
of disorder. These acts of violence and scenes o.
disorder have compelled the nation to move agar
And again for the protection of its loyal citizens il
h. al Gtatas The NJ IF tho do m
ocratc party in the North, whether actually &C
quired or only prophesied by its leaders, has beef
the measure of violence and injustice to the loya
people Of the South, and this violence and ipjus
tice, reacting upon the loyal people of the North
have checked the progress and prevented the act
nal triumph Of the Democratic party in the ma
ton.
This, in sentence, is the political history of tn,
country for fifteen years. and this, if may address
myself specially to the South, Senator'S will be thu
political history OF the country until YOU cease I,
look to the democratic party for relief and turn
those principles OF justice whose essence in poll
tics is human equality, and apply those principle
sniversally in the States that you represent BE
MOI deceived by any temporary success Of you
Northsru allies. They are to-day, for the pur
pose Of relieving you in the manner that you seel
10 be relieved, as powerless as they were in 1861
1854, 1886, 1858 and 1872. You seek to be re
loved from the authority conferred upon the Unit
to the Constitution. This relief You can neye
obtain.
me nation has been clothed with power to pre-
ssct IL citixens-citzens of the United States
their equal rights Is citizens Of the several State
These equal rights you do not secure in your sew
eral States to the citizens thereof and under cove
Of The seductive theory of local self-goyernmen
you deny TO the nation the power to protect thos
Who are first citizens of the United States, an
Inn and therefore citizens of the States wher
they reside. Your relief must come from your