The daily gazette., 1876-04-12
Mt Issue with Boutwell,.

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The Springfield MASS. Republican
desires it to be distinctly understood
that Senate Boutwell,, in his recent
fiery sectional reply to Mr.. Bayard in
the Senate, spoke for himslf and not
for ussetts--nor yet for the re-
publicans of Massachusetts, 1t de-
clares that the enforcement legislation
has long been regarded ia Massachu-
sets by republicans, not less than de-
mocrats, as, at best. necessary evil
"a temporary expedient for bridging
over wholly exceptional and abnor-
NAL political emergency. 1t adds that
Mr.. Boutwell's expressed belief that
the spirit of the rebellion" is still
rampant at the South, that there is mo
freedom there except fer those who
arc identified with the old slave hold
ing aristocracy,' is not shared by the
presents. When he rakes in the ashes
of the past, when he exaggerates and
aggravatcs the evil and difficulties of
the present, he is in work with which
the great body of his constituents have
no sympathy. Knowing Mr.. Boutwell,
OF old, knowing his faculty for making
an offensive thing doubly offensive by
his manner of saying it, the people of
Massachusetts would have very much
preferred that he should hold his ton
gue."
While condemning both Mr.. Bout
we'll and Mr.. Bayard for 'scolding
and personality" the Republican
says:
ut is pleasant, and something more,
to hear Senator from Virginia saying,
Ias Mr.. Withers sald
" am conscious that our people are
misunderstood in some regards; they
are, to-day, misunderstood with regard
to their feelings toward their late
slaves. l assert here, today, that af-
ter the conclusion of the war and the
emancipation of the slaves, so far
from being influenced by hate and
anlmosity and vindictive desire to
crush those people out of existence,
or drive them from the country, pre-
clsely y the opposite sentiments were
felt by very large portion of the
people of Virginia. l assert that the
Southern people have never to this
day forgotten, and never will they
forget. the obligations they are under
to their black population. l hope that
my right hand may be withered and
my tongue palsied if l ever forget my
own personal obligations to them.
During the war, when the whole man.
hood of the South was carried to the
front to fight the battles of the South,
our wives and our little ones were left
alone nnder the charge and the guar
dianship of our slaves; and am proud
to say-today, that, Notwithstanding all
the appeals and all the nefarious in
fiuences which were brought to bear
upon that population to induce them
to bring the war to a speedy and
bloody end, they were deaf to these
appeals, they resisted these influences,
they were true to the trust reposed in
them and hope shall never see the
day when ] am afraid or ashamed to
acknowledge our obligation to them. !"
The Republican also quotes from
Senator Maxey, of Texas, viz;
81 desire here to state that as have
never uttered a solitary word since l
have been a Senator calculated to es-
TRANCE the people of the North and
South, so | never will utter q senti-
ment of that kind 80 long as have
the honor to be Senator on this
floor. l have no more respect for a
Southern man who will scatter the ap.
pies of discord, breed dissension for
sake of local celebrity, than 1 have for
a Northern man. He who would seek
self-aggrandisement at the expense of
his country is not true patriot. He
may call me rebel; he may call me
traitor, and all that, but that is not looe
Of country whfch keeps a country apart"
The words in italics strike u key
note of the political situation. 1t is
not patriotism, but party, which deals
in acrid sectional defamation, or
seeks to kindle into flame the embers
Of old feuds.-BdLt. Sun.