The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-11

OF recent date publishes synopsis OF But
ler's speech at Lowell. 1t is a specimen
speech. 1t aroused the most intense enthu-
sIasm. We give few extracts. that our
readers may know Buffers style, and why
radicalisra is disturbed. The Herald need
have no fears. Butler will brighten the in
famous radical party in Massachusetts,. He
is shaking down about its ears its refuge of
lies. He is tearing away the underpinniDg
that supports the thieying superstructure of
the radical party. In his Lowell speech he
said:
We have met here for the highest purpose
known to freemen-to consult together upon
the questions of the day, the laws that govern
us and who shall execute those laws. To no
other nation under high heaven has this great
privilege been granted but to us, freemen of
America. To us this sovereign power has
been granted, this power of government. 1t
becomes us, therefore, calmly, considerably,
with judgment and intelligence to see what
we are about to do, and to see that we act for
the best good OF the present generation as well
for posterity. The maintenance of republi-
can government depends upon the masses of
the people, II they are not right, it Is all
wrong. If they right, nothing is wrong.
IL prosperity, intelligence, happiness do not
exist with the masses, the few are destroyed as
well as the masses. / ann a man who from
youth have always believed in the intelligence
Of the masses. | have found the aggregation
of mind in the masses to more than equal the
intellect or any one man or any few men. L
have found the aggregation of honesty among
the masses more than the aggregation of hon.
esty among the few. 1 entirely dissent from
the doctrine recently promulgated on the Pa
cihc coast by distinguished clergyman, that
the few only are honest and the masses usually
bad and dishonest. He may have found such
his experience among the churches lenthusi-
astic applausel. but have found it in my life
experience directly opposite. Another thing
about the masses OF mel They always have
sense of fair play and fair dealing that usually
keeps them right. The masses of men never
mean harm TO anybody. They may some-
times make mistakes; sometimes be carried
away for the moment by passion and preju-
dice; but, as a rule, they are freer from passion
and prejudice than the more intelligent few.
No better example can oe asked than that our
commonwealth affords in the history of the
olden time, when we tried decrepit old men
and bowed down old women for witchcraft'
and sent some of them to condign punishment
far too many at any rate. The mass of men
in Massachusetts, opposed those prosecutions.
They were carried on by the intelligent few.
The clergymen were the instigators of the
movement. Thank God no man in my pro-
fession-no lawyer-had anything to do with
those prosecutions. Laughter and applause.
Not one of them sat as judge upon case. The
five judges were clergy men. The attorney gen.
eral was merchant, and the poor witches
were not allowed by law any counsel. After
wards IL was seen what "A horrible thing it was;
and to the credit of those misguided men,
more than one of them made a public con-
fession of his mistakes. Therefore, L say,
have learned to trust the masses for this rea-
son. In the olden time this great country of
ours, for more than so years, was in the hands
OF the democratic masses, with the exception
of the south, where the democracy was COM
posed of another class of people. The laborIng
men, the middlemen, they are the classes we
speak of when speak OF the masses of the
people governing the country. l am speaking
to old men, gray haired men, who have men,
cries. am also speaking to the youth fresh
from the books of history. l ask you to say If,
In all that time, there was anything done by
legislation to injure the few-anything that
looked like destruction of property or capital
or that had a tendency to injure it in any way
ON the right decision of this depends the whole
structure of government. If il can not rest
upon such basis it can not rest upon any
thing. r 1t can not rest upon such basis then
republican institutions must go down in the
night, out IN the storm and darkness, never to
be revived again except through the thunder's
reverberations and the lightning's glare. Then
Will be witnessed scene more terrible than
ever seen from Sinai. Wemust depend upon
4. 4o1lt 90
right ii would be better for one strong man,
Whatever they call him, what care 1,
Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat. one
Who can rule and dare not lie,
TO take control of the government. Applause
loud and long.l But above all, if can not
have a government for the many, for the
democracy, give me despotism. In the name
of a just God, give me anything, but do not
send upon this country the rule of an aristoc-
racy Igreat applausel. where despot is in
every village eating out the vitals of the peo-
pie. [Renewed applause.l Anything but
that. CONTINUED applause.l have been led
to this train of thought, fellow citizens, be-
cause we are told that if the men in this
country have their way there is danger of de-
struction of property, the overthrow of vested
rights, agrarianism socalled, bloodshed, muir
French revolution. The cry is already raised
against the laboring man of communist, So
cialist and like terms of opprObrium, precisely
the term abolitionist was opprobriously APP
piled to the men now dropping one by one
into their graves, who stood up herOically in
the noble cause of liberty. IApplause.l Men
forget that the scenes of the French revolution
were at the close of the rule of the worst kind
IF Oligarchy, under an imbecile king; and
that 1t was only the protest of the masses
against that oligarchy 1t was not their ma
ti0nal government. The French revolution
attem pied to get rid of an olgarchical govern
ment, not to carry on one Of their own. One
need have no fear of such revolution. The
fear is raised simply as party cry to blind us,
as the cuttlefish when pursued, in eastern
seas, throws out an inky liquid which makes
the water dark as nigh [. and in the darkness
thus made hides himself from his pursuers.
Laughter and applause.l This Is just the way
that printers lax is used [laughterl, for pur-
poses of concealment. [Renewed laughter and
applause.l