Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-10
GENERAL BUTLER On THE
POA.ECf.
He Denounces the Administers
item In u speech in Boston.


The following extracts ara. taken from 1
speech delivered oY General Butler at a DIN
per given oy the Banks Cluo in Boston las
Saturday: H-j p
Soase OF the leading papers have challenged
JIG 10 sketch wherein . Repu0lTcan AdIndnis
tlStiou might have doae better SOs thai
JurSlea ouXnt not properly 10 be put upo.l
sne. The peopse hsvs DOT eieyslei mell0 lbt
5ttce of t'Iesiaent. and 81 anu nOt Calico
Y LOU 10 shape policy, but think Without
aaenss that taere 10 way wherein believe
/ can Indicate policy wLich snOuid be lii
Tie oikeren, from thst psrs0ed, for instance,
or tls oUsihern Question. 1 have no Iii Will
aeainst Ine South. RI, people. If were in The
rress drnt's place do uos say that | would
not nave conciilsted the Soaith. If / had 4
N my power, Is Ch.ef Executive Of the Ma
f.oa, woBIo cencliiaIe every hoGest and Law
aoiding cit:ztn of the South with every non
ora5te means of conclliAtion In my power,
AND, on the other hand. would 1se that same
excessive power TO follow alter aud puaisn
the laurierer Of An inUtfensive citizen 10 tie
fiilsst extent of the Law. What i Object 10
Is ,hst life, property, liberty, are not cafe TO
dag IN tie SJuth. and tiist murder is, ia thai
section, uuaveuged aud unpunlshed. WOuid
Andrew jackson, do you think, have allowed
sac Chisholm massacre yet To he nliuv vesti-
sxtea, while Gully. the nsa who headed the
mob tha: murdered Chisholm and grossly in
sultud his wife aud daughter. 10 elected sher
Of Ks nper coanty3 But 1 is ss'd, you have
sporadic crimes 1t the Eogth.'' We do, aud
we % iish them. but hOw about this case.
Not even word has been spoken by the
Administration against this Ksnper county
massacre. We heard that Mr. EFarts was 10
write 70 Governor Stone, of Mississippi, a
strong letter giving the Gnyernment's opinion
of this miserable business. Have you read
The etier? Have you seen 1t published any
@he< If GOvsrDor Store received it he
has keps it TO himself very carefully. Noth
ing y the form Of letter could, of course,
inskS full reparstion, but at least 1t would
have shown the temper Of the Administration
regahiing this crime. In the: massacre Nc
LelI&n, Sco,cc man, was called upon to pIo
tect Chisholm, and was fred at aud killed.
Because he wes British suOject, We receg-
nize The demand for Great Britain for jnsrIce,
snd we have 10 pay the penalty We exacted
in,tye case Of the crew Of the Virginius, out
ut ing has been done to punish the muir
desess. l1 7f' - I"
Again, believe it was the first duty of
Mr. Hayes to fud out whether he WAS hOuest-
iy and truly elected President of the United
States, and, finding tha, to be so, To sustain
every man elected on the same ticket in his
rlaoe by every man and every dollar at his
comma d lApplause.] | have no re .pect
for 8 man who viii dishonor his mMhel's
malssge certificate. l insist that it wss Mr..
Hayes duty to the Republican party, which
elected him, 70 sustain the men who sustained
him.. If he believed that there wxs any
wrong or fra1d in his election he should have
Just aoc icsted his claim. Let US ABANDON
MS election and wash our hands Of the whole
matter. We believe that Mir. Hayes was not
wrongful!y elected. The Republican party
stood firm in that belief durIug all that long
court and that anxious period from Nevem-
bet te March. In my Judgment, it was his
dutysto stand bv us, and say to these men
wh0 were voted for on the same ticket with
iiirnSef, aad the ballots for whom were
'couated by the same Returning Boards which
declared his election, and who received more
votes thsR be himself tn many cases, thst the
power Of the United States should support
their right every where, il be hal no suspicion
regarding the foundation on which he was
declared T., be elected. in Louisiana for in
stance And don't let anyone say that do
aot belieTe Mr.. Hayes fairly elected, for
have not looked into the subject carefully
enough to form Judgement on it. think
his cpurse 10 Louisiana Wa very unjust IL
he wss himself elected, Packard was elected
by the same vote. II Packard was elected,
the Legislature which sustained him and
elected Kellogg was elected, and the Nichols
LegislaIiire Was mob. This clearly consti-
iuted case Of domestic violence, which
Packard wss unable to rtpress, and lis Call
for tr,ops wSs clearly warranted. Mr.. Hayes
should have responded to that call, for the
Constitution 90 instructed him General But
Ter slso IN, ched on the Question of liver re-
,nonetization, and the Only new argument
used was that of expediency. He urgei the
Eastern members and merchants TO cnncede
TO the West the Silver bill. II was bound to
rass anyway, and if the East would vote
against il there would be spirit of opposi
tion md sectional hatred spring up, whit b
would result In the destruction of all legisla-
lion favorable TO Eastern capitalists He
sharply criticized and warmly condemned the
fishery award ON the ground that { was out
of all proportion. The people of Nova
Scotia had offered to sell the privilege o.
fishing for year for sum less than the in
lerest on the amount granted by the commits
sion He would vote against the passage in
the House, and he warned those who were
entitled 10 Alabama awards that the money
destined TO pay these would be applied to
the payments of the Halifax award.