The daily gazette., 1878-01-01
Buffers BrOadSideS.
The Boston Banks Club Treated to q
Speech.
No Man, However Honest, Gun al ne sdm'
Time Ride t,oo Horses Gota0 IN Dyer
enfDrecffo ns- w a Repuoticn
Admfaisfration Might Have Done
Better,
THE TITLE OF PACKARD AND
HAYES.

THE TITLE OF PACKARD AND
General Butler spoke on the policy
OF the President again Saturday after
noon In Boston. His audience were
members of the Banks Club. 'There
has been a good deal OF criticism,' he
said, "of the speech made last week,
Of which you may have heard. Per-
haps If the critics understood their
subject properly they might not have
been so savage In attacking what was
merely AN expression of nay own con
scientiously formed opinions. Ispoke
what l then thought true, and tho
events of the week, though l don't
pretend to be prophet have proved
| Ii 10 be true. No man, however hon
| est, good, and well-intentioned, can at
| the same time ride two horses which
are going in different directions. IL
requires q well-trained horseman 10
be equal to the tssk OF riding two
horses when they are going In the
same direction. have said this be-
fore and am glad that it has been
echoed back In many fervent ad-
monition to the President. Laughter.
he must adhere to the one party OF
the other.
Would .dndrew Jackson Haze Done
So?
snow It has been said that II Ia
easy to find fault, but difficult to sug-
gest a different course. Some OF the
leading papers have challenged me te
sketch wherein a Republican Admin
istration might have done better
Now, that burden ought not properly
to be put upon mt. The people have
not elevated me TO the Office of Presi
dent, and so am not called upon To
shape policy but think, withou,
offence, that there is way wherein
can indicate policy which should be
a little different from that pursued
for instance, on the Southern question
have no ill-will against the Southern
people. II / were in the President'l
place | do not say that / would no
conciliate the South. If had it in
my power, as Chief Executive OF the
nation, l would conciliate every hon
est and law-abiding citizen of the
South with every honorable r'aon7 81
Cancellation in nv rower saii 4a -.
4 other hand, vouif i th4t sa'.'
executive power . f0'-o~ si..t re
punish the murd raia otsl s1il ne4
citizen to the II 9siana HM
law.
What object to Asi tie f I
liberty, are not SAT- .'
and that murder Is, l
avenged and unpun would ~
drew jackson, do you think, have alld-
ed the Chisholm massacre yet to be A.
vestlgated, while Gully, the man Wb-
headed the mob that murdered Chisljm
and grossly insulted his wife and dath>
ter, Is elected Sheriff of Kemper cqIty ?
But it is said 'you have sporadic l1nes
at the North We do, and we thlsh
them, But how abeut this cas- Not
eveK word has been spokety the
Administration against this Iemper
comfy massacre. We heard fat Mr.
Evarts was to write to Governd Stone.
of Mississippi, strong letter 4ng the
Governments opinion Of this fserable
business. Have you read tH letter
. Have you seen it published fwhere
IfGovernor Stone receivedtf he has
kept 1t to himself very care9Iy Moths
. ing in the form of a Lefty could, OF
course, make full reparatid put at least
IL would have shown the fnper OF the
Administration regardin9nis crime. In
that massacre, McLellant ocotchman,
was called upon to proiq
was fired at and killed. because ne was
a British subject we rfgnize the de,
mand of Great Britsinf justice, and
, we have to pay the petty we exacted
in the case of tho crepl the Virsinius,
but nothing has bee9khe 10 marx tne
detestation Of this verament l,1 'or tne
murder Of an AmerY citizen.
THE FIRST DUTY THE pREsiDEST.
lAssAgain, / believfat it was the nrst