New-York tribune., 1878-07-24

April, 1861, and the Using generaIlob n'ls
found little of it except in the back numbers
of The Congressional Globe Gf anybody reads
back numbers of that lively periodically, or In
the more entertaining albeit irreverent pages
of +" Martin Chuzzlewit" When the hero Of
Mr.. Dickens's novel found fault with the free
use of pistols, bowie-knives and sword-sticks,
the frequency of bloody duels, brutal combats,
savage assaults, shooting and stabbing, which
he had remarked in his American tour, the
Hon. Elijah POgram denounced " this hatred
" of our country and her institutions as an
illustration of British despodsm. In very SIM
liar language Mr.. Butler looks around
upon his audience, and, being rebuked
for saughterIng negroes, begs his tel-
low citizens to remark tho degrading
prejudices of Radicalism. When the strong
ann of the Federal Government is stretched
out to prevent wholesale massacre, he howls
aloud and dares the besOtted minions OF
tyranny to come on. When a Republican Adj
ministraton undertakes to protect all citizens
equally in the right to vote, he raves at the
bighting exhibi iOn OF Radical despotlsm.
And then his constituents perhaps get night
I'D and " assert their manhood" by shooting
n niger.
The Pogram style of eloquence seems to
have come back, along with the old school or
pro-slavery craftsmanship, the plantation man
ners, the duel, the lash, the loaded bludgeon,
and the doctrines of nullitication and State
Rights. "The great issue," Mr. Butler de-
clares, above that OF honesty or that
of race is the contest for State Rights
To that contest the South dedicates her
self. The authority of the Federal Gov
ernment is ga colossal monster" and
there is no safety or peace for the Southern
white man until it has been destroyed. We
have accused the Southern Democrats of a
deliberate purpose to disarm the Federal Gov
ernment by disbanding or Gripping the faith
full little military force which fought them
when they were IN open revolt, and kept
guard among them when they tried to rob
tho freedmen of the suffrage. The action or
the party in Congress proved the accusa-
tion the speech of Mr. Butler confirms
it, He makes common cause with the
riotous tramps and strikers and incendi-
aries whom the Federal soldiers prevented
from sacking and destroying cities last
Summer; and in the same breath he uDbraids
the central radical desDotismn for holding
the South by the throat, and for shooting
down the railway wreckers and communists
"because they were simply asserting their
"manhood and their rights as American cltl-
"zens."
But now, exclaims the Hero of Hamburg,
"the deadly grasp IL torn loose from our
throat At the North "the common people
have risen to enforce their rights; at the
South we shall stand for ours. First OF all,
Mr.. Butler wishes it to be well understood that
South Carolina is "a white mans govern
"ment,r and means to remain so. lie is
disgusted with the cowardice and the senti-
mental twaddle of those who pretend that the
races must have equal rights. "Tneoret-
"ically," to be sure. I" this is not white
"man's Government" but practically ii is, and
it shall be. The black people may come and
live IN the State, but whatever their majority
they shall not rule It. And Mr. Butler, who
at any rate is frank sort of busterer, has
left us IN no doubt rs to his methods OF keep
ing power, now that, by means to which we
need not particularly refer, he has unfortu-
nately got it,