Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-21
GEN. BUTLER AND COL. F0RNEY
AT PlTTSBURG.
BUTLER CALLED on BY C0L0RED MEN.
MIR. CARs0N's BRIEF SPEECH.
Mr.. Buffers Response to Carson.
Buffers Reasons for Supporting Hancock.
lie PROPOSES A RADICAL CHANGE.
BUTLER CALLED on BY COLORED MEN.
Mr.. Buffers Response to Carson
Buffers Reasons for Supporting Hancock.
he PROPOSES A RADICAL CHANGE.
A Telegram from General Hancocl


[By Telegraph to the SENTINEL
PrrrsBuRa, September 20.-Gen. Benz.
F. Butler and Col. John w. Forney arrived
in the city yesterday afternoon about 8
o'clock. Paul J. Carson. ex-Deputy Sheriff.
together with q number Of other colored
men, called upon General Butler. Mr..
Carson was spokesman, and in a brief
speech stated that they wished to pay a
tribute Of respect to one whom they be-
lieved to be a benefactor to their race, and
to whom they ascribe the merit Of many
public services to them when their fate
was in 9 critical state. Mr.. Butler, in
response, said that he had lone nothing
but what he conceived to be his duty in
the war. which was not begun for the
emancipation Of the slaves, because all
would remember that at the first proc
lamation Of President Lincoln. the troops
were called out to retake and repossess the
United States property which had been
seized, and to execute the laws. After
reviewing his career from 1860 to 1865, he
continued: "For sixteen years. since the
wa, / have acted with the Republican
party, in the hope that they would extend
that protection to the colored man in the
South that I deemed ought to be done. l
tried to get il done in Convention. but ii
was not done. l fought in the campaign
Of Hayes, in 1876, to have that done. und.r
8 promise Of the platform and party Lead
ers hat it should be done, and what was
the result? The very first act Of Hayes
administration was to turn over ths State
OF South Carolina and Louisiana, where IL
was claimed that there were Republican
governments elected by the negro vote, or
else Hayes was not elected. Where that
was the fact. he gave the governments SO
elected over 70 the Democrats. From
that hour. and for four years, not
one thing was attempted to be lone
in relief of the colored men, or any
body else. There has been, it il true, an
attempt to stop the illicit distillery of
whisky and brandy in the South, and a few
men have been caught and let 20, and
some men killed by the lawless distillers.
and murderers have not been punished.
There has not been proper protection for
men who live down there. That being 40.
in the best interests Of the South. and the
best interests Of the colored men, / pro-
pose to have . change. and ii the Repub-
licAn party can not provide for this pro-
lection in sixteen years, ! don't propose to
try them for twenty.
General Hancock has said he will enforce
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments in their letter and spirit.
Nobody who knows him will doubt that he
will stand by that. II elected and given the
power. and nobody doubts that the Demo-
cratic party has the power to protect the
negro IL it gets into power. Their great
leader has said he will do 80. I propose to
try the experiment for four years, and
then, II the Democrats can not do better
than Hayes has. / shall turn around and
help kick them ont at the end Of the
-four years. One thing is certain, / can
not be more powerless during the next
-four years to give the colored man proper
protection than ] and every other man has
been in the past.
The following telegram from General
Hancock was then read:
Gen. A. L. Pearson. Philadelphia: I
have not had time to answer BY mail your
letter Of the l4th instant. The occasion
you write about will be Of special interest.
Tbs composition OF your meeting will in
dsosts thss tho semains u yeceioaalism and