Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-20
PITTSBURGH DEMOCRACY

counting out scheme had failed.
PIPTSBURGH D EMOCRACY.
Saturday Nights Outpouring in the Iron
City-Remarks of General B. +. Butler
at the Old City Hall.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. lS.-General B. F.
Butler and Colonel John W. FOrney ar
rived in the city this afternoon, and
made their headquarters at the st.
Charles Hotel. Abou' = O'Clock Paul j..
Carson, ex-Deputy |.".itf, together
with a number OF otu- r cOlored men,
called upon General Butler. Mr.. Car
son was spokesman, aud in brief stated
that they wished to pay tribute OF re-
spect 10 one whom they believed to be
a benefactor 10 their race, and TO whom
they ascribe the merit of unnumbered
services to them when their fate and
future
Was in a Chaotic State.
Mr.. Butler, in response, said he had
done nothing but what he conceived to
be his duty in war which was not
begun for the emancipation OF the slaves,
because, as all would remember, at
the first proclamation OF President
Lincoln troops were called out to retake
and repOSsess the United States in pro-
pertv which had been seized from them,
and 10 execute the laws. After review
ing his career from 1860 to 1865 he con-
tinued: For sixteen years since the war
| have acted with the Republican party
in the hope they would extend that pro-
lection 10 the colored men South that |
deemed they ought to have done. |
tried to get it done in Congress, but it
was not done. | fought the campaign
for Hayes in 1876 10 have that done
under a promise OF the platform and
party leaders that it should be done and
what was the result? The very first act
OF Hayes administration was to turn
over the States OF louisiana and South
Carolina, where it was claimed there
was Republican governments, elected by
negro votes,
Or Else Hayes Was Not Elected.
Where that was the fact he gave the
governments so elected over to the
Democrats, and from that hour, Tor iour
wears, no one thing has been attempted
TO be done in behalf OF the colored men,
nor indeed anybody else. There has
been, it is true, u little attempt to stop
the illict distilling OF whisky and brandy
IN the South, and a few men have been
caught and let 90, and some men have
been killed by the lawlcss distillers and
their murderers have not been pun
lshed; 80 there has not been proper
protection for the men who live down
there. That being SO, in the best in
terests OF the South and the best inter
ests OF the colored men,
Propose to Have Change.
II the Republican party cannot pro.
vide this protection in sixteen years, L
do not propose to try them Tor twenty.
Gen. Hancock has said he will enforce
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments in their letter and spirit.
Nobody who knows him will doubt he
will stand by that. ltelected and gwen
the power, and nobody doubts that the
Democratic party has the power to pro-
tect the negro. Ii they get into power
their great leader has said he will do so.
| propose to try this experiment for four
wears, and then ii the Democrats cannot
do better than HAYES has done | shall
turn around and help to kick them out
at the end of the iour years. One thing
is certain | cannot be more powerless
during the next four years to give the
colortd men protection than | and ey-
cry other man has been in the past.
An uImmenss Affair.
In the evening Republican tloppers'
meeting was held in old City Hall, and
fully 1 900 persons were present. There
was a grand tOrChlight procession out
side. aud an overflow meeting at the
foo, of Fifth avenue and Liberty street.
AT 5 o'clock the Veteran Association
escorted the distinguishe visitors to
the hall, where they were received with
storms OF applause. Hon. Marshal
Swartzwelder was elected chairman, and
one hundred Republican floppers were
named for Vice Presidents, and the loi-
lowing
Telegram from Gen. Hancock
was read
New YORK, September IS.
To Gen. 4. L. Pearson, Pittsburgh:
have not had time to answer by
mail YOUR letter of the l4th inst. Inc
occasion you write about will be OF special
interest. The composition OF your
meeting will indicate that the remains OF
sectionalism and bitterness are to
be buried; that living issues are TO be
grappled with, and that we have grow
ing party, covering all sections and en.-
bodving harmony, freedom OF opinion
and fair expression through the ballot
box. w. ,. HANCOCK.
Gen. Buffers Speech.
General Butler was introduced and
spoke as follows:
The attendance of the people in such
numbers and enthusiasm show that the
occasion is appreciated. The gathering
is to select President of the United
States. 1t is only in this free and happy
country that the privilege is accorded
the sovereign people to select ruler.
He would cast aside personal vetupers-
ton. Nothing is gained by hard words,