Year: 1873

Won 10 make conscience the supreme
rule Some of you love- in spite of recent estrange


ments TO remember those evenings when you nsteneo
delighted Charles Sumner nodded the lessons OF MS


tory the ornaments OF literature the eommanameh1s
law. human and divine into his burning
and impassioned love for the slave ANA
now. try and fancy, you eau
Of these men mutterng one Of the recent speeon


Of Gen. Butler. Fancy the hatred. the nyectve' tue
rbad jeer the boast and the swaeger the appea 10
low and base the denial of virtue and moraty
coming from these mems lips. What shock womb
such a spectacle give youf Suppose. in a manuscript
left by Allen or Andrew, in unpublished volume OF
Sumner, Of Buffers speeches should appear bow
would their pure fame fade " How" you exclam' In
sorrow how art thou fallen from Heaven, o, Lueifer,
son of the morning" I"


Gen Butler wishes to get the State carriage ont of
the ruts may be we'll TO get out OF the rus though
while 1t is in the ruts at least sure that 1t will


keep the road which fathers travelled We would
him take it out OF the rus and draw over ne
precpce. His uext proposition is that contained IN MS
Framingham speech 10 effect the muchneeded reduction
railroad freghts by allowing every man to load ana
furnish his aud requiring the railroads TO draw
them. do not think this absurd proposition needs
much discussion before audience OF the mechanics OF
Worcester do think travel railroads Will be
very safe If Gen. Buffers plan adopted He claims 70
be the friend OF the poor and OF labor. Ins is
claim which I suppose every man like Gen. Butter
makes when he is asking for votes. Gen. Butler charges
that he is opposed by aristocracy. His
competent private fortune, OF which no tells
us, probably exceeds in amount that OF all
the men who met Hamilton Hall
together II he by 1t honestly, and uses 1t hon
esty no win seek disturb him in ts possession
you really believe that Gen. Butler at heart dis
approves those existing social arrangements by which
large fortunes quickly gathered by single men
What do you think will lbe the effect on the
credit of Massachusetts, and OF the country to
slect TO the Office OF Governor man who
fayOrs swindling the public creditor by paying the
bonds in paper The name Of Gen. Butler is, as has
been well said, TO foreign hnaneiers synonym OF
repndiation. Gen. Butler the force OF this
point aud tried to break 1t in his characteristic
way, by saying, "Oh, to conduct matters
that there shall be money borrowed" Another ex
ample OF his insincere mode OF dealing with the
people Does he propose 10 pay off the State debt Of
s37.OO0OO0 in single year, Does he not know that 1t
Will needfu borrow and at lower rates, when


loans from time to time fall due 1 believe that the
speeches Of this economic gentleman the subject OF
paying the debt in irredeemsbe paper and his absurd
proposition create artificial currency never 10 be
redeemed in gold have cost this country In Increased in


erest the of millions OF dollars speech. One OF
the highest officers Of the Government, whom met IN
London in 1871 where he had for the purpose
Of placing bonds at a lower rate Of interest
told of a conversation he had had only
the day before with Baron Rothschd, in which the
Baron had said to him. IL it matter OF course


No man certainly would think OF taking the American
loan when he could get the French" 1t made my blood
boil with Indignation. II at the time when the fires
set by the Commune Paris were still burning;
when the armies Of Germany had not withdrawn
from the gates OF the dishonored capital; and yet
Europe passed by the loan. to which the future
OF the victorious American people and the resources OF
continent pledged, to take up almost in
a week at lower rates the bonds OF the French Re
public there. sitting in the dust at the feet OF the
auerng TeutOn. Why this It because Gen.
Butler and his Democratic allies. brought up in the
pudatng school Of Jefferson Davis had sought 10 tempt
the American people 10 evade the burden Ia which


they had pledged their faith by the paltry device Of
paving the bonds the time they should become due
with pieces OF paper never TO become due at all.


Mr. Hoar spoke for time the labor question,
saying that he believed washburn greatly
in turning Oliver OF his position in the Bureau
He gave what we considered would have been better
plan that a Commission should have been breated,
OF which Mr. Oliver and Mr.. Mcneil should have formed
a part and kind gentleman OF different theories
should have been added. He explained his disposition
OF his back pay and said in conclusion The battle with
corruption the duty Of the hour The blow OF the
bellion aimed the nations life, you could ward of,
but this corruption this rotng from the core this lack
of virtue in pubic servants is lar dangerous
10 the public With the waste OF our public |
lands are diminished the OF the lsborer Fol-


lowing the bad precedent OF Congress would YOU follow
the promugator OF those examples which you have |
heard so much discussed Are you quite ready de
clare to the country that in this great with
rupton wherever the Republicans Of the rest OF the
country may array themselves, the Republicans Of Mas
sachusetrs light under the banner of Gen. Butter