old Democratic days; that it
was fidelity that was sent to Charleston, to vote for Douglas,
and voted fifty-seven times for Jefferson Davis; that it was
patriotism of which Governor Andrew said in 1861: 'I am compelled
to declare with great reluctance and regret that the whole
course of proceedings under Major General Butler in this Commonwealth
seems to have been designed and adopted to afford means to
persons of bad character to make money unscrupulously;' that
it was good generalship that caused the blunder and slaughter
of Big Bethel; that it was skilful engineering that made the
canal at Dutch Gap a laughing-stock to the civilized world;
that it was a great strategist that was bottled up at Bermuda
Hundred; that it was courage that retreated from the uncaptured
Fort Fisher; that it was purity that caused the scandals of
New Orleans, and integrity that traded through the lines in
North Carolina; that it was a great soldier that was ordered
by General Grant to report at Lowell; that it was zeal for
the public service that defended the Sanborn Contracts; that
it was modesty that has gone so often up and down the State
blowing his own trumpet; that it was honesty that mingled
the funds of the Soldiers' Home with its own; that it was
good faith that sought to juggle the public creditor out of
his debt; that it was care for the poor and the working men
that sought to give our laborers rags for wages and our soldiers
waste paper for pensions; that it was a faithful representative
that promised the men of the Middlesex District that if he
might go once more to fight the Rebel brigadiers he would
faithfully represent their opinions on finance and then proposed
that marvellous scheme of fiat money, which he represented
it would be no loss to lose and no gain to get, and that even
a Chinaman would not touch, so that the same constituency
demanded his resignation and 'resolved, that we warn the people
of the Commonwealth, whose votes General Butler is now soliciting
by promises to serve them faithfully, that his professions
when seeking office have been found in our experience to be
easily made and as easily repudiated when the time for redeeming
them came; that they are neither gold nor good paper, but
a kind of fiat currency, having no intrinsic value, cheap,
delusive, irredeemable and worthless;' that it was an honest
Democrat, of whom Mr. Avery, President of this year's Democratic
Convention, declared that his promises