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Epstin Brothers, I H cheerfnlly recommend them to my friends and patrons and solicit a continuance of 9 my past patronage to their care, which the pnt>lic can be assured of good treatment at ?& I their hands. IioM>ectfnllv, * L. EPSTIN. Sept. 7-tf I J. C. H. TRUEfcifcK S iuuuiDusumn,! 145 Main Street [Opposite Lorick & Lowrance,] j COLUMBIA, S. C. ' & - I SALOON is stocked with the Finest j Wines, Liquors, Beer, Tobacco and Cigars, j Restaurant is First-class in every respect i Meals served at ail hoars in the highest culinary style. Oysters, fish, etc., and every thing palatable that the market affords, at moderate charges. Oct 22?12m COMMERCIAL BANK. COLUMBIA, S. C. Lapital Paid $100,000 m on/1 V-n/oVio nna Knai IX lUUSiiC t*> ?4 auu v??v. |ras. Receives Deposits. Interest allowed Deposits. Safety Deposit Boxes to rent Mr $6 per annam. wt. G. Childs, T. HASEL Gibbes, President. Cashier. 3ffov. 2S?ly CAROLINA NATIONAL BAM -ATCOLUMBIA, ?. C. STATE, CITY and COI YTY DEPOSITORY. 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ANBBEWa rnrr~A Valuable Book en Nervoul Is U ft* M Diseases seut free to any address, f K f f and poor patients can also obtain |f P? L this medicine free of cliargre. Th<? remedy has been prepared by the heverend Pastor Koenig, of Fort Wayne, Ind, since 1370, and Is now prepared under bis direction by the i KOENIC MED- CO.. Chicago, (II. Ispld by Drugsista at SI per Bottle. 6 for 8& Ptt rse Size. ILT5. 6 Bottles for 89. June 3?ly 45 I BTTTLERVS. WATSON. The Long Talked of Debate Ends With No Credit to Either. News and Courier, Batesburg, S, C., September 9? ybout twelve hundred citizens of Edgefield and Lexington and sporadic visitors witnessed to-day the great political battle of Batesburg between Congressman Watson of Georgia, and Senator Butler of South Carolina. The narrative of the clash of wit and oratory is best told in the proceedings given below, and especially as to the result as it appeared to the two gentlemen mostly concerned in the dual. Prof. Nash presided and he introduced the speakers gracefully and with a fair distribution of compliments. It was distinctly understood ii?i. ?1? o?A? Ilia I ULU} oeuaiiji uuut'i aiiu wugressman Watson should- -entertain and infl^n^^L^trdfdlence. The order of speaking was, Congressman Watson to open, Senator Butler to follow and the first speaker to reply. Among those on the stago, which was beautifully located in the suburbs of the city, were Capt. J. H. ( Brooks, Dr. Folk, Capt. Bates, Col. W. J. Talbert, the Rev. Mr. McSwain, ex-Governor John C. Sheppard, Editor Hook of the Augusta Chronicle, Editor McLenna of the Johnston Monitor, Editor Aull of the Newberry Herald and News, Editor | Buchanan, of the Chester Reporter, I A nro or*r? r\icfir>_ i OUUiO bcia ouu vb^w uwvAi.4 I guished gentlemen. The speaking began at 11 o'clock and was kept up until 5 o'clock sharp, except a short intermission. Prof. Nash read a letter from President Stokes stating that he regretted his inability to accept the invitation of the committee to y*e present, but it was impossible on account of engagements in the eastern part of the State. WHAT COL. WATSON SAID. Col. Watson spoke substantially as follows: / I will He has all the advantages over me. J You know him, and you love him. I | am unknown to you. mere is a ; wide difference between.me and him ! i in our relations to you. If Senator j Butler were a candidate for office I ! would not be here. That would be | a matter for you to settle yourselves, j But when Senator Butler takes the position he has on this question it affects every one of you. We are here discussing measures, not men. We are discussing measures that affect Georgia, as well as South Carolina. It is a platform that touches every one. I am in a position to expect that questions shall be discussed on broader lines than personal ones. Each of us will rise to a position of statesmanship and brotherly love. j South Carolina has always been close to the heart of Georgia and Georgians. Your distinguished men are known and honored in tfeorgia as well as in South Carolina. I say to you, Gen. Butler, with respect, that you demonstrate the manhood of South Carolina, and I feel it an honor to debate this question with you, and will debate it in the highest sense of honorable discussion. I feel that a Georgia boy is at home with South Carolina boys. "We assert that the sub-treasury plan will be a good law. Gen. Butler denies it. That puts the burden of proof upon me. It is for me to demonstrate that the plan is a good one. That's good parliamentary law. We started it in Georgia, and we TPar>+??rJ tViA anWrflftfllirV or some thing better, but the more we thought of the sub-treasury the better we liked it. Now we want the subtreasury from its horns to its hoofs. I don't know how correctly Gen. Butler was reported in the debate at Prosperity with Dr. Stokes. I have the report as published in the News and Courier, but I presume it was substantially correct, and if there is no correction cf it, I take it for granted that the report is correct. "When we debate a measure we debate the principles underlying it. I am going to demonstrate to this audience that Gen. Butler will do himself great injustice if he undertakes to discuss the details of any measure without discussing the principles underlying it. Further, Gen. Butler will be forced to take one or two positions. The bill was either right or wrong. If it is right he, as an | American statesman, owes it to this | people to help them make this bill a law. If the plan is wrong, ought not he be able to demonstrate that it - ~ ?*?' XT>-v /mi/-?V?4- 4-/-v oV\1 a fn is wrung - xiu uugut tu W i*iu4v demonstrate that fact from a constitutional standpoint, from an economic standpoint, from precedents and from j legislative enactments. When he j | wishes to decline to discuss the plan j j he puts himself in the awkward po- | j sition of saying that the plan is right, ! i but he can't help you, or it is wrong j I and he can't show it, and he can take i I either horn of the dilemma he likes, j ; and he will have some rough riding I > f i ? i i I i on eitner one. [Appiause auumuy liter.] BUT WHAT IS THE PLAN? Col. Watson went on to say that Gen. Butler would have to come out ! and debate the plan, and may God j give the victory to him who is right. [Applause.] Col. Watson, as an analog}' for the discussion of the plan, said the greatest reform movements of modern times had been dis- I cussed without a bill with its details, just as the tariff was discussed bep <1 p 1 1 lore trie amis dlll was irameu, auci that Gen. Butler discussed it without waiting for the bill, and so it was with secession, the adoption of the post office system and the railroad system. He then discussed the subtreasury plan on three lines: First, j the laws; second, the evils complained i of, and third, the remedy. ATTACKING THE BANKS. ! He took up the national banks and . ! discussed them as an old law and an 1 | evil. He denied that they were a war measure, having been established . in July, 1863, when the war was nearly over. He elaborated the j ^ charges of contraction and stated j that the system was robbery and so j forth, and that the $500,000,000 they ] made every year belonged to the people. He charged it as disloyalty that Democratic Senators should have i ? * i i e i' ii^ voted tor tne recnarter 01 national banks. Applying the rule, he held ] that if the Government could lend money on bonds it could also lend on cotton and other field crops. A FALSE ANALOGY. j He maintained that the precedent 1 for the sub-treasury could be found 1 in the banks of Amsterdam and 3 Hamburg, which issued certificates 3 on gold and silver uncoined, which ( certificates passed current in Europe. per cent., and which plan was adopted ' also in Norway. None of these ' banks failed, while the English and ; Russian banks had to be helped out by the Bank of France. He also j cited the case of the Silesian Bank, j ' lw TVpflpvifk the Gl'eftt I fc'j v?v--_ ? HE SAYS LEND AND MEANS BORROW. Georgia lends money at per cent. He maintained that prices were regulated bv unlawful contracO > tion of the currency and he illus| trated by a supposed case, in which all the banks of a country j should suddenly call in all outstandj ing obligations. On this point he j quoted Mills, Kicardo, Henry Clay and John T. Sherman. He eulogized the English system of laws by which the great depression of 1857 was overcome by the financial measure erf Lord Castlereaugh. He denied that laziness and extravagance were the causes of depression, but drew a picture of a hard working _ _ i._ i people eatmg poor provisions, musty meal and white meat, wrinkled like a ribbon. TLis comparison created ! a great deal of laughter. He couldn't ! see how beople could be lazy and yet j produce a surplus of cotton. Yet j cotton goods were high and the staple j was low, which proved that there was a bug in the buttermilk somewhere. LABOR AS A UNIT OF VALUE. He held that silver and gold were j not the unit of value in the books 011 j political economy. On this point he \ - * - <" '* V l.U IL.i. I quoted Adam smitn, wuo neiu tuatu variable article could never be a correct measure of the quality of other things, that is gold and silver continually varying, could not be a cor rect measure of the value of other commodities. He held labor to be j the correct standard of value, and i i the sub-treasury bill was embedded ! in this philosophy. Col. "Watson then said that the sub-treasury could be tested by the people of a county selecting a factor who would be a bonded officer elected. Let such an officer issue certificates as the Government does on gold and silver, and j this would be the sub-treasury in the j I essence without any Government ex- j penditure. The bond, of course, Yould be approved by the Circuit Jugde. Gen. Butler said that all the money j would be back in the treasury in the | spring, when the people wanted it j : most. Col. Watson said that this would [ only be true if all the people put in ' all their cotton at the same time and | took it out the first six months. On I nnrlvorv +V,c> favnipvu w nil 1/1 mit cot i j vuw , | ton in at various times from Septem- | ber on, so that the operation woulc be continuous tho whole year. This was tho last point made lu Col. Watson in his opening argument which was closed by a peroratioi based on the story of the relief o: ducknow, the application being th< sub-treasury as a means of relief tc flip Vipjpflonvprl formprs. ? v ^ o Senator Butler's Speech. Senator Butler spoke as follows: Mr. Chrirman, Ladies and Gentle men and Fellow Citizens: I am al most in that condition in which mj distinguished friend said lie was ir upon one occasion, when he took s bite of that old white meat imported from Tennessee, from Kentucky 01 some place else. I believe that 1 could eat some of that meat now, o?,l T om 111 nvo om o auu JL Lii-Ju axia?u tuai aic c? good many in the audience who have their minds turned to the dinner ta ble rather than to the speaker, but I will occupy a short portion of the time before we adjourn to respond, as well as I may, to the observations of the distinguished gentleman who has just taken his seat. He reproached me, as I have been reproached before, with discussing what is known as the sub-treasury bill at Prosperity. I was invited there to discuss the sub treasury plan on its merits, and the only plan I have ever seen or heard of being the bill I ventured to discuss it. I have been berated, defamed and derided because, forsooth, I exercised the right of an American citizen to discuss in public a question of interest to the people. That bill was presented to Congress by the friends of aiy distinguished friend. It was paraded before the world as the consummation of all the wisdom, of all the statesmanship of America. In the National Economists, by lobbyists to put it through Congress, by the orators on the stump and off the 3tump, in the press and everywhere, we were told that it was a consummation of the sub-treasury plan. But it seems to me after all the sounding >f gongs and blowing of trumpets, which is a matter cf public record in day if I venture to discuss it without the consent of the bosses who are trying to domineer every man who chances to differ with them. [Cheering and applause.] Fellow citizens, I never expected to live tc see the day in this State when any citizen of the Commonwealth of the State of South Carolina should have to go to the bosses of the sub-treasury to get authority to discuss any public measure of interest to the people. THE BOSSES AND THErR BANTLING. From what I can observe the bosses themselves have become ashamed of their bantling; they have become ashamed of the bill; and because I ventured to discuss it have accused me of bad faith, when, as God is my witness, I had no mon intention of being guilty of bad faith than I have this day. I will dc my friend the justice to say one thing to him, that he has the manhood and the courage to say to my face, tc state the misrepresentation of wliai I have said, while others waited unti my back was turned before they pliec ? ? 1 J3 tiie tongue 01 sianuer aim ut'iama lion. My friend says that I said a Prosperity that the man who woult borrow money at 2 per cent, did no intend to pay it back. I say to you fellow citizens, upon my honor as i man, that was a base falsehood, e base misrepresentation. The gentle man says that I said that no othei man who borrowed money woulc pay it back except the man who bor rowed at 7 per cent. I say that THAT IS NOT TRUE. So that my friend had a good dea of fun; he told a good many anec dotes; he created a good deal o laughter upon premises which wer wholly erroneous and without a pai tide of foundation. No, gentlemen I have stood by the side of too man; of the good people of this Stat' when their souls and courage wer tried to say here or at Prosperity, o any where, that there were fort; thousand farmers in South Carolin who were thieves and scoundrels and I brand the author of it i3 1:? rf rtV>??ovinrr nnrl ftrmlnnsA Jk 1 lU ^ 1 Cftll ^?JU W'A ***^ * V% V?w? I have live(Vtoo long, I have see: too much of this life at this day c my existence to pander to dems gogues and charlatans for the high est office in the gift of the people c this State or any other. And now one word, purely of personal character. I believe m fellow countrymen will do me th justice to say that when South Can lina called upon me for my service I have contributed them in war an peace, and I have done so withor I stopping to count the cost of tin contribution. They have honord rr / 1 j perhaps a thousand fold more than j I deserved, but they have never yet i put me in office upon conduct on my , part which would create the belief or 1 impression that I have ever stated f one fact to the people of this State i _ i T 1 i A Jl. . - ? ' i mat am not meet me approoation or > my judgment and conscience, [applause,] and they n??er will put me in office if I have to pay as its price i the advocating, the sustaining or maintaining of any proposition which my judgment or my conscience will not approve. j TOO STUPID FOR AMENDMENT. I k My friend rather rebuked me be[ cause I had not amended the sul>. treasury bill. Why, fellow citizens, ; I have those two bills here, and I will submit them to the candid judgk ment of any intelligent and impar? tial man in this State, and let him say whether or not in that form they were susceptible of amendment. I , might as well have i ry to amend a proposition to pontoon the Atlanta Ocean i or to build a bridge to the moon. , [Laughter and applause.] The bills were introduced by Governor Vance, being referred to the committee on agriculture and they were buried in the tomb of the Capulets I had no opportunity of amending them if they were susceptible of amendment. So, then, I have been reproached be cause I did not amend the bill, and Iamaskedto discuss the sub-treasury Te / :n J pzaii. xi my liit-uu wiu paruou zue I would be under the profounde9t obligations to him if he will only tell me what that plan n*. I have not heard it and he spoke for an hour and a half by the watch. He talked about the battle of Lucknow, about the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He talked about the reforms of England, about the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Newca stle, about the abject poverty we were all in , and leading up to that particular flight of his eloquence, from which we would have thought that ev^iy man, woman and child in this audience was crawling ou hi^nee^j^^bject poverty with which U MS healthy land w^^^^H?d an audience as I have seen inlnBog while. The ' ladies seem to be reasonably well attired. If they will pardon me for referring to that, and the men are not entirely ragged. I expect if they 1 would go home thev would find a O / sweet potato or a bit of bacon, al1 though not so white ns he talks about; a little dust of meal, home made, to the manner born and not imported from Tennessee or Georgia. [Laughter and applause.J But my friend studiously, conspiciously avoided to , discuss the very plan which he says ( I did not discuss, aDd when he had > finished I was inclined to jump up, clap my hands and say that the polit? ical Millennium had come. [Laugh ter and applause.] And I say it with- I out irreverence that the political i Messiah had come. (Laughter and j applause, and hurrah for Butler!] I j was about to exclaim, with folded j hands, that this generation and day of our Lord had brought in the . electric telegraph, the Trans-Atlantic cable, the flying machine, the electric light, the telephone, the phonograph, THE GRAPHAPHOXE AND TOM WATSON. [Great laughter and applause.] A voice- "Hurrah for Watson." Gen. Butler: And I say so, too. He is a new man. [laughter,] just come to life. He is going to Congress, and he is not only going to pass the sub-treasury and put money on these trees, where you all can get it by shaking them, [laughter,] but he is going to smash the national banks, get pay for our darkies, get a return of the cotton tax, and?well, .1 if that is not enough for one man to t- do I do not know what is, [great f laughter and applause.] and when he e goes in for all that he will find me - with him. He jumped on the nai, tional banks and he destroyed them, y but I do not think he was correct in o his statement of the history of the e banks. r Col. "Watson: In what particular? y Gen Butler: You said that they a did not buy the currency, that they got, say, one thousand dollars, deft posited them in the treasury and got ninety thousand in currency, u I Col. Watson: But who gets the in 'f terest? i- Gen. Butler: Why the national i- bank people, of course, just as man must pay interest on his note. Where would you get bonds if you did not & buy them? y Col. Watson: But where do the e bonds come from? Gen. Butler: I said they were 's bought from the Government. But d let me point out your inconsistency, it When I say that we desire to repeal it the bill laying a tax of 10 per cent, te on State banks in order to paralyze r the national banks, he says, oh no, | thai will not do. Col. Watson: I did not say that, j for I understood you to say that you ; object to it as a remedy. What is j your billf Gen. Butler: My plan would be to ' repeal the tax on State banks. But j I need not discuss the bill. I am to | furnish the plan and you the bill, for | that is your logic. [Laughter and i applause.] Col. Watson: That is all right, but I will make this trade: I will come in _ on the State banks if you will come in on the sub treasury. Gen. Butler: Well, that is a fair | proposition, gentlemen, and I will do j it, but on this condition, that I will ! tell him what my bill is if he will tell me what his bill is, and I tell him now that the bill, which I tried twice to have passed, is to remove the 10 per cent, tax on State banks. Col. Watson: What is your plant Gen. Butler: Just keep quiet now; have patience, and I will tell you. I waited on you. I would say to the farmers of this country?go to the Legislature and apply for a charter to go into a banking business, de- I posit one hundred thousand, or fifty j thousand dollars, as we did before J the war, when the banks of Columbia and Hamburg enjoyed a very high credit. Gen. Butler here explained the method of procedure before the war in putting in a given amount and issuing double the amount in bank notes. A voice: How are you going to get the capital? WORK FOR IT! AH, THERE3 THE RUB! Gen. Butler: Work for if, sir. How else would you expect to get it? fGreat laughter and applause.] Under that system there was no contraction of the currency, and the gentleman should remember that in the instances cited from Holland, 1 Sweden and Norway as precedents 1 for the sub-treasury, the money was : disbursed through the banks and 1 not du^gthe people by the ^MfflfflrjM^KIHI^^^islation, " and he must^swear to obey it as I have been gl|d, said Senator Butler to have heard my distinguished friend on THE SUBJECT OF DEMOCRACY a little. If the" newspapers are to be believed, and of course they are, he has been doing some very energetic ? A ,1 1 work against tne party, as tne distinguished gentleman said in introducing my friend, Georgia has often aided South Carolina in her political troubles. Her distinguished men have crossed the river to aid us in times of need, to maintain the integrity, honor, character and perpetuity of our Democratic party. [Great applause.] Now I understand that this distinguished gentleman has come to us to put the knife, the entering wedge for its disintegration and destruction. A voice: "You wrung him that fimfi" Col. Watson: Are we discussing the sub-treasury plant or not? Gen. Butler: I am not to be governed by your ideas on that subject. Col. Watson: I would like to say if yon go into a general talk on my record I would ask for more time to reply. [Cheers for Watson and counter cheers for Butler.] Gen. Butler: I do not think he wants to discuss my political record. Col. Watson: Well, you opened the list and I am not going to show the white feather. [Cheers and hurrahs for Watson.] Gen Butler: I understood you to j 1 take my record in hand and discuss ! it without reservation. Col. "Watson: I did not criticise i your record, but let me go back, the j only reference I make was to your j speech reported in The News and J Courier and I merely wanted you to j say whether it was correct or not, ! and you did not answer. Gen. Butler: Because I did not want to interrupt you. He says, gentlemen, that he did not take liberties with my record, but he did criticise a report which did not purport to be stenographic. ri/O Wafann* T flaked vou to Doint VUi. 11 ? J x _ out where were the errors. Gen. Butler: And I did, but I will give you all the time to reply. Col. Watson: Go ahead. Ill be i able to take care of myself. A voice: "Now go on, General, and tell us about the Third Party." Gen. Butler: As to that, I say that the departure advocated and maintained by the gentleman if preserved in a spirit which he manifested must | result in v Third Party. I suppose j that is a legitiate conclusion. A voice: "Where did the Third j Party come from last year ? Wasn't j it Haskell who led it?" Gen. Butler: Yes. and I hope it j will be a lesson to them, [applause, for there is no room for a Thir Party; never has been and neve will be. Gen. Butler expressed the hop and rhe belief that ths Farmer; Alliance would not be found in lin with the Third Party. He compl mented it on its work when confine within its original lines, and referre particularly to the successful figfc made against the Jute Trust, an this brought up the subject of th tariff, which Gen. Butler discusse at some length, explaining its exa< tions and how they operated. Gen. Butler's speech was interrup! ed here by the hour for adjournment Resuming his speech, Senato TWl or lionfdii liv olmwinfY fViof 111 sub-treasury officials mernt Federt interference in local affairs, and h said it would put us, body and sou back again under the Federal powei He maintained that the bill was violation of the first Article of tli Constitution. He said that the loan in the New Orleans and Philadelphii exposition cases were in pursuance o appropriations and were of doubtfu validity, and were justified partly o the general welfare clause. He d< nied vehemently that the Democrati party was derelict in its duty. Ser ator Butler referred again to the fac that Col. "Watson wanted the natior al banks abolished, and when h< Butler, suggested the repeal of th tax on State banks as a remedy Col Watson said it wouldn't do. I Lav come to the conclusion, said, he, tha if I were to suggest a remedy an nounced by inspiration from Heave: he would reject it. [Applause.] ARGUING FOR STATE BANKS. Nevertheless, Senator Butler wen on and explained the operation of th State banks before the war, their in togrity and success, ai>d thought tha they could now be operated as sue cessfully. He maintained that ther could be no run upon the banks d no sacrifices to speculators if th condition of the banks were fcfcbjec to official examination, as wa^^h rule in t^y^tional banka^fifSgf measure; although not until 1863, because Mr. OhS^Boul not borrow money elsewhere, ana h had to float the bonds of the Gdverr ment by the national banking plan. Senator Butler said that the lan loan scheme was proved to be a fail are in Florida, In general terms tli scheme could only result in a monop oly of lands and mortgages on land in the hands of a few. Senator Bui ler, in this connection, explained th distinction between bank currenc and loans and discounts. Referrin to the succor given the English b Peel and Castlereagh, Senator Bui ler reminded Col. Watson that sue speedy relief was a possibility onl under a consttiutional monarchy, an that this Government was one of th people, for the people, by the peop] and for the people. Our Constitr tion, our written gospel, prohibii things possible to British statemei [Applause.] Senator Butler contii ued as follows: A MATTER OF ETIQUETTE. I regret, fellow citizens, that an; thing should have escaped me in m remarks which might in the slighte: degree mar the courtesies of this o casion to our distinguished frien< He remembers perfectly well thi last night when we met for the fir time I went to him and said: "Yc are a stranger among us: chooi your own position in this debate, will either open and reply, or yc can." I had every inclination to e tend to him every courtesy for whi< this State is celebrated. I refem to his political relations to me paim in Georgia in response to what thought were liberties he had takf with my political record. I hai nothing whatever to be ashamed c so far as my record is concerned, ai I am sure that he has not. [A plause and cheers for Butler ar Watson.] Referring to TIIE HASKELL MOVEMENT. Gen. Butler said: My frien Hardy, wanted to know a little whi ago if there wasn't a Third Party la year in this State. Well, there wi an effort to run a ticket, which thought very ill-advised, and so e pressed myself then, but the pow and influence of one man are of litt *1 T 1 ^ ^ n /vvaaI 1YV1 avail. i. lUUU^IH i(< ? aa a girou un take and I think so now. [Applause I voted the Democratic tick straight out and out, because tl majority of my fellew-citizens non nated the ticket, and I shall do again. They had a right to the opinion and we had a right to oui and I have lived too long to be c fended with a man because hedifie with me in opinion. He adverted Col. Watson's argument about tl land l(,an banks of Norway ai Sweden and said tbe Governme: r ,] did not there lend mone^aiSc^T^^^BEtlfifflH^HB d : the people, but the banks, and that >r ' tne same thing was possible in our I country under the present system. ie j STAND BY THE PABTY. 3 J Senator Butler appealed to the lG I I audience to stand by the Democratie l~ ; party, now that its prospects of sue 11 j cess were so bright. He was pained | to hear it said that the Democratie ^ party had done nothing for the people. Such a statement could only 0 " \ ' have been made through ignorance or design, and when the party line? were drawn he expected to see all ^ the Democrats together except a few t Hessians. He said: Whenever th? r time comes let us again lock our shields for the battle, and when my j services shall be called for I shall not stop to count the cost. If th? , people of this State, when my term expires, shall conclude to send som?one else to the United State? Senate, in God's name let them do it. it is g their right and I shall not complain, j but if I am to bo expected at this f late day to advocate measures which my conscience does not approve yoa u must send some one else to th# j. United States Senate. c A good deal has been said about. what Senator Butler thinks and says, ,j. but I am not in this controversy as Senator Butler. I am plain M. C. , Butler, and I have never, presumed e for one moment to oppress the huiaI blest citizen by reason of ths high e station to which I have been elevated, f. If I have done anyone wrong, as God t_ is my witness, I stand here prepared _ to make the nroDer amends, Senator LI I * or no Senator, I have always expressed my lionest judgment, and when this country reaches that point t when I shall not be permitted to tell e the truth as I understand it, let my l- friends lay me aside and I shall ret tire without a murmur. [Applause - and cheers for Butler.] o The foregoing, of course, is only a r synopsis of Senator Butler's speech, e which was wildly ^and^enthusma^^ gj aBftSjKGSsjKSSrilffi d and cheers. ~ He said that Senator Butler had accused him of trying to pontoon the ? Atlantic and build a bridge to the />-?B| ? moon. He "Watson, had failed ia I this, but he was sure Gen. Butler had succeeded, and Gen. Butler wus 9 still with the man in the moon, with his old friend, Bill Spencer, playing IB . on the fiddle. [Great laughter and applause, in which Senator Butler ^ heartily joined.] If there was anja thing he did not debate it was cery tainlv the sub-treasury, but he had t talked about tragedy and comedy to k keep his spirits up at the other end y of the bridge. [Laughter and apj plause.] He thought that his speech e was very much speckled, like butter |e in a certain old lady's pantry, which j. the old lady says was speckled, but - that her Jersey cows were a d d a sight more so. [Renewed laughter a. and applause.] He denied that he had not discussed the treasury plan. He had discussed it as he would diicuss any other grave measure or ^ remedy on the line he had laid down ^ in his opening speech. He said distinctly it was desired to get money direct to the people at 2 per cent; that the people should ^ not be discriminated against in favor of national banks. He had showed >u that what was wanted was a medium , that would expand or contract only 1 with the necessities of trade. As to >u the details he thought they could be. ^ discussed hereafter, but he had cer^ tainly discussed the plan. He would eg be a pretty fellow indeed if he came j hero to talk about a plan and didn't jn do it. Gen. Butler did not catch his re idea about the Hamburg bank. They rf did not issue money on gold and 1(j silver, but certificates that deposits p had been made and the certificates became money. He had shown that the banks of Sweden issued money directly on land upon mortgages to - - - - ? ' j two-thirds of the value 01 rue mm*, d, He did not see why that rule could le not be applied to cotton, which varied st less from century to century than as silver. I I x- (Continued on Second Page, er ?? 10 It is a hard thing to adhere with s_ absolute firmness to what you deem right but a far harder thing to admit et that another may follow another line of action, and yet be equally consc-iii entious. Be very strict with self it and lenient with others, fir - s. 111 nrknnntfl.mil 8 tllQ eVCS, "* jlII txiw ? ? * , >f- ears, and nostrils set exactly on the 13 same plane. This enables the animal t? to sink its bo?lv entirely below ie the surface of the water and yet be id ! able to perceive the approach of foes nt by hearing, sight .and scent. > -11 ;