Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . shall not have to get into a manure pit to be fit to associatewith you, but simply be a respectable, well-clad, decent American citizen,who knows that one man who behaves well and does his duty to hiscountry and his family is as good as another. As to horses, fellow-citi-zens, when I came down here into this district from Lowell, where I usedto live, I brought my horses with me, and I thought I had a good sj)an;but when I got among you I found that my
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . shall not have to get into a manure pit to be fit to associatewith you, but simply be a respectable, well-clad, decent American citizen,who knows that one man who behaves well and does his duty to hiscountry and his family is as good as another. As to horses, fellow-citi-zens, when I came down here into this district from Lowell, where I usedto live, I brought my horses with me, and I thought I had a good sj)an;but when I got among you I found that my constituents had better horses,and I proposed to get as good a pair as I could, and I have got a goodpair, and if you will come down and ride with me I assure you we wonttake anybodys dust. I instance this as some of the amenities of the stump speaking ofthe campaign. Mr. Dana was beaten out of sight. When the next elections cameI supposed the contest would be given up. At least, I Avas so•assured by the Republican State Committee, and as the RepublicanNational Committee wanted my services in Indiana, and promised to butleb:s book. 923. BUTLERS BOOK. 925 take care of my district, I spent many Aveeks in the Western spoko on the phitform there and made a great many personal friendswhether I made any Republican votes or not. But I returned onlyto find that in the meantime my district had been stolen away fromme. This was in the year 1874, the off congressional year. Itwas the year of the first congressional election after the inaugurationof the President, and according to the almost universal law theadministration was beaten, and there was an opposition majority inthe House, many of the congressional districts having changed fromthe Republican to the Democratic party. My friends were very much more chagrined than myself. Theygathered around me and said they would see that I was nominatedand elected from that district the next time beyond all , gentlemen, said
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