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The Bedford Gazette
Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
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General Kilpatrick accuses Benjamin Butler of declaring intent to push the Democratic Convention in Charleston to adopt the Dred Scott decision, enabling slave trading in Lowell streets as a constitutional right. Reported in Richmond Whig.
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Butler, the Beast, is about the only man living against whom we would take the testimony of the "poltroon," General Kilpatrick. For this reason we give what the latter said of the former in a speech in Massachusetts;
"On the afternoon of the departure of Mr. Butler in the steamer Spaulding, for Charleston, S. C, when the Democratic Convention was to be held, he dined with several gentlemen at a public hall in Boston, and to one of the gentlemen (whose name I will give when Butler asks me for it or denies this charge) he said: "Sir, I am going to Charleston to influence the Democratic party, to put in their platform the Dred Scott decision, and I propose to fight it out on that principle until I can buy and sell a negro in the streets of Lowell as I can buy and sell a pound of candles, for by G-d, sir, it is my constitutional right."-Richmond Whig.
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Boston, Lowell, Charleston, S. C.
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Afternoon Of The Departure Of Mr. Butler In The Steamer Spaulding, For Charleston, S. C, When The Democratic Convention Was To Be Held
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General Kilpatrick recounts that Butler dined in Boston and stated his intent to influence the Democratic party at the Charleston convention to include the Dred Scott decision in their platform, aiming to legally buy and sell negroes in Lowell as a constitutional right.