Benjamin F. Butler. (then. if not now. a leading Republican statesman of Massachusetts.) when on the 4th of July of the same year. in the presence of President Grant and a large concourse of distinguished citizens at Woodstock. Connecticut. he boldly proclaimed his opposition to Chinese immigration as subversive of free institutioms. I might also have given the details of an indignalin meeting hold tn June 23. 1870. at North Adams. in which. as I find from the New York Herald of June 26. three or four thousand people were assembled and to whom fiery and inflammatory speeches were delivered. Among others. "Mr.
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