The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-16 00:00:00

GENERAL BUTLER'S RE-ELECTION.

A very strong effort is being made by Republican
opponents of General Butler to prevent his re-elec-
tion for the Fifth District of Massachusetts. Butler,
however, is not the man to be bowled out without
a strenuous and sustained effort. Reuter, whose
telegrams are one-sided, and that side wholly De-
mocratic, asserted that Butler had been defeated,
but t
his was subsequently contradicted. A mass
meeting is to be held at Salem, when an opposition
candidate will be selected. A call signed by mail
Republicans is circulating throughout the district,
thus explaining this intention True to the
principles of the Republican party, and heartily
supporting the candidates nominated at Chieag°
and Worcester, we cannot consistently support or
vote for General Butler, opposition to bis election
being fealty to the principles and the candidates of
the Republican party. We take his record as he
has made it, and are not to be influenced by pro-
fessions given on the eve of an election. We d°
not agree with him in his financial schemes, and
so far from regarding them as unimportant, w°
deem them fatal to the national credit and the
national honour. his well-known opposition to
General Grant upon personal grounds renders him
unfit to be a hearty supporter of his administra-
tion, and we prefer to send to the next Congress
a warm, unquestioned friend of General Grant,
rather than a bitter and persistent enemy. The
gentlemen named, one of whom is likely to he
selected, are Mr. Dana and General Schouler•
The two papers which have hit hardest against
Butler's nomination are the New York Nation and
the Boston Advertiser, and Butler thus handle.s
them without gloves :—" So far as the Nation 15
concerned, its enmity is natural enough, considering
the common infirmities of human nature. The truth
is that I was an original opponent of the existence
of the Nation, which originated in the following
manner: An ass.iciation of charitable gentlemen In
Boston had subscribed a large sum of money for the
relief of destitute negroes, and to aid iu recruiting
negro regiments at the South. I was one of the
subscribers to that praiseworthy object, and the
association accomplished a great amount of good.
After the cessation of the war the affairs of the
association were wound up, and it was found that
there was a surplus of the fund, which I bold from
the nature of the charity ought to have bze°
sacredly devoted to the relief and care of the
freedmen cf the South. But a portion of the trus-
tees met together, and, without consulting with the
subscribers, resolved that they could better aid the
freedmen by establishing a paper in New York in
their interest than by expending the surplus in any
other way, and in accordance with this resolu-
tion the amount of fifteen thousand dollars or
more was appropriated for the purpose of start"
ing the journal called the Nation. I did not see
the matter in this light, and made a strong
opposition to any such disposition of the Node'
which had been subscribed solely for the direct use
and benefit of the coloured people of the South. Pc
was this opposition that gained me the enmity 1
the persons who profited by the establishment
the /v ,°
ation with the funds of the association. 11,1
to a short time ago the Advertiser was not IMO,
vourable to me, and was, in fact, one of the firs"
papers to publish to the world my views on finaw
cial questions, about which so much has since been
written in the Republican press. But subsequently
to this I was employed professionally to commence
a libel suit against the publishers of the Advertised
for an obscene slander which they had uttered
against a talented and estimable young lady, am
in pursuance of my duty I compelled them, noue,
a threat of prosecution, to make a full and ample
,
apology. This was on my part simply a proles,
sional act ; but ever since then the Boston .Adver
tiser establishment has been unable to discover ail,
good qualities in me. Brick Pomeroy is re',
enemy, but, unlike the cases I have beforw
alluded to, I know no good reason why.
should be so. I suppose he abuses me as the Spring t
field Republican does, because he supposes thea
it sells his paper and puts money in his pocket*,,
Vid e insert Butler's remarks with the more pleasur,l;
as it gives us the opportunity of showing how tt
Nation disposed of them :—" General Butler
been visited in this city by a Herald reporter, Oh:
the purpose of getting his 'views' on various sn
jects. The reporter extracted from him, among!,
other things, an explanation of the extraordinsr),
course of the Nation and Boston Advertiser, in °P
posing his re-election to Congress. The sofet
cause of the hostility of the Nation to him is, it at',
pears, his having opposed the contribution of cclf
tarn surplus funds of the Recruiting Committee °.,1
Boston towards the establishment of the paPert,ci
1865, which has, as might have been expeely
earned for him the undying hostility of its o°l3,
ductors. Considering that they were, until tb
w
morning of the 21st of September, 1868, entirely
ignorant of the opposition aforesaid, we leave bl ..,''
to imagine with what malignity they would h'' u
followed him up had they known of it. The reas%
of the Boston Advertiser's enmity to him is, v(4,
regret to say, much less creditable than that ut
the Nation.' It was, he s tys, one of the fir 6,
papers to publish to the world his views on fins
,13,1
cial questions; but subsequently he was emPI°Y,T,"O
professionally to commence a libel suit against r
publishers of the Advertiser, for an obscene slanc'eci
which they had uttered against a talented a%
estimable young lady, and compelled them, underlo
threat of prosecution, to make a full and are Pea
apology.' the despicable sheet turner
against the great statesman, and, to use his °o
words, has never since been able to discover aiN
good qualities in him.' So it is with all the gencrato
enemies. We have no doubt if he had time t
give us a full account of them,we should find tilifteci
although they may be numbered by the hun °rot
i
thousand, there is not one whose hostility s °OO
due to the general's having frustrated some Veto
of villany or performed some noble or virtue a
action." We believe that Butler will overcome t%
• his enemies, and be returned in spite of tbepif
though Mr. Edward Atkinson has thrown hiles-4,
into their ranks. The great advocate of coin 04e
ment of the national Debt naturally opposes "of
green-back champion, and advises the voters
Essex county not to marry the " widder" Butler.
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Sept.
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Births.
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BATHURST—On the 13th inst., at 141, Ifolland-road,l or
sington, the wife of Algernon Bathurst, Esq., °
daughter.
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PONSONBY -On the 14th inst., at Ayott Bury, 1, I°,lo.-
the wife of Charles Talbot-Ponsonby, EFq., of a son -
heir.

Marriages.
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HATCLIFFE—B UTLER —On the 13th inst at St. S2:v•-cutl)e,
Paddington, Mr. Frederick llatcliffe, eldest son of
late Mr. Thomas Hatcliffo, to Frances, only daugl"—
the late Mr. Francis Butler. h tet
MANSBRIDGE —FLOWER—On the 15th inst., at Notle,or
Switzerland, Mr. Willian Henry Mansbridge, of ‘-',,00
den-square, to Emily Agnes, fifth daughter of
Flower, Esq., of Cantelowes-road, N.W.
Deaths. •
COFFIN—On the 13th inst.. at Park-crescent, Worth'
Robert Coffin, Esq., aged 77. der
DOVE—On the 12th inst., at 1, Anerley-park, A10X313
James Dove, jun., aged 27.
„ 1,04'
RIETIIMULLER —On the 14th inst., at Lower ClapLo,
tilda, widow of the late C. U. Riethmuller, E 91.1
91. aeo,
POORE - On the 13th inst., at The Close, Salisbury, ffoglr
widow of the late Sir Edward Poore, Bart., and
ter of the late Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., aged " ;0'
PASCALL- On the 14th inst., at Wood-lane, Shel)111-
Bush, Edward Pascal!, aged 47.

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