The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-20
CoMMU NICATIoNs.
A CARD.

A CARD.
The Editor efthe Union will oblige many ofhs own
and Gen Buffers friends by inG erting the enclosed
article from the Cincinnati Advertiser That federal
papers should publish such letters that which is
therein commented on, shows that they are deter
mined to assall the men Of the democratic party who
are likely 10 acquire reputation in the present war
Such baseness, l am glad to see, has not been CO.
pied by the democratic press. The officers and SOL
dIers OF our gallant army will always find II ready
TO defend them from every injustice, without stop
ping TO ask their party positions or TO calculate the
| chances of future elevation.
That William o. Butler should be charged with
| being "the selected and avowed bully Of the party,
and If not by talking, by fighting, the wing party"
when he appeared in Congress; and that such
| charge should be published in a widely-circulaed
federal Journal is ptiable proof of folly and NAL
ice. Let the editor of that paper ask the federal
| members of Congress who served with Gen Butler
what was his department TO them, and TO all men,
and he will find that, like Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal whilst they hated his principles and party,
yet they admired him gentleman, and esteemed
him man.
| Has the editor of the Baltimore Sun seen the
statement Of Mr. Myers, of the Ohio volunteers,
lately published in the Cincinnati COMMERCIAL |
merely ask for information. X.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Advertiser
GEN. BUTLER AND HIS LIBELLERs.-We should
| be prompt 10 defend the good name Of any one OF
the brave men who have won Victory and honor for
| the country and themselves at Monterey, against
| the attacks of newspaper scayengers at home But
more especially do we feel impelled TO the duty of
such yIndcatOn when the object Of assault Is the
gallant man who, when but a boy of twenty years,
the gauntlet Of Indian rifles at the river RaisiD
IN order To set fire to barn from which the enemy
| were picking out and destroying our men; whose
daring bravery at New Orleans elected the high
praise Of Andrew Jackson; the man who commands
he honor NJ IN field
word, w illlam o. Butler. of Kentucky.
In the New York Tribune of Friday last, ap.
pears the following under the singular misname Of
''Veritas," CTruth) IN the shape of a letter from
| Washington:
"ln the recent attack on Monterey, nothing could
| exceed the gaantry displayed by the rank and fe
OF our army. General Tayl Tor won laurels enough.
General Worth also placed his reputation on a PIN
| nacle where IL may defy the assaults of envy and
party msgnity. But where was the pet of the adj
| mlnlstrptIoni Where the man who. has been
set up by the friends of the adm isrAon To be the
successor Of Mr. Polk Where was the man who
into Congress the selected, avowed bully fthe
party-and If not by talking, by fighting, the whig
party, and any one who dared be courageous
enough TO denounce its opponent In a word, where
was General ButlerI IL appears from the official
dispatches Of General To yor and still moro plain
y in the various reports Of individuals, that General
Butler was the only officer whose attack on one of
| the forts Of Monterey failed; and the question has
been asked-hUw was thSi IL could not be at
tributed TO the want Of gallnntry of the men, be-
cause there Is not solitary instance OF any failure
of moral and physical courage in them Was Il
not in the general No one has ever answered this
question m the affirmative, until il was understood
that such statements had been received by the gov
ernmeBt IN relation TO the behaviour 10 the fight as
put the matter beyond doubt. IL is now gen.
erOly received impression that he has proved him
self incompetent solder-that he niled on an oc-
chi refeF In In he wh ba-
comes leading officer to exhibit in the moment Of
danger. IL Is now generally believed report that
General Butler so misconducted himself as 20 call
forth remonstrance from General Taylor. IL is
positively asserted here that such is the fact Com
ment from me is unnecessary"
Now, who is this that skulks under an anony-
nous name to exc out falsehoods, interrogatory,
and insnuation against Of the best and brayest
men of the whole wesf Some professional 'cor-
respondent" paid for his lies by the liner Some
partisan, underling, and spy, with whom defama-
ton is trade, and who wears his pen as Vene-
tan bravo wears his dagger ready for any assassin
like service that will pay' Such fellows there are,
surrounding the capital in swarms-spies and liars
by inclination, as well professon-exsting we'll
or i'll IN proportion they become notorious and in
famous through the semblance of truth, yet real
stretch Of falsehood, in the vile tissues which they
weave. .. "A s' .as.. 81
Where was General Buterin In the heat and
danger of the strife in the very forefront OF the
carnage The PROOF his oton body, which bears
an honorable wound--the only wound received by
general ofany rank upon the field of Monterey
and the just commentator, in his official despatch
es, of General Taylor as to the g,Iantry and good
conduct of the brave Kentuckian who fought by his
side These are testimonials sufficient to outweigh
the artful falsehoods of legion Of such party buzz.
yards as the above.
But, "where was the pet of the administrationin--
the man named as "the successor of Mr.. Polk"
All, ha There is the dirty motve-the cloven
foot sticks out! The central whig managers are
getting afraid Of General Butler. The Kentucky
barnburner who made Henry Clay tremble for his
own State in the canvass of 1874, has excited the
alarm of party hacks, whose business it is to fight
the battles of their party, by slanderng the men
who fight those of the country! Hence it is that
they traduce and libel him. and hence it is that the
public breast will beat more ardently in his be-
half They provoke the very result which they
fear
1t is assumed that representations have been made
at Washington which all this TRADE of viii
LITIGATION. The public have seen the only represen-
tatlon which has been made-the official despatch of
Gen. Taylor--and that stamps fasehood upon every
sentence and syllable of the above. Upon that Gen
Butler and all who feel an interest in his good name
may repose, against the aspersons of those paltry
partisan traducers.
The following is the part Of Gen. Taylor's des-
patch alluded to above:
"To Major Generals Butler and Henderson, and
Brigadier Generals Twiggs and Worth, command
ing divisions, must express my obligations for the
efficient support they haze rendered." &c. '.
For the Union
THE UNITED STATES HOTEL, PHILADELPHIA
Mr.. L. Mitchell, ESQ.,, within few months past,