The republic., 1851-12-17
The Butler Movement.

The St. Louis Republican, commenting on
the proceedings of the late meeting in Hills
boro' county, Missouri, which nominated Gen
eral BUTLER for the Presidency, makes the
following observations:
1.-THE next move in the farce was the Hllsboro'
or Jefferson County Convention. Here the gauze
was too thin to hide its nakedness, else the pub
lie are greatly misled by the mirage. The gen.
eral beliefis, and it is well supported by
renee of facts, that certain Major John Epes
Cowan, who figured in the meeting, came to this
city, and the resolutions were framed and pre-
pared by the leaders of the Van Buren,, Freesoil,
Buffalo platform party-taken down to Jefferson,
where enough of the unsuspectng yeomanry OF
the country were induced to hold meeting, with
but little previous notice. and endorsed them.
They were then brought back for publication as
the voice Of Jefferson county. when much the
largest portion knew nothing of the meeting.
The smallness of the means resorted to to manu-
facture public opinion. ia evidence Of the despera-
ton of the game they are playing.
"But the Jefferson county meeting is made to
endorse men and measures, which, when they un-
derstand correctly their position, they cannot ap-
prove of. They are made TO applaud the nomina-
ton of General Butler, of kentucky, who. it Is no.
EIessrs. Benton, Van Buren,, Blair Co., and the
Freesoilers of tho North. Great efforts have been
made, and rostill making, TO secure him the nomi-
nation for the Presidency, by the Abolitionists and
those who svmpathze with them. This fact has
been repeatedly asserted and not contrndicted and
il is well known that no man will receive the sup
port OF Van Buren,, Blair & Co., unless he afiliates
with the Buffalo platform and the Freesoil creed.
"Then, again, our neighbors of jefferson coun-
ty-mon who were never suspected of Freesoism,
the slightest tincture of bolitonisn, made to
endorse Gen. Dodge, of Wisconsin, for Vice Presi
dent-n distinctly and avowodly q Freesoiler in
his sentiments, and in his principal votes in the Uni
ted States Senate assistant and oaborer with the
Abolitionists of the North. He was opposed TO- and
voted against the Fugitive Slave law, and thinke
il altogether right that the slaves of his Jefferson
county Democratic friends should run off, or be
stolen away, and if they get off there ought to be
no law to get them back.
'In doing this, it is clear Jefferson county
neighbors have been entrapped. When they un-
derstand the positions of Butler, Dodge, and Bon
ton, on the subject of slavery and the Compromise
they cannot in their conscience approve of either
of them but it was necessary TO them to carry
out the purposes Of the leaders in ihis city, and
they tUsre used"
1t is amusing to observe the facility with
which these old managers and wire-pullers, the
VAN BUREN cabal, dupe and gull the young
ones. Colonel BENTON pulled the wool over the
eyes of the Jefferson county delegates, very much
after the same fashion in which Messrs. BLAIR
and VAN BUREN trapped the Union Democrats
in the caucus. Who believed two years age
that the time would come when PRESTON KING
and the Euening Post would control Demo
cratic caucus of the House of Representatives
When Mr.. BLAIR and Mr.. VAN BUREN, with
their Buffalo associates, would so completely
get the better of the CAss wing Of their party
as to impose terms on such caucus, and die
tate its candidates. Yet that time has come
is now; and we shall not be surprised to see the
Globe clique restored to such an ascendancy in
the party as will enable them to nominate the
Presidential candidate at the Baltimore Con
yention