Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-06-13
NARROW ESCAPE OF GEN. BUTLER.

the sacred soil of Virginia, barely escaped,
a few days ago, being demolished-pulverized
-squelched-ground to the finest sort of
powder and blown away upon the 'four
winds" of the very windy Old Dominion.
We had supposed this Massachusetts Ground
Head" would be specially reserved by the
chivalry to ''snell southern powder and taste
southern steel,' and therefore we were not
prepared to expect his demise would be
attempted in the way it has happened. But
the editor Of the Stanton, (Va) Vindicator,
ore courageous and impatient, it seems,
than the main body of the grand southern
at Gen. Butler, which had they not happily
fallen short of their mark (the explosive force
of the indicators batteries being immensely
superior to the projectle,) would have inevi-
tably battered him down sin his tracks" and
reduced him to an unsightly and miscella-
neous mass Of comminuted bones and bruised
flesh, muscles, ligaments, integuments and so
forth, truly awful to contemplate. As spec-
mems of the death-dealing missiles which this
valiant ''son of Mars'-that is, of Virginia
hurled at Gen. Ben F. B. we select the fol-
lowing, and we fairly tremble at the ferocity
which could dictate the use of such savage
weapons.
The editor says imprimis, that the Gener
al is Puritan upstart." This being 50 it
would necessarily follow as next asserted by
the indicator, that "a more craven-hearted
coward never walked the earth Coward
ice, we believe was prominent characters
tic of the Puritans from the days Of Old
Nolrs "Ironsides" down to the time of that
little sparring match on Bunker Hill between
the Puritans OF Massachusetts, Bay and the
British troops. But this is not all, nor the
worst for, with the most revolving counte-
nance ever worn by man, he Gen. B. F b.
is the impersonanon of a hOrse-thief or a land
pirate What caustic, blistering words -
To be the ''impersonation" of nothing but a
low-born thief, or lubberly land-pirate, re-
ally excites our pro found disgust. 1t is OF no
sort of use for B. F. B. to aspire to the i'm
personaton" Of the gentlemanly, chivalrous
thieves and sea-pirates of the Southern Con
federacy." Being only the impersonation Of
the common sort of thieves, such as in all
time have been sent to Newgate, Butler
must be content to "look through the the
the CRATE like gemeny of babboons" and see
the highly respectable and lordly thieves and
pirates of Cottondom, doing honorable ser
But not only is Butler horse-thlef and
land pirate 1.-The man in fact, is a brute He
looks like one-acts like one" New this be-
ing Buffers daguerreotype-with no "eye
like Mars to threaten or command"-we do
not wonder that the editor of the Vindicat0r
Indignantly exclaims in the most intense dis
gust that can agitate the heart Of high-born
Virginian For such creature to talk of
'conquering the South For such a mis-
''erable poltroon to threaten to invade Vir-
'ginia For such a specimen of abbreviated
land distorted humanity to raise his hirelng
''arm to strike against the rights and homes
''of gentlemen! If he, with his ragamuffn
regiment turned and fed from the brick
"bats and sticks of the citizens of Baltimore,
what would they not do to escape the serried
''phalanr Of armed and disciplined Tirgini-
''ans ?" Sure enough We don't think
Ben. F. and his ragamufiin regiments have
considered the subject exactly in>that light.
But we more than all, deplore the fate
that is in store for this Puritan upstart.'-
The indicator declares, with considerable
emphasis, we should judge, that the poor
miserable poltroon should never be dIgni-
fled with bullet or a halter, but If ever
"caught, (Which We doubt, for he will keep
tout of harms way,) he should be tied to
'',chiPping post and cut to death ,oih coJr-
"hjde IN the hands Of one Of our meanest
"tree negroes ar penitentiary conCicts."-
We mourn that such must be the end of
Ben. Ifhe could only die at the end of rope
like jeff. DAVIS, instead of a cart-whip if
he could only be cut to pieces with cow
hide in the hands of one of the grandee
thieves belonging to the F. F.V.'s:-Floyd for
instance-or some respectable" robber of
the National sub-treasuues, arSenals, or Gus
tom houses, the manner Lof his taking off
would be truly glorious, and might well be
envied but to be cut to death by pefiten-
hary c0nctct Heaven bless him
We only add that the last which was heard
from Gen. Butler he declared that his |"tace
scas s0Hb,oard," and that he should take 'No
STEP BACKWARD" and it will be noticed
that lying is not imputed to him, even by the
indicator.
John Kiburn a refugee from Harpers Fer. |