The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-06-27

which is so conspicuous in the politics of
that State. and in the last Presidential al
election he was an Incorporating
opponent of Lincoln and Douglas
and devoted to the cause of Mr..
Breckinridge. In 1853 he was mem.
Der Of the Massachusetts, House Of Rep.
resentatives; in 1859 snd 1860 he repre-.
sented Middlesex in the State Senate
He also took prominent part in the Con-
stitutional Convention of 1853.
We find in the Cbarlestown AdUertiSer
(Mass) of Sept. Z, 1859, a portrait of
Gen. Butler. drawn year previous to
that time, aud by an eminent me enber of
the Massachusetts, bar, an opponent in
politics, which is so apparently truthful
in tone, that We copy extracts therefrom,
as of special interest at this time:
The time has cone when accurate, full
length portrait of this m 40 should be seen
by the people. We can draw such. aud
will. 1t shan't be overdrawn, either way.
We have advantages of position. and
kno~ledge to do it well. We know our
subject "like book" To use one of his
own oft repeated phrases. we've "sum-
mered and wintered bin for years." We
are not his partisan. Yet We bear him
DO malice. but friendship rather. We
don't hOAer for him, dor so to speak, "run
with the machine" to wit. the Democrat.
10 Party. Yet it is true to say, We ratb-
er like him, and wouldn't knowingly do
him an injury or an Injustice. But one
thing let the reader exact of US. Seek
herein no portrayal of bis physical fea-
lures. Our brush would drop from the
palsied arm before such task. Hayden
would have committed bis suicide years
earlier than. be did had such an exaction
been demanded of bis great powers in the
portrait line. No; We will agree to turn
the General wrong side out, so that be
who reads can discover his methods of
thought and discern the inmost depths of
his mind and heart; but a. nature clearly
broke the mold in shaping the exterior,
our finite powers reluct from the impossi-
bic task of reproducing it here. 1t can't
be done by the Imagination, for the bold
est fight of fancy never brought back on
its nimble pinions, so impossible COM
bination Of features. A witness on the
stand. gazing down upon it for the mo-
neut. perhaps has an idea of its incon-
ceivable type. But it is phepomenon
be never can recall. Ever after it exists
as a dim and imperfect vision, filling on
the outskirts of the mind, SO to speak,
and all attempts at description thereof
are necessarily failures.
But below the neck our democratic
friends can talk understandingly of their
candidate. He is neither fat, nor bath
be ":he lean and hungry look" that SO
alarmed Caesar of the old time, when he
discovered it in the sleepless Cassius.-
Like DR.. Stop, be has "sesquipedality
of belly" This gives him quite sub
stantial look. But yet be is Dimble. For
as Dr.. Watts would say, be is s,iII in the
cheat of youthful blood" He is not far
from forty. His health is perfect. His
constitution is in no manner impaired BY
early excesses, if, indeed, be we're ever
guilty of any. If be we're they never
could be traced in his physical condition.
Nothing but the apoplexy or a raging fe-
YER can Bling such constitution to the
ground. 1t is as sound and compact as
the Federal Constitution. He. merely
staggered under an attack that sent many
wailing ghosts to the Plutonian realm
the National Hotel Poison. He imbibed
the poison, or inhaled it, or ate it as CO.
pious as they. He took no better care of
himself than they of themselves. But in
bis case the disease got decidedly the
worst Of it. The man recovered of the
bite; the dog it was that died." Twice
that sm cunt of poison be would have van
quished Few men, indeed, "oan endure
the winters cold as,well as he" or the
Summers heat, or hard and incessant
mental or physical labor. To this fact is
found bis greatest element Of strength. 10
our Judgment. This is the primary cause
of his be.triding the democratic fold,
Beach, Davis, Cboate, aod all hands. SO
like Colossus. It is the key to all his
successes. 1t is the ressan why he tries
so many causes, more than any other
one man in the Commonwealth. He
can stand It," He of whom that sentence
can be truly uttered is the happiest. or
ought to be the hsppiest man in State.
And of Butler it can be said. he can la
Dor always "and never tire" Indeed, be
grows more vigorous the longer be re-
Mains 10 harness. In the months that are
Co ming be will be found trying causes in
the day time; making stump speeches at
night, directing the campaign on Sundays
and resting and reereating never at all
He isn't the famous "Son OF the sleep
less" be is old SLeeplss himself. He
will with bis ad mirabe constitution, run on
like Deacon Holmes "one-hoss shay,
and, like it. "go to pieces all at once
Thus far to recapitulate, We have got
the Generals outIines-a sound body,
With no very handsome head-piece.
lie was born 10 New Hampshire. He
worked bis own to college. and through it
at Waterville, Maine. 1t Ia safe to say
that his alma mater never graduated such
another. He supported himself in col
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