Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-22


Mr.. Editor:-I take leisure hour from bus
mess to write a few lines, and hope they may
prove acceptable 10 you and interesting to
your readers Our city is remarkably quiet
at this time, but whether it is the calm that
precedes the storm, or not, remains to be seem
One thing is ceriain-secession is humbled
and so far as regards outward appearances, it
has pretty much dried up" as the saying is
1t is rather a difficult matter to find an open,
avowed secessionist, just now, but how many
there may be at heart it is impossible to tell
The appearance of federal troops among us,
and the arrest of one or two parties, had
great deal TO do in calming the troubled waters
of secession. There is nothing like the pres
ence ofsuperior power, and little wholesome
discipline, to keep people in their proper places,
alter all.
Gen Benjamin f. Butler, of your ale, has
been among us, and has proved himself an
able and efficient officer. So far as this state
is concerned, he managed things admirably
Directly after the disgraceiul riot which took
place here on the 18th of April last, he took
possession of Annapolis, opened a military
road to Washington, and then stationed a lorce
of twenty-f hundred men at the Relay
House, about nine miles from this place, and
commanding the Bal timore and Ohio railroad.
Alter remaining there for while, he came to
this city at the head of Il portion of the troops
who had previously been mobbed in our streets
and encampcd on Federal Hill. So quietly
was the thing done, that our people were taken
by surprise, when they found strange troops
quartercd among them.
The Union men were rather pleased than
otherwise but the secessionists heaped curses
upon the gallant Generals head, not cloud
but deep" While here Gen. Butler, in com
pany with his staff, rode from the camp to the
| Gilmore House, where he took dinner, ordered
the seizure of a large quantity of arms in pos.
session OF the police force, issued Ills procla.
nation TO the people of Baltimore, had one or
two parties arrested, regulated matters and
| things to the establishment of his friends and
| the discontinue of his enemies The rapid
| ty of his movements took our people all aback
| and they hardly know what to make OF it.
He LET: us one day last week and went to
| Washington, leaving Gen. Cadwallader in
| command, who has about twenty five hundred
troops stationed near Fort McHenry.
Gen. Butler has been projected, and is about
to turn his face southwark, where it is to be
hoped he will reap fresh laurels. From all
appearances, he bids fair 10 prove "trouble
some customer" TO secesSionists in general and
traitors in particular. 10 show you what
some of our southern brethren think OF him,
and how scrupuous they are in regard to
facts, | send you the following choice extract
which | copy from the Daily Examiner, pub
lished at Richmond, Va:
Gen. Batter, now in command of the Lin
coin forces at the Relay House, near Bati-
| ie IN la t,A
Butler who was Attorney General under that
northern man with southern principles.
Martin Van Buren,. His early manhood was
passed in disreputable practices and his sub
sequent elevation 10 office, is an illustration of
the ease with which a smart chap, though un.
princlpled, can obtain high places i'm a state
like New York, where free negroes exercise
the right Of suffrage, and where the majority
OF the voters are ignorant, depraved and mer
cenary. Butler WAS the son of scythe-ina-
ker, and for Il time served as a bar. keeper
at Kinderhoo; Landing lie afterwards
studied law under Martin Van Buren,, and
upon coming to the bar, finding his prospects
dull, he entered the service OF jacob Bar
ker, noted fndncier of New York.
Let us now take up ID. L. Butler as
he looms in these black republican and seces
sion times Alternating tried bar keeping
| law, and poliIiss, he has gone into the military
| Inc, anu rs 4 general OF militia from MassI
eIlusss1tts. Like Napoleon after each battle, he
has sent his bulletin from headquarters, the
main feature of which is a false announcement
that one OF his soldiers had been poisoned with
strychliine, and warning the Marylanders, if
that mode of warfare is carried on, that he
can put an agent into every household, armed
with this terrible weapon or N other words,
that he will advise the slaves to poison their
masters. Upon the whole. taking Gen. But
ler's life in review, where can he found more
exact specimen of swindler, demagogue,
hypocrite and barbarian p
The above specimen Of biography is decid
eddy rich, and, have no doubt, will be ex
ceedingly gratifying to Gen. Buffers friends
at home. When we take into consideration
| that Benz i. Butler OF New York has been
dead for many years, the above article becomes
doubly valuable as piece OF historical infor.
nation!
Southern papers are filed with such read
ing, and no wonder treason abounds where
such state of things exists.
Yours, &C., ALGAR.
| a Mormon View of the Rebellion.