New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-30

During the growth and since the atren''ioy vi tue
Eeplhlcan party, Gen. Buer has been In iuii COM
muIon with his party, until il brke TO pieces. Ia
the wear 1853 his friends attempted 10 bOminate liD
for Governor, but Mr.. Beach beat hin by abont ZOO
majority out Of thou and delelaes. At this time,
Butler was the candidate OF the Liberals, ard Beach Of
tie Il,nser Tie neAt year, by general corseD',
Buter sill occupying lbe al position, received the
nomination aud the full OF bis lait, The old
Wigs, however, who would probably have snl ported
BE ch, refused TO vote for Butler, oi whom they TAI
ard still have abiding hatred and contemIt becau71
lie wac CO,liIionist Anti-Corporai"isi, II iIend
of Fpe Sui rs-in a word, Democrat no tbey
c0utrived " get EN-GOv. Bn2gs lnL0 INC
field On an Anti-Fr,e Scuoo ,ssue, and voted
for him In lS60 came the ,lht in the
Democratic party, snd Gen. Butler played very
prominent par, IN the Conventions a. Carleston ana
Baltimore With his urua pluck and sndacIty, he
told the saveholders very lam trn'lr, ad onthe
Quettion of the platform fought them with atilt d
skill The history If these conveno's is fiesh ~ all
mems minds To ihe surprse OF ail .Acept tI@e who
know h,w easily Gen. Bl,ler IL nhuenced b! h's
fir ends he finally went with tie Bnc,i ridge party,
and l,t Fall became its candidate ior Governor. alr.
Beach rrslniug hls old position ~ the regular candid
ste Buter ut once fe very low in TIE scale OF oTu-
Lriy ia the Fail Of 1873 lie elected To the Seua
nv The votes Of Republicans and Democret- against
the rsgnlar Republican candidate; il tie year isto he
cond nar6ly get An audience in the balls where for
wears lie had swayed the fierce democracy al tue
spindle city. | atibute bus political eoeen-
triciiy ut this Verod to tie oaneinl i"-
faence exercited over him by Calet Gushing
aud Fisher A. Hildrrtb. his b'ofher-in-inw, now OF
ID A.fl lulIp IpT -
MAS after , consistent with his leading political prin
cipe which bas ever been attachment lnd devotion to
bis par.y. lie probably supposed that tie Democratic
pttv would continue exist and thai the .iave-
drivers could resume their supr mac. over it before
great while. Some If tne Brrcknridse men, such hs
Gushing and George b. Lorng, and otlers whose
namee may possibly be found ,igoed 10 some OF the
seized telerraplc Dispatches were undoubtedly deep
in the di.unon conspiracy; hat no suspicion ever st'
tact ed it.,li to the atty of Butler. Ieca hing
for Slavery for AniS avery aud h ~ ready to toll
crate tie one DIS the other TO the interests of shs
rarty lie has ever boldly untitled the election OF
Charles Ssmner to the Senate by tire Democrsts Of
1851, white Cushing, lldreth * Co., who were under
greater obgaons than e 10 the Coalition, both hav-
ing received Office under it, hive been tie bi'iens
ere ries and most unrelcnting perecntors OF Anti
Slavery men ,snce il became their inie'e,t TO
make leace witt the National Pro-Slavery Democracy
Luckily for Gen Butler, IN The hour of his apparent
political decadebce aud d.sfoucency, he still nihin-
tanned bis sation III tie military service, having "lh
lis usual adioness in tie year 1851, ecntiVed 10 get
elected Br.ader-G neral thur more than misiug
good the military standing which lie lost at tie hand.
If the Known Nothing Governor IN 1850. believe he
entered tie ranks III l5io as member of The Lowell
Civ Guards, one OF the companies which bore the
hum, of the coutic, AT Baltimore ON The l9h of Al r
lst lie has II taste and talent for military hfe cit sr
for ,,seN or for The distinction witch { uiorIs. lie
came, he called sceiui soder, for be ha- an awk-
ward tiich III his gait aui apparvDuy no esr Tor
music but he hBs a bold u.'d martial air. a
fearless, defiant, self.reliaut bearing WITCH more
than makes up for all uihIus dehcen res
of tlir sort The samc ona;ities wi ich mark him
law, er Bnc pnlilipan viii dDuttcss dptnguleh him
a soldier. HIS chief fault If Likely 10 he deposition
To make u sensation. He has many time hazaded #
not iosi, a case i'll Court for the sake Of creating
laugh the expense Of tie opp ste couDsei or Of
frsciory aud hostile witness. On occaso ons, ne
toses s bead wildly abont and looks around for the
arplsaee of the bur and the outsider- loryetu arfer
entity, that the je aud jest which mike lie uuskll'ui
public laugh oftiies make the judIcous juror gtiev-.
Judgment. lie is not the 10 ii, cooIiy wn aid
calculate be chances and the re,us OF lis acti As
in politics and law, lie ESTABLISHES pincipler but
always relies upon espedien- in lac will be apt to
fa in comprehensveness oi plan, while in exe,uilOn
If rltns framed Tor him, or n movements which have
TO lie made upon the spur Of the mouent lie will po5
ably lie uurlvned 1t not the oipo.iDg Geoe'a fancy
q at be has circumv, nted and defeated Buter until
battle i, over.
have spoken Of Gen. Buffers opposition to the
Lowell corr oratioLs, In the od-n time. III fought
them from boyLood ill he fody yehrsOd lie
WAS tde legal and pOlicel adviser Of the operatives
during the strikes aud en-hour asiarioD-, which
frequently occurred between 1870 sud 1853; te fought
the tat Is Of tie Secret Balit and conducted iegis
lsve investigation into alleged iGteerences with tie
right Of sufrspe But he ia 81 c. hoder and d-
rector in u Middlesex Mills and lives III The bousc
erected by Slmael Lawrence on tie ha'ks of Concord
river. DO not ray that he his changed III. opinions,
for the oil questions bave not lately been revived and
have 40 evidence that he wOald take any course diff
feeut from his former one but if lie is no longer
radical on corporation subjects, he has but followed
a gene al law which makes Democrat n Ccnser.
valive s soon as gets rch and past the period Of
youth.
Gen. Butler was married in 1914 10 Mrs Sarah Hill
dreb Of family If somewhat brilliant ers, then
living in Dracut, tie daughters OF DIR. Irrael Hill
eth, who we. man of decided ability. lie has two
or three children and be ieve his doneetc relations
are exceedingly pleasant snd enviabe. He sa horpi.
table man, fond 4 spending money aswe IN making
it, and free.teared and liberal without being extrava.
gan. lie il a warm.blood-d and impnlsve man, com.
bative pers sent in every sort Of enterpn- ar coiro
yersy in which LIE DAY be engaged lowing The " rap-