New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-12
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/ cdusc' TiOn thls punt OI view, Zen. Butter 3
retort upon his Transatlantic censors seems to
be simply amusing. They remind us, as We
read it, of Satan, with SAVIOR Of his normal
birthstone exudiDg from every pore, creeping,
tail aud oil, into some empty pulpit, and
exhorting the congregation to abandon it's sins.
When lechers preach confluence, when misers
advocate hberality, when DULLES set up for
Chesterfelds, when Prze.fghters put on
Quaker coats, when liars tender their corporal
oath, it is the way of the world, very wicked
and uncharitable world, no doubt, to smoker
and to speer. 1t cannot be helped 1t is only
simple resort to our natural defense
against presumption aud hypocrisy. 1t is no
palliation, indeed Of our own wrong
DOING but it is O fair assertion Of our
right TO be rebuked By honest lips
and to DO smitten by clean hands. by re.
elimination, the woman taken in adultery es
capped not only cruel, but a legal DEATH and
| the consciousness that we are rome Of us with
out siu, saves society from perpetual collisions
and an eternal wrapgle. But when Gen. But
Ter, placed as he was, in most difficult and
delicate position, found it necessary to resort
to certain punishmcnts. some OF them extreme
indeed, but most of them of mild aud NUM-
cpal charactcr-punishments which fifty years
ago were as familiar to Europe as the bule-
tins Of NapoleOn--then every scribler for the
London newspapers felt it to be his duty to
elevate his whine, and to represent tho General
as bood-thirsty ogre, only deferred from
dining upon Rebels by the extreme eanness OF
their corporiety. There never was sillier
SANDER. Imagine q commander in military
possession OF captured town, who allows his
soldiers to be insul!ed, bis authority to be
questioned, bis Government to be derlded in
the newspapers; who invites his own
assassination by his fear of hanging
professional bravoes, and who runs n daily
risk of ignOminious expulsion, because he can
not make up his gentle mind to abandon the
snarifcr for a time and to resort in bis emer.
gency to the tortiter' OF course, under such
circumstances, if he does his duty, he will be
denounced by those whom j. would be criminal
to conciliate. It's the rogue trussed up aud
battered, with his i'll opinion Of the law. over
again, Particularly would the dissatisfaction |
under such circumstances, be lively, in city
like New -Orleans-a city in which, in the most
peaceful times, the ci7il and judicial authOri- /
ties have been notoriously corrupt and ineffi-
cient-a city in which mobs have always
abounded aud human life has ever been unsafe
IA city which has been the constant reservoir
of slaveholding rascality, and the refuge OF
lavlessoess and violence. TO the ruilianhood
Of New-Orleans, the vgor, the pronptness, /
the precision, and the incxorabhty of
General Butler must have been, OF ne
ccssiiy astonishing and uncomfortable. BIT, (
upon the review of his proceedings, this much .
bern,ed Major-Ceucra, 40 lar from finding any.
thing 10 regret, appears to regard the modern.
t,n OF his course with no little competency, |
aud the sang frod with which he reminds his
English assailanis of the little he has done, and
the deal which, following established precedents, /
he hight have done, is really entertaining. He !
has dealt Lightly enough, Les thinks. with men
who ffly times over, have forfeited their lives
lie has MT smoked them 10 death, as the sol !
diers of CaverbOusc did the Coyenanters; he ,
has at roasted them as the French did the |
hleerines; he has Mt scaped and tomahawked .
wives and mothers. as the indians, under Brit
ish colors, did at Wyoming: be has Mt a" looted
private property after the fashion of the En-
glish in China; he has Mt blown his prisoners
from the guns, as Bull did at Delhi; he has
resOrted to extreme penalties only when .
the law demanded them, and the cOmmonest
punishment which he has inflicted has been .
banishment to an island, where, only a little
while ago, his soldiers were quartered
II seems to us, after the fullest considerations
that retort like this is perfectly fair Gen. .
Butler may well urge, in his own defense, thai /
England, with oil her immense Resources, has /
never found the work OF arrestng rebellion
mere holiday task. lie might have gone further, |
if he had seen fit to do 50. He might have
pointed to the atrocities of the English soldiery
in Ireland-to that chapter OF history which
can never be recited without awaking the in- .
dignation of mauknd-to cabins burned, to
men and women unfortunately murdered, to
fortunes mercilcssy inilicted--te that whole |
catalogue Of crimes which Lord CORVALLIS, |
then the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in
vain endeayored to arrest, by the most |
pathetic remonstrances addressed to the /
English Ministers i'll London. 1t would [
have been no inequtabe rejoinder, to have
said something of the British Themis |
Advancing into the bowels OF ireland, with
halter in one hand and bag of guineas in the .
other, buying mems lives as dr0vers purchase