Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-08
THE DAILY SPY.

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For the WEEKLY SPY, 81 Il year
Gen Butler has not been as radical dem
ocrat as the New York Post supposes. He
was in favor of the coalition at the time
Charles Sumner was first elected to the Uni
ted States senate, and declared atterward we
have understood that if he had been men,
Der of the legislature that year he would have
voted for Mr., Sumner. lie expressed his de-
termination not to oppose the reelection of
Gov. Andrew in 1861 and was more placable
in other instances than the Post imagines, be-
fore he became convinced that emancipation
was the only panacea for our national atfiic-
tion, and thus won the Posts Affection
Boston Post.
BY ''radical democrat the Boston Post
seems to mean straight out partizan pro-
slavery democrat; and it wishes to deny that
any such ''life long democrats" now sustain
the presidents emancipation policy. He who
should undertake to show that such men as
Daniel S. Dickinson of New York. Joseph
Holt of Kentucky, Robert Dale Owen of In
diana, Judge Drake of Missouri, and Benz.
F. Butler of Massachusetts,, were ever in all
their lives previous to the breaking out of
the southern rebellion, anything else but par
tizan democrats would deserve to be treated
as an idiot.
The Boston Post says Gen. Butler favored
the coalition. SO did nearly all the demo-
orats in the state. The Boston Post itself IA
vored the coalition. Caleb Gushing favored
it, and thereby secured judgeship, a circum-
stance which many of the coalitionists re-
member with much modification. Most of
the democrats, and Gen. Butler among them,
afterwards left the coalition very swiftly when.
the order to do came from the Pierce adj
ministration through Caleb Gushing, who had
become attorney general. The democratic
party up to the time when the rebellion broke
out never had seen in its ranks more vehe-
ment and constant partizan than Gen. Butler
and he has not joined any other party.
Has the Post forgotten that Gen. Butler
was so much democratic, pro-slavery parti-
Fan in 1860, that, in the Charleston conyen
ton, he voted steadily, ballot after ballot, for
Jefferson Davis to be the democratic candi-
date for president? Has it forgotten that he
was so radical in his devotion to the slavery
party
was finally disrupted, he went with the Breck-
enridgites and became the Posts Breckenridge
candidate for governor of Massachusetts,? If
the Boston Post has forgotten all this, nobody
else has forgotten it. If Gen. Butler is not
''lite-long partizan democrat" then there
Letters from NeIvBefM.H
large mail was received in this city, yes
terday from our solder friends at Newbern.
From private letters we make the following
extracts. First, from the 5lst regiment date
of Dec. 81 -
''Christmas day here was as warm as your
summer weather. 1t was real lazy, warm
day. Talk about the variable climate of New
England! That of North Carolina is more
changeable by far. But there was a mail on
Christmas morning, and brought in from the
city. The Spy of Dec. IT, IS, IS, and 20,
came safely, and l read them faithfully.
"Tell H and c. that our long
marches beat the gymnasium all out fortiring
fellow And that carrying gun, as I often
do, tries the arm and deveopes the muscle
almost as much as climbing the peak ladders,
or pulling the oar in the ATLANTA.
''And there is one thing for YOU at home TO
remember, to wit that the mails to and from
Newbern are very irregular Some weeks a
mail boat will leave here for Baltimore, for
tress Monroe, Boston, or more generally New
York, every day or two. Then the boats are
put to some new use by the government, and
the mails accumulate for Il week or even
ifbt hof, H.
Office
From another letter from another member
of the 5lst, we quote:
'There is nothing that cheers the soldiers
heart like receiving a letter OF paper from
home. 1t seems to give them new courage
and new spirit to enter into the duties of a
soldiers life. If the friends of the fifty-first
could have seen us the day we entered New
bern, after that hard march of one hundred
and eighty miles, and heard the cheers given,
and see the countenances tighten up, and the
steps grow lighter, the chaplain rode
through the ranks and announced that large
mail OF letters and papers was awaiting us at
our barracks, it would have well paid them"
A letter also from the twenty fifth regiment.
while expressing some regret for the loss of so
many OF their field officers by promotion, says
that Major Pickett's promotion to be colonel,
gives great satisfaction to all.
An election of officers in company C, fifty
first regiment, had resulted in the choice of
first lieutenant John B. Goodell as captain; ;
second lieutenant Luther II. Bigeow, as first
lieutenant; and sergeant j. O. Bemis, as sec
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The TwENTY-FIFTH REGIMENr.-The De-
cember report of the 18th regiment, stationed
at NeWbern Major Josiah Pickett con,D,ord