Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1864-08-16
same volume Of the Democratic Review for l842

WHICH 5COutdllS d sluHluUuS pi0d iOl SooooolOil
! ! in an article by Mr. David Dudley Field on the
rebellion Of Dorr in Rhode Island may be
found poems by Benjamin E. Butler, OF Low
ell, upon William Penn and John Calvin, so
replete with theological ferver and learning
that. no man after reading them could be sur
prised to hear that Williams College had ad
ded to its certificate Of legal excellence the
goodly diploma of doctor Of divinity. JUS
.tice, however, is always done sooner or later
here or hereafter to such talents and qualities,
and he must entertain but an imperfect faith
In Providence, and In a divine distribution OF
rewards and punishments, who doubts that the
Hon. Major General B. E. Butler, liz u. will
eventually beD-D. ,.
It would be doing the faculty of Williams
College less than justice, however, to suppose
that they were led to decorate their academic
rolls With the name of Butler simply from adj
miration Of his performances in the police
courts Of Lowell, and in the pages OF popular
magazine. Those grave and reverend seniors
are familiar with the more solid and more
serious. works Of this leading American
scholar
They honor him for that profound and logl
cal justification of the ways OF God to man
which, under the title of the Analogy" has
done so much to fortify the hope Of those who,
sickening at the sighto the temporary triumph
Of brutality over civilization, of vulgar lmpu-
dence over dignifed merit, and OF coWardly
ferocity over helpless weakness, look forward
to future retribution which shall ADJUST the
balance between right and might,
They honor him, tGo, tor those learned
Olives of the Saints, which prove. bis sym,
nathv Wv with the nobility of human suffering, and
bis respect for the sancity OF conscience; ana
for those Horoe Juridicoe, in which he has
shown how large comprehension he has OF
the majesty Of the law; how deep horror OF
all the wanton and arbitrary follles which IN >
science and ignorance, dressed In little prlef
authority, are sure to perpetrate.
They honor him again for that admirable
poem of ''Hudibras," in which he has en-
balmed all the finest traits Of his own character.
There they find him teaching US to have a
care of the main chance" rebuklng the SIM
pletons, who would create loyalty by compelling
perjury, with the solemn maxim that
stHe that imposes an oath makes 1t,
81 Not he that for convenience taxes II;
cheering the plundered citizens OF Louisiana
with the reflection that
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat;
giving the inexperienced safe measure OF the
yalue of patriotism by reminding them
..Wbat is worth in any thing, >,
IF Rut so much money as twill bringT
illustrating his own conversion from Dem, n
oeracy i,c to Republicanism and from serylllty to
Toffarson Davis to supremacy over Abraham
Lincoln, by the sage thought,
.eWhat makes all doctrines plain and clear
Ahont two hundred pounds year.
And that which was proved true true moTee; nedUfS;
sPrnve false again? Two hundred more
and summing up, finally, the whole art OF war Wa
90 ss VIGOROUSLY practiced BY himself upon sne
fields of Big Bethel and Bermuda f1unu'eu'
IN the conclusive dogma.