The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-19


Butter and The New NliiIisa.
When Sir Hudson Lowe, the gaoler Of Ma
poleon, had been guilty Of some special
atrocity rather worse than those which he
was In the daily habit Of practising towards
his illustrious captive, the latter observed,
that governments always knew how to select
their agents, and that the English govern
ment must have bccQ well acquainted with
the character of Lowe, before they made him
his keeper. What, he added, must be their
opinion of this man, when the very Ounces
they confer upon him are disgrace to him
What, we take this occasion TO ask, must DC
the :opiuion entertained of Butler, by the
Yankee Government, when the command
they have conferred upon him Ia such as no
honorable man would acceptg 1t has been
said, that We ought to retaliate upon the
prisoners in our possession BY the appoint
ment of some person ~ bad "A Butler. But
where, this side of Yankeedom, shall we find
such person. In that land they are com,
mon enough; bat here, We should be com.
PEELED to ransack the penitentiaries OF the
Confedesacy, with the risk at last OF failing
TO md that of which we were In search. We
may as well give up at once all hope OF sue
cess In such pursuit. Buffers grow nowhere
but on the congenial soil OF YankeedoOdle-
dom.
The outlawry of this wretch by President
Davis, and bis calm and contemptuous refu.
cal to open negotiation Ia which he is to be
treated a. an agent, hailed as it will be by
the applause of the whole civilized world,
has stung the Yankee Government to the
quick. To that circumstance is owing his
appointment OF jsilor.in-chief to the whole
Yankee nation. A thorough coward, he
unites in his own person all the attributes
that properly belong to that character. He Is
brutal, treacherous, remorseless, and covet-
ous He will infict upon the Confederate
prisoners all the insults, all the cruelties, all
the miseries that petty malice can devise or
human nature, in Its most stubborn mood,
can endure. Armed with absolute power,
he will encourage assassination on the slight
est pretext, and color, If he can, bis muir
1lers with the sanction of law. Every pri-
walton that can suggest itself to mind ia
miliar with crime win be inflicted. Solitary
imprisonment, cold, hunger, starvation, form
the prospect which the unfortunate prison
ers have before them. His wounded vanity
will not be satiated with anything short o.
the lives of his captives. slain by inches,
victims of his savage and unrelenting thirst
for revenge. The monster Collot d'Herbois,
the worst of all the demons of the French
Revolution, had at one time been an actor,
and been Kissed from the stage at Lyons
When he became revolutionary commits
sioner he visited that city with O heart on
fire with. vengeance for the wound which
had been inflicted on his vanity. Of all men
lac who is 1T once thoroughly q coward, and
thoroughly vain, is the most bloody and the
most remorseless. The ex-actor murdered
thousands of women, children, and old men,
in Lyons, and commenced destroying the
city itself, house by house, having deter
mined to raze it all to the ground: Such a
character, precisely, is Butler. President
Davis, with the applause of the whole
world, has inflicted upon his vanity wound
which could not be healed by the murder
Of every human being In the Confederacy.
lie feels that he must 60 down to posterity
% the Monster, above all other Monsters of
this war, and his burning heart. and mortified
vanity impel him to merit the distinction
Of the same characters Sumner, who would
fam, If he could, involve the whole Confed-
eracy in blood and slaughter, in revenge for
the chastisement which he received at the
hands of Southern representative, which he
had not the manliness to resent, which all the
caresses showercd upon him by our dear
friends" in England could never make him
forget, which rankles at his heart to this mo
ment, and which will thus rankle until his
dying day, in all probability, throwing its
shadow between him and his eternal peace
which no soul can enter, that passes from
this world with feelings Of enmity towards
any created being.
Nor has the contemptuous treatment
which Butler has met with wounded the SEN
sibilitics of the Yankee nation less than it
has those of Lincoln and Butler himself We
read the truth of this in the extrayagant
proposition of the Wisconsin Senator, who
proposes to call out million of ninety days'
volunteers to march upon Richmond and
capture the tprisons. I'VE see it in the
esolution not to treat with our Government
here because 1t Is a conspiracy, although it
has defed the utmost efforts of Yankeedom
for nearly three years, and repeatedly de-
feated Its largest armies and most celebrated
captains We read it in the proposition
OF their Congress to send all it's members un-
der fifty years of age into the field. We read
1t In the resolution to fight until "all trait.
ors" lmeaning the whole Confederacy] "are
conquered into love for the Union" In
deed, from all the debates and resolutions Of
the Yankee Congress, we can see that the
arrow Of contempt which proverbially
pierees the shell of the tortoise has pene
trated deeply into the Yankee soul. And
Why should it not? Butler is man after
the Yankees own heart, the very model Of
the Yankee gentleman, the representative
,uan of the Yankee nation. To treat Butler
asathief and an outlaw Is to make outlaws
aud thieves Of the whole Yankee nation; aud
as the French proverb tells us that the
truth alone wounds, the fury of the Yankee
nation is, Of all other things, the most natu.
raj and the most easily explained.
But the million Of men-the ninety days
men-there lies the rubl When Yankeedom
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