New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-05
GEN BUTLERs LETTER.

GEN BUTLER'S LETTER.
We print this morning letter Of Gen.
BUTLER, which like everything from his pen
will we'll repay pcrusal. Gen. Butler is in com
maud of the Army of tho james, now pressing
close upon Richmond, and probably knows
better than any man on this side the Rebel
lines tho actual condition Of the insurgent
States and their means Of further resistance. IL
is known that Con. Grant trusts largely to his
facilities for acquiring Observation-Disclosures
which arising from his position are improved to
the utmost by his extraordinary professional
talents And this is the opinion of Gen. Butler
1--WE have been lying In front Of Lees army now for
four months which have By no means been spent IN
yais From the examination Of thousands OF prisoners
and cserters and articles 10 the Southern newfpapers
am certain that these have beon months OF depletion
10 tho Southern army that the whole arms bearing pop
uation of the States within tho Rebel lines nave been
exhausted In tho effort TO recruit their forces ond the
capabiiiy If no, the wi to resistance Is last d"inns
away
Gen. Butler recites the Rebel law Of impress
mont into service Of all white residents between
seventeen and fifty, with the provision for detail
by military authority Of farmers, mechanics and
Others for agricultural and other labor necessary
TO support the Rebel army. The Rebellion re-
cogn;zes military necessity as paramount to all
lau-declares that the State and TIE citizen
have no existence but for military purposes, and
acknowledges no right that may not be sacrl.
feed TO tho demands Of Treason. Very peril
nently then asks Gen. Butler:
What would our Democratic friends who. nre so
/ a IT. o.. fni "a dFuN
that on our side would like 10 see Governor Sey'
nours mid protest against It, would not Ike IT, hear
VOORHEES, deuuncations Of it, FOR they would DO vulgar
Recollect that all this happens under the
Montgomery Constitution, and that Horatio
Seymour pronounced that Constitution prefer
able 10 the Constitution Of the United States,
and advised that the Northern States should
follow the seeding States in adopting it Now,
that same Seymour is the loudest denouncer Of
The draft, and the most unscrupulous advocate
for such Peace rs the Montgomery Constitu-
ton gives TO them who live under It's sway.
Gen. Butler tos,ifcs to the universal eonvic-
ton of the Rebels that their cause IA wholly de-
pendent for success upon the success Of the CHI
cago- Copperhead- McClellan ticket:
Add 10 this the concurrent testimony OF prisoners,
dc.eters and refugees that tie rank and Ole o. their
armies are In the confident expectation and neliei IN
the pfoe - their leaders, that ths VIII be their last
campaign DIT Tie nominees Of the Chicago Conf cnon
will b. elected In November. and ihat The independence
OF the & nfedcraie States Will be acknowledge aAd a
treaty II rcsce concluded and you have imper'cc;
synors ol tie reasons why to.cve The Rebellion near
/ its end"
Noar It's end, of course, because the Gunboat
Candidate is rot TO be elected. The cheers OF
tho Rebels in tho Petersburg lines for McClel-
Ian, the votes OF Rebel prisoners on railroad
trains for him, the depressing effect upon his
chances Of every Union victory of Sherman,
Sheridan, and Grant, have taught Gen. Butler,
as they have taught every soldier in the Union
armies. that the last hope OF the Rebellion
rests in the election Of Mcclellan. He and
they. therefore, agree that the salvation of this
Republic demands the election Of ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, while so far asplatiorms are concerned
this is what they declare: 81 have but one
article in my political creed at the present time.
| am for sharp, thorough, and decisive prose-
crtion of the war until the authority Of the
Union is acknowledged, and its laws obeyed
upon every foot of soil ever within the bound
aries Of the United States" And all the people
will say Amen!