The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-05-06
the Creat Civil General Butler.

The Great Civil General Butler.
The news, few days ago, of the Fed
eral disaster at Plymouth, North Carolina,
in General BUFFERS department, ought not
to fail of impressing subject for deep re-
Election, of which the conduct of that Gem
eral, and some others like him, has afforded
many instances. General BUTLER, of all
others, has been rewarded and promoted
most in proportion to the amount of his
services and his fitness for military en-
ployment. He has, however, one extra
ordinary popularity, which is in being sin
gularly unlike anybody else who ever lad
any character or merit for anything
whatever.
Unlike his fellow human beings in
physical appearance, he is still more alb
normal in character and conduct. He had
the name and reputation of being lawyer,
yet from the Prince of Shysters (BUsrEED)
down, in petty criminal courts, he has had
no match in ignorant audacity and dshon-
orable venality! He became nomlnally
Democrat in Lowell, only for the purpose,
as it has since transpired, of becoming a
traitor TO his self-assumed friends, and
renegade among his supposed political foes.
He it was who was instructed to vote for
DOUGLAS, but who in the Charleston Con-
vention persistently voted .tyty-seren
times for fellow-spirit- Mogul of
traitors, JEFF. DAVIS! 1t was he who said
in a speech in New York, since he wore
the twin stars of military authority on his
beefy shoulders, that he, with the leaders
and originators of the rebellion, went and
looked into the vortex of the hell of civil
war, but that he remembered that eds
cretion is the better part of valor," and so
he deserted his incendiary confederates
and took Major Generalship and pay on
the stronger side.
BANKS, among civil Generals, is known
to be an intellectual, honest man. SlCKLEs,
with all the stains of lechery and man
slaughter upon him, is still acknowledged
to be something more than military
heteroclite. But it belongs alone to this
most ugly piece of mortality, known as
MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN But
LER, to be "more of nothing " than any
body connected with this war. 1t may be
truly said of him, as was said of another,
that he is renowned General who never
fought a battle, though he has managed
lately, perhaps, to avoid the other Part of
the parallel by not being ga millionaire
without dollar
He captures Hatteras at the risk of his
elegant person, while ensconced in the Sc
cure cabin of man-of-war, miles away
from the scene of action; and then hast
ems to Boston to be crowned with the lau-
rels of hero. After the brave Admiral
FARRAaUr has reduced all obstacles be-
fore New Orleans, this prince of pettifog-
gers in stars and gold buttons steps in to
claim all the honors, and to combat the
rage of the secesh ladies. Finally, like
bad sixpence he turns up again in bis old
department of North Carolina, where he
vigorously works to suppress the rebellion
by snubbing old ladies and catechizing re-
bellious preachers, while $500 of his
men, two gunboats and an untold amount
of munitions OF war are gobbled up by
the enemy.
He has been aptly styled the the HAY
NAU of America, but even in this respect
he cOntradicts his best title and attributes,
since HAYNAU's crimes were committed in
behalf Of tyranny, while his imitator acts
the tyrant in the name of liberty.
The Indian Campaign...The Troops