Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-06-04
A Richmond Daniel on General Butler.

Humiliation, fasting and prayer are suitable to
these days. The shutting recognition OF that
felonious Major General Butler as military
commissioner treating with the Governmcnt-the
practical withdrawal of that public, solemn
proclamation denouncing him a thief and
murderer, outside q the pale of military respect
ability - the kind and generous message re-
ported by contemporary to have been sent by
the felon through Commissioner Guild to the
President to the effect that Major General Butler
is now satisfied with him, and that he, the Major
General, is proud to belong to the Democratic
party and cherishcs a sincere admiration and
esteem for Jefferson Davis the things promote
in a sautary manner the Christening of the
heart which properly prepares us for fasting and
humiliation on this appointed Friday.
Nothing is wanting to this humbling lesson.
We declare that we wont receive such criminal
under the safeguard of a nag-ol-truce, nor treat
with him in This manner. He knows what Con-
federate proclamatiOns are made of he does not
coax or fatter by any means he does not
come up to City Point to see whether he will be
received or not he simply establishes himself in
our Virginia Fortress Monroe, and says ''When
YOU are quite ready, chivalrous Confederates,
you may come 10 me, under iag-ot-truce, and
perhaps | may receive you and we go, and
are bcuevolently received for Butler would not
break the bruised reed he even sends back an
indulgent and encouraging message lest we be
too much cast down.
Propitated by our establishment, he cOnde-
seconds to enter upon negotiations with Commits
sioner Ould and arranges resumption of ex-
change under the cartel But this is not all we
learn by New York papers mot yet through our
own Official channels that the body of Dahl
gren, committed obscurely to the earth some
where near this city is to be cyhumed soon as
possible and restored to the sorrowing parent of
that dashing house-burner. Doubtless it will
he delivered at Fortress Monroe with military
honors and under salute of Confederate guns {;
for Dahgren was graduate of West Point
probably a member of the Democratic party,
too and how can simple civilians. or soldiers
of a mere Provisional " army, presume to say
that Il West-Pointer had not a perfect right to
pelt us with oakum balls, and sprinkle us with
turpcntne? What can we know OF the true
principles of q military responsibility p
At any rate humiliation is our one thing need
full. We can now point with the utmost conf
dence to at least one proclamation of the Presi-
dent which was intended to be serious, and car
ried out to the very letter. Confederate procla-
nations of proud, q defiant, or menacing
tone do not, perhaps, now command much re-
spect, but when the President announces humil-
iation he means it. Mr.. Davis has the reputa-
ton of unbending obstinacy and hauteur but
that is for his friends. When his own support
and rightful counselors, the men who created
this Confederate movement and elevated him to
his great office, approach him with respectful ad-
vice or remonstrance, it may be that he is hard
as flint; but let the public enemy command him,
at his peril, to eat his own words and come down
from his high ground, and who polite and
d" reasonable as he? His stern self-will is for
us-his CONFERENCE.-The gracious gentleness to
our foes. Triumph and gratfed pride are for
them for u.s. fasting, humiliation and prayer.
Thus we prepare ourselves. and we trust our
readers also to meet in fitting frame of mind the
services of Friday, the sth Of April. Let US fast
on this day, only Confederates can ; let US
clothe our soul in the sackcloth and ashes of
humility; and let us pray, saying From ali
privy conspiracy and huggermugger, from can't
ing and re-canting and all other shutting sin,
from the crafts and assaults Of the devil and
Yankee Democrats-good Lord deliTer US p
Richmond Examiner.