Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-16
Butler, Dickinson s. Co.
{ From the Mobile Register, edited by John For.
Sytl.l

From the Mobile Register. edited by John For
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We have always believed that Gen. But
Ter was as deeply implicated in the respon-
sibiiity Of those political blunders which
immediately preceded and brought on the
late war as any other man, with the excep-
ton, perhaps, of the late Mr.. Iancy. Ev-
cry SagaciouS man in the nation saw in the
years OF 1893 and 1850 that the Democratic
party had become the solitary barrier to a
sectional outbreak and a violent disruption
of the Union. Its bearing and integrity
was, therefore, a vital question Of consider.
alton and solicitude to every man who loved
his country and Its peace.
1t is a curious fact while the writer of
these lines, who has been under the ban of
this Government as rebel, was wasting
his strength and energy to preserve the
Democratic party and through it the integ-
rity of the Government, Gen. Butler who
has gained SO much eclut for his loyalty, "
was taking the very steps that We're sure to
lead to the destruction OF both. We We're
both members of the National Democratic
Convention which met at Baltimore and
we shall never forget Gen. Butler farewell
speech to that body, when he announced
that he was about to ''secede" from it and
pass To the Breckenridge standard then fly
ing over convention of the precipitation
party in the same city. He said in effect
that the convention which he was about to
depart from was not sound on the question
or Southern rights then at issue, and that
the territorial sovereignty hcresies were Of
fensive to his constitutional altactories.
He shook the dust from his feet and went
and shortly afterward Gen Gushing follow
ed him into the camp of the immediate
! ''beforc breakfast" secessiOnists. This step
from two distinguished aud leading Massa
chusetts Democrats did more to give back
bone TO the movement to divide the Demo-
cratic party and put an out and out section
tional candidate before the people than any
thing that could have happened. II gave
odOr of nationality to movement before
that was clearly cliquish and sectional, ltwas
the last feather that broke the camels back
1t was the sealing of the election of Mr.
Lincoln, and the prelude to dissolution and
sectional war. Great consternationa and sur
prise of those South who witnessed and who
knew Gen. Buffers course IN that memora,
| HE nolitical struggle, to find him booted
| and spurred and sword in hand to take
mart in the war that ensued.
He had fairly indorsed the cause of the
Southern quarrel, bounded the South on to
the brink of disruption, advised it, Curtius
like, to leap into the gulf, and then comes
out TO shoot and bayonet and hang the peo-
ple who took his advice and carried out the
logic of his own politics. We thought he
might at least have kept neutral IN that
fight. He was as fairly committed TO the
Southern side of the quarrel as Daniel ,;
Dickinson of New York, who once declared
that so profound were his convictions OF
the Justice of the Southern cause IN Its con-
troyersv with abolition, that should war ev-
err be declared he would be bound to draw
his sword ON the side of the south. Mr.,
dickinson $ words were writtenin the sand.
During the past four years we have known
him as the bitterest and most trucuient OF
the radicals.