Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-11-02
ButIsr, DIcIk,nsOm A Go.


From the Mobile Register, edited by John For.
syth
We have always believed that Gen. Butler
was as deeply implicated in the responsibility
Of those political blunders which Immediately
preceded aud brought on the late war as any
other one man, with the exception, perhaps,
OF the late Mr.. Yancey Every sagacious
man 10 the nation saw in the years 1859 and
1860 that the Democratic party had become
the solitary barrier to a sectional outbreak
aud h violent disruption OF the Union. Its
bearing aud integrity was, therefore, vital
question Of consideration and soicitude TO
every man who loved his country and its
peace
Ii ia a curious fact that 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 Demo
cratic party and through il the integrity Of
the Government, General Batter, who has
gained 90 much ecLdt 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 Con-
vention which met at Baltimore, and we shall
never forget Gen. Butler's farewell speech TO
that body, when he announced that he was
about 70 ''secede" from it and pass TO the
u
venlion Of the precipitation party in the same
city. He said in effect that the convention
which be was about 10 depart from was not
sound on the question Of Southern rights
then at issue, and that the territorial SOW
ereignty heresies we're offensive to his con-
stitutional olfacories
He shook the dust from his feet and went
and shortly afterward Gen. Cushing followed
him into the camp OF the immediate "before
breakfast secessionists This step from two
distinguished and leading Massachusetts
| Democrats did more to give backbone to the
movement TO divide the Democratic party
and put an out aud out sectional candidate
before the people than anything that could
have happened II gave an odor of nation
ality to a movement before that clearly clqu-
| ish sectional. 1t was the last feather that
broke the camels back II was the sealing
| of the election of Mr.. Lincoln, and the pre-
| ude to dissolution and sectional war. Great
CONSERVATION and surprise OF those South
who witnessed and who knew of Gen. But
ler's course in that memorable political strug-
gle, to find him booted and spurred ard
sword in hand to take part in the war that
ensued.
He had fairly Endorsed the cause Of the
Southern quarrel bounded the South on the
brink of disruption, advised it, Curtius like,
to leap into the gulf, and then comes out to
shoot and bayonet and hang the people who
took his advice and carried out the logic OF
bis OWE politics We thought he might ct
least have kept Deutral in that fight. He
was as fairly committed TO the Southern side
Of the quarrel as Daniel s. Dickinson OF
New York, who once declared that so pro-
found were his convictions of the justice oi
the Southern cause in its controversy with
abolition, that should war ever be declared
he would be bound to draw his sword on the
aide of the South. Mr.. Dickinson's words
were written in the sand. During the past
four years we have known him as the bitLeresi
and most truculent of the radicals.