Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-13

Butler, Dickinson, DIX, stanton q Co.
The Mobile Register, edited by John Forsyth,
referring to Buffers efforts to break Gen. Grants
amnesty to Gen. Lee, and to his course in pre-
venting the exchange of prisoners, goes on to
say:
We have always believed that Gen. Butler
was deeply implicated in the responsibility of
those political blunders which Immediately pre-
ceded and brought on the late war. as any other
one man. with the exception, perhaps. of the late
Mr.. YsRcey Every ssgsciOus man in tee ma
ton saw in the years 1859 and 1860, that the
Democratic party had become the solitary bar
rer TO q sectional outbreak and violent dsrup
ton of the Union. Its bearing and integrity
was therefore a vital question of consideration
and soIcitude to every man who loved his coun
try and its peace.
IL is q curious fact while the writer of these
lines, who has been under the ban OF this Gov
eminent as rebel" was wasting his strength
and energy to preserve the Democratic party,
and through it the integrity of the Govern ment
General Butler. who has gained much eciat by
HE loyalty, was taking the very steps that
were sure to lead to the destruction of both We
were both members of the y ational Democratic
Convention, which met at Baltimore, over which
General Caleb Gushing presided. and shall
that body, when he announced be was about TO
"secede'' from il snd pass the Brecknridge
standard, then flying over = Convention of the
precipitation party 10 tue same city He said IN
effect that the Convention which he was about
10 depart from was not sound on the question of
Southern Rights then at issue. and that the ter
ritorisl Sovereignty heresies were offensive to his
constitutional olfaeiories
He shook the dast from off bis feet and went
aud shortly after that Caleb Gushing followed
into the camp Of the immediate before break
fast seeessonists- This step. from two dissin-
guisbed and leading Massachusetts, Democrats.
did more 20 give backbone 20 the movement to
divide the Democratic party and put al out-and
out sectional candidate before the people than
anything that could have happened Ii gave an
odor Of nationality 90 4 movement before that
clearly cliquish aud sectional. II vas the last
feather that broke the camel's back LIZ was
the sealing of the election OF Mr. Lincoln. aud
the prelude 10 dissolution aud sectional war
Great vas the CONSERVATION aud surprise Of those
South who witnessed and who knew of General
Buffers coursein that memorable political strug-
gle. TO find him booted and spuFred, and sword
in hand. to take part in the war that eosled.
he bad fairly endorsed the cause Of tie South
ern quarrel. bounded the South 10 the brink
OF disruption, advised it, Clruas like, 70 leap
into tie gulf. and comes out TO shoot and bayo-
net and hang the people who took has advice and
carried out the logic OF ais own politics. We
thought be might At least have kept neutral in
that fight. He was A. fairly committed 20 the
Southern side OF the quarrel as Daniel s. Dick.
inson Of New York. who once declared in the
United States Senate. that so profound were hi,
Of the justice Of The Southern c.use
ia is controversy with Abolitionism that shoula
war ever be declared he would be bound To draw
bis sword on the side Of the South Mr.. D.ckip
tons words were written ia the sand During
she pass four years We have known him a. tie
btterss, and most ,ruculent OF the radicals