Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-03-02
General BasIeE and 6eaetal Grsat,


After reading the speech Of General
Butler, priated in thursdays Dispatch,
We take back the opinion formerly ex-
pressed, that General Bataer's forte is
soldiership, not oratory. We magnaui.
mously apologize for that act of aninten-
tiongl Injustice, We conoade that Rut-
lea is, like Cesar, equally great with the
tongue and the sword. VS. should like
to know General Grants cpinien OF that
speech as Cd oratorical. We know that
Grant does rot consider Butler q soldier.
What does be think Of him ~ an orator 2
Does be not psEcaive, even In his oEatory,
some glimpses Of military genius Not
permitted by military rule 30 attack bis
superior ofkeer directly In front, does be
not execnte some handsome aank move
ments
What does General Grant think Of
Buffers outline of Gr@nt's last summer
campaign, when be started With two han
dred thousand men for the north side Of
Richmond and arrived on the south side
which Butler reached without the loss Of
man What of the battle Of Cold
Harbor, whers Butler intsrposed to save
him from destrucsionf What OF tbs
set-oF Of the Petersburg mine 10 the
Dutch Gap? Is net the way in which
General Butler puts his case on paper al
least as skilifal 40 the way in which
Grant acts bis sQaadrons ia the fields
When rogues fall out they are apt to
tell the truth Of each ether. Tbs sshero''
of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher informs
the officers Of the United States that
s'Big Bethel was not Ball Run Big
Bethel was not Fair Oaks; Big Bethel
vas not Seven Pines; Big Bethel was not
the ChiskaAominy Fort Fisher was not
Fredericksburg; Fort Fisher was ros
Charlottesville Fort Fisher was not
the Wilderness Fort Fisher was not
Cold Harder. When die, put over me
for my epitaph Here liess the General
whn saved The lives OF his soldiers at
Big Bethel and Fort Fishes, and who
never commanded the array OF the poto-
mac.n What does General Grant think OF
that for an oEasorical boabshell
We are curious TO ace bis reply. VIII
he say amen here lies General Buffers
Will be insinaass thai Gsaeral Bntler was
guided Ia his campaigns by military adj
visers Of the old United States army, or
will be prove that Butler has been a. un-
successful 80 Gtant2 Bat observe THAI
Batter Only claims TO be the hero Of afail-
ures,a while Grant 10 not emily the hero
Of s'failuge@,n but Wdisasterssn How
will General Grant spike that gun?
'fHs VITO aghts and rms away,
Mag live 70 axhs aaetheF days"
Bot be whe fights, raas and gets killed
in running il hopeless case. This Il
what General Butler means By the
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Which has distinguished Grant naassa,-
ores from BuEIarss Efailures.O
whassssr Gsn. Grant may thlak Of
Tlutlewss erasosg, Ii viii strike home To
the hearts Of his Massachusetts aadienes-
The maa that saygs human life ID The man
foN4heir menay, The man thai Ells ap
the racks with Afasriean 1isIaans oil AfsI-
can desccns, instead oE Massachusetts,
cilisens of New Eagaana descent il b
hsncfaaaor of bis satire Land. They AZ
praciass The difference bsswesa that Pes
tersburg sshois GiIed up with Amsrican
dead until Il ran blood, = and shaa placid
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groau was heard, nar fanesal nesa, And
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