The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-11
RICHMOND VA, SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY H. 1865

south side, which Butler had reached
without the loss Of man2 What Of
the battle Of Cold Harbor, where Butler.
interposed to save him from destruction !?
What of the set.off Of the Petersburg
mine to the Dutch gap? Is not the way
in which General Butler puts his case on
paper at least as skillful as the way in
which Grant sets his squadrons in the
field?
When rogues fall out they are apt to
tell the truth of each other. The
"hero" Of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher
informs the officers Of the United
States that g Big Bethel was not Bull
Run Big Bethel was not Fair Oaks;
Big Bethel was not Seven Pines; Big
Bethel was not the Chickahominy-Fort
Fisher was not fredericksburg; Fort
Fahsr was not Chancellorsville; Fort
Fisher was not the Wilderness; Fort
Fisher was not Cold Harbor. When l
die, put over me for my epitaph: Here
lies the General who saved the lives of his
soldiers at Big Bethel and Fort Fisher,
and who mever commanded the Army Of
the Potomac" What does General
Grant think of that for an oratorical
bombshell?
We are curious to see his reply. Will
he say Amen! here lies General Butler
Will he insinuate that General Butler
was guided in his campaigns by military
advisers of the old United States army,
or will he prove that Butler has been as
unsuccessful as Grant? But observe
that Butler only claims that he is the
hero of failures" whilst Grant is repre-
sented as the hero of not only failures"
but "disasters." How will General
Grant spike that gun?
sHe who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
But he who fights, runs, and gets
killed in running, is hopeless case
This is what General Butler means by
the
'DisaSter OIL disaster,
Following fast, and following faster,''
which has distinguished Grants massa-
....- C,o~X, D,,%1,rJr e.; ;l,,,o,
Whatever General Grant may think OF
Buffers oratory, it will strike home to
the hearts of his Massachusetts audi
eNce. The man that saves human life is
the man for their money. The man that
fills up the ranks with American citizens
of African descent, instead of Massa-
chusetts citizens ofNew England descent,
is benelactor Of his native land. They
appreciate the difference between that
Petersburg "hole filled up with Anne
rican dead until it ran blood" and that
placid and secure Dutch gap, where not
a groan was heard, nor a funeral note,
and where their favorite General snored
calmly in his couch of mud, "with his
martial cloak around him." General
Grant need not send his recruiting off,
GERS in the neighborhood of Lowell.
"'Taint.a a knowin' kind of cattle
That is cotch'd with mouldy corn"
1t will be the crowning glory of But.
ler in Massachusetts, that only "twenty-
five men were killed and wounded at
Big Bethel" -; and as his audience were
none of the twenty-five, there is no
drawback to their satisfaction. Whereas,
he delares that, in the disastrous battles
of Grant and others, "there were more
men slaughtered and homes made desc
late than there were leaves on the trees
in the forest around Big Bethel-not to
be numbered"
We shall get the truth out of these
people at last. l. is a timely exposition,
in view of the approaching draft. If the
Yankee people are anxious to drop in
greater numbers than the leaves Of the
forest, they will have better prospect
than ever this spring, and the Lieutenant
General, grim and CORY, is ready to show
them the way Immediately.
The New York Times is much scan
dalized by the abuse which, it says, has