The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-08


bner indicates high-strung temperament. He
\ wears stiff brown beard and mustache. and
short hair, which, with his light keen eye,
gives his countenance . rather forbidding ex-
preston. His artificial leg, "a substitute for
die limb lost at Grovetown in 1857. is shorter
than the other, and geemsr to be Of primitive
construction, causing him to walk quite awk-
Wardly. He was dressed in dark pants. short
alpaca coat, witout vest, and, with his little
r0und.top straw hat seemed little like Lieu
tenant General. 1go3 or sa1 sFa L3i1V o ail
evhat John Forsyth says OF Butler
| ono y;a3 and Dickinson ID
The Mobile Register, edited by JOHN
FORSYTH, prominent Southern supporter
Of DousIAs in 1860, referring to BuTLzR's
efforts to break Gen. GRANT's amnesty to
General LEE, and to his course in prevent
ing the exchange of prisoners, goes on to
cay: - 3aa'-C "..1i ~ -rob ..
We have always believed that Gen. Butler
was as deeply implicated in the responsibility
of those political blunders which Immediately
preceded and brought on the late war as any
other one man, with the exception perhaps of
the late Mr.. Yancey. Every sagacious man in
the nation saw in the years 1859 and 1860 that
the Democratic party had become the solitary
barrier to sectional outbreak and a violent
disruption of the Union. Its bearing and in
tegrity was, therefore, vital question of con-
sideration and solicitude to every man who
loved his country and its peace.
1t is q 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 it the integrity of the
OOvornrnort (yonoro1 Ruf1or who hos Oh
much sclas for his loyalty" was taking the
very steps that were sure to lead to the des-
truetiOn of both. We were both members of
the National Democratic Convention which
met at Baltimore, over which General Caleb
Cushing presided, and we shall never forget
Gen. Buffers farewell speech to that body
when he announced that he was about to g Sc
cede from it and pass to the Breckenridge
standard thea flying over convention of the
precipitation party in the same city. He said
in effect that the convention be was about to
depart from was not sound on the question of
Southern rights then at issue, and that the ter
ritorial sovereignty heresies were offensive to
his constitutional Olfactories.
He shook the dust off his feet and went, and
shortly afterward Caleb Cushing followed him
into the camp of the immediate before
breakfast secessi ,mists" This step from two
distinguished and leading Massachusetts dem
ocrats did more to give backbone to the move
ment to divide the democratic party and put
an out aud ont sectional candidate before the
people than any thing that could have hap.
pened. Ii gave an OdOr OF nationality. to a
movement, before that clearly cliguish
and sectional Il was the last feather that
broke the eamels back. 1t was the sealing of
the election of Mr.. Lincoln, and the prelude to
dissolution and sectional war. Great conster-
nation and surprise ofthose South who witness
ed and knew of Gen. Buffers course in that
memorable political struggle to find him boot
ed and spurred and sword in hand 10 take part
in the war that ensued. TN.
He had fairly endorsed the cause OF the
Southern quarrel, h0unaed the South on to
the brink of disruption, advised it, Curtius
like 10 leap into the gulf aud then comes
out to- shoot and bayonet and hang the people
who took his advice and carried out the logic
of his own politics. We thought he might at
| least have kept neutral In the fight. He was
fairly committed to the Southern side Of the
| quarrel as Daniel S. Dickinson of New York,
| who once declared in the United States Senate,
| that SO profound were his convictions of the
justice Of the Southern cause in its controversy
with abolition, that should war ever be de-
| clared he would be bound to draw his sword
| on the side of the South. Mr.. Dickinson's
| words are written in the sand. During the
past four years we have known him as the
| bitterest and most truculent of the ndicals.
+ As for Messrs. Butler and Gushing, we really
! k0lnk tley OUSnt W nave Tue 6iuUcSty oatu di-
! piled to the purgation OF their crime in the fo-
! mentation of the late rebellion. AZ we are
sure that some OF the exceptions of the am
nesty proclamation must catch then their
only chance is an application for special par.
| don. We know many men out here who have
| had no part nor lot in the war, except TO be
carried along with iJs resistless tide as resi-
| dents, who are asking for pardon, and YET
1 whose sins in regard to it are wool IN com
! parison TO Gen. Buffers scarlet.
!. specimen OF Oral Education.
An English clergyman who inspected
the church schools in the south Of Eng
land, mentions in his report, lately issued
that in = school in which the church cate
chism was Taught by repeating it after thu
teacher, the Greed was written out by {
pupi! As follows when the official inspec
zion was held:
oeilve God father all almighty make fren
ana earth and in Jesus christ is only sun on
ior0, VINO was inseayed by the holy COST an
Dorm the fery IN merry surfed under pOnshe'
pity was questy Tide dad ana berdy.
And after this fashion to the end.
TIE tcentng Post, in an article o
! railroad accidents, notes twenty-fou
which have occurred since January 25tf
all, or nearly all. the resul, of sheer care
lessness. ts
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