The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-26
General Dix and DIR. But ler,


General Dix sailed on Saturday for Europe, to
enter upon his duties as Minister of the United
States near the Court of st. Cloud. 1t is the
reasonable hope of all good patriots that, in
the discharge OF these duties, General Dix
may conciliate the goodwill of the French
Government without compromising the dig
ntIy of the Union, and that he may effect
peaceable settlement of the many veXed and
veXatlOus questions which, in one way or
another, Mr.. Seward has contriVed to keep
alive between Paris and Washington. One
chapter at least in the history of the connec-
ton of General Dix with the public events
of the last five years, which has never
before been accurately made public, 1t ls
worth while now to bring forward; because,
while it is calculated to increase the public
confidence in the fitness OF General Dix
for the important post he is nov about to
fill 1t will also serve the equally desirable END
ol increasing the public contempt Tor DR.. Butler.
While the steamer winch bears General Dix on
a national mission to France will be ploUghlng
her eastward way across the Atlantic,
Dr. Butler il there be truth in the Tribune and
independeqt, will be prophesying things rougher
than the Atlantic waves to tue sanglInar
saints of Brooklyn. He Will be cheering their
sW eet souls with his description OF the citizens
| Of New York as thieves, bulnes, babY-murder-
ers, fools, and towards; he Will be promising
them the hanging of all "OOpperheads,n
''Rebels" and ''dislOyal persons" In the land he
Will show them how easy and DELIGHTFUL thing
| it will be to impeach the President, cashier
| General Grant, Danish General Shermal, and
| anticipate the millennium OF DR.. Cummings by
| putting Ben " ade in the seat of Washington,
| and tuning over the command of the armies
OF The United States to himself Dr. B. L. Butler,
| Ali this "tal talk" of the hero OF Dutch GAP
| will be made the easier to him by his kno wleGge
| that General Dix is tairly on his way out OF the
| country. For IN the presence OF General Dix,
| DR.. Butler, uttering trucuient speeches and
| giving himself the airs of a Tamerane, at New
| York, can never, for two years past, have been
| exactly comfortable. While he has passed cur
rent with the country at large as the despot who
CoGrced New York into order at the time of che
Presidential election in 1864, Butler himse has
| known full well that he stood before General
Dix as "Falstaf" stood before "Pnnce Hal, and
| PoiDs when be bad gore through with his won
deriul narrative of the rogues in buckram
| routed by his trusty sWord:-"What a slave art
| thou, TO hack thy sword, as thou hast done, and
| then say 1t was in fghtw
The pomp and circumstance with which the
Conqueror of New Orleans" descended upon
the metropolis in 1854, the noise OF his orderlies
| ana his horses, the clattering of his spurs, the
| Pstols displayed upon his table at the Hoffman
| house, The splendor of his epauettes, and the
iantaronade of the radical papers in his honor,
| Dlnded everybody at the tune. The contemptu-
Gus lndinerence OF General Dix has kept them
| blinded ever since to the truth of this cuTions
| history Lei 1t be ours no " briefly to set il
| forth.
DR.. Butler, on arriving at the Hoffman House
| IN Octooer, lo64 reported for public service to
General DIX; but Immediately began his own
| private arrangements for preparing riots in
New York. He sent tor few small politicians,
whom he scared with his horse pistols, and
kept up 2 farce OF receptions and Official inter
views, which for few days very successfully
yelled his real performances. The general
theory of these performances was, that IL small
squads of soldiers should be posted ali over the
city ON election day at the different polls,
| noWnere In numbers strong enough to awe a
really angry crowd, and everywhere with
/ orders 10 make the crowd angry, Il would be
II pretty nearly impossible for the day 10
II pass off without one or more such collisions
between the populace and the soldiery as
nieht make q serious military demoDstraton
at least plausibly justiGable Inpreparation for
such demonstration the main body of the
troops inland about the city were to be with
drawn from their ususual quarters In the forts
and islands, and so posted as to be disposabIe
for suddenly and completely overpo WeriAg the
citizens, and practically voiding the days cleo