New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-31
The Right Man in the Right Place.
From the Philadelphia Age.l

from the Philadelphia Agel
When Gen. Butler resigned his commission as
major general in the armies of the United States,
there was general rejoicing in the land. One
legged veterans, whose timber toes reminded them
of the strategy of Big Bethel aud Fort Fisher, |
hopped for 10y. Eager and brave souls recalling
the DAYS of shameful inactivity in which they lay
corked and bottled within the defenses of Bermuda
Hundred leaped up and uttered hearty eiacula-
tons of gratitude that the army was rid at last Of
the ugly nightmare which had straddled its breast
and Wellnigh chUked out its life.
The people at large were happy too, and the
newspaper press of the country with singular
unanimiy greeted the departing hero with fare
well santes which were the reverse of benedic
tons We all thought we were done with him
It was pleasant to think that his sword had slid
its scatbard for the last time, and not hung as
issNNNu his chamber wall as it had hung on his hip
.1t,@ IN the face of the enemy. His uniform
.E ~ At on the peg of Vender OF old clothes
reused far more enthusiasm than it ever did when
it encased his pOrtly person. The generals lace
and epaulets had been the only evidences OF ms
sodiersbip that the world had ever been favored
with and when he was stripped OF them and
peeled of his blue, his consequence vanished in
the twinkling of an eye.
But it seems that the public rejoicing over the
generals retirement was premature. His military
ambition is irrepressible. Not even the excite
ment Of defending himself in courts OF justice
against the yeXatious suits OF dlsloyal men who
aim to reduce his little store of portable property
nnnn the foul pretense that he did not acquire it
by either purchase or descent, affords sufficient
emplovment for his ardent and active spirit.
Hence we find in our telegraph columns OF yester-
day the following item
HBosTOS NAV 22.-The Senate elected to-day
General B. F. Butler, of Lowell to be major-gen'
eral of the Massachusetts State militia under the
new militia organization"
There can be no doubt of the generals accept
ance of the appointment II is true that 1t Is
rather an abrupt and heavy fall from the pay, per
qusites, power and pomposity OF general 5 place
in the service of all these States to the command
oFt I,a1 tip mil nj q ul
But what is lost in dignity and profits IS made VI
by the superior safety off the humber position
There is no danger of even being accidentally sho
at the head of an army whose ordnance consist
of cornsLaks and hroOmstiCks. A field on which
there is nothing more explosive than the pop
bottles which abound on Boston Common o
"traning day. Is just the field in which Butler
likely to win aurels.
He can swell and strut there to the admirato
of the infants, imbeees and dotards of the hub,
without the smallest peril. He can win glor,
without the dangers winch beset Its purchase
actual war, and can hold his docie forces bottlet
corked and quiet, unvexed by the interference
and reproaches of the terrible Grant. In short, IL
appointment is one eminently fit to be made, ar
if Massachusetts, does not forthwith take raj
among the foremost military powers of the earl
ii will be because "invncibihty in peace and invi
ibiity in war are martial attributes which Il
world is not yet sufficiently advanced to appreciat
CONFIRMATION OF Mr. CAMPBELL AS MTNIsTl
10 kIEyICO-G Gratitude of Sul1IReT.-ln stating
few DAYS since, that the Hon. Lewis D. Campb'
was 6 unanimously confirmed we were mistake
There was one solitary vote against Mr.. Campbe
and that vote was recorded by Charles Sumne
There is nothing strange to us in this action of
Sumner. He is the man of all others in the sena
whom we should have supposed would vote agar
Mr.. Campbell, because the latter was the nrst
fIy 10 the rescue of Sumner when he lay bleed
upon the floor Of the Senate in 1856, and aft
wards not only risked his own life to protect a
Sumner, and made the House report vindieati
Mr. Sumner from the assault OF Mr. BROOKS,
willingly rendered his services as second in :"
affair Of honor which grew out of the assa
upon the senator. Why should Sumner not v
against Campbell under such circumstances?
Mr.. Campbell that his confirmation record
Glean.-[Nadonal Repub lean, 18TH