The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-31

From the tone and temper Of the speech Of
Butter we inier that he IS ready, at least in the
use OF words, TO carry out this doctrine advo-
Gated by the old abolition apostle His
courage. which failed him at Fort Fisher and
prompted him to testify before the Committee
on the Conduct OF the War that Fort Fisher
could not be captured- and that too, when the
committee had in their possession a despatch
stating that il had been captured-has all OF q
sudden returned to him, now that there are no
more forts to capture or armies to confront
Butler is a brave man when he has a few de.
ieuseless women and une med people to govern
and plumber in New Orleans, or is on the
stump in Massachusetts, when he does not
b.ve to confront the men whom he deiames.
His courage knows no bounds on such occa-
slons. He is then full OF pluck, and can order
raid upon the vaults of some bank, direct the
seizure OF family spoons, or harangue a CrOwl
OF Massachusetts, radicals with all the GOODNESS
of philosopher We never knew until his
speech at Gloucester what principle he based hIs
administration at New Orleans upon. He there
tells us that the people were public enemies and
in their capture by the war eve captured men
and property, their slaves, their RIGHTS Consti-
tutional and otherwise, except the right to be
hung" This accounts for his appropriation OF
private property, and the seizure of all valuables
that he could find while at the Crescent City.
The war, according to his Interpretation, hav-
ing acComplisted all this, he now proposes
to hang all the people in the South, unless they
VIII permit the slaves which Butler captured to
rule them. "If,n SAYS Butler II am asb ed how
long would keep these men out of the Union,
1 say, keep them out until the heavens melt with
fervent heat: and il it should not come IN this
generation we will swear our sons to keep them
out" His speech throughout is of this vlolen
character. He ls evidently trying to convince
the people of Massachusetts that he has era Ved
out of the bottle which General Grant placed
him in, and that he is ready to fight, now that
the South has laid down their arms and there is
no danger of their firing back.
What Butler says in regard TO the issues has
an important BEARING upon the contest. He IS
one OF the acknow wledgcd high priests of the
radical party. He is in that respect represeC-
tatVe mantle same rs the leaders in the
French Revolution were in their day. He has
all the nsolenCe and cowardice of Marat, the
bloodthiTstlness but lot the magnanimity of
Robes pierre, and all the audacity of Dauton
when there is no danger He proclalms in hls
manilestOes those theories and dogmas that he
intends to force the radical party to carry out,
and, by an adroit argument, leads the party uD
10 the adoption of his plan. What he fails to
present to the public Wendell Phillips makes
up. Hence, tie utterances of the two form
complete chapter in the events of the day. Both
denounce Congress, and proclaim in favor OF
immediate universal negro suffrage and that,
too, by Congress forcing it upon the South;
and, if necessary TO accomplish that they
urge that the President shall be deposed. Here,
then, we have the programme of the radical
faction. There is nothing in the history of this
country that compares with the atrocity of their
schemes or is one-halt so diabolical. These
manllestoes exhibit the desperate schemes that
The radicals are about to resort to for the pur-
pose of keeping themselves in power, and they
show to the people the dangers that threaten
the country If the radicals continue in power.
II they are successful there is to be no union
between the North and the South, but con-
tinual contention until the ''heavens melt with
te1vent heat" The nation, the Constitution,
the peace and prosperity of the land are all to
be sacrificed for the benefit OF their ambition
and their hypocri ical love TOR the neqro. Tue
picture is indeed dark one; but the people are
now torewaned, and let them profit by it, and
see that the result of the next Congressional
elections places these blOodthiTsty men where
they will be powerless, and cannot force upon
the country their theories and the ruin that Will
follow, under the plea Of legality of Congress
sional action.