New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-17
DRAWING TEETH.

Tho editors VINO 5neercl u, DG' Dostio ~ ohit ="
DENTS, will be chagrined to hear that the National
Dental Convention, held the other day in Boston,
actually invited Gen. Butler to attend one oil Its
meetings-not to have tooth drawn or cavity
filed, but merely TO show himself to his patriotic
admirers. They will think more meanly, over at
The Bord Office of dentists than ever; which is
the more painful because the organ of bread-and-
butter party should DO especially interested, about
this time in the conservation Of masticatOrs But
this in passing. We have doubt of the ability OF
the new party to eat all the fodder which will come
to its wallet.
In this Dental Convention, there was delegate
from Savannah named Clark. who. with consterna-
ton beheld the loyal tantrums of his associates, and
did then and there protest against the same, plteousy
explaining and exelaimng that when the people OF
Savannah should hear that he had been in the same
hall with Gem Butler (without shooting him, we sup
pose,) they would 10 more come to him to
have their aching grinders extracted but would prob
ably order him TO pack up his tools, guttapercha,
gold-fo and gas.bags, and be off under penalty Of
hanging or burning tar-and-ieathering Where
fore the bold and undetermined gentleman protested,
in the forlorn hope of saving his practice aud perhaps
his life. The Doctor will soon be at home, and we
terest After such erouching caveat, II would be
decorating hear of Dr. Clark dying in his own oper-
ating chair his weasand slit by of his own Ian
GETS sent TO his account without chloroform By his
own infatuated patients. Most persons who have
been manipulated by a dentist have, for single mo-
ment desired to kill that artist or at least to bite off
one of his fingers; and in DR.. Clark's case personal
revenge may accomplish its purpose under the mask
of public duty. The Doctor knows best how many
people he has tortured to desperation.
We hear a great deal about the reconstructed
Union We are told morning and evening that the
discounted Rebels accept the situation. All the
pipers of the party the Whats-it or the What's
its-name party do no more than play variations upon
this theme. Wehave had lovers quarrel-itis over
we love each other better than before We were killing
each other yesterday-we may kiss and make friends
to-day To deny this ia TO be spenetye, radical i'm
practicable. We accept, II need be, the adJeetlyes,
and we assert, upon the authority OF DIR. Clark,
Surgeon Dentist of Savannah that 80 far that city
is concerned, the Rebellion is still in fun flower,
ready upon tho least proyoeaton to disobey
again the laws and rush again into felonious
violence Snarlers and sneerers, and all other
economists of the truth requested to take notice
that we base this assertion upon the testimony OF
man who says that his life would not be safe in Sayan
nah because he happened to hear a loyal speech in
Boston, and that he may be obliged to abandon his
home and his business for that most extraordinary
reason. Now, for our own part, we do not consider
the Union worth having, or rather We do not regard
it as Union at ALL unless it can everywhere main
tain freedom of thought Of speech, of publication and
of legal acton for anything less than this is mock
cry, snare and demsion which can only DO fruit
full of fresh embarrassmcnts and provocative of re.
newed hosttes 1t isn't this poor chickenhearted,
trembling drawer Of molars and incisors that are
thinking Of for he might meet the fate which he
has himself suggested without great deal of our
sympathy Our interests We reserve for several
millions Of men, OF all colors and of all avocatons,
whose fortune has left them or may hereafter cast
them within the borders Of the late Coniederacy and
to whom the Union may be no guaranty of freedom
either of speech or of action. Nice folk turn up their
noses and sneerngly say, 5 all question of mig
gers and Of nggcrs we are tired of hearng' Sir (or
madam) we beg your pardon but it isn't question of
"niggers at ALL DIR. Clark, d. ID. s., isn't mig
GER" and he tells you that although he has committed
no crime whatever, he may be driven from his home
simply for being present at meeting in Boston,
craven and sneak as he is from his head to his heals
If he be not safe, what nobe-minded truthful, out
spoken man or woman is safe in Savannah i-or-Mo-
Charleston Tor any other Southern city
The great war is over; but better far better, weud
be its renewal in all its costly pomp aud bloody cir
than the establishment of hundred petty
local anarches than chronic disturbance ara oil tho
ruinous uncertainties of social disorder Rebellion
only ltto while ago. shrinking in discontinue from |