The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-31
BUTLER AND THE New CIVIL WAR


B. F. Butler has been making a
speech at Gloucester, Massachusetts.
'sThe synopsis of his points sent us
BY telegraph" says the New York
Wo''hl, contains two open threats of
q new civil war, if the people of the
North do not stand by Congress and
prevent the restoration of the Union.
The Massachusetts, radicals, he says,
will march, and woe to him that op-
poses themr These threats by the
radicals will assuredly frightcn no.
body into the support of their policy;
they will only strengthen the growing
feeling that it is high time the Union
was restored, and the whole country
again under tho protection of the
Constitution. The longer settle
ment is deferred, the moro bad bio od
will be stirred, and the more difficult
it Will become for these dangerous
and incendiary radicals to yield a
quiet obedience to the laws.
This war, says the valorous and
chlvalrlc Butler. 'fmust bc settled by
those who fought it, meaning, we
suppose, such formidable and victo-
rlous commanders as the two most
conspicuous Massachusetts Generals.
Butler anal Banks. A shining record
these illustrious opponents of set
tlemcnt have, i'll comparison with
Generals Grant and Meade, the hosts
of really fighting officers who have
signed the call for the Cleveland Sol
dlers' Convention, t. endorse the
policy OF the Presiderivl Could there
be greater stretch of impudencc
than for this Big Bethel blunderer-
this digger of the Dutch Gap ditch
this fugitive to and from Fort Fisher
this ''bottlcd-up" Butler, the scorn
OF General Grant-could there be
greater piece of impudence than for
htm to spout charges and inucndoes
that the .fiJhttng generals do not APP
prove the Presidents policy?
y YANKEE GENERAL BEATEN BIZ A
~:cRo. A correspondent of the Ne
t'opolitos Record, writing from lake
'rovidencc, La, says:
In Isea4uenna County, Miss, Just
opposite our Parish, Gen. Andrews,
of Massachusetts,, (who claims to be a
brother Of the great Abolition dcma-
gogue, nigSer-worshipper and cx-Go-
vcrnor,) has been endeavoring to run
II plantation. 4 few days since, one
of the descendants of Ham, in the
employ Of Gen. Andrews, was excr-
cising his family prerogative by ad-
ministering, according to the laws
and customs of old Puritan Massa-
chusetts, q severe lcsspn of corporeal
punishment upon one of his own
children. The General, coming along,
ordered him to desist, which Sumbo
refused to do, asserting at once the
privilege guaranteed by the civil
rights bill. Hereupon, the chival-
rous General undertook to coerce the
arrogant darkey, who. on the other
hand, couldn't see it," A skirmish
eusued, and alas! our gallant General
was most wofully used up, retreating
in demoralized condition, dismayed
and disgusted with free negroes,
Southern plantations. and all. He
told some Of the members that he
had expended $4,000 in starting
the cotton planting adventure, but
would give it up He said that he
had fought four years to make the
negroes free, and now was willing to
fight the remainder of his life time to
put them back into slavery again. :"
Sic transit glo,'id muali.
4 PoETIcAL PARENr.-The editor
of the Adams New York; IIsito,.
thus announces the birth of his
youngest:
Ye who listen with credulity to the
whispers Of fancy, and pursue with
easerness the young phantoms of