The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-21

Butler--are really quite recent converts, who
ioined the party because Il looked like the
lucrative party, and whose political record
will greatly belle them If they are not ready to
sell out at any moment to any other party
promising better pay. One of the latest and
most ardent additions to the radical flock is
the new Senator from Missouri, Drake by
name. but in Senatorial experience the green
est of green goslings Though late in the
Senatorial field he is one of the foremost in
the scheme for Southern reconstruction, and
he is ready to supplement with amendments
all the supplementary bills that Sumner or
W ilson or any other Senator may offer.
What might suit Sumner is by no means
strong enough for Drake, just as in the House
q Southern subiugaton scheme that would be
stiff and strong for Stevens would seem a mild
and supar-coated dose to Doctor Butler From
the amendments offered by Drake last week,
proposing something yet more stringent than
the latest plan or the most recent supplement-
the opinion obtains widely that he is the
original proprietor of "Dralte's Bitters" and
that he has gone into partnership with that
eminent practitioner, Doctor Butler, and that
the two in company propose to thoroughly
dlench and purge the South with the bitterest
medicines that can be administered.
But Drake is not a doctor-he is simply an
old disunionist of the secession times. who is
llaviug the same r0Le in the radical attempt to
disiupt and destroy the Union now. In 1860,
Drake was enough of a Unonist to saw in a
speech at Palmyra, July %, that che saw no
safety to the country from the fanaticism of
the Black Republican party except through
the great National Democratic party" but on
| the night of Mr.. LincOlns election, according
to the testimony of a respectable citizen of St.
| Louis, Mr.. Wiley Rudolph, Drake said that
| 'the Southern people should now prepare to
| resist the aggressons of the Black Republi
cans" On the 4th of January, 1861, the Rev.
| Dr.. S. j. p. Anderson, of st. Louis, preached
a sermon on the subject of secession in which
| he said that 'disruption may become at once
q patriotic and a Christian duty" and C. d.
! Drake heads the list of sgners to a letter
| calling for a copy of this discourse, to which
! Drake and the rest had ''listened with plea
sure" and "believed it would be gratifying
| to many to possess copy of it, 1t is also
upon record that in May, 1861, Drake made
| ga violent disloyal harangue denouncing the
capture of Camps Jackson Lyon, and Blair
| And when Drake was a member of the Mis-
| souri, Legislature he was notoriously the most
4 violent pro-slavery man in that body, As
q lately as January II, 1860, a bill in that Legis
lature entitled 'An act in relation to the free
1 negroes and mulattoes' was amended so thai
| every free negro or mulatto who had imm
| grated to and settled i'll that State since MAY
| II, 1s47, and should be resident there aftel
! September, 1861, he and his descendants
"shall be reduced to slavery" and tn,
| House journal for the session of lS5S-'60
page 2S2, records Dralle's name as voting TO
| this measure.
it is quite fitting that Drake, with such
record, should be prominent among the radi
Gals of to-day. 1t is only paralleled by But
ler's prominence in the same party; an,
Butler owes his position, probably, to tn
! persistency with which he voted for Jefferson
| Davis as his favorite candidate for the Presi
dency of the United States, little before tn
time when Drake was doing his best to reduc
to slavery the free negroes of Missouri.