Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-11-28
70 I,.fFrom thc n I, Tribune, ulll ss,9dT
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hTRe hearty emphatic GOO good will Where
with Gen: q Butler is regarded by the
! great mass Of the 1oyal uphoiders Of oui
couhtry1s = Integrity I'M her late Struggle
rests on very fnteliigible grounds. FPhey
like him for reasons identical with those
| which Ahpeli the Rebels and tproiRebels
otonhate him So intensely. aThoug his
4 Military career was not SO brilliant 9Sar1d
though part of it subjected him to the
gnhattering criticism of Gen Gmnt,it is
certain that the expeditionef Ship. Island
and New Orleans was substantially pro
Jected and executed By him, and that It's
success gave, the Rebellion the heaviest
and md most most damaging blow that it,receiysd
during the first two years of the War.
In Wrestling iTrrre!coyerably from the Con
federacy its most wealthy and ,popuIous
city, its commercial focus. al and s store tore
house, Gen Butler did it g greater! @ feerr!ste nate
ffal an nl9ra1 damage than it received at
EDonelds5n, Shiloh, Antietam or Murffregs-
b0ro' o'of- ~ i''~37"iEi sHiiY7t;i"o 9 brs -HIir'1
t'o But it is not the material value of his
Military services that has most commend
ed the elder ofthc Massachusetts Major
Generals to the popular heart. ~ Tie
masses recognize and admire in him Che
first leader of our forces who evinced "a
eolnpfehensienioft the ,natu re and d'ejHIts
OF theaRebellion'and the ability and will
toieal wi itb them, as they deserved .lLp
to the outbFeakot the War;. GeRs Butler
had, throughlite, been the political init
7mate and ally Of the OhiYalty," and IN
derstoed them like a1brother. >, He. com
prehended from the start thai their pre-
posterous assumptions Of s9sial superior
ity must be met at the threshhold., and
utterly ,defed and trampled r., on, His
polite but. firm refusal a. an early day to
return Major Cary s fugitive negroes, on
the, just and solid ground that they were
"contraband of war;" like horses or in
tiencliing tools, showed him the man for
the occasion. His stern dealings with
the, New Orleans gambler who toredown
the American flag after'it had been hois-
ted BY our forces over a. city fairly. won
by their valor, and his famous sOrder
No. PSI advising the she-Secesh oftbat
city that they yco2ld no longer wantenly
insult our; soldiers with, impunity,r were
moral victories for the Union arms, OF
signal value and promise. yeT They made
plain to the most stolid Apprehension the
fact that territory fairly recovered from
the Rebellion was no longer a part of
the Confederacy, and could not. be, used
| for tie, prosecution Of its warfare, at least
while Under the command Of Cen. But
Ter. That the rebels should hiss and
howl ri foam 'andsdfave, WHENEVER and
wherever they might safely do SO, was a
matter of coarse ;Gtliat they should hc-
cuse 4he man they. SO detested of stealing
the spsonsl they never had, was paltry, If
yeu will, but very ihuinani 41Well might
they set "a price on the bead SO prolific of
devices ~ hioh they could, not omatch-ta
head illuminatedrby' eyes which they
could ,execrate. and carricatpre sasI'mal-
formed and hideous, but which they could
not curse into blindness to any, of their
traitorous, plots or eontriEapces. .ssad
n, The War oyer, Gen. Butler was sent
to Congress. from a District, which was
not his, homewT7a disregard of irreleyapt
boundary lines which ought to be mort
general than it is His majority was
very large, but the district was intensely
loyal, aud was proud of the. ability and
rcnown Of the man OF its choice, But
when the time for his second election
approached, strong symptoms of disap-
prhval were manifested, and the General
had a serious struggle for his. re7election.
His triumph over two competitors-one
Of the democratic persuasion, and the
other an indspslidehdent, conservative
Republican-ar not the Least p road of
his achievements. .lr'@ '>'-''l ""hHod pit
They Won't Trouble you Long
,1i7G Ghildaen grow uP7 5potlingg on earth
grows so fast as children. 1t was hut
yesterday, and THAI lad was playing with
tpps, a buoya3t hoy; He is is "a q man, and
gone, now. There is no more childhood
for him and ffor us. Life has claimed
him., When. a beginning is made it is
ike qravelhg Stocking Stitch by Stitch
igsiiyIiees igsiiyIes why tin all are gone The house
has hh6tH child III Il. There is iio more
noise In the hallA AU6ys rushing IN )p5eh-
mell 1T IS orderly new2.aai pHefe are ho
more skates or sldds,, 'bats balls otsttihgs
Pleft tscittered about Things are neat
Eari76yb nS1iy fliiw TodotJC 70 IT, I'D. n
There is ioltfefaE of bfe;iRfist for sleepy
folks, there isiAo longer any task betOre
tyoui iof docking fer any body and sucking
up tho bed dlotlIes. a0There nare no dis
lputesto settleSnobody togetoffto school,
no complaints, mo importitnitles for i'm
possible things, no ripsteGmend, nn1sfn-
! gers to tieIhpgno faces togbe washed, ,xor
collars, to be arrangedaq There,never was
isuchipeaee is 4 hoase. Itwould sound
like nIusie ito have some feet CHATTER down
the front stairs Qhs forseme childrels'
noisellazaW 1qisinh Iohs ngs.i saA nem
r. What used to all Asrthat we were, hush
ing their loud langhs seheekipg theirPolsy
frolic and repfeTiHg their 4+llstl ming and
ibanging the ldo0is ? VIZ wish our neigh
| lbors3wottld fend 'us an aTUhin' or two sto
1makcsa little Hoiseoiir these premises. saA
fiome Without childfen!r tits like "a Ian
tern and noaeanales' al garden aai1d sflio
! 40 weisi; aHeineraad no grapesi;3ial brook
taad pnoq qwsstelb bgurgI gIiDeg4l iaad erushiug '1n
fitseohahrelst gWB&am sto beV tried, lao
be vexed, to be run over, ,nto Dhear' ohissi'
life, at, work with ait its, yarIetlses- 6. :,
During the secular days this ;',e Is eiio!nSn o!lf
1dn marked. X But # is Sunday that puts ogr y
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