Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-06
A AND BUTLER.


They arc Reconciied bya sport
The following racy description Of the
reconciliation between these two person
lagos is from the st. Louis RepsbliedR :
The whole world remembers Grants
report, IN which he snufed out, at one
pinch, the fame of military glory which
[illumined the commander of the army OF
the James, and Butler became the " bot
tied laughing stock Of the Republic.
The ofense seemed unexpiable. Dis
gracefully failing at fert Fisher, shut
I'D by his own strategy like a rat in a
trap at Bermuda, removed for incompe-
teney from the command of the army of
the James, and eontemptuously disposed
of in the dispatches of the General Of
the army, all the diabolic resentments OF
the Beast" we're kindled against the
man who had inflicted upon his military
vanity a modification so public and SO
degrading. The Lowell speech followed,
in which Butler took his revenge, and,
in passages which viii not be forgotten,
tore the laurels from the brow of Grant,
exhibited the inferiority of his military
genius, and pointed to the appalling
number of lives of Union soldiers with
which he purchased his victories. After
this came his report as commissioner Tor
the exchange of prisoners, in which, by
documentary proof, he fixed upon Grant
the responsibility for the miserable
deaths of thousands of the husbands
and fathers, sons and brothers of North
ern families who persisted at Anderson
vile. The Lowell speech and the re-
port sent Grant into history as the reck-
! less DESTROYER of the lives of his own
men, deaf to the cries of the prisoner,
and ~insensible to the appeals from a mil
lion voices in the North beseeehing that
the sufferers in Southern prisons might
be brought home. These two gentle
men, who thus prepared the portraits OF
each other for the future historian, have
now made friends together. The recon
citation is the product of four months
labor. Two delegations sought to ap-
pease the wrath of these shining Rad
Gals. Delegations having a Senatorial
responsibility about them failed IN theIl
mission. 1t was reserved for the editor
of a sporting journal and organ of prize
fighters heavy better and loser against
the President in the impeachment bust
ness-to " adjust the situation " between
the " Bottled Butler and the +" Butcher
Grant" We fear that the narrator hai
not given to the public the entire story
of this beautiful and touching %reconeilIs
ton mediated by the chronieler of hors'
races and dog fights. The public woulC
ike to see the balance sheet executed
between Butler and Grant, that they ma.
know in full the terms of settlement
and Judge which has proved himself tn
most abject in the agreement to hunt Il
, couples hereafter in pursuit of Rsdiea
: spoils. Butler, of course, who said II
the House of Representatives that b
was anxious to be off and engaged in tn
" campaign" agreed to draw no NOR
, pictures of Grants hands red with tn
r blood of his own soldiers needlessly los
in battle, but to demonstrate to his Rad
: zeal audiences that Hiram Ulysses Gran
: is eminently endowed with the qualitie
of a statesman, second in b%rilliancy onl
; to his matchless genius as q mllitar,
/ captain. And Grant, of course, agree
: that his report, which so withered tn
~laurels of Butler, was altogether a Pick
t yickian affair. When he said that b
e was "bottled up" it was a mere cam
phrase adopted to express the willy
/ strategy of Butler, who so seientifeall
and m~agni6eently entrenched himse
that Beauregard's engineers were battle
. in their attempts to get at him. An
Fort Fisher would unquestionably hav
e fallen before Buffers terrible powde
e shin, if he had but dug a canal and ru
b it square into the fort. He simply an
3 chored it in the wrong place. In add
y ton, Grant contracts to make no iuyld'
S Gus illusions to spoons, but will eOmpE
: ment Buffers legal ~astuteness and ska
+ as a e~onveyancer, having no reference
!, however, to his conveyance of plat
n Butler; of course, balances these satin
y factory concessions by an agreement I
e call in his Lowell speech, and, by virtu
" of unlimited authority as impeachmeI
!" manager, make seizure Of the arehlye
of the War Department, and consign
g the flames the report upon the exchane
o of prisoners. W will not venture t
conjecture what political reward Graz
a in this e~xigency consents to promise 7
appease the anger of the man who h'
branded him to the world as a pretendC
d in arms, and one of the most inhumar
of men. But is there a soldier in tn
army who conld win a certificate that b
possesses the qualities Of an officer an
a gentleman, who does not feel thu
Hiram Ulysses Grant, in entertalnin
for one moment overtures from Butte
o and entering into a bargain with a ma
It whose reputation is blotehed all oyC
II with black spots, has accepted as h
IS own appropriate level that of th
" Beast" and prostituted the honor
> an American officer?
oil But such reconciliation and bargain
e between foes are not novel in histor,
n PLATE and Herod made friends togetht
r in a common persecution of the SaviC
of mankind. Butler and Bingham, Ii
o former charging the latter as a murders
of an innocent woman, and he in tur
charging Butler as a spoon thief, ieashe
o themselves up in amicable companion
ship to hunt down the President. An
why should not Butler and Grant bur
their personal malice towards each othe
and make common cause in hunting fl
,e1 the spoils Of a Radical victory?
Beverages.