The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-11
BUTLER VERSUS GRANT.


clared on the stump, in quasi official tone,
that be had come expressly to inform them
that Butler was an irreconcilsble enemy to
Grant, that Grant knew him to be such, and
consequently desired his defeat there was
much reason, at the time. to belieye that this
representation was made with the consent, If
not at the direct instance Of Grant. Since
then, variety of circumstances have con-
CURED to strengthen this belief; and not the
least among them is the appearance of letter
written by Butler, when the question of nom
mating Grant was first agitated, and In which
he says: s
We are. fear, to try the experiment again
that we did with Johnson. e., nominate man
Tor supposed availability without knowing his prn-
ciples or fitness. Grants election will be mis-
fortune because il will put in man without Q
head or heart; Indifferent 10 human suffering
and imr otept to govern.
For Butler to allege, as reason why
man should not be the choice of the Republic
can party for President that he is deficient in
heart and callous to human suffering, is really
too preposterous to be laughable. This hypo-
critical SWIVEL is unworthy of the great war
rior whom Wendell Phillips has affectionately
distinguished as "the grim soldier who held
New Orleans" There is infinitely more hui
NOR in the lachrymosity of q Gangean croco-
die munching Hindoo devotee. There is
world more fun in the sight of q NANCY cur,
that has just swallowed his vomit yelping at
q fabby old SOW to drive her from her wallow.
As to lack of head, and consequent impo-
tency to govern, on the part of Grant, that is
also an immensely absurd imputation to come
from one of those Radical leaders who have
shown desperate determination to have no
man in the presidential Office but an acepha-
lous automaton to do their bidding without
question or thought. The facts that Buffers
only fear about Grant as respects the matter
of head, is that he may possess one which
will obstinately refuse to be level according to
the strict Radical test; and as to the question
of heart his only objection to Grant is that
he has failed, in all situations, to exhibit
heart gushing with the fanaticism, the diabol-
ism and the venom which prove the true
Radical, and without which public man,
though protesting Republican orthodoxy, is
always to be suspected of a stealthy leaning to
common sense and craftsmanship, and Of
furtively cherishing sentiments of honesty, of
generosity, and of liberal and .unselfsh
patriotism.
There can be no doubt, indeed, that But
ler's reelection to Congress, under the pecu-
liar circumstances of the event, is defiance
and menace to Grant from the Radical sec
ton of the Republican party. These ex-
tremists are eager to resent the necessity
which forced them to take Grant, silent and
uncommitted soldier, with long train of nom
Radical antecedents unrecanted, as their cam
didate for the presidency and they seem to
have hit upon Butler, by sympathetic instinct,
as the fittest of men to represent that senti-
ment by becoming Radical leader of the next
Congress in place of Thad. Stevens. His spe-
cial mission there may be easily OWNED. 1t
will be to reduce Grant, as President, to strict
Radical conditions which they dared not de-
mand from him as a candidate. This contem-
plated movement marks one of the great lines
of separation that begin distinctly to appear
in the Republican party. Nothing, in fact,
has held the party together up to this
Democratic opposition in the presidential
campaign. No sooner is the way open to
four years more of power than all the ele-
ments of dissolution, for while suspended,
commence operating with more vigor than
ever. Butler will be the head of either VIC
torious or disastrous mutiny. With the
aggressive and incisive audacity for which he
is SO remarkable everywhere but in war, he
will endeavor at once to subdue the Republi-
cans of Congress to the remorseless rule OF
his Radical whip and spur, with the design Of
making congressional subserviency the means
| by which to dominate over the administration
of Grsnt. This would render him virtually
autocrat- welding with one hand the legis-
| lative, with the other the executive authority.
| Such position might well nerve the energies
| of a less ambitious scoundrel and if Butler
| lie not as ambitious as he is bad, then Lucifer
was model of humility, of selfdenial, and
of angelic virtue.
| There will remain for Grant and for the
| Republicans in Congress these alternatives
| They must submit to Buffers Radical leader
ship, or cease to act as the representatives of
II
a united party. If they do submit, Grant
will either conform his administration to the
same leadership, permitting himself to be re-
duced to an executive nonentity, or he will
resort to the veto for the purpose of resist
ance and in the latter case, to succeed, he
must unite in his favor the Democratic vote
in the House which will form more than a
third of that branch of the next Congress.
Hence. the importance of Buffers irrecon-
cilable hostility to Grant. The audacious and
indomitable Massachusetts Radical is bent on
humiliating the incoming President, or rend-
ing the Republican organization to pieces
and Grants safety from the vengeance of this
enemy lies, first in the dissolution of his own
party, and next in the support Of Democratic
congressman.
TIE REMOVAL OF JoHs's REsrAURANr.-Every.
body knows the Maison Doree, and many are the
o,,izsps of New Orleans who have at some time
or another enjoyed the various daintles to be OBJ
| tanned therein. But the Maison Doree has now
ceased to gladden. the eyes Of the frequenters OF