Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-02
Butler.


There are in the United States good many men
named Butler; many oven in the one State of Ten
nessee But as when one talks about Grant, it is at
once and without further words understood to mean
General Grant SO when men say Butler" it is
equally we'll understood that they mean Be'VdtRia
f. Butler, the member Of Congress from Massachu-
sets, who was the real manager of the impeachment
of the only malciously and purposely bad Presi-
dent we ever had; and who by his management
gained from the people the overwhelming verdict
of guilty though the technical verdict of the Sen
ate was mot guilty" II is the same Butler who,
alone of all our statesmen and generals, understood
what rebels deserved as rebels, and who gave them
the punishment they deserved. This was and is
the real cause of the hatred felt towards him by ev
ery rebel, 'front.' the honest though misguided private
Thomas Jones down ottbe dishonest, oath break
ing. msp-stealing General Robert E. Lee 1t is
this that gives fervor to the of the Press and
Herald and it is this that perpetuay stirs up the
pstry echoes from the dull Drained, conservative
admirers. henchmen and 6unkies of those vanished
barbarians, who have managed to get themselves
called sohivalryp As rats instinctively fear and
hate the terrier, so do such vermin as your Yea
dons of South Carolina fear and hate Butler, and
ali the sycophantic crew join obediently in obse-
quious squeakings, %N ffH
There are in the Republican party men who pro-
perry belong among the Democrats--men who do
not believe in human progress, nor in the sacred
ness of mems rights as men; men who do not share
in the peoples feeling Of nationality nor value that
feeling rush. and who therefore do not look upon
the attempt to destroy the nation as any crime at
all. And, worse yet, such men exist even in Mas
sachusetts, the State which heads the Radical col
uun with its magnificent majority of $4,000
Such worthless Republicans as these it was that
lent themselves to 60 the dirty work Of Kentucky,
in trying to defeat Butler for Congress in his Dis
trict in Massachusetts, The story of the canvass in
that District is too long and to intricate to be told
here Enough to cay that Buffers constituency
resented the insolent interference of outside rebel
Democrats and the impertinent intermeddling of
outside stupid Conservative Republicans, returned
him by the remarkable majority Of 5000.
Now this triumph of the Radicals is no local tri-
umph-it is national Next to defeating Grant, the
rebel anxiety was to defeat Butleri and next to
their waing over the loss of the chief executive, is
their CRASHING Of teeth over The loss Of that Con-
gressional District in Massachusetts. Nor DO these
rebels make any mistake in their estimate of the Sc
verify of the blow they herin suffer. They know
well enough that with General Butler as the Rad-
cal leader in the House of Representatives the grand
Republican doctrines of equal, eyen-hsnded Justice
20 all men, without regard to race color, or eondi-
ton, viii shape the policy and inspire the action OF
the House during the next two years No maudln
sentimentaty calling itself "'GgHanaiatyr will lead
off the Republican party into foles more mischiev-
Gus than crimes. Rebellion will not be made re-
spectacle, nor rebels held up for praise and admi
rstion Long live Butler, the Radical
COMMUNICATED.