New-York tribune., 1868-08-28
UITHOUT BUTLER.

WITHOUT BUTLER.
We have heard of ga world without water
of spendthrifts with "ne'er a red," of hands at
whist without a trump, of table orators without
a word to say for themselves, of chuch-mem-
bers without any religion, aud of starving untor-
Inmates without a,morsel of bread; but each OF
these conditions would seem to be one OF exu-
berant supply in comparison with the melan-
choly destituton which would befall the Dem
ocratic party in general, and The Word ana
Mr.. Brick PomcrOy in particular, if Gen. Butler
should be snatched from this sublunary scene
We believe that the strictest Offices would adj
nit that The World has an insurable interest in
Gen. Buffers life. As he has never done an
act. as he has never made speech at all sat
isfactory to that journal, so it is probable that
while he lives Ihe will continue to stimulate It's
critical discernment arouse It's patriotic ardOrs,
kindle its righteous indignation, provoke Its
brilliant fancies, and feed its salient How OF WIT.
Fortunately, he can bear great deal. In all
his Congressional TcncOnters, he has shown
rather n remarkable ability to take care OF him
self and the mob in this city, after trying the
whole gamut of howls and yells, was extremely
astonished to find the object Of its wrath still
unsienced They talked in New Orleans quite
freely of assassinating the General, but some
how the result was far from agreeable to the
cnterprising Rebel mind. He isn'tsexactly the
man to be killed by an epigram or snuifed out
by an article; he probably laughs in his sleeve
at the elegant sarcasms of The World, although
some of them must reduce him to the condition
of philosophical martyr; he bears the enor-
getic raspngs of The Brick with miraculous
equanmty; and as all these lies and libes seem
to give their utterers an exquisite pleasure, and
their object no pain at all why should not this
babbling stream of dctTaction, at once muddy
and musical flow OH for several years to come
At any rate, we beg all those who are scandal
ousy minded not TO be the least sparing OF their
aouaforts out of regard for Gen. Buffers feel
ings. The paper pellet destined to kill him
hasn't yet been masticated, and probably never
will be- His defamers viii find out in time
that he is MT exactly the man to be squrted
to death, and that the foul water from their
syringcs always falls lamcntably short Of the
mark mt which it is such n recreation for them
to aim. They may be assured that the Gene
raj knows we'll enough when to retort and when
| TO keep contemptuOus silence, aud it Is hardly
upon Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart that he is
likely to bestow The coveted horror of a stray
kick. The harmonious pack may yep till
| doomsday if it plc0ses. 1t will do nobody any
mortal injury.
! One thing however, we confess, surprises US.
II the little dogs consider Gen. Butlor to be
| the most contcmptblo of mankind, IL is very
strange that 10y their conspicuous and constant
enmity they should insist upon elcvating him
! TO position OF lirst-rate public Importance.
Some of the gentle voiced damsels of the South,
who thought ihat a nation could be scOlded
into existence and perpctuity, nicknamed Gen.
! Butler "the Beast y and If they found any
| satisfaction in this spirit of feminine vche-
mcncc we dare say the General had no objec-
| ton to their amusing themselves in their own
natural way mt time when restraint upon
! their tongues might have resulted in mortal
inward agitations. 10 is true that the sensitive
creatures were not allowed to insult Union
soldiers in the street, bnt how they must have
chattered and chidcd in the privacy of the
! boudoir! How particular they must have
| grown in their geological classification, select
! ing those animals which were their pet aver
sions, or which they regarded with respectful
! timidity, and applying their names to the un-
! fortunate Major-Gcneral We shouldn't won
| der if in this way poor Butler was sometimes
! likeucd to a Ihinoccros, or perhaps hippo
! potamus! Fortunately, if these indignities were
ever inflicted, they did not come to his ears.
| They might have broken his heart!
! The Government coniided to Gen. Butler a
! somewhat thandcss task-thc restoration of
law and order in a city not particularly law
| abiding and orderly in the best of times, and
at that critical moment full Of desperate ad-
venturers and turbulent ruflians who for months
| had been unchecked in their career Of licen-
! tious and brutal audacity. The service was
undertaken and no man can say without false
! hood that it was not performed with all posi-
be consideration for the feelings of the peace
able citizens, and without any consideration
whatever for the feelings of the openly traitor
ous, the secretly knavish, and the impudently
violent 1t was impossible for Gen. Butler to
please those who persisted in calling themselves
/" q conquered people" 1t was equally impOs-
sible for him to please those Northern sympa-
thizers who were sorry that New-0rleans had
! fallen into our hands at all 1t is equally inn
possible for him now to please Mr.. Pomeroy
and The World. But while he gives them
occupation, they should at least mngle little
gratitude with their wrath.
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