The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-26
"ButtOns, You Be BlOwed J"
From the ". Y. World.

from lhe ". 4. W0fid
Intelligence certainly is not matter either
of inches or of avolrdupois, or of age or of
station. And it is very likely that the small
page, whose well. meant endeavor to arbitrate
in the quarrel which interrupted the harmony
of Mr.. Weller's ''swarry" at Bath was igno-
miniously snubbed by naughty hall porter,
in red plush breeches and white silk stock
ipgs, with the exclamation, "Buttops, you be
blowed ~ may really have been an unappre-
ciated Daniel come to Judgment. But the
snub was none the less etfectual. Buttons
subsided, ate his great heart in brooding
silence, and was heard from no more.
A similar experience has just befallen Eve
dare say quite as unjustly) one of the Iri-
6une'S young men, whom it sent out some
time ago as its correspondent to England.
This young man-fnding all England, as he
fsncied, by the ears about Mr.. Reverdy John
son. and believing the catastrophe to be i'm
pending of satisfactory settlement of the
Alabama claims by wicked old Marylander
who drank Madeira and shook hands with
Lairds and with lords-gallantly rushed into
print to interpose himself between Great
Britain and her doom. He sent a very long
letter to very 'liberal'' London paper, the
Daily Ne,CS. In this letter he set forth, in a
most impressive manner, the awful conse-
quences which must ensue to the whole
British realm If Epglishment went on de-
luding themselves into the belief that the
American Minister in England either spoke
the truth, believed in his Maker, represented
his country, or so much as knew the differ
ence between chalk and cheese. He cited the
Tribune and his own correspondence with
the Tribune to show that the great heart of
the Union throbbed with indignation at the
words and ways of this recreant old Mary
lander, who deserved no better than he got
when he was born to be named Johnson. And
he wound up by warning all and sundry the
dukes, marquises, ears, viscounts, and
barons, the knights and burgesses, the gentle
men and the squires, the merchants manu-
facturers, butchers, bakers, and candlestick-
makers of the three Kingdoms, that any fur
ther "civilities" extended by them or by any
Of them, in their public, private, cooperate,
or individual capacities, to the aforesaid Mary
lander, would be regarded by every patriotic
American as an insult offered to the Union.
Will it be believed that this most earnest
and ingenious remonstrance, conceived, as
every one must see, in the highest spirit of
American nationality and beetrespect, and
brought forth in the purest goodwill to Bri-
tain, provoked from the self-bolstered and
beer -bloated funkeys OF the British press no
more civil reply than, Buttons, you be
blowed p'?
Yet such is the melancholy fact
Or course, one might have expected the
venal creatures who hang about the tables OF
the ailstocracy-the Tory pandererS to the dia-
bolical Vaccinations of Disraeli-to vent
their spite in this insolent fashion upon
| meek and lowly follower of the soft-spokeu
| II. g. and the gentle Thaddeus Stevens. But
the Daily AeDS ITSELF which is the faithful
vane of Mr.. Gladstone's many wholesome
winds OF doctrine, and the Manchester
! Guardian, which speaks with the voice o.
| John Bright were first and foremost in the
deTisive outory. Nay; no sooner ad the man
of the Tribune announced that any further
civilities to Mr. Reverdy Johnson would be an
insult to the Union, than John Bright himsel
actually went down TO meet that aged diplo
matte reprobate at dinner in Birmingham and
called him his friend in public, aud declared
that it was an honor to be with him There
is even reason to believe, we fear, that Mr.
Bright went so far as to take sin friendly
grasp" the hand which had once closed ami
cably upon the digits, instead OF angrily upoI
the ears, OF the Understandable Alabama
Laird Could there be more emphatic way
OF saying Buttons, you be blowed /" thar
this.
What the Tribune will do about it does no
yet appear. But there can be no doubt thai
the "blockheads" OF the Loyal League owe /
to themselves, their order, and Ii. g. to call {
meeting on the subject at once. III. g., o
course, will never condescend now to accept
the mission to Great Britain. And the loi
pulpit of the land will be false TO its high
calling II 1t do not denounce, in thunde
3 tones, this wretcbed recreancY of liberal Eug
land-this sale of the birthright OF the cleo
for miserable mess Of diplomatic pOrridge.