The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-09
RufIer Rliaaful.

From the Springfield Republican, tkepl
The returns from the Essex District
will fill the heart of General Butler
with fierce Joy. He never had much
opportunity to celebrate his victories IN
war; but he will make it up in jubila,
tion now. He has met the enemy, ana
they are his. His vote was inflated In
the true greenback style; the premium
on Mr. Dana's gold and Judge LORDS
silver being as great as it was on the
precious metals in 1864, when Butler
and his brothers were 80 largely en-
gagged in the Southern trade. Take the
vote of Salem, for instance: Danas 356
Cat los per cent. premium) amount to
730; Lords 766 (at 100 premium) count up
1882; while Buffers greenbaek vote is
but 1853. Unfortunately, Butler's pa
per is still legal tender, and will be re-
ceived in the Secretary's Office in Bos-
ton, and he will be declared elected to
represent Massachusetts, for two years
longer, or until he is impeached aid re-
msved. Grant cannot relieve him
again, as he did in Virginia in 1865:
but Butler will relieve himself by the
NEST frank utterances aud win prove a
comfortable colleague to the rest of our
delegation. 1t isimpossible to say what
he will do first. Taxing the interest of our
bonds, annexing Prince Edwards ISL
and, and slandering Republican Sena-
tors will seem petty work to him now;
he cannot very well impeach Grant,
and there will not be enough left of
Johnson to serve up in that wsy again.
Well, we will wait and see what he
means to do. Let him confiscate the
Pacific Railroad, lay fifty per cent. tax
on all estates above three millions, take
command of the revOlutionists in Cuba,
or run for King of SpaiR-for every
thing will now look. easy to man who
has compelled the strongest Republi-
cans of the soundest Republican State
to crawl in the dirt before him. Rel 1ice
and be exceeding glad, Benjamin, for
you have gone and done it Judge Lord
is put out of court, Dana is nowhere,
and yoa are the triumphant, ebullent,
coruscating master of the situation.
Let your heart be "jocund and sub
lime;;" grudge not the hired editor his
fee, and line we'll the pockets of the tel
egram- stealing clerk Eat, drink, and
be merry, for tomorrow y0u-will not
die exactly, but will "kinder give out"
In other words, this victory of But
ler's, brilliant as it will appear to him,
has cost deal more than the money he
has paid out. He has gained his cleo
ton, but he has lost his prestige. The
thousands of his majority will not
make up for the serious and determined
hostility of the myriads of good Repub
licans all over the country who came
ont against him, and the still larger
number who supported him with res
ervation and under protest. He will
go into the next Congress-nay, into
the next session-with the certainty
that Grant and his advisers, and all the
better leaders Of his party, have lost
the little confidence they ever had in
him. His success at the polls will in
crease rather than lessen their distrust
of him. He will find it harder than
ever ts carry measure in Congress
far harder, nay, impossible, to smuggle
through fictitious claims in the commit
tee room, and enrich his friends with
the public plunder. La Massachusetts
he will be formidable, because he has
got his foot on the necks Of the political
leaders-but that will not last long;
while ontside of the State he will be
until he repays his Demo
cratic friends who gave him such a
heavy vote by joining their party and
making open war upon Grant, as he is
likely to do at the first opportunity.