Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-22
Analysis of Gen. Butler.

fh"POo Vi oOhs OutiCA oiiNoi
in Washington, the correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial in that
city, goes into an analysis of his char
acter and presents the result in an
article, from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts:
Leaving out of consideration all d.
vine standards of measurement, have
for Gen. Butler inexhaustiblc admira-
ton. The mistake of the public and
press in estimating Butler is their at
tempt to measure him by the doctrines
of the New Testament. He is not to
be admired in this way. Butler is
worldly, the worldliest man in Amer
lea, and is to be computed wholly by
the laws of physical dynamics. You
cannot put him down with spoons or
sermons. He will live in spite of, and,
if you choose, upon abuse; and -four
ish vigorously, and make figure in
the country for twenty years yet
Danton, Mirabeau, Commodus, and
the devil leave out some of his quail
ties. He is tremendous force by
his knowledge of good and evil, act
ing without reference to either. He is
a crab that keeps close down to the
grit and gravel of the earth, holding
on there with hundred prongs and
feelers. He is successful by his intel
lectual intimacy with the evil forces
in human nature, mighty fulcrum to
lay a lever on-a kind of knowledge
well used always bringing worldly
success. He keeps hold On the coun-
try by keeping a wide connection with
affairs, by thoroughly understanding
them.
Next to his house here he has built
him an Office, with an ante room. In
the ante room, days and nights, Sun
days not excepted, there are usually
a dozen or more people waiting. In
the Office he holds audience, first with
an expert of mythical Mexican claims,
then with a Nassau street broker, next
with detective, then with Chinese
adventures, Abyssinian soldiers, car
pet-baggers, divines, politicians, caves
choppers, Roston lawyers, British
bankers, Alaska hunters, and person
ages ad infnitum from the world,
known and unknown; transacting
more business, picking up more learn
ing than all the representatives be-
sides, and wading into his seat in
congress with mental tabulation of the
secret peccadilloes and weaknesses of
all his fellows, with resources to meet
every contingency of debate, or, that
failing, to make an explosion as con-
cussive as his Fort Fisher powder
ship.
Butler is the most executive mind
in the United States, simply from the
fact that be allows no considerations
to come between his purposes and
his executions. He toIerates repub-
lie, but believes in heart in autocracy
and NapoleOnism, because that looks
like the swiftest way of doing things
He believes in capital punishment, and
admires Chinese civilization, assert
ing that a government is known by
the facts it produces, aud that Chi
ma supports more people and has
supported them longer than any other
nation. He reasons acutely, and only
what is about demonstrable, always
leaving out of his theorizing the indie
terminate factor of human nature,
which, in the long run, defeats the
RicheIieus and MarchiavelIis, and the
cunningest politicians of them all
Over and above his worldly sue
cess, and hardgrain theories, Butler
has nota bad heart, is amiable and gen
erousIy hospitable, and in the heart
of one of the most attractive circles
cultivates the amenities of life like
the most orthodox of christians. But
Ter is accused of spoons" and pecuni-
airy dishonesty. The accusation ap-
pears to me dishonest. Sidney Smith
said Of the maxim, Honesty is the
best policy" that an honest man is al
ways ahead of it, and knave always
behind it. Butler, ii he were moved
by no higher purpose to integrity, is
calculating enough to be even with it.
Ex-Gov. Bramlette of Kentucky re-
Gently received a letter from New
York, stating that he had drawn a
prize of a splendid gold watch, worth
$3.50, and that if he would send them
$3.50 to cover costs, the watch would
be sent him. Gov. Bramlette humor-
ed the thing, and wrote the New York
sharpers to send the prize by express,
G. o. D. This the New Workers. did,
and the $3.50 was paid to the ex-
press company. As was suspected,
the prize was miserable brass watch,
worth about S.. Having paid the
charges, Gov. Bramlette attached the
money and the watch in the hands of
the express company, and both must
be held until judgment shall be rem
dered.
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