Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-25
Butler Shoes Cox.

Washington (Feb. 49, Cor. Chicago Tribune.
THE piece of Congressional humor
which amuses the town is Buffers dis.
missal OF Cox. Cox is a little fellow,
weighing some ounces under a hundred
pounds, and Butler is a fat man, mashed
down by the weight of badness. The
Democracy bet on Cox, and kept saying
to him: q C HT - !
"Coxy, 60 in and cleave his pia mater
Climb his frontispiece and take the roof
off hts cerebrum! Prepare yourself, like
David, with three smooth stones from the
brook, but be very particular about your
sling, and see that there is no give to it"
To this said Coxy: Everything is
ready / have been eating dictionary for
month and digesting it with aqua .fortis
Joe Miller l know by heart, and as to
Parton's Life of Butler, know it like
Bible"
We all expected great things of Cox
all of us, Democrats and Republicans alike,
for it is not every day that you can see
two celebrated warriors attack each other
and if there was any sympathy either
way it was with the light weight.
Accordingly, when he began, the other
day, Congress was excited. The Demo
Gratis had packed away all the laughter of
a month to condense it into one huge
outlaw at Cox's sally; for it was agreed
amongst them that whatever the joke
might be the laugh should be equal to it.
The Speaker entered into the spirit of the
thing for the man who won't run to see
fight isn't fit to belong to human nature,
and the Speaker inclined to give these two
gladiators all license possible. Butler
himself came up to CoX's seat with the
fortitude of one walking to the Hari Kari,
and Cox, he let fly one fish-hook which
made the galleries ring till they cracked.
The portrait of Lafayette relaxed it's fea-
lures, and the clock of Congress stopped in
sheer anxiety. The pretext for the attack
was Buffers attempt to cut down mileage
and get the support of Horace Greeley.
Tom Fitch had said that Butler could go
away and make big attorneys fees, and
therefore, live without mileage, and Cox
happily threw himself into the position of
the defender of Buffers honor. 1t was
chance for an acute man to have made a
terrible satire; for the audience was in an
appreciative mood, and the object of as
sault was full of saliences, both in his
character and career. Cox started by say
ing that Butler always took his pay in
gold, defended him from running away
either from Fort Fisher or Congress, and
concluded by mock eulogy upon his
lofty patriotism and economy.
1t was as great failure as glass of rain
water from asoda fountain, but the Democ-
racy gave their OUTLAW, and Butler went
Immediately to his place. In three min
utes he was up, and this was the sole reply
he vouchsafed in, as if negligently, at
the end of miscellaneous remarks:
GAS to the vituperation of the member
from New York, he will hear my answer
to him by every hoy that whistles it on the
street, and by every hand-organ, Shoe,
fly; don't boddsr me ,"
When Butler said this he gave gesture
and grimace that was wonderful
gesture being polite, flowing motion of
the hand, commencing at the heart and
describing wave to the right, while he
brought his head down near the extended
arm, indicating Cox with the peak of it,
and his face, turned sideways and looking
up his bosom, expressed the compassion
of Uncle Toby in Sterne when he put the
fly out of the window. The malice and
mock contempt of the thing was just up
to the appreciation of Congress. Had il
been higher fight it would: have failed
The roar that followed it was immediate
and continued for several minutes, and
broke out again and again. The Demo
Gratis joined in the laugh at first, forgetting
who it turned against. Cox tried tc
smile, but it was hard work. He lost his
temper, and arose, and launched speech
of mere billingsgate back, with "thief,'
robbery" "rhinoceros," "beast," "bomb
proof soldier" and condemned man il
it, all showing that he had misapprehend
ed his art, and exaggerated his power O
mischief. Cox, we are compelled to say
is artissically a fraud. We sent for {
BALKAN to curse this Butler, but the as
spoke instead.
The rage of the Democrats is great
is proposed to drop Cox from the caucus
while Butler has been for three days tn,
greatest hon of the city.
WELL" says Jim Nye, referring tt
Buffers physiognomy, "when you see
man whose eye wants to gnaw through
the bridge Of his nose, stand out of hi
way" Tt
1t is my opinion that this retort of But
Ter had been in pickle for month, becaus
he was aware that Cox meant to seek a,
early opportunity to engage with him, an(
lacking the nimblenesS of his enemy t,
keep up running fight, he resorted to
familiar phrase and one burst of crushing
contempt. There is a good deal of talk il
such papers as the Nation about what i
dignity, and art, and nicely, but in TIN
rough battle of American life a man need
to know what will answer its purpose
His art may be all wrong, but effects ar,
what rough men seek, and not merely an
proved processes. Butler, however. is
close reader and a long contriver, and on,
might almost think that he had taken tn,
lesson for this gesture and illustration
from Tristram Shandy."
Listen to it: eqsa
My Uncle Toby had scarce heart t.
retaliate upon fly. Co. says he, on,
day at dinner, to an overgrown one which
had buzzed about his nose, and tormente(
him cruelty all dinner-time, and which
after infinite attempts, he had caught a
last, as it flew by him. 'Ill not hurt thee.
says my Uncle Toby, rising from his chaill
and going across the room with the fly il
his hand; 'Tll not hurt hair of thy head
Co. says he,-lifting up the sash and open
ing his hand as he spoke, to let it escape
| Go, poor devil, get thee gone why should
l hurt thee? This world surely is wide
enough to hold both thee and me-"
Address to the COlOred People.