The New York herald., 1871-09-12

Woraeu-A Lively Time In NIassachu-
setts.
General Butler is not handsome man,
except upon the good old rule that handsome
is as handsome does;" nor is he any longer
young man, except in the exuberant and ire
pressible spirit Of youth; but he has become,
and now shines before the world, as par ercel-
lence the ladies' man, and ''the pet of the
petticoats" of the Old Bay State. Out and
out General Butler goes for women's rights,
including the right to vote and the right to
fight at our political elections, and the right
to ''sit in the place of CUSTOMS" and to reign
in the White House; and out and out for
Governor the women's rights women of the
Old Bay State, the mighty Wendell Phillips at
the head of the column, 60 for General But
Ter. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe; our antique
colored friend, Sojourner Truth Mrs. Lucy
Blackwell, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore,
Miss Margaret Campbell, Miss Ada G. Bowler
and Miss Mary Eastman, all brilliant lights
among the strong-minded, have, it appears,
announced their determination to stump the
State for General Butler. He goes for them
and they 60 for him, and that's enough. And
all the shoemakers are going for him, and all
the trade unions on labor reform are his
men, because he is their man, and conse-
quently, regular nomination or no regular
nomination, such q man running for Governor
at this revolutionary epoch in Massachusetts
will make terrible rattliny among the dry
1,opoo of tho rapuhlicon porfv
General Butler in this Bay State campaign
evidently means business. We don't suppose
that he expects to cut out Mr.. Loring as the
regular republican candidate and Mr.. John
Quincy Adams as the regular democratic can
didate in the election; but General Butler
sees long way ahead. He sees that these
questions Of labor reform and women's rights,
though now secondary political questions, and
likely to be so in the Presidential contest Of
1872, will, nevertheless, be apt to become the
great overshadowing and controlling political
questions in this country in 1876. He is,
therefore, taking time by the forelock upon
these questions, with an eye to the Presidency
itself in 1876. 1t is in this light that we
regard this present extraordinary expert
mental canvass of General Butler in Massa-
chusetts as a grand Napoleonic idea, con-
ception in its comprehensive designs hardly
surpassed by the grand Mexican idea of Napo-
leon the Third. We say that grand Mexican
idea, for it was grand idea, and would have
been proved so but for the unexpected
collapse of jeff Davis. And right here it may
all lo ala x1,oA
General Butler is man of grand ideas and
quick to sezs upon them, too. Look,
for instance, q. his grand ideas of
our late war for the Union-his idea
of sthe contrabands," his idea of colored
soldiers from the enemy's lines, his ideas OF
reconstructing and cleaning up New Orleans,
his idea of shaking down Fort Fisher by the
explosion of ship load Of gunpowder half a
mile off, and bis grand idea of the Dutch Gap
Canal. There, in that warlike excavation, we
have monument for General Butler which
will survive the Pyramids, and may last till
the Day of Judgm ent.
But the grand ideas upon which he is work
ing this Massachusetts, campaign eclipse his
ideas even of Fort Fisher and the Dutch Gap
Canal. Yea. they eclipse the Suez Canal; for
they are adapted to meet the greatest political
revolution in the history of the world-the
sweeping revolution on labor reform and
women's rights, which will be the next revolu-
tion of our political affairs. They want to say
that General Butler is engineering and pipe
laying only for the republican nomination for
Governor, and that in failing to get it he will
back out, subside and leave the labor reformers
and the womsns rights women in the lurch.
But we don't, and we can't believe this. We
suspect that General Butler will not get the
republican nomination, and, failing to get it,
we expect him to run as an independent can
didate on his ''new departure" aud we look
for such sensation in the OLD Bay State as
will develop new departure and a new party
for 1876, not only in Massachusetts, but all
| over the Uuited States,