Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-19
From the Baltimore Gazette,
How these RadleaIs Love one Another /!


HOW these Radicals Love one Another |
Ono of the advantages or disadvantages, as the |
case may be- of the disuse Of personal RESPONSE |
biity, Is that individuals engaged in controversy
may indulge in the largest latitude Of mutual VI
IuPeratoD. Time was when man who was |
coward n liar, swaggeTcT, or a bully, had some
sort OF redress, and the consequence was people
were little cautious as to what they said. All
this Is changed now, the largest latitude Tue
latest fruit of this kind Is delicious letter written
by the Hon. George +. Hoar, ofthe last Congress
on the salary question, in reply to Butler Oddly
enough, 1t Is republished in the New York Ti1aeS
accredited organ of the President, which Obse-
qulous Journal must watch with anguish this "but-
ting" ot the Republican bell-wethers. Nay, there
are parts OF Mr.. Hoars letter which cannot fail to
CRATE unpleasanty on tue Presidents nerves,
pledged as he Is admitted to be the Butler cause
When, says MIR. lIOar, General Butler proposed
to pay OIL our national debt in irredeemabie pa
per, Heneral Grant silenced him with the ringing
sentence In his inaugural. "Let 1t be understood
| that no repudatOr of one farthing Of our public
debt will be trusted in public place" because
be knew that he was trying to tempt this people
TO escape from burden by mean and base act.
Aud yet, at this very moment, the President
the same "General Grant"-is cOnfessedly doing
his best to force the perpetratOr of g mean and
base an acP' on the the Republican party of Mas
sachusetts, for does not Mr. Hoar tell us that the
only supporters Butler has arc those he has bought
with his own money, land the Federal ofIicehold-
ers of feeble virtue whom he has succeeded in per-
suading that they are In danger from his revenge,
if they do not lend themselves to his schemes ~
How can these Office holders fear revenge" un.
less he who threatens it Is known to have inhu-
ence? Every Federal official in Massachusetts,
knows that Grant will do whateverButler bids him
and acts accordingly. There are other things Of
note In this fraternal etfuslon. We are told that
proposition to increase the salary Of the
} President had been voted out of order by q ma
liority OF the Committee on the Whole, when
mo.ed as an ammendment to an appropriation
bill The same thing, aud largely by the same
votes, was voted to be in ORDER with the addition
OF the clause increasing the salaries Of members Of
, Congress.
This, it seems to US, fully veriHes the HarmaI
} story that the President insisted on Congress
, sharing the responsibility of the salary increass
with him, knowing that 1t would be odious and
that If repeal were forced upon them he coulC
not Sufer though they might, as 10 which he wal
/ profoundly indifferent shave room but fOl
the concluding passages of this lovely letter. Il
. it of the great Butler Of 1862, whose guns Wer'
pointed on Us from Federal Hill, and whose Rlory
a was cEanted by every 'loyap tongue, that Massa
chusetts thus writes to-day
He has quaTFelsd with Grant and Wilson, an.
v Colfax and Blaine and Andrews and Sumner, ant
7 the Washburnes, and Bingham, aud Schenk ant
Q Dawes, because he is quarrelsome. They hav
kbeen compelled, each in his own way, to Ohastis
: and punish him because hs deserved to be whip
4 ped.
4 General Butler has done unIess he has eeragi
y ously imposed upon US, two things well. He out
r blackguaTded New York mob in 1884, and wit
70 a United States army at his back, he kept dow
T. q rebel city in 1862. Massachusetts, is not hkel
soon to stand in need of 0thar Of these processa
e But he never has accomplished anything else {
u Importance, when his polnt could not BE- carrie
Q by sheer clustering. The history Of au his othe
/, attempts may be comprised 10 three woPds-BWaG
q ger, quarrel, failure.
5 1t would be hard "a find leading SHRpOEtsF
r General DOtleF WhOwl say that he deems hill
n honest, truthful disinterested, or incapable
, using power to crafty both his ambition and
revenge. The men whom General Butler wi
,r beat are the men whom he persuades to suppo
!. him.