The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-04-20
every encouragement to the celebration OF
the one hundredth anniversary Of the indie
pendencc Of the United States.
A Good Specimen of Is Cussinx."

ESSAENT.-IhlS man Is now the leader of the
Republican party. The Senate, the House
Of Representatives, the White House are at
his beck and call. He dictated the nomina-
ton Of Simmons to the Boston collector
ship by the President, and obtained his
confirmation by the Senate IN despite Of
the tlercest struggles Of the decency and
respectahilty Of Massachusetts. After he
had Inundated his enemies to the dust he
set down on them and leisurely rubbed
their noses in the mud. He bad the cool
eflrontery, after carrying Simmons through
the Senate, TO take him over to the House
and Introduce him to those representatives
who had most bitterly opposed the nomi.
nation. There is something sublime in his
impudence. ~-lt&@
Having led the President and the Senate
captive, he has taken possession Of the House.
On Monday he asserted his leadership as
Thad. Stevens never did. A bill requesting
the reporting Of the expenses of the Depart
mcnt Of Justice he defeated, and marshalled
in opposition, in serried, steadied, and Or
derly phaaux, the Republican members.
His voice was lifted on every subject, aud
lifted authoritatively. He was not followed
like sold Thad." He was obeyed. His
private house is the rendezvous Of every Of
hce-holder, Of every office-seeker, Of every
lobbyist, and Of every jobber. Around him
the clouds of bribery and corruption form
lurid atmosphere, through which the baleful
visage CLEANS like that OF an evil spirit.
1t has been we'll said Of him that he is the
defender of every job detected, Of every vii
laiuy exposed, the originator of every law
that facilitates corruption. He has risen In
pride Of party place just as the party de-
creased in pride of use and honesty. He
SIC s,,I, load h IN
after the Credit-Mobiler, in face Of the San
born revelations and his first act is to pre-
vent investigation into expenditure. In
1866 it was Stevens aud reconstruction in
the House, Sumner and reconstruction in
the Senate. In 1874 it is Butler and corrup-
ton in the House, Butler and corruption in
the Senate.
When the golden waters Of the Nile have
receded the reptiles that crawl In the mud
come to light And of all reptiles Butler Is
| the most noisome and the most hideous.
Conceived in corruption and born in iniqu.
| ty, he ills the whole atmosphere with
| sickening stencil, and emits fetid poison
which nauseates and destroys all with whom
| be comes in contact. No country but New
England or Revolutionary France, no party
| but Radicalism or Jacobinism, could have
engendered such q monster. He is as proud
| of the moral obliquities and purifying sores
| OF his character as other men are of Yir-
| tuous life and healthy constitution. His re-
pulsiYe features are an index of his debased
| soul. 1t may be said of him with truth as
Henry Clay once said of q felonin Kentucky,
"W hen that man was made, the villain was
| written on his face to bid mankind be-
ware"
We care not for the defeat which Butler
has inflicted upon the so-called Massachu-
setts aristocracy. We hope be may become
| their Governor. They revelled in his rule
| Of New Orleans. When the poisoned chalice
is commended to their own lips, let them
| drink it with such grace rs they may. We
wonder, however, to see any Democrats say
! ing q single good word for this putrd mis-.
creant. We are glad to see the Boston
Post, the old Democratic paper, outspoken
and incisive in its hostility. 1t is "mar.
vellous," it says, that professed Democrats
should be found fawning upon creme
pade," "brazen libeller," q hardened,
Thoroughbred political traitor" man who
breathes nothing but hatred and contempt
for their party. "Politics," it says, become
degraded enough when they are delivered
| over to the inspiration Of an influence such
as he SO boa>tfully Wields. The better por-
ton Of the Republican party has its own
obvious duty before it; but the Democratic
party has nothing but relentless war for him
aud all who join his fortunes"
! We say Amen TO that Let the ylleSt OF
political renegades, the originator Of the
hack-pay grab and of Sanborn contracts, look
| TO no party for help but that which has
| ripened such fruit as he till it has become
rotten.