The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-10-02
chanter on Bornbastes

THE New York Tribune has chapter OF
very good satire mainly upon BUTLER, and
incidentally upon other swelling turkey
cocks who now upon the eve of election
are making great to do about Louisiana
affairs. Their threats to enter the field To
suppress the "new rebellion" are most sue
cessfully ridicu'ed. We extract the follow
ing paragraphs from this effective satire:
sit was an impressive moment for Chou
cester for Essex county, for Massachusetts =
why not indeed for the country ana the
world .--whep, on Friday last, at Soldiers
! r, t1oion in Gloucester, mir. Bepjamln +. But.
In, made nnbIic announcement that he had
informed General Belknap, the Secretary OF
| war. that he might cali on him Tor hve
thousand troops in tbirty-six hours to put
down the new rebellion 10 Louisiana. we
are not aware that Gloucester or any other
| neiehborhood, seaport, lakeport, inland
town fishing village, or wood station, was
Standing with great cold drops of perspira.
| tion ON it's back in Il shiver of terror and
dresd at the possibility Of another war; nor
have we heard tina. the fishing smacks OF
Gloucester, deserving war.clouds on the horl.
ION. have come flyipg into port, qulyerlnS
| from truck to keelSou with apprehenslons
of new Alabamas, Tallabassees, and Shenan-
doahs. or that the affrighted villagers haye
| begun 10 throw up earthworks or dig canals.
Rut even if these things were happening we
should rest assured that the voice OF Mr.
Butler and the promise OF hive thousand
men would calm the whole perturbed coast
and drive back the new rebellion to what
the enthusiastic patriot calls its clair" 1t
has already been related how Mr.. Butler,
having disposed himself for retirement from
politics and a restfu remainder Of life,
was turned from bis purpose by the
reports borne to him on southern
breezes of blOodShed. outrage, drawn
dag.ers, klkluxes, raw beads and bloody
bones, and murder in the bush. How be
bucked on his sword and said, The crisis
calls for ME!'; how he put all other con-
sidcrations behind him-as usual-and said,
81 will continue in the service of my coun-
try ut any cost-to the country; how be
looked three hundred Gloucester people in
the iace-as near as they could judge-and
said, If the mere fact or Democratic sue
cesses in New Hampshire and Connecticut
has excited this new rebellion in Louisiana
what bloody work would folIoH if Ishoud
be defeated and how he offered then and
there not 10 be defeated if they would stanu
by him at the polls, has been already told.
g We may be pardOned, we hope,
for suggesting to the warlike spirits who are
just now engaged in electing themselves 10
Congress to put down new rebellion, that
there is not so much as a triggerless muskct
in the field against them; that the only PEG
pie who have made any disturbance put up
their hands for mlnacles at the first word
from the United States Government, and Of
fered no resistance, and that the only up.
rising contemplated by anybody IS Il
peaccable one ut the balloX-boX against
bad men OF all parties, who for sell
fish purposes conspiIe to perpstuatc mlSru'e.
And there be tho>c who, seeing how com.
placently these ardent patriots have sat and
looked upon the wrongs and robberes to
which the people of Louisiana and other
southern States have been subj cted, and
how calmly and Iazily they have considered
the subject and postponed consideration OF
ii, cannot but wouder at the cagerness with
which, in the midst Of political campagn,
they hasten to take up arms and raise troops
When the people rise up and remove Their
OppreSsors."