New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-30
TIE CAMPAIGN VAR DANCE.

ter, for Essex County, for Massachusetts
why not indeed for the country and the
world f-when on Friday last, at Soldiers
reunion In Gloucester Mr.. Benjamin +. Butler
made public announcement that he had in
formed Gen. Belknap, the Secretary of War,
that he might call on him for 5000 troops in
SO hours to put down the new rebellion in
Louisiana. We are not aware that Gloucester
or any other neighbOrhood, seaport, lake
port, inland town, fishing village or wood
station, was standing with great cold drops of
perspiratiou on its back in shiver of terror
and dread at the possibility of another war;
nor have we heard that the fishing smacks OF
Gloucester, deserving war clouds on the hOri-
zon, have come flying into port, quivering
from truck to keelson with apprehensons of
new Alabamas, Tallahassee. and Shenandoahs,
or that the affrighted villagers have begun to
throw up earthworks or dig canals. But even
if these things wero happening, we should
rest assured that the voice of Mr.. Butler
and the promise OF 5000 men would
calm the whole perturbed coast and drive
back the new rebellion to what the Enthusi-
astic Patriot calls its Clair" 1t has already
been related how Mr.. Butler, having disposed
himself for retirement from politics and
restful remainder of life, was turned from his
PURPOSE by the reports borne to him on
Southern breezes of bloodshed, outrage, drawn
daggers, Ku-Kluxes raw heads and bloody
bones, and murder IN the bush. How he
buckled on his sword and said, "The crisis
"calls for ME !"-how he put all other coDsidera-
tiOns behind him-as usual-and said, 81 will
CONTINUE in the service of my country at any
"cost-to the country"-hOw he looked three
hundred Gloucester people in the face-as near
as they could judge-and said, If the mere
" fact of Democratic successes In New-Hamp-
shire and Connecticut has excited this new
rebellion in Louisiana, what bloody work
would follow if l should be defeated w-and
how he offered then and there not to be de-
feated if they would stand by him at the polls,
has been already told.
On Saturday last he gave Gloucester an
other sensation. Addressing the Army re-
union referred to, he said: al have come
from Washington as fast as the train of
" cars would allow me to. | am here now to
say to you what ! told the Secretary of
" War. l repeated to him what | told you
a." on the field of birmingham. i said, Do MT
bother about calling your troops from the
"plains. Don't trouble yourself TO take away
" the frontiers protection against the fight
" ing savages. Send us an order. Send Gov.
" Talbot an order, and in thirty-six hours 5000
" troops as good as the sun ever shone upon,
" or as ever stood in array, shall be in Wash
" ingtOn. If you send to u.s. as soon as the
" trains can carry us we will be in New-Or-
cleans Texas, and Alabama. And as got up
81 added: One other request-In Gods name,
" Mr.. Secretary if you do call Massachusetts
" troops into the field, don't forget to ask me
" to 20 with them.n We do not remember to
have heard before of "the field of Framing
" ham, Doubtless it ia the scene of of
Mr. Buffers many triumphs. and he repeated
to the Secretary some stirring general order
of his on the occasion of Republican eau
Gus. But how it must have encouraged Sec
rotary Belknap to have Butler take this whole
business off the shoulders of the War De-
partment And how it must have thrilled
the heart of the soldierly Secretary
when Butler "addedn as he "got up
and he is one of the most remarkable men in
this or any country for adding he gets up
his one other request "" In Gods name if
you do call Massachusetts troops into the
" field don't forget to ask me to go with them"
We suspect that all Massachusetts, unless it may
be the troops themselves, will join most cor
daily in the zone other request" We ought
to be very grateful to this able-bodied war
rior-and we hope we are-for hurrying home
"as fast as the train OF cars would allow him
"to n-queer that neither the tramp of his iron
heel nor the jingle of his spurs was heard as
he rushed through New-York-to tell the
Gloucester people what he had done, and re.
invigorate an otherwise dull canvass.
But Mr.. Butler is not alone in his desire to
serve the country. Other ardent patriots have
been springng up for the past two or three
weeks in various parts of the country whose
cries were warlike and their breath su!phurous.
They have for the most part harangued Con-
ventions and kindled with their burning words
the souls of delegates from the rural districts,
who are not permanently aware of the cessa-
ton of the war. These are Major Generals
and Brigadier Generals, men who were never
known to shrink from the gaze of Con-
ventiOn or hesitate to encounter storms
of popular applause. The number who
are willing to raise 5000 men to put
down rebellion a thousand miles
away that has already surrendered can hardly
be computed. They pack the platforms of
political assemblies and address their fellow
men with great energy, earnestness, and
Auency. There are more men willing to raise
brigades than there are brigades willing to be
raised. Most of the willing leaders, whose
souls are in arms and eager for the fray, have
an idea that the way to begin subjugating the
new rebellion is to send men to Congress
whose names will strike terror to the hearts
of the rebels, and they are quite DESTROYS
of beginning in that way. Not ALL however,
are ambitious in that direction. Here at
the Utica Convention the other day was Brica-