The daily gazette., 1875-03-15
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ments Of the Capitol, and generally
blew So dread blast as was not with.
IN the memory of the oldest Doorkeen.
er. A field of the Northern dead rush
ed RED on his sight. The election of
democratic House of Representatives
IN 1874 was to be followed in 1876 by
the election ola Democratic President,
the reputation of the national debt,
the repeal of the amendments payment
Tor the slaves-Cassandra and Mrs.
Gummidge alone know what of all that
Is undesirable and unlikely. Then the
Northern States woald secede, another
CIVIL war would be Instituted, and the
sight which would greet the eye-liter.
ally the eye--of the gentleman from
Massachusetts, when il should for the
last time be turned to behold the sun
in heaven, would be the spectacle of n
land rent by intestine discords and
drenched with fraternal blood,
we are not inclined to criticise the
general effect of Mr.. Buffers picture.
put we regret his lack of detail. That
Whlch concerns or represents the indi-
vldual most conspicuous, whether by
merit or accident, in great historical
events, always possesses the most vivid
interest for the public. And as human
nature is always the same and under
similar circumstances, no matter how
frequently these may recur, will make
the same manifestations, we venture to
take up the bloodbadabbledb brush that
has fallen from the hand of Mr.. Butler
palsied with prophetic horror, and com
plete, however imperfectly, the picture
he has so boldly outlined.
Reading the future by the past. We
are enabled truthfully to follow and
depict the career of at least one man
in 1.-THE next war;" in favor of which
Mr.. Artemus Ward so strongly ex-
pressed himself. We feel certain that
the Radical States of the North. hay-
ing shed the blood and dissipated or
confiscated the property of all their
relations to establish the truth that no
state can secede from the Union. will
secedc-that stands to unreason. We
do not doubt that Secretary Robeson
will send the one seaworthy vessel
that will, two years hence, remain of
our navy, over distant seas to CONVOY
haiakauas yet unknown or scare the
natives OF islands now undiscovered
from their MONDAY repast on mis-
slonaries not yet graduated. The
bearded Belknap will inevitably de-
spatch all our converted Springflelds.
with due supply of unconverted am
munition, and our Parrot guns that
won't fit ourRodman carriages, TO Kit
terry Mare Island and Sackett's Harbor.
Nevertheless it will be well to know
that when "the Union," in 1877, calls
for the support of the loyal and fear
less, at least one cyclone eye-will
kindle will with enthusiasm, and one
sword be drawn in its defence.
Having at the Radical Convention at
Charlestown, Mass. in 1876, cast his
ballot hfty-seven times for Wendell
Phillips, Mr.. B. F. Butler will unques.
tionably be found at Washington in
1877 begging a commission and COM
mand OF Mr.. Jefferson Davis. who. it
Is perhaps needless for us to say, is to
be the next Secretary of War. These
obtained. not without much difficulty
caused by the competition of Mr.. Lo-
gan, and having proved his valor and
efficiency by lcading-sending, we
mean--the Louisiana Tigers, Third
Alabama Infantry and Ninth South
Carolina Zouaves into satisfactory
slaughter-pen at a later Big Bethel,
General Butler will be intrusted with
the command of the land forces of the
great expedition againt Boston. Ad-
miral Semmes, having with his fleet
gallantly reduced the city, will place
General Butler in charge of that hot
bed of treason and
Here we pause in speechless admira
tion such as that with which the fierce
old warrior regarded that lovely CITY
to loot-London. When we think
what Boston Is, and what Butler,
Imagination is dazed. In a splendid
and coruscating chaos we behold Mr..
Wendell Phillips pedent from an In
formal gallows-visions of spinsters
who would shrilly denounce the
Southern mud-sills and vandals even
If they were tied to the cannon which
next moment should blow them, spec
tacles, views and missions, into the
infinite which is unknown. There are
no cotton stores in Massachusetts. but
think of the spindles of Lawrence and
Lowell ! The capital Invested in the
banks of Boston is large, and every
family has solid silver spooAs-spoons
that came over in the Mayflower-ere
albata plate and Britannia metal were.
What wonder, then, that we leave to
the Imagination of our readers that
which we frankly concede to be like
the vision of bully Bottom, a thing
which the eye of man hath not heard,
the ear of man hath not seen; that
mans hand Is not able to taste, his
tongue to conceive, nor his heart to
reports
Our want of space also must plead
our excuse for not following the
career of General Butler in Congress-
after the surrender of the last army of
the Northern Confederacy under GEN
eral Grant to General Logan, beneath
the historic apple-tree of Molunkus
Court House, Me. We should, we are
sure, find him the loudest preacher of
prescription for the people of the re-
constructed States of Rhode Island
Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine;
the advocate of the carpet-baggers
Pinchback, Pease, Mosby and the like
who had fastened themselves upon the
0npa amilipr North. Tho o,,tl, -, - 6 Al. .