New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-13
THE S5HE HITLER,

If 1t has been anywhere supposed that,
in the hour of General Buffers
defeat his eye was dim or his natural
force abatcd that illusion will be
thoroughly dispclled upon reading his char
acteristic ana uncOmmOnly interesting
comments on men and things, printed
on another page. Richard is himself
again; in fact he was never anything else,
whether in triumph or disaster. Perhaps he
does betray little of the soreness of defeat
in the frankness with which he discusses
some of the people for whom he has no great
love, but it must be remembered that General
Butler always was candid man. If he comes
reluctantly TO the painful conclusion that
a President who has not favored him III the
matter Of appointments is rather wooden
person, his conscience will not allow him
to compare that President TO "white oak,
if he looks TO the Generals eye
like "white pine" and if he happens to
discover that one of his opponents has been
engaged in the clothing business, the Generals
love of truth will not allow him to conceal
the fact that the opponent IN question has
been keeping a "slop-shop." If we under
stand General Buffers creed, it is, never
TO tell less than the truth about his
enemies; and we must do him the
justice to say that he has never
been known to depart from this
excellent rule. In his zeal, however, to
prevent the suppression of any important por->
ton of the truth, the General sometimes seems
to go n little too far the other way, and now
and then-bUt very rarely-mal,es a state
mcnt which would he more imposing with
notarll seal attached.
But there are subjects upon which moral
reflections are wasted. The important
fact is that General Butler means
to stay in politics aud keep pegging
away. Retire with 10000 men at
"my back ? Psbaw - He has received the
largest vote ever given in his State for
defeated candidate, larger vote than
was ever given to n successful candidate
in non-Presidential year. His party
holds the balance of power IN all hut three of
the Northern States and IN the House. There
il a Presidential election coming On-but
he would really prefer TO talk of something
else. The TRIBUNE has not got the originals
of the cipher dispatches, and will not
dare TO print his declaration to that effect.
The Administration is "a dreary waste :"
Tie country u nob UIO-p'IiHEt pt'l'idlg
Sherman will not be able to resume specie
payments; the number of suicides remains
steady, ard the number of marriages does
not increase. The only remedy, especially as
to the suicides and marriages. is TO print
handsome edition Of greenbacks.
So much for policies as for per-
sous-Prcsdcnt Hayes is incapable of
persistence in vetoes, and Collector Beard,
OF Boston, who has been recently
saying some plain things about General
Batter, is bankrupt, who keeps the
"slop-shop aforesaid. Gle is of no con
sequence. He is like the fly in the piece
of amber. Such flies are common enough; the
only wonder is how the devil that one
got there" Contemplating General Butler
seriously. and reading his free-and-easy
discourse, the vexcd reader might be tempted
to apply these last remarks to the
Generals own conspicuous position in the
politics of Massachusetts,. But he has
brains, and pluck, and persistence; and
to "more voters than any defeated candi-
"date ever got before in non-Presidential
"year," these seem to be enough.