The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-05
WASHINGTON LETTER,
Ran BEti r's Remarkable Transhs-
uratis why He Popped His Ne
Iations to Mr.. Jefferson Davis
some Bottom Facts,
Correspondence of the Herald.


Ben Butler does not talk often. Com-
monty when he asks for an audience he has
something to say. His recent utterances IN
in Faneuil hall will be read by great multi
tudes. He is the best advertised man IN
America. and best abused, and
he, Garfield, Bob Ingersoll,
Dougherty, Daniels, Dick. Hubbard Coz,
Vest and VOORHEES, are deemed the foremost
OF American popular orators 1t is very
Needless to give an epitome of Buffers re-
msrksble deliyerances. Like Forney he was
an original Democrat. Like Forney, when
snscting the role of q renegade, he was more
reyiled and was more vituperalive than any
enemy of his old friends.
THE ISSUE.
The issue he makes is that on which Grant
was beaten in the Chicago convention. 1t is
the issue that was illustrated in 1860. None
know that they are now right
in opposing the perpetustion of Republican
power, as we'll as they who, like Ben Butler,
voted for JEFF Davis in the Charleston con-
vention of 1860 They were the lifelong
place-holders. tt ey had held the country's
offices. except three years while Fillmore
was president through forty years. They
saw '.Mene, meme, tekel upharsin" inscribed
above every doorway to every profitable pc.
sition under the government. When
Lincoln came their doom was
sealed. They were unanimously
for war. How they came bowling from
Washington over the mountains, down into
the cotton and rice fields of the south! They
set up the confederacy and every man Of
them went into hole at Montgomery or at
Richmond, or found marshalship or post
Office precisely like those from which they
had been elected by the woful election Of
Lincoln. War was necessary to perpetuate
this southern tenure of place and power,
and Fort Sumter was fired on,
and the whole people of tie
south rather than cut the throats OF
neighbors and endure the horrors of intestine
nternecine strife, went into the ranks; and, 1t
is fact, which the north does not under
stand, that the fighting in the south and the
ditch digging were done by union men.
These had TO access to the ear or kindliness
of power Those who had asserted the follies
and crimes of Davis and Yancy, and OF the
fiery, ferocious Bob Toombs, we're
10th to ask for offices and
honors at their hand. Therefore it
happened that at the close of the first year
of the war it was found in southern city
that of 1882 gentlemen who had published
their names as minute men" and original
per SO blood drinking secessonists, only
forty.two were in the confederate states army
and each of these had a soft place. Not one
of them ever handled spade or bore mus,
ket The mania for place and office pursued
the secession party to its death, and It was
this mania that made Lincoln's election q
casus belli.
WHY BEN. BUTLER BETRAYED DAVIS.
If Ben. Butler had lived in South Carolina
aS he aid in Massachusetts, he, too, would
have been perfectly blest and held high
placea at Richmond. Bat when Davis and his
coterie of statesmen, expelled from Washing
ton. we're RELYING for mora, and even active
support upon Butler and Logan and many
like them, these, shrewder than
honest. accepted proffered honors that
were ever given for treason, to
personsl history and declarations by the
adroit president, Abraham Lincoln.
And thus it happened that Butler himself
and his old friends the old Democracy, in
their own history and acts, have illustrated
the absolute necessity for the OCCASIONAL ex-
pulsion of parties from power Therefore
The wisdom of that constitutional decree pro-
vidipe for ousdriennial presidential elections
AN ABSURD STATEMENT OF GARFIBLD.
Garield's sdherents are apt to say that
those fellows that sought to destroy the union
should not be invested with Office. The patent
reply is that even if the southern people pre-
far secessionists to unionists it is because
these will never more ''rebel." God knows
thew had enough of it. They could not be
hired by Ben Butler to attempt task ao'
surd originally as infinitely wicked now.
Then they had pretext in the dread that
slavery might be tempered with now, they
could not be induced to re-establish slavery.
They make more cotton and rice and sugar
and tobacco with free than slave labor, and
when an African shnffies off this mortal coil
there is no bride of $1,000 or $500 for tears
at his grave.
IT'S HoLL0wNRsS.
Southern people are only amazed when
they listen to Garfeld's comically solemn
declarations that the union or the negro
would be- endangered by Democratic
success. The confederacy was such a flat
failure and its death such COLLAPSE" OF
unutterable hollowness that no human in.
tellect can conceive of an inducement that
would impel even an original secessionist to re,
enact absurdites of 1860 3, and the union and
the constitution and the laws of the iaevita-
HE .nigcer" will never be as safe or as ten
derlv guarded in the hands of perfectly ire
fragable conservatism as when the govern
mept lapses into the hands of Ben Buffers
old co.laborers. the original simon pure Jef
Davis secessionists. L. .. "