Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-03-21

another job for YOURSELF"
81 may truthfully say" says Butter,
"wi,h pride and gratitude, that my
road homo was An ovation; but for
while my position was an extremely
annoying one. -Four months and
half before, the young lawyer had left
Boston where he could GO anywhere
and every where and not be disturbed
by anybody. The general now came
back, and was not allowed to 60 any
where or do any thing without some>
body interfering with HIM and insisting
upon his being here or going there,
with an enormous quantity of stuHine
and feasting. It was so sudden a
change from perfect freedom to a
slavery of kindness-from taking his
constitutional walk in the morning
any and everywhere, to not being able
to 60 anywhere without carriage.
because he could not 60 through the
streets for the multitude of hand -shak-
ings aud greetings that he had to
underground it was hardly enj ,yable.
The seventh day after his return
home he left for Washington, to OBJ
tain permission to raise q force of
5000 to 10000 men for an expedition
the following spring the destination
of which he refused to disclose. He
wished to be given the right to ap
point all the off ,ers from the Demo.
cratic ranks, as the war was opposed
because it was called partisan Re-
publican abolitionist move. He got
permission, and went to New England
to recruit. The governors of Con-
necticut, Vermont, Maine and New
Hampshire cheerfulIy agreed to assist
him. Governor Andrews, however,
refused to assist him in any way, and
even opposed him bitterly. Butler
ran down to Washington, and had the
Department Of New England created,
with himself as commander.
Within 80 days Butler was ready to
start on his expedition; but the Trent
affair having arisen, the President
could not spare him. He therefore
held HIM aud his command ON waiting
orders.
BY the middle Of January, the
Trent affair having been settled, and
many Irish regiments having. been
recruited because Of it, Butler fel,
that he could be spared, and asked
for orders. He could not get them
Mcclellan, " 10 had succeeded Scott
was Jealous of Butler; so were the
other West Point officers all OF whom
had in the meantime been given i'm
portant commands. No aggressive
movement was making against TIL
rebels. Mcclellan, with over 0,00l
men, was afraid to move against tn
rebels on the Potomac, who only ta'
,, 3 1000 men to oppose him. Presiden
Lincoln issued an order peremptoril
requiring Mcclellan to cross tn
. Potomac to attack the 22d of Febru
airy, 1862. The 2lst Butler called o
the President and demanded hi
. orders.
"Assuming that you had 1oO,CC
:, effective men in Washington" sal
the President, "and were permitted t
' move over the river to attack, woul
you do it?"
"Certainly I would, Mr.. President.
=. But you have ADLER commanders tina
:. l, Mr.. President, and what l want
to go off with my command to Ne,
Orleans"
: 81 won't say, General, whether wi
9 let you go or not"
o Finally Mr.. Lincoln said: "Wel
= General Butler, you had better ca
s. on me the day after tomorrow, an
y we will see what will come out @
o this"
Q General Butler determined to brin
u the matter to a focus at once. O
" leaving the President. he called O
J. General Mcclellan, who promised t
dispatch him the 23d. Butler the
o repeated the conversation just had
t. and, looking General Mcclellan i
y the eye, said:
o "General, shall call on you befor
n or after call on the PRESIDENT"
n .Isetter call before" said he.