The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-04-11

ly too little attention 10 suit the pune
tilious old Regular. and this did not
| improve the feeling between them. He
did not actually answer any Of them,
| where. of course. Gen. Scott expected
| an answer to his kilograms as quickly
as possible after their receipt. In spite
| OF Gen. Scott, however, the Adminls-
| tration rewarded Buffers taking OF Bal
| timore with the commission of Major
General Of Volunteers. This made 1t
necessary for him to go to Washington
| to qualify. and he casually. according
| to his own story, dropped in to speak
to his commanding officer.
| Gen. Butler gives the following ac-
| count of his Interview with his Com
\ mander-in-Chief:
He received me CURLY enough; and,
as I stood at attention after I made
my salute. without asking me to be
| seated, he broke upon me with words
! of angry vituperation and accusation of
all sorts of wrongdoing about going in
! to Baltimore, and of the great risk I
had run. He said that 1 had thwarted
| his intention OF taking 1t without she'd
ding a drop of blood, and that I could
be trusted with nothing in the army
again.
| II waited, standing before him-II
! hope not like whipped cur-until my
/ patience, of which / have not too
large stock, was exhausted. / felt per-
l Iectiy BECAUSE
| that time come to the conclusion my
self, and, what was more, with the adj
vice of my wife, TO quit the army and
quietly go home and attend to my pro-
| fession and my family. l turned upon
the old General and gave him as good
as he sent in language not violent, but
distinct.
II took his dispatch which he had
| sent me at Baltimore from my pocket
and said:
4 have not answered this. because
you did not know what you were writ
| ing about. You say my movement wasi
a hazardous one. There was not the
! slightest hazard In it, and I knew it,
for l had taken care to have actual in
formation about what was going on In
| Baltimore. which, according to what
| you proposed, you did not have. Four
days before you let 1900 men. includ-
| ing Sherman'S Regular battery and sol
Regulars, sneak around Baltimore byl
Locust Point, instead of having them
march thru the city; and that was a
concession, a yielding to the purpOsesI
of the Secession Mayor.
"'You say you did not know any
thing about the movement, and, there
fore, could not have approved it. You
told me that it was not necessary that
! you should know beforehand about
what 1 did in my Department of An
napolis-and I was acting within the
| limits of my department.
had orders from you to go and
| get arms which had been sent from
| rebel Virginia to arm the rebels of
| Baltimore. How did you think 1 was
! to get them unless 1 went where they
were? Your order itself told me the
| street and number in Baltimore where
l should find munitions of war 1 went
and took them according to your order.
You say it Is "GOd-send" that it
| was without conflict of arms. That was
what l came here for, as / understood
it. and / was very anxious to have a
conflict of arms in Baltimore in order
to punish any mob that might turn out
against me, for the murder of my fell
low-townsmen and fellow-soldiers; and
the only thing that disturbed me about
the expedition was that was not likelyl
to have a chance for a fight with the
murderous "pluguglies" of that city
The whole thing was distressingly quiet
You say you heard I sent a de-
tachment to Frederick. but that is i'm
possible" I learned that there was mol
force In Frederick to oppose a platoon
and sent company and captured the
chief traitor, Ross Winans, who made
pixies of the John Brown pattern for
the mob to kill my soldiers with, and
who made them after that pattern so
that the rebels might say when they had
the head of one of my townsmen on al
pike. 1--WE have made you take your
own medicine" for John Browns pikesl
were made in Massachusetts,
agree that 1 had not reported toll
you. and my apology Is that there II
had not moment to spare, and I re- /
tired after 40 hours sleepIessness toll
get little rest, only to be awakened to-
get this insulting dispatch. What was
the use of my reporting to you? I had
been before You several times before
and I doubt whether you would keepl
awake long enough to listen to it. Ash
you have no further command over mel
good morning, General and 1 leftt
him."
Gen. Scott sent Gen. CadwalIader, of
Pennsylvania. to supersede Butler and
ordered the latter to take command OIL
Fort Monroe, to Buffers Indignation
(To be continued)