Year: 1873

Buffers Bull Observation-Disclosures Against


Pluck.


II is announced with q loud flourish of
trumpets in some quarters that General But
Ter has met his Bull Run in the canvass for
the control of the Massachusetts Convention,
and that he is already defeated candidate for
Governor of his State. This may be the case,
although the old political wachorse who
has gone through 80 many campaigns
from the time of his election to the State
Legislature by the free-soil democrats, twenty
years ago, taking in the Know Nothing raid
two or three years afterwards; the great set
to at Charleston and Baltimore when he
joined the democratic secessionists the i'm
peachment of President Johnson and the
passage at arms with President Grant, down
to the present rough-and-tumble with Gov
ernor Washburn and the Puritans-may
yet have some strategic movement in
store which may bring the rejoicings of his
aristocratic and high-blooded antagonists to q
close. The probability is, however, that
despite the bold and gallant struggle he has
made, Massachusetts, exclusiveness has been
too strong for him, and that he has failed to
secure sufficient number of delegates
to give him the nomination he so
eagerly covets. The question Of interest to
Massachusetts, politicians will now be, How
will the fighting aspirant accept his defeat |?
We are informed that he is now so far com.
mitted to fight before the people that he can
not and will not retreat In doing this he will
simply follow the example set by the support
ers of Governor Washburn and declare for VIC
tory and rebellion. Certainly he has an ap-
parent right to turn upon his opponents with
the same threats they have used so freely
against him; but he is original as well as bold
in his ideas, and if he sees that he has been
fairly beaten he may even yet accept his fate
with good grace and prepare his weapons
of fence for another contest.


In all probability there will be the rub. Has
he been fairly treated and fairly beaten? The
personal abuse that has been heaped upon
him; the prejudices that have been raised
against him by the cry of 'federal dictation;"
will he regard these and other assaults, which
might have been proper enough if directed
against him by his political enemies, as fair
opposition on the part of his political friends
If he does not SO regard them he certainly has
the daring and probably the strength to make
good fight against the injustice At all
events he may have the power, with large
positive strength in the Convention, to effect q
combination for the overthrow of Governor
Washburn and the selection Of candidate
capable of eradcating the bitter seeds that
have been sown during the campaign and
making the political field smile again with
sweet-smelling flowers and remunerative corn
and wheat. So far as outside barbarians are
concerned, it may appear to them that the
blue blood of which so much boast is made
has grown thin and weak in the modern politi-
clan of the Massachusetts school, and would
have been benefited by intermixture with the
red and vigorous fluid that courses through
the veins and casts its ruddy glow over the
countenance of the native of the American
Switzerland But if the Bay State has thought
fit to reject General Butler with all his life,
strength and originality, tits her own business
and the world can only look on in admiration
of the very high respectability and puritanical
propriety which has been again vindicated
by the refined statesmen of the Hub and it's
surroundings.