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Show BUTLER P.E3TJKE3 WILSON. A spicy leltcr from General Ben. Butler to Vice-President Wilson has just been given to the public. Ben. had the ambition to bcthc Governor of Massachusetts, Wilson had promised him support and then "went back" on him, ar.d tendered Ben. some advice ad-vice about moderating his ambition. Ben. geta "rasparated" and goes for the Vice-President in this admirable fashion: "I hoje 1 am duly prftteful for your good advice as to tin manner in vrhidi I oufrht to conduct my political future, hi-cau.-e to a weak, yoNtifj and rising man it would he quite, quits invaluable; for no man has known how to mak': so little R'j eo fsr in politics as yourself. Xo man who had so little to manage, I Dgreo, could have done hater t,,Kin you, and your advice in a like case would be priceless price-less But oio hm to till a potato- :it"!i nnd a prairie on such dill'urent principles that tho hirlnuulry of one scarcely lit-Ih'j lit-Ih'j other; and, therefore, 1 cunnrjt omnia' omn-ia' c your cour?e, brilliant as it has bx-n: I cannot join ft church to get the votes of the religion j p 'ople; 1 cannot profess temperance tem-perance to g.-t the support of tho temperance temper-ance men; I would not join a Know-nolhiiiK Know-nolhiiiK lodge, and tnko an oath to Persecute Per-secute foreigners, to bo elected United States .Senator, however exalted that cl:-vatioa cl:-vatioa miKhtseem t me. J cannot 'all things to all men to gain Kirne.' must remain n plain, blunt man, and must speak nglit o A tho thiiigj that I do know. "You wi'l pcp, therefore, my dear Mr. Senator, how very much I appreciate your advice and example, and the motive' which actuate you.and tliejirnpos-sibility of niy emulating them, even at an humble ditanci. 1 really cannot do it. I ought hi to 1o, l suppose, in order to hucecid; tliat is, if my nature had been so made up as to be a bio to Jo it. TJul you must cxcine mo. I cannot. There can never he but ono Henry Wihor.." "Ben." is not tho most popular man hi the United States, but the robuke ho administers to the Vice-President Vice-President was so well deserved, that the sympathies are largely with the Congressman. |