Show BIVOUAC AND BANQUET that the editor of the new york sun docs does not r remember re regarding ar dim 0 benjamin F butlers checkered and chameleon colored career some of his contributors remind him and his subscribers of with a zeal and enthusiasm worthy of a better cause than the massachusetts marplot thus a jersey veteran wants to call the attention of the soldiers to something that general butler is stated to have said several years ago when he lie wa was not a it candidate for Con congress gres or for governor or for president just after he lie was recalled from front new orleans gen butler was tendered a public dinner by the merchants of new york cork lie ile declined the lionor honor these were his reasons I 1 f loo well knew the revulsion of feeling with which the soldier in the field occupying the trenches tren dies pacing thil sentinels weary path in the bl blazing a heat or watching from his cold bivouac the stars shut out by tho tile drenching cloud lacars of feasting and merrymaking merry making at home by those who ought to bear hia his hardships with him and ind the bitterness with which he speaks of those who thus engaged are wearing his uniform upon the scorching sand and under the brain trying sun of the Gulf coast I 1 havo have too much shared that feeling to add ada pang however slight to lie the discomfort which my fellow soldiers suffer er doing tho the duties of the camp and field by my own act while separated momentarily from them by tho the ebig enches enches of tha public service it conceded that butler in in thus loyally remembering the destitution of the bivouac of his comrades in arms and refusing the delicacies ot of the banquet could have bave no demagogic results in view he did what he lie did lid with a sincerity for which lie deserves credit to 1 1 day although hia his present antimonopoly and anti evereth everything ing else antics iti ciare arc calculated rather for the circus circus than for the ballot box IT is a fact filet not to bo be overlooked as its the chicago dal dally aly X es an democratic antidemocratic anti independent paper truly points out that Blain blaines cs candidacy does not arouse or employ the active sympathy of what remains of tile old giants of the republican party conkling conkling Con kline edmunds and men of that caliber are silent or at least coldly indifferent dorsey bob ingersoll george gor ham barn and leaders cf the party have sheathed th their ci r swords and are standing P apart while the battle is raging in short in this struggle the best soldiers are the non combatants what a contrast between these giants of diplomacy debate and fines finesse se who made gar fields campaign four years I 1 ago and the midi mediocre ocre unknown men inen who arc are today to day the same role for blaines ARE turning their attention more and more of late to the cable tourgee and uncle remus have aroused an interest which grows rapidly an other work w ork Is i s soon to appear in the standard library funka funk wag sunder nall the title A yankee school ii in virginia by lydia wood bald baldwin win it presents sketches of life during the transition elate state following the ilie close of tho the wart war as seen by one ofner of new E En ng glands lauds 1 maam rna ams p who devoted herself to the aducat education ion odthe of tho col cob ored race 1 1 I 1 1 |