.<\ V. '• ./ -\. • .. ** .-k^ .. ^^,'*3?\/ %*^'%o^ ^^,'^^\/ * ,/ ^^ '-^^.^ ^^^ "^^^ %^^ °/, *■•'••' A- .. -> — - \v ^^ * O f. o ' •^^ v-^' V<^' -^0 .ouiiilul lotic, L'ke floweret brtiien by me storm, Appeals to me in sad array, And bids me vet a moment stay, Till I could londly lay me down And sl'tp wiin him on ifce coid grour.d, For thee, thou dread and solemu plain, I ne'er shall look on thfC again ; And s-pring, with her effacing >howe's, Shill come, scd summer's mantling flowers; A .d each succeeding wirter throw Oa ihy rrd bieast new robts ci snow; Yet I *ill wear thee '.n my Heart, Ail d«rk aiid gory as ihou art. Shortly after his return from Canada, Ensign Butler was promoted to a cap- taincy in the regiment to which he be- longed But as this promotion was ir- re<2ular, being made over the heads of senior officers in that regiment, a cap- taincy was given him in the 44th, a newly raised regiment. When freed from parole, by exchange, in 1814, he instantly entered on active duty, with a company which he had recrjiited at J^ashville, Tennessee. His regiment was ordered to join General Jackson in the South ; but Captain Butler, finding its movements tartly, pushed on, and effected that junction with his company alone. General Call, at that time an officer in Captain Butler's company, (since Governor of Florida.) in a letter addressed to Mr Tanner, of Kentucky, presents, as an eye-witness, so graphi- cally the share which Captain Butler had in the campaign which followed, that it may well supercede any narra- tive at second hand. Tallahassee, April 3 1844 Sir:— I avsil myself ol the earliest leisure I have had since the receipt of your letter ot the 18 h ot February, to give you a reply. A difference ot poiu cal !>entiraeais will net induce me to withhold ihe narrative you have leqnesied, of ihe military services of Col Wm. O Butler, during tne late war with Great Bni- a.n, while atiHChed to the army of me Soutn. My intimate association with hiin, m csmp, on the man h, and m ihe field, has perhaps made me as well acquainted wnh his merits, as a g(nilemari and a soldier, as ai y other man livii g And although we are row standing iu opposite ranks, I cannot (orget ihe days and nignts we have stood side by «ide lacing the common enemy of our coun ry, sharing the same fatigues, dargefS, and ^tivUiods, and participp'ing m the same plefvMues and enjoy ments. Theteelii^gsard sympaihiesspringiiig trom such associations in the days ot our ytutu can never be mcved or impaired by a differ- ence ct opinion with regard to men or mea- sures, V hen each may well believe the orher equally sincere rs himself, and where the most ardent' desire of both is to snstam tt^e honor, the happiness and prosperi'y of our country. S 'oa after my appointment in the army ot the United States as a lieutenan*, ia the tail ot 1814 I was ordered to join the company ot Captrin Biill'-r, ot ihe44'h regiment of iniap try. iheu at Nashville, Tennessee When I arrived and reported m^seK, I f 'und the coui- pany undr orders to j'umur regiment in the Sou'h The maich— mrsly through an un- sftiled wilderness — wis coi ducted by Capt. Bailei wiih his usual promptitude and energy ; and, by torced and rapiu uiovemei.is, we ar rived Ht Fort M mtgomery, the headquarters of Gen. Jackson, a fhon distance iibo«e ihe Florida line, ju.«t in time to follow our be- loved General in h s bold ente-prise to drive the enemy (rom h s strong position in a neu- tral terriioiy The vanguard ot ihe army destin< d hr the invasion ol Louisiana had made FensacolaMts heedqnariers, and ihe B itish navy in the Gull o> Mexico had rtn- dtzvo'.ise'J in that b^ HUtlul bi:y. The pecetraiing sagacity ol Gen. Jackson discovered the ndvaniage of the posiuou as- sumed by the British forces: and, wi h a dc- cifion and energy which never falteied, he r.'folved to Had his enemy, evea under the fl g of a neutral power This was done by a prompt and rapid march, ""ip wrg and cut- ting off all the advanced picket?, Uotil we ar- rived -wi hin gunshot cl the l.irl at PeusBCoia. The armv of Gea Jacksoa was th n su in coasidemble as to reader a reinio'cemeDt of a single company, commanded by such an oflicer as Capi Builer, an important acquisiti in. And although there we>e several companies of regular troops oidered to marca iri>m Tennessee at the same time, Capt But ler's, by hi^ extraordinary energy and piomp- ti'ude, was the only one which anived io time to join this expediiion. His tompatiy formed a partcf iheceiiire columa of attack at Pen- sacola. The street we efitered was deteuded by a battery in Iront, which fire ' f n us inces- santlv, whle several ftrong block-houses, on our flark, duscharged upon us small arms and artillery. But a gallant and rapid charge sorn carried the guns in front, and the town imme- diately surrendered In th:s fight, CxptBut ler led <'n his company with his UMial inire pidity. He had < ne olBcer, Lieut Flournoy, severely wounded, and several con-commis- sioned ttficers and privates killed and wouud- ed. From Pensacola, after- the cbject of the ex pediiion was completed, by another prompt and rapid movement we arrived at New Or- leans a few weeks before the sppearaBCe uf the enemy On ihe 23d oi December the s gnal gun au- nounctd tne approach of the enemy. The prtvious n ght ih^y had suprisfd ar d cap- tured one of our pickets : had ascended a bay- ou, disenibaiked, and had taken possession ot the left bank ol the Mississippi, wiitiin six mil s of New-Oileans. The energy ot every oliicer was put in rtquifiticD, to cunceniraie cur fjrces m time to meet the enemy. Cept But- ler was one of the fi'St to arrive at Ihe Gener- al's quarters, and ask instructions: they wtirti received, and promptly executed Our regi- ment, stitioned on the opposite side, was transported across the river. All the avaia- ble forces of our army, net much exceeding fifteen hundred men, were concentrated m the city : and while the sun weui down, the line cf bitile was loimed, and every officer took the station assigned him in the li^ht The infantry formed on ihe opea square, in front cf ihe cathedral, waiwrg m anxious ex- pectation tor (he order to move. During tt is momentary pause, while the enemy was ex- pected to enter the city, a scene of deep and thrilling interest was presented. Every gal- lery, porch, and window around the square was filled with the fair forms of beauty, in si-. lent anxiety and alarm, waving their hand- kerchiefs to the gallant and devoted band which stood before them, preparsd to die, or defend them from the rude intrusion of a (or eign soldiery. It was a scene cak-ulattd to awaken emotions never to be forgotten. It appealed to the chivalry and patriotism of ev ery officer and soldier— it inspired every heait and nerved evdry arm for battle. From this impressive scene the army matched to meet the enemy, and sbjut eight o'clock at nigtit they were surprised in their encampment, im- mediately on the banks of the iWistissippi. U(i oriicer of any rank, save tt e commander-in-chief, was entitled to high- er credit for the actiievcmeut of thai glorious night. A shoit time before the battle of the 8th of January, Ceptaui Bntler was detailed to com- mand the guard in from of the encampmeM A house standing near the brii'ge, in advance of nis position, had beeu taken possession of by the light troops of the enemv, irom whence they annoyed our guard. Cfipiaiu Builer de- termined to dislodge them and burn the house. He accordingly marched to the attack at the head of his command, but the enemy retired before him. Seeing them retreat, he halted his guard, and advanced himself accompanied by two or three men only, for the^^piirpcse of burning the house It was an old frame building, weather-boaided, Without ceiling or plasier in the it-side, witft a single door open- ing to the British camp. On entericg the house, he found a aoldier of the enemy con- cealed in one corner, whom he captured and sent to the rear with his men, remaining alone in the house. While he was in the act of kindling a lire, a detachment of the enemy, unpereeived, occupied the only door. The first impulse was to force, with his single arm, a passage through them; but he >nas instantly seized in a violent manner by two or three stout fellows, who pushed him back against the wall with such furce as to burst oiT the weather boarding from the wall, and he fell through the opening thus made. In an instant he recovered himself and, under a heavy fire from the enemy, he retreated until supported by the guard, which he immediate- ly led on to the aUack, drove the British ligbt troops from their strong position, and burnt the house ic the presence of the two armies. I witnessed on that field many deeds of dar- ing courage, but none of which more excited my admiration than this. Captain Butler was soon after in the bat- tle of ihe 8th of January, where he sustained his previously high r.nd well earned reputa- tion for bravery and usefulness. But that bat- tle, which, from its important results, has eclipsed those which preceded it, was but a slaughter of the enemy, with trivial loss on our part, and presenting lew instances of in- dividual distinction. Captain Butler received the brevet rank of major for his gallant services during that event- ful campaign, and the reward ot merit was never more worthily bestowed. Soon after the close of the war, he was appointed aid de camp to General Jackson in which sta- tion he remained until he retired from the ar- my. Since that period I have seldom had the pleasure of meeting w.th my valued friend and companion in arms, and I know but little of his career in civil life. But m camp, his ele- vated principles, his intelligence and generous feelings, won for him the resoect and coufi- dence of all who knew him; and I will ven- ture to say he is still most highly appreciated for every attribute which constitutes the gen- tleman and the soldier. I am, sir, very respectfully, „ „, R K CALL. Mr. William Tanner General Jackson's sense of the servi- ces of Butler in this memorable cam- paign, was strongly expressed in the following letter to a member of the Ken- tucky legislature ; Hermitagk, Feb. 20, 1844. Mv DiAR Sir : You ask me to give you my opinion of the military services of the then Capt (now Colonel) Wm. O Batler, of Ken- tucky, durirg ihei nves^ment of New Orleans by the Biitish forces in 1814 and 1815. I wish I had sufficient strength to speak fully of the merit and the services of Col Butler on that occasion ; this strength I have not. Suffice it '.o say, that on all occasions he displayed that heroic chivalry, and calmness in the hour of danger, which distinguish the valuable officer i in the hour of batile. In a conspicuous man- ner were those noble qualities di.«played by • him on the night of the 23d December, 1814, , and on the 8th of January, 1815, as well as at all times during the presence of the British i army at New Oileans. In short, he was to > be found at all points where duty called. I hazard nothing in sayu.g, that should our • country again be engaged in war during the ■- active age of Col. Butler, he would be one of the very best selections that could be made to command our army, and lead the eagles of our country on to victory and renown. He has sufficient energy to assume all responsi- bility necessary to success, and for hiscoun- try's good ANDREW JACKSON. General Jackson gave earlier proof of the estimation in which he held the young soldier who had identified him- self with his own glory at New Oileans. He made him his aid-de-camp in 1816, which statioa he retained on the peace establishment, with the rank of colonel. But, like his illustrious patron, he soon felt that military station and distinction had no charms for him when unattended with the dangers, duties, and patriotic achievements of war. He resigned, therefore, even the association with his veteran chief, of which he was so proud, and retired in 1817 to private life. He resumed the study of the profession that was inierrupted by the war, married, and settled down on his patrimonial pos- session at the confluence of the Ken- tucky and Ohio rivers, in the noiseless but arduous vocations of civil life. The abode which he had chosen made it pe- culiarly so with him. The region areund him was wild and romantic, sparsely settled, and by pastoral people. There are no populous towns. The high, roil- ing, and yet rich lands — the precipitous cliffs of the Kentucky, of the Eagle, Sev- ern, and other tributaries which pour into it near the mouth, make this section of the State still, to some extent, a wil- derness 01 thickets— of the tangled pea- vine, the grape vine, and nut-bearing trees, which rendered Kentucky, until the intrusion of the ^^hites, one great In- dian park. The whole luxuriant domain was preserved by the Indians as a pas- ture for buffalo, deer, elk, and other an- imals — their enjoyment alike as a chase and a subsistence — by excluding every tribe trom fixing a habitafion in it. Its name consecrated it as the dark and 9 bloody ground ; and war pursued every foot that trod it. In the midst of this region, in April, 1791, Wm. 0. Butler was born, in Jes- samine county, on the Kentucky river. His father had married in Lexington soon after his arrival in Kentucky, 1782,' Miss Howkins, a sister-in-law of Col. Todd, who commanded and perished in the battle of the Blue-Licks. Following the instincts of his family, which seem- ed ever to court danger, Gen. Pierce Butler, as " neighborhood encroached around him, removed, not long after the birth of his son William, to the mouth of the Kentucky river. Through this sec- tion, the Indian war-path into the heart of Kentucky passed. Until the peace of 1794, there was scarcely a day that some hostile savage did not prowl through the tangled fore-ts, and the labyrinths of hills, streams, and cliffs, which adapted this region to their lurking warfare. — From it they emerged when they made their last formidable incursion, and pushed their foray to the environs of Frankfort, the capital of the State. Gen. Pierce Butler had on one side of him the Ohio, on the farther shore of which the savage hoitles still held the mastery; and on the other, the romantic reeioii through which they hunted and pressed their war enterprises. And here, amid the scenes of border warfare, h;s %on William had the spirit which has^ani- mated him through life, educated by the legends of the Indian-fighting hunters of Kentucky. To the feelings and taste inspired by the peculiarities of the place and cir- sumslances adverted to, must be attrib- uted the return of Col. Butler to his Father's home, to enter on his profession is a lawyer. There were no great cau- ses or rich clients to attract him— no lense population to lift him to the polit* cal honors of the State. The eloquence md learning, the industry and integrity vhich he ga\{e to adjust the controver- iies of Gallatin and the surrounding counties, would have ci owned him with ^T-u ^"^ professional distinction, if lixhibitedat Louisvills or Lexint^ton — 1 3ut he coveted neither. Indepen'dence he affections of his early associates, the !Ove of a family circle, and the charm which the recollection of a happy boy- hood gave to the scenes in which he was reared, were all he souoht; and he found them all in the romanUc dells and woodland heights of the Kentucky, and on the sides of the far-spreading, gently- flowing, beautiful Ohio. The' feeling which his sincere and sensitive nature had imbibed here, was as strong as that of the Switzer for his bright lakes, loftv mountains, and deep valleys. The wild airs of the boat horn, which have re- sounded for so many years from arks descending the Ohio and Kentucky floating along the current, and recurring in echoes from the hollows of the hills, like its eddies, became as dear to hirri as the famous Rans de Vache to the na- tive of Switzerland. We insert, as char- acteristic alike of the poetical talent and temperajnent of Butler, some verses which the sound of this rude instrument evoked when he returned home, resign- ing with rapture 'the ear-piercing fife and spirit-stirring drum' for the wooden horn, which can only compass, in its simple melody, such airs as that to which Burns has set his beautiful words : When wilfJ war's deadly blast was blown And gentle peace returning, ' Wi' mony a sweet babs faiherlesa, And mony a widow mourning; I le/t ihe lines and lented field. The music of this song made the burden of the ' Boatman's Horn,' and always an- nounced the approaching ark lo the river villages. The sentiments of the poet, as well as the sweet and deep tones which wafted the plaintive air over the wide expanse of the Ohio, may have contributed to a,waken the feelings which pervade these lines; — THE BOAT HORJV. O, boatnoan ! ■» ind that horn ajrain. For never did the lisi'niug air Upon its lambent bosom bear Sr> wild, so soft, so sweet a strain. What though thy not s are sad and few, By every simple boatman blown, Yet IS each pulse to nature true, And melody in every tone. How oil in boyhood's jo'ous day, Unmindtul ot the lapsing hours, I've loitered on mv homeward way By wild Ohio's brink ol flowers, While some lone boatman, from the deck. Poured his soft numbers to that tide, As if to charm from storm and wreck 10 The b)al where all his iort;-nes ride ! Deligh'ed na'ure drank the sound, Eachanled— Eiho bire n muod In wbis'pers boft, and sutter slill, F'om hill to plain, and plain lo hill, Ti 1 e'en the ihougatlens, Irolick bay, E'aie with hope, and wild with joy, Who gimh )rd by the rivers side. And sporied with the frettins lice. Fdtls something new pervade his breast, Caain his 1 ght s'.tp, repress his jest, B 'lids o'er ihe flood tiis eager ear To CMtch the sounds far off, yet dear- Drinks thesvvt'et draught, t)ut knows not why Tne tear of rapture fi:ls his eve. A id can he now to manhood growu, Tell why thos^e notes, simple and lone, A* on the ravishtd ear they fell, Bind every s^^nse in magic ?pell? There is a tide ot fetlinf g ven To all on earth— iis founldin, Heaven. Beginning wi'h ih- dewy fljwer. Just ope a in Flora's vern«l b;iwcr — Rising ereatioii's orders through With louder murmur, brighter hue— Taat tide is s^ympathy ! us ebb and flow G ve lif-; Its hues o( joy and v.o. Music, (he master-iipint that can mi>ve Its waves lo war, or lull them into love — Can ^heer the sinking smIo' mid the wave. And bid the soldier on ! por f.'ar the g^ave— Jiicp re the iBi'ilir g pilgrim on his road, And elevate hi? soul to claim his God. Then, hoaiman ! wind tbat born fgain ! T'luUkh roucn ot si'rrow rriaik its strain, Y>-t aie it* iioies to .-orrow dear. Whit ihougn ih y wake tL^nd memory's tear I Tears are .sad Me.uory s sacied least, And Ripnire of., her chosen gue.«t This retirement, vs-hich may almost be considered seclusion, was enjoyed by Colonel Butler nearly twenty-five years, when he was called out by the demo- cratic party to redeem, by his personal popularity, the Congressional district in which he lived. It was supposed that no one else could save it from the whigs. Like all the rest of his family— none of whom had made their military service a passport to ths honors and emoluments of civil stations— he was averse lo relin- quish the attitude he occupied, to enter on a party struggle. The importunity of friends prevailed ; and he was elected to two successive terms in Congress — ab- solutely refusing to be a candidate a third time. He spoke seldom in Con- gress ; but, in two or three fine speech- es, which appear in the debates, a power will teadily be detected, which could not have failed to conduct to the highest distinction in that body. Taste, judg- ment, and eloquence characterized all his efibrts in Congrets. A fine mannei- an agreeable voice, and the high cori sideration accorded to him by the merri hers of all parties, gave him — what it i the aood fortune of few to obtain — an aa tentive and gratified audience. General Buder's political principlei have been, from his youth to the preset' day, uniformly democratic. Brought ui, in the school of opinion in which M| Clay was once a succesoful teaches General Butler refused to yield his priii ciples, to promote the aspirations of Ket tucky's champion. Neither cajolemeni nor threats could swerve him from thl Ime of rectitude ; and this fact accounrf for his having lived so much in retinf ment since the period of INlr Clay's d.^ fection from his old political friends, i While he held a seat in Congress :^ 1841, the case of the McLeod.tiial canri; up, and Gen. BuUer delivered one of \l most effective speeches which were v\ tered on the occasion. As it shows ■ strong colors his political principles, ;J well as furnishes a specimen of bis co, gressional style of debate, we give extract : — Tne following resolution of Mr Floyd leiii^ upHfr consK'f ration : * Resolved, That the President of the Unt States be rtqn.sted to inform ihs Hou*e^ Yin iticompaiible with the public luhrti whether anv officer <'f the army, or the Ain nev General cf the United States, has, sin tbe'4 h ol March last, been directed 'o vi the St'ite cf New York for any purpos<^ c; nected with the iraprifonment and trial ot i exHnder McL^-cd ; ^nd whether, by any e futive measures or correspondence the Bri ish government has been given to undersia th- 1 Mr McL-od will be released or surre dered ; and, if so, to communtcate to tl House copies of the instructions and report such (fficer. Mr. W. 0. Butler addressed tl House as follows : i Mr, Spkarbr: When this resolution w under con.«!deraiion about a month since confess I felt much anxieiy to mingle in t debate then in progress. And, although t» anxiety ha» in a great degree subsided WJ the feelings cf the moment that gave rise toi vet I will avail myself ofths present most I expectPdopportunity to give my views upl it As I am limited to a sirgle hour, 1 w enter at onceorwhM I design saying, wit out preface or exordium. Although the whole course pursued by J^ Webster in relation to the burnirgcf the Oi. oline, and the demand for the release ot 11 Leod, meets my unqualified disapprcbalion, pad, as> I have no doubt, will meet the con- detrna'i'in of ninetenths of the American peop'e, vet my purpose is less to censu'ti or criiiese that coursf, iDaa to express my own views nn ihese important and highly interest. h'g matters. I bavn. however, another ob- ject in vi^w, sud that a subiirdinate one. I desire to repel, with due contempt, some of the many and bi ter attacks that have been made upon the democratic party and ih.j late Presiilent in i&e prcgres3«f this debate, by toe tederal sts who have undertaken the defence of Mr Webster, their leader and their favorite. They charge us with attempting" to .«timu!ate the nation into a war, for base pcliiieal pur- posrs For these, and all such cha'gt.", I can but feel the most til )roup'h conieatpt I have invariably tnund those who are in the daily habit of ioaUing- the most bitter and rmMf yg charges Bgainst a whole party to be the very last wfco tvould dare to whisper aught ii juri- on* lo the reputation of any individual mem- ber ot such p»riy Si'', the dnuocratic party know too well on whom the burdens A'ho would skulk when a war was proper And I might, with much more truth, retort on the genilemen who have mude these charge!", that they have coijured them up, W!t!i he vain hofje .f screening: themst Ives and their leader from the contum'-!y and dis- grpce that are likelv to overtake them. I will now beg leave to turn niv paitioular at ention to the gentleman f om New Yotk, [Mr. Hunt] I owe '.bat gentleman an spuio- gy for rot having hesrd his whole speeih Ic wa!« accident alone that I heard any part oi' it I understood him tosf.y — and 1 know I d d not misunderstand him— that Mr Van Biiren, by his mivconduct, was justly chargeable with the hurnirg ot the Caroline, and all its train ct evil corstqtienees; that but uld have prevemed hI! these d.sas'ers to tne country. Sir, let me tell the gentleman who has made these charges, 'hit he is paying his own no ble state a most shsbby complimeni when he -announces to the world that her support is to bo puichased by cuch vile means; whea he holds out the possibility even that the Presi- dent of the United States could hope to win her fdvor, either for his friends or himself, by a criminal direliction of duty. It is said, and Irom undoubted auihorrty, that a charge of precisely aa opposite character was made aga nst him pending the very elecii'ms to which the gentleman has referred It was then convenient to charge him with a too rigid • a(iminii»tranon of the law, to the oppr ssiou of the patriot cause; by which his t'levd^are Sdid te have lost groucd both in New York and Maine Oae ot these chaigt s is «bout as true as ihe o'her, and bo h ot tfiem f.'. Ise Can any sane man believe that Mr Van Bureu, in the first six months of hi* presidei cy, was ho much aiaimtd about his le election as to ba driven to s!?ch a desperate and despicable re- sort H8 this ? Whom did he fear as a compet- itor? Was it Gc-neral Harrison? He bad just beaten him two to one. Was it Mr Clay? To the reproa< h of a party supported by his name and talents alone, they have ever abardoned him at the hour ot nerd, and left him io the mort ficatiou ot being distanced bv every cumpe'itor. What party nad he to fear? The whig par;y ? The discord"ni elements that have sluice made it up were thea in a state cf angry cnai s. The odds and enos, and shreds aod patches of all pa. ties mat now co'ait.O'«e it, had not yet been lofced even into a repuls.ve contiguity. The southern slave holder and r.orihern aboluiocift had not yet lietn taught mat their honor and iheir interest required if thm to pull kindly in the same harness 1V>. sir: thefe were sinio.^r the many other tqually slrarg-e thiPgs (aught t.f- le'wavd in ine Harrisbuig convemK>n, and form too imp; rant sn epoch in the hisi^iy of the tiiuf. s to be chronicled at aay other peuod, Thty weie heralded into the wofid by the hard eider !»hont, and made iheir advent under the eo.'ii-i-kiri banner. But, whnt!: ver induce- ments Mr Van Bnren ra ght have bad to pur- sue a d fiereiit cturs^, I ai'j prepared to prove that, m relation to this mailer at least, he did all that ceuld be de.Mieil or esptcied cf a Wise and vigilant Chief Magistrate. It may be true that he did n' t issue his proclamation quite pis soon ss the gentleman from New Yo k thinks he should have done. But of whit avail was it when issued? Simply to inform the people of ihat which the -"inipleht man m fhe community knew just as well be- fcrs- that we were at peace with England, and that it wt;uld he unlawful to eng^-ge in the civil wars of Canada This, if it hud beea done lu time, would have satisfied the gentle- man from New York ; for so he has expressly informed h s House. It -vould not have satis- fied the natioD, nor did ii cohierit Mr Van Ba- ren; he felt h mstlfcalled upon to resort to much niore rigid and much more tfiicent means If ihp gentleman, who is so fond of censurirg ihe P.esidi nt fnr neglect of dnty, wishes to know what he has dor.e, let him read the pub' lie di'curaenis within h s reach, and he will ficid that on the7ih of Daceabir, 1837 -moje than twenty d'.ys bt'fo e'he burnitgef the Carolme — he is-ucd his orders, through the Secretary of S' ate, crmmandirg the D strict Atiorneys in the Stales bordering on C.mada to prosecute witii I gor all persons who should be found guilty of intermeddling ia the rflairs of that 12 country. He will also fiad that on the same day, and througti the same medium, he ad- dre.'ssed ihe several Governors of thoe Siates, exhorting ih-^m to a hUe v gilance. And those Governors severally issued proclamations. So that the peace and harmony of the two nations would have remained unbroken, if proclama- tions could have been of any avail. But this is not all that the President did to preserve the peace. When informed by the Mayor of BufTalo that Mackenzie was beating up for recruits in that place, and when he learned also that disturbances of a like char- acter were going on in other places, he imme- diately ordered ".ne United States Attorneys of the adjoming districis to repair lorthwith to the scenes where those illegal transactions were said to be in progress; and he also plac- ed at the disposal of these law officers all the custom house officers in their vicinity. But 1 have still one farther proof; and one which I presuiiie will be conclusive with thegenileman from New York, as it is British prooi I have the testimony of Lsrd Palmerslon before the House of Commons, in which he expresses bis entire satisfaction that the Americaa Govern- ment were doing all in their power to preserve the f'iendly relations existing between the two countries. Surely, the gentleman who has read us the letter of the hslt convicted, though knighted felon, Allan MeNab, to criminate the Am-ncan President, will receive such testi- mony as that of Lord Palmerston, in his vindi- cation. And now, Mr Speaker, with these proofs of Mr Van Buren's vigilance beiore me, I take upon myself to say tnat the charge of the gentleman from New York is without the slightest toundatiou ia truth ; that it is but the sickly ofTjpring of his own fevered imagin- ation. When the proposition to restore the fine to General Jackson came up inl843, General Butler made the most efTective speech delivered on the occasion. It was listened to by both parties in the House of Representatives with breath- less attention. When he ceased, a tu- multuous coii^n gratifications to gratify others, have become habits growing out of his aflec- < tions. His love makes perpetual sun- shine at his home. Among tis neigh- bors, liberality, afiability, and active sympathy mark his social intercourse, and unbending integrity and justice all J| his dealings. His home is one of un-l pretending simplicity. It is too much' the habit in Kentucky, with stern and fierce men, to carry their personal and m political ends with a high hand. GeafI Butler with all the masculine strength, " courage, and reputation, to give success to attempts of this sort, never evinced the slightest disposition to indulge the power ; while his well-known firmness always forbade such attempts on him. His life has been one of peace with all men, except the enemies of bis coun- try. /^o /..i.;^.\ /-^^jiu.'"-