General Butler is stumping the States to induce the people
to -declare war on Great Britain. With his usual cynical contempt for right, he declares in a speech delivered at Boston on the 23rd inst. that England had founded the Dominion to cripple the United States. He recommended non-intercourse and a suspen- sion of the export of breadstuffs, but would accept Jamaica, Nassau, and Bermuda as compensation for the escape of the Alabama! He thought Canada a great temptation to the Union, as its conquest would end the fishery question, but would offer a compromise as an ultimatum, namely, that England, under menace of war, should allow a plebiscitum to be taken in the Canadian Provinces, and that such provinces as voted for annexation should be taken over in full satisfaction of all claims. It is said that General Butler will succeed Mr. Fish as Secretary -of State, and we rather hope he will. A despatch threatening war would be far more endurable than all this insolent bullying.
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