The Wheeling Daily Register

General Butler and the Courier-Journal.

LOUISVILLE, November 13.—The Courier Journal publishes to-morrow a private letter from General Butler, in which he says: That we are politically opposed, I think, must arise from the different light in which we see the same thing. The South has no firmer friend than I am and ever have been. It is a part of my country, and, although I may misjudge as to the best way to preserve the South from the consequences of what I must regard as a great crime and a still worse blunder, yet I would do anything I could which would tend to the prosperity, quiet and regeneration of the South as a part of my country. I have no hatred toward the South or Southern men, as such, if I know my own heart, but I am opposed only to those who still war upon the best interests of the country, as I understand them, and that opposition, from the very necessity of my nature, will be stern and unyielding. I assure you in person that I can be as ardent a friend in peace as I was a determined and unrelenting foe in war.

The Courier-Journal says of this: As a partisan, we have untiringly fired the heaviest guns in our battery at General Butler. When he soars higher and demonstrates that his will is equal to his capacity for good, our guns shall all be spiked or turned upon those who may assail his acts in our behalf.