The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 19, 1893, Page 2

A FIGURE IN HISTORY. General Butler’s Death Remoyes a Notable Uharacter. HIS LIFE WAS MOST EVENTFUL. The Part He Played inthe Great Nas) tiona) Drama. Washington, D. C., Jan. 11.—The |was at the democratic national con-!T said vention at Charleston in 1860, and | shoot our way, and I have borne this when that body split Butler went | noise and confusion as long as I jwith the wing whieh nominated! choose to. ~ | Breckinridge. ‘Wait a little while general; | When affairs began to look trou-| awhile, they said, sand we | bulous early in 1861 Butler was ac-| out and speak to the people, ‘tive in raising troops for the Massa- He held a} ssion in the state | |forces, and in April Governor An- | chusetts volunteers sperse.” ‘Very well,’ said I, ‘so they do dis. | perse I do not care as to the means Go out and try your hand at it. | brigadier’s comm ‘The cannon is not going to tracted. accused Butler of allowing | himself to be “bottled up.” After the war General Butler re- ed polities elected to con He w nd in by the 1886 was republi- the mostactive of the uted by the house in the impe.chment of In 1887 san independent : With a brick in Pre es Tent Jol to congr le phrased it at prepared tc he e oras his Su Srourn Know THIS FACT. THAT FAIRBANK & Co. | OF ST. LOUIS.MAKE ASQAP cw CLAYRETTE, ~Whiex Has No Eavat. i i i i news of the death of General Benj. drews ordered him to move his | shy it at any- F. Butler came upon the watebing | brigade to Washington. He set out! E S7ANDARD Quatity AWEiGHT And so the mayor made them a/ body he pleased newspaper men of Washington earl this morning with the suddenne of an electric shock. For weeks past their attention had centered at the bedside of James G Blaine, and while watching the strange fluccua- tions of bis mysterious illness no one had foy?a moment anticipated that another leading figure in Amer ican history—almost as notable and even more picturesque—was about to be removed. General Butler retired last night at 11 o'clock and soon after midnight his colored body servant West, who has accompanied him on al! his jour- neys for the last ten or fifteen years and who slept in an adjoining room, heard him coughing violently. He went to the general's bedroom to see if he could be of any assistance, but found that the general had passea on to the bathroom adjoining. Thither West followed and offered his assistance. The general mention- ed that his expectoration had been discolored with blood. He did not appear to think seriously of the mat- ter, however, and after his valet had assisted him to bed he said: “That's all, West. You need not do anything more,” and apparently went to sleep. He had laid on his bed but a few minutes, however, when his heavy breathing again caused alarm. Mr. Lanier Dunn, his nephew, who re sided in the same’ house, started out in search of medical assistance. It was fully fifteen minutes before he * eould secure aid, and when he return- ed with Dr. Luce, the assistant of Dr. Bayne, the family physician, it was seen that the general was al- ready in extrerris. The doctor so informed the two nieces of the gen- eral, Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. Stevens, who were at his bedside, and death almost immediately eusued. The end was apparently painless, and according to the doctor’s certificate was brought about by heart failure, superinduced by an acyte attack of pneumonia. BUTLER’S VARIED CAREER. The name of Benjamin Franklin Butler is not beloved in the south. The terrible gternness. with whic he ruled New Orleans when he was military gornernor of that city in 1862 has never been forgotten. Por- sibly this deep animosity was really pleasing to Ben Butler, for if ever there was a fighter, a man delight- ing in contest,‘it was he. Butler's lifo was a battle from birth to death. This man, so strange a figure in America, was born at Deerfield, N. H., November 5, 1818. His father, John Butler, a captain of dragoons, served under Jacksor in the defense of New Orleans, which city, years later, the son was to conquer and to rule with so despotic a hand. Jobn Butler died in 1819 in the West Indies, whither he had gone with a trading schooner. He left a widow in poverty with two children to support. She, with New England thrift, provided well for them and gave Benjamin, the younger, a good education. In 1828 she removed to Lowell, Mass., that the boy might have better school opportunities: Ben was sent to Waterville college. now Coluy university, where he graduated in 1838. Then he went on a four months’ voyage to Labra- dor in a fishing smack, and return- ; ing to Lowell entered a law office. He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and his pugnacity and grit pushed him into a good practice. opened an office in Boston, formed | a partnership there, and retaining his Lowell office, soon was the pos- seasor of two distinct practices. He was declared to be the peer of any New England lawyer in his adroit-; ness in making devices to outwit and defeat an opponent. Butler dab- bled in politics from boyhood; be- | fore he was 20 he was making stump speeches about Boston. He was a speech from the balcony, but they | ,(on April 17 with the eighth Massa- | chusetts, 900 men, and was placed |jeered him to bis face. Then anoth-! |in comuand of the district about An- jer spoke aud they chaffed him, call-j |napolis. May 13 he entered Balti-| ing him allmanner of abusive names, | lmore with his regiment, marching | aud speechmaking rather increased through a howling mob A few | the uproar. j days later Butler was put in com Then | the mob raised the cry: jmand of the department of eastern} “Where's old Butler? Let him show | | Virginia, with headquarters at Fort | himself; let him come out if he dare.’ | ress Monroe, The ery was echoed around fora jor general. ;moment: ‘Wheres old Butler? Ithought it my privilege to au being appointed ma- ' | It was at Fortress Monroe that} | Butler first acquired fame by apply- |5%¢" that call. I stepped forward} ing the title “contrabands” to refu- | 0? the balcony in full sight with my gee slaves. Escaped negroes were |©*P in my hand and looking on the coming into camp all the while and |¢rowd as immoved as possible said: their late masters were constantly |‘ Who calls me? Iam here. That an- making application for their sur-|8¥¢? brought a hush and just at that reader. The officials at Washington | oment a wonderful noise up St. had not fixed the status of these | Charles street attracted my attention. of the ticket was defeated. list ' refugees, so Butler, after his own fashion, took the matter into his own hands. He declared that the escaped negroes were “‘contrabands of war,” and that he would not give apparent. equipped artillery company, with six Ni been encamped in Tivoli square. The cause of it was in a moment The Sixth Maine, a finely had apoleons, under Thomson, them up to their former owners. And as “contrabands” the war. 1861, and later led against the forts at Hatteras inlet, which expedition was victorious. Then General Massachusetts and was authorized to raise a brigade of troops in New England states. He enlisted 6,000 men. It was decided to. send him with these to co-operate with the naval force operating agaiust New Orleans. How Farragut's fleet of foriy- seven vessels went past Forts Jack son and St. Phillips, and how But ler’s army of 15,000 men was disgorg- ed into New Orleans is ono of the most familiar pieces of war history. It was in Butler's handling of the surrendered city that he acquired the greatest fame and the greatest condemnation of all the years of his eventful life His hanging of the gambler Munford, who tore down the flag over the mint, his issuing of the famous order No. 28, directed against the women of the city, his suppression of newspapers, his high handed style of searching houses, brougbt down on him the severest condemnation north and south. But no man could say that Butler did not rule.New Orleans. himself to be of iron. The city was, in a very bad way when the troops entered; mobs were in control, ever the better classes were deeply enraged and ready for almost any excess. The presence \of the federal troops in the city add- ed daily to the irritation. Every act of Butler aroused deeper anger among the people. Builer landed his forces on May Ist. He made his headquarters at the St. Charles hotel, which was surrounded by great crowds of angry and noisy people. The mayor came there under stress to confer with him. The mob grew all the time He showed troops in the streets which were un- der command of General Williams. In “Butler's Book” the man who had come to tame the town tells thus of his first display of force. It hap- pened while he was still at the ho tel in conference with the mayor. “— Captain DeKay crowded through the mob into the hotel. His uniform was almost torn off him. done with them.’ | | with artillery’.” j sage. negroes were known everywhere all through Butler was relieved of the com- mand at Fortress Monroe in August an expedition Butler returned to noisier and more threatening to the; Touching his cap he said: -General He soon | Williams’ compliments and he bids me say to the general commanding that the mob is getting unruly and asks for orders as to what shall be “ ‘Give my compliments to Gen- eral Williams,’ I replied quietly ‘and tell him to clear the streets at once | force to maintain order during the “The captain left with the mes-|he led an unsuccessful expedition The members of the city government all sprang to their feet, | St. Charles street, down which the battery was coming, was at that time paved with foot square granite block and was in a very uneven con- ditior. Thompson was one of the most daredevil furious riders I ever saw and he was leading his battery down the street as if there was no- body iu it, every horse driven to the fullest speed and the bugles sound-| ing the charge. No one who has} not seen such a charge can imagine the terrible noise and clamor it rakes, the cannoneers clinging to their seats and the wheels of the guns bounding up inches as they thunder over the uneven stones. As Isaid the mob was hushed. They} turned their eyes to the approach- ing avalanche and they sought safety in flight. By the time Captain Thowpson saluted as he went by the whole street was cleared; and when he came ‘into battery’ at the! corner with three guns to clear each street the scene was as quiet as a 1 eluldren’s play ground. | From that hour to the time I left | | New Orleans I never saw occasion because of a mob in the streets of the city.” Then there was “order No. 28,” which so deeply incensed all south-| erners. The women of the city, many of its best ladies, in their de- testation of the northern troops bad done some rash things. They had made it a point to insult officers on the streets at every opportunity, Butler says in his book. Therefore this order was issued: Headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La. May 15,} 1862.—General Order No. 28.—As to move man or horse ' ed States have been subject to re-/ peated insults from the women (call- | ing themselves ladies) of New Or-/| leans in return for the most scrupu-| lous noninterference and courtesy on ; our part, it is ordered that hereaft ri} gesture or movement, insult or show conte:mpt for any officer or soldier of ; the United States, she shall be re-} garded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. By command of Mas. Generar Butver. G.C. Srroxa, A. A. G., Chief of Staff. | Such acts as these were infuriat- ing to the people of the south. Jef-| ferson Davis immediately after this order declared Butler an outlaw and} put a price of $10,000 upon his head. The feeling against Butler even in the north was so great that in con-} sequance of this actand the seizure! cf $800,000 in deposit at the Dutch | consulate he was removed from com-| mand at New Orlears. “He ll given command the next year of the department of Virginia and North} Carohna, his force being designated | as the army of the James In 1864, | after the draft nots in New York, Butler was sent there with a strong election. In the winter of that year | against Fort Fisher, near Wilming-} | ton, N. C., and soon afterward was | democrat. He was elected to the|crying: ‘Don’t, general, don’t give} remoyed from command by General | Massachusetts legislature in 1853, and to the state senate in 1859. He such an order as that.” “ ‘Why this emotion, gentlemen? | Grant, who, in a celebrated dispatch | which he subsequently, in part, re-| the officers and soldiers of the Unit-! when any female shall, by word,j . 7 Ta 1878 and 1879 he was the gu- bernatorial candidate of the inde- pendent party and one wing of the a democratic party in Massachusects but was defeated. In 1882 the dem- ocrats united ou him for the office and he was elected, though the rest | He was 1883 aud was defeat- nated for president. renominated i ed. He was by the greeuback and anti monopo received 133,284 votes. He has since practiced law assiduously and taken little part in politics. He has divided his time between Boston, New York and Washington. parties and \ i Deserying Praise. | We desire to say to our citi-! zens, that for years we have been} selling Dr. King’s New Discovery | for consumption, Dr. King’s New| Life Pills. Bucklen’s Arnica and Electric Bitters, and have never | handled remedies that give such | universal satisfaction. We do not | hesitate to guarantee them every | time, and we stand ready to refund the pucchase price, if satisfactory results do not follow their use. | These remedies have won their great popularity purely on their! merits. H. L. Tucker, druggist. Services were held over the re-! mains of Senator Kenna in the sen- ate chamber... The funeral was at- tended by ali the government of- | ficials at the capital. The Catholic | ritual was observed. The body was| then shipped to West Virginia. General Butler's remains were also | shipped to Massachusetts. | The Handsomest woman In Butler remarked to a friend the other day } that she kuew Kemp’s Balsam for the throat and lungs was a superior remedy, as it stop- ped her cough instantly when other remedies | hal no effect weatever oto prove this and convince you of its. me any draggist will | give you a sample bottle free. 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