Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-05-25
Gen. Butler, Of Massachusetts,.

Some Of the Southern papers of tho intense
fre-eating school are very indignant at Gen.
BurLER, Of Massachusetts,, who 10 now 60 promi.
uently 10 command, and 20 active and efficient
In the military service Of the United States.
Gen. B0TExRw delegate from Massachu-
sstts in the Democratic Charleston Baltimore
Convention. and sympathi.sd strongly with the
South. At Baltimore he seeded with CALrB
CusHISo, and joined the Cotton-state. Yancey
Convention in the Maryland Institute, and
Sided 10 the nomination Of BREcKINRpGE. He
was incorporating and malignant against
DOUGLAS and Popular Sovereignty, and from his
ready acqulsscenee In all the demands Of the
most ultra Southern men, on that occasion, il
was the belief Of yAscET 4 Co. that they could
rely upon BvrIrR all the time. Bot the reduc.
ton Of Fort suMfri was the signal for Gen. Bur.
Lea to grid on bis sword In defence of the Flag
ofths Union, and his brigade was among the
nfst to depart TO the sueeor Of the National
Capital. , tI - y aD9 g., IS q
His patriotic and loyal course has excited the
Southern rebels very mich. and In their wrath
they have given through their presses several
ridiculous Biographies OF thil prominent citizen
and intrepid military. leader, We append a
couple Of specimens; -iusm a s3fefi. 4. .
BENJAMIN = Butler 10 the son Of negro barber, who
early in the century, did business on Poydras street. in
New Orleans. The son ~ early manhood, enignted to
liberia, whsrea indispcscn for labor and talent
turned h attention to the Bar 70 prepare for which he
repaired 70 h.s.ehnsetts Having mastered his profess
slon ns acauirsd s0r solsg,eal studies and
leading him 70 Neu York, uhse he attracted the notice
OF Mr Jacob Barker then In the zenith Of his fame as
hnaneisr and who discovering the peculiar abilities, In
that dreoon, Of The young mulato, sent him TO North
New YORK TO manage banking Institution. There
he divided his time between the counting house and the
court room ne payer nssiing and the prn.ing once
con At Albany. and entered into acive correspondence
with Prince John, Jes,e Hoyt and others correspond.
enes WHEN va sae.eqnenn tne,sns rortny Of publ
Presidency, bis color and his com
plcity In notorious swindng transactions appointed TO
the position Of Attorney eenel AT the olose Of his
term of once, he resumed his legal practice In Masa
ehusetis, tooka esmmand, and distinguished himself BY
couardce In the Mexican var and had active part in
support Of the Buffalo Abolition Platform Of 1873 The
regiment he led from Massachusetts, 10 Maryland, In
April vss with the exception Of two or three dTummes
e0npossd exclusiyely Of negross.--G o. Picaysas.
Butler was the son Of scythsmaksr- probably the
inventor Of the 'cod Iron and no steer scythes now
com monty In usc since the high arin1 have excluded
the honestly English article from the market. For
time, he scrved barkeeper ct Kinderhook Landing.
He afterwards studied law under Martin Van Buren,
9 a. Pupn for such precep.or Upon coming to the
Bar, hnding his prospects du ne entered the service Of
yasob Barrier. noted nnaneie Of New York, who was
Let now take up D. Dnilsr as he looms In these
Black Republican and secession times. Alter having
tried bakeepng, law and politics he has gone into the
military line and Il General Of militia ffon Massachu-
sst. Like Napoleon. afer each BATTLE he has out
bulletin from hend-qurrers the main f. ture Of which
ydee that Of his solderB had been
poisoned with strychnine, and warning the Marylande,
n that mode Of warfare q carried o. that he 'can put
agsht into evsy househoId srmed with this terrible
!esponf OF, IN other words. that he viii advise the
slaves to poison their mastefy. tulf
In one Of his Letters 70 Hoyt hs writes that people
consder ne full bad Jacob Barker which, IL these
days, u cosfdered pretty severe species OF nvectve
and reproach." Ths Wr,er OF this considers hin raher
than Barker, who was only hnancsr Of the Nick
Dibble pattern and vss asfAr removed from posoner
n Butler d from an honest man.
Another old habit Of Butler appears in his buetin-
that fpryrg; and he lets o the following ejaeuAtion
10 refereDee 70 the mayiande Father, foraive themi
Tor hey know not what thsy dol" Upon the whole,
Ing Gen Buffers entire lie in revieF, there cannot be
lound more exact specimen Of the svindler. dema-
yogns, hypocrits and barbarian - hiohmond Ec0mtner
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