Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1862-12-30
Butler Declared an Outlaw.

President Davis has issued proclamation de-
claring that the execution of Mumford at New
Orleans was an act Of deliberate murder, in view
OF which, and ether atrocities, he pronounces
Butter felon, deserving capital punishment
He orders that he be treated not as public en-
envy, but an outlaw and an enemy to mankind,
and when captured to be Immediately executed
by hanging. No commissioned officer of the
United States taken captive hereafter shall be
released until Butler has met with the punish
ment due to his crimes All commissioned Off
GERS in Buffers command to be considered
robbers and criminals, deserving death. and
when captured shall be reserved for execution.
In speakiog of Butler, whom President Davis
outlawed, the New York s.Wcrld'' says:
He has disgraced the army, for the army is
honest he has disgraced his Government, tor
his Government is yet great enough to be just
he has dlsgraced his country, for bis name barbs
the scorn of foreign eneaiies and justfes the Sc
verify of foreign friends he has dlshonored the
chief magistrate, by prescribing him to ministers
of the Gospel as the subject OF their compulsory
prayers /; he has dishonored the North by incar-
cerating every mean and sordid Characteristic
which, falsely, Southern passion has ascribed to
Northern phlegm, By surrounding himself with
men whose lll-gotten gains, making dishonesty
and loyalty profitable, cause disloyal honesty to
seem respectable by comparison; he has dis
graced his sex, for not even women have been
exempt from his cruelty, but like men have been
made to suffer traitors for the self-respect Of
their intercourse with him as women; if it is pos
sible he has disgraced himself for the most subser
Went tool of Southern men and oDsequious iau-
der OF Southern institutions has become their
most asslduous enemy, seeking place for the
heel OF power where once he looked to lick the
splttle of serviiity.
The last portion of the above whitening denun-
citation OF Batter has reference to the fact that
he was blatant Breckenridge Democrat in the
last Presidential Canvass.
REBuKE TO LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION THROUGH
THE BALLOT Box See here, Abraham Lincoln,
President OF the United States, your own city
OF Springfield mas pronounced against you by a
popular majority of four hundred-your own
county Of Sangamon has pronounced against you
by q popular majority OF thirteen hundred--your
own State OF Illinois has pronounced against you
by popular majority Of some twenty Thousand.
These are the judgments of your own neighbours
against your administration. These are the
voices of your own neighbours, calling upon you
to withdraw yourself from tne association of Alb
olitioDism, and return to your duty as the con-
stitutional Chief Magistrate Chicago Times.
The Yankees are illustrating their veneration
for the memory and services of Washington, by
battering down the city where many of the days
of his youth were spent, and where the radiance
of an unclouded evening shone Upon the last
years OF her who gave him to his country. This
is the return which Virginia receives for furnish
ing the peerless soldier who delivered Boston,
who struggled around New Y ork and Philadel-
phia, and rendered the plains of Monmouth and
the precincts of Trenton immortal. Yankee bar
barity lays sacri egious hands upon the home of
the venerable matron who gave birth to the Fa-
Their of his country, and does not spare her
grave
Hereafter the historian of this war will emu
merate amongst other barbarties of the North
men, the modern Cloths and Vandals, that they
shelled city containing women and children,
and spared not the home that ssshetered the
youth OF Washington" as Bancroft expresses it..
Are these men entitled to be regarded as the
countrymen of Washington Lynch Vrginian