Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-05-29

author and if Heaven ever expended more and
ergy and pains in framing than another, surely the
last finishing touch given in writing VILLAIN on The
brow of BENJANIN FRANKLIN BUTLER.
We saw him the Cha lesion Convention, 10 MAJ 1850,
and of all that asssmbage of hapers inside and outside
of the Convention thee va, no that could
approach his in ali that hate his He seem
ed to be man only he c)ud tax. His smile was
scowl his greedy and devou!ing his eye Ike SER
pents without its charm; his mounting tie air for
prey his forehead low, skuking and utal Instantly we
thought of the line
"A may gni.e and smile, and be villain still.
But seeing the could not smile our oahing was
pity, to think he blasted in the making
and his villain had DESTROYED his power to smile
When heard that he appointed to to the command
Of the Federal forces in the Cult convinced more
than malgniy and abandonment OF Northern
rule Nothing but the deepest haired for chiValrous PEG
pie nothing but the artul and ingenious cruelty
nothing reckless das artion could have sug
gesed the appointment If sach thing to bear RUE even
for brief day. over gene Gus. his b minded people
And the proving himself in every Wsy worthy Ills
masters. Be has not gone to work with mastery SILL 10
how his victims BY degrees the yoke His magnt has
no graduation his malice knows control At one bound
he has passed lowest deeper than which no low
er les H. proclamation the ladies of New Orleans is
the grandest conception of malicious cruel brutal, aban-
doned wckedness that could have emanated this side the
neither pitt Whose mind but that of this wretch could have
broken through all the wOnted realms of thought and the
catalogue retaiatory punhments and have brought 10
light terrible retrbuton that proposed to be inlet
ed on the vruous and christian OF Southern city
Was it not beyond conception of other devil!
If he had thought of imprisonment Punishment or per-
sona chastsement, death, enormous as either OF
these would be- in proportion to the alleged ofense we
could see some connection between the oense and the pen
atty But none the devil his angels could have con
ceved of the plan to respectable vrtuous woman
perhaps aged mother Common hGrot for 10 other
than expressing bec disgust for conquerng foe =
Is there no flaming thunderbo reserved in the red hand OF
vengeance drive this demon back to the pit below It
cannot be that the God of mercy will ng allow this CT
spring of the Prince Darkness to the earth in hu
shape
If So then we must be content and believe will be for
our good Let him drill drill drill deeper and deeper into
the great heart of this great people The end Will be well
waters which burst forth every turn will grow more
and more bitter day by dsy until branch not the
olive branch of peace restoEe their sweetness
We believe it to be settled in the of God that the
North and the South shall be divided, the from the
other and fore0cr Let the villain drive the iron into
the sou-the deeper the better The separation already
complete will continue till time shall be more Let the
Red Sea the mountains and the wilderness be betwlxt
Us and them and how it be than by the employ
of just such agencies. and despcable though
they be in the eyes men, God in his wisdom has
pshed great objects times gone by by the employment
of frogs and ocusts and es why in this day
may accomplish this work of eternal separation
by meanar thing.
So let US not despond Now is the time for righteous
wrath and vengeance. No mother will now niger detan
her from the field Every sister will grid her brother
on, and bid him haste Every man who respects
virtue and himself will give ls all to finish mighty IN
dertakng How dare longer call ourselves if We
do rise with all the that God has placed in
hands, and crusb adder, the wretches who i'm
agine-not to say avow-their intentions, for any cause
aUhdUe wives and mothers, and daughters,
as harlots, "plyng their avo2afions."
The history of the world does not furnish parallel
camaton and yet the Greeks the Romans the Spaniards
the Brons and the axon performed deeds of daring and
valor defense of their wives and aas which nothing
have done in defense Of dearer rights be
pared.