The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-14

Washington and back again 70 Boston.
A great hue and cry has been raised at
the South because the spawn OF North
ern cities saw fit TO prostrate themselves
before this new HaynAu, this modern
Verres, returned. from his conquest-this
beast emerging from his cave filed with
dead mems bones. Why this outcry
Wherefore assAil the brute clotted with
gore or the chimpauzees that danced and
chartered at bis coming, and beslobbered
him with praise2 What had this hog
hyena done contrary to his instincts,
that we should so berate him and his
worshippers He had hanged Mumford.
That was true Yankee courage. He had
issued a hsllish order against the ladies
OF New Orleans. That was unaffected
Yankee gallantry. He had put the May
or and hundreds Of others into dungeons.
That was the Yankee conception of the
proper method Of administering the laws
of ''the best Government the world ever
saw" He had bsnished from the city
more than twenty thousand people who
refused TO perjurc themselves by taking
the oath of allegiance 10 the United
States. That was the Yankee idea Of
justice.
He drove these people off without o
change of clothing aud with only fifty
dollars in money. This was the Yankee
idea OF humanity. He confiscated pro-
perty by the millions. This was Yam
keO honesty. He supplied the rebels in
Texas with muHitions Of war and pock-
eted the proceeds of the cotton received
in exchange. This was q smart Yankee
trick. His troops were whipped at Baton
Rouge while he was in New Orleans; he
was never under fire and never smolt
gunpowder, except at Hatteras when the
long-rauge guns of his fleet opened upon
q mud fort which had no ordnance that
could reach him two miles off; aAd on
the strength Of this he issued an address
as pompous as Satan's speech TO The le-
gions in the bottomless pit. This was
making material for Yankee history
After intiicting innumerRble tortures
upon an innocent and unarmed people,
after outraging the sensibilities of ci-
vilized humanity by his brutal treat
ment Of women and children, after
! placing bayonets in the hands Of
slaves, after peculations the most prodi.
gious and lies the most infamous, he re-
turns, reeking with crime, to his own
people, and they receive him with acola-
nations of joy in a manner that BELTS
him and becomes themselves. Nothing
is out OF keeping his whole career aad
its rewards are strictly artistic in con
ception and in execution.
He was thief A sword that he had
stolen from woman--the niece of the
brave Twiggs-wss presented to him as
a reward of valorspHe had violated the
laws of God and man. The Lawmakers
of the United States voted him thanks,
and the preachers of the Yankee gospel
of blood came to him and worshipped
him. He had broken into the safes and
strong boxes of merchants. The New
York Chamber of Commerce gave him a
dinner. He had insulted women. Things
in female attire lavished harlot smiles
upon him. He was a murderer. And .
nation of assassins have deifed him. lie
is the Representative Man of people Lost
TO all shame, to all humanity, all honor
all virtue, all manhood. Cowards by ma
ture, thieves by principle, and assassin
at heart, it would be marvellous indeed
if tho people of the North refused I,
render homage TO BENJAMIN BUTLER-th,
beastlest, boodiest pOllroon and pick
pocket the world ever saw.