The Placer herald., 1864-04-30
Picture of General Butler.

Orleans, of Gen. Butler:
BEN njamn F. Butler, of Massachusetts,
arraign you to-day at the bar of the civilized
world. You told the people of New Orleans,
upon your arrival there, that none should be
compelled to take the oath of allegiance to
The Federal Government, but that it was a
privilege to be sought after by the citizens
But just as soon as you had them in your
power your required every man and woman
in the city to come forward and take that
oath. Many left, and many stayed and reg.
istered themselves as alien enemies. Then
began by your orders, the most outrageous
promiscuous plunderng that was ever wit
messed on this continent. 1t was, indeed
the saturnalia of thieves. All were robbed
who came under the ban of your dis pleasure
very respectable merchant of that city, a
non-co mbatant, finding that he, like all his
friends and neghbors, would be robbed, sold
bis silver plate, large and valuable set, to a
widow lady to whom he was indebted. This
lady put the plate on board Danish ship,
and took bills of ladng for it, You heard
of it, sent armed soldery, took the ship,
broke open the matches and siezed the plate
Not satisfied with that, you sent this mer.
chant to Ship Island and kept him there for
months at hard labor, until General Banks
released him. You arrested another mer-
chant and demanded his plate-he informed
you he had sent it off. Your reply was,
The plate or Ship Islandr Finding you
could not get the plate, you released him
upon his paying you large amount of mo-
~
facts sworn to and subscribed in my office
and | record them here to show to the civi
lized world how the people of louisiana have
been treated by one of the satraps of Abra
ham Lincoln. Every Sabbath morning the
thieves met at the den of the Beast, and the
steaIings of the past week were divided
out. TO the jackals he gave the spoons and
trinkets, but reserved to himself the lior S
share, the coin, the plate, and the jewels A
large portion of the movable wealth of the
city of New Orleans and lower Louisiana
has been transferred to the pockets of this
bear-eyed, incarnate deviI-a great part of
which he put into foreign exchange and sent
to Europe and now he is by far the richest
man on the continent He can loan money
to the Rothchds and can buy out the
wealthest citizen of New York Cicero has
given the name Of Verras immortal nfamy,
and that of Butler is now known through
out the civilized world as a synonym for
crime cowardice and brutality. When the
Southern student shall in future ages study
the classics, as he reads that beautiful ora
tion of Cicero against Verres, he will invol-
unlary pause, and, for the Scian robber
read Butler, the Beast! 4 ask now, Butler,
the Beast, what hast thou to say in defense
OF thy dark and damning crimes! At the
dead hour of night, upon the false accusa
tion of negro woman, you dragged from a
sick bed an aged man, one of the most re-.
spectacle citizens of New Orleans, and thrust
him in to cold and miserable cell. He
died of your treatment His wife, an amia
ble, well bred and lovely woman, went to
you, and upon her bended knees begged for
her husband. You held loaded pistol to
the face of that weeping woman, and drove
her from your bIoaed presence, with the
most vulgar and obscene oaths. With the
fendsh heart of the hyena, you tore open
the tomb of General Albert Sydney Johnson,
and robbed the grave of that gallant soldier.
You may never feel the halter draw in this
world. You may live to an old age, and
possibly die in bed, with your stolen proper
ty around you. But day will come, the
dies ire' will come when you shall meet face
to face the women you have insulted, and
the men you have robbed and murdered, at
the bar of an avenging God Beware of the
fate of Verres. He died felon's DEATH
Marc Anthony demanded a portion of his
iIhgotten gains; he refused and was slain.-
When led to death he begged for that mercy
he had SO often refused to others. The spir.
its of your murdered victims say, beware! -
The living friends Of the dead say, beware!
The patient search and vigil long will find
you out and drag you from your hiding lace.
Your coat of mail will not save you, for
your hour will come at last
There is in the Vatican at Rome an ex-
traordnary painting by one of the old mas
ters 1t is called the Devil reproving Sin
The great artist has, prophetic pencil, por
trayed the exact features of Benjamin F.
Butler. As statues will no doubt, be erect,
ed to him in all the federal cities, | suggest
that the Holy Father, Plus the Ninth, be ur-
gently solicited to send this painting to New
Orleans, for the present aud all future ages
to behold with horror and disgust"