Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-01-18
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that he Is. simply, dead:
Like some heap OF otfai hung iro'H ou'
v,.,nduw in the nISht-.n odorous "arn-
;op 10 the feet and nost,iis of peues'r'A''a
ot td,w,-thIs creature, named a Oeiera!
h, ,,,yrr. and caiicJ the beast oF hps /
49,, ,,A,utv to DC wholly just, lies worse ,
th:Iu dead. -,
lad. even a Butler might be entitled
.. hur.,u charity But that rule OF ialT
pl,,y. which forulis TO strike a inAn WHO
:. down, docs not apply 10 buiiier living
= far beneath the nou.e hale That ceases
:, m. s.uulchre, ami vaniShes IN the
.h,J,,y Of MISFORTUNE, is tue sentiment
,,h,cb every honorable citizen iceiS lor
.bis embodied disgrace TO American ihah-
b,,i that II contains - nor pitS, hoE
cnurty, nor the scmUl.,nce OF coIi'iiera-
,;,,, Hereafter, please Heaven, 1t Is not
a., armed and petted deSpUt with whom
,,. scurn and uctestatIrn of ihe country
has 10 deal! s,uIne one spot surely eAisls
in the coarse, hycna nature "hlch has 50
l,,,, h..n suffered 10 iatIcu III the celic-
,,r, of a uatIons hopes, that, sh"rn o'
military arnor, must be sensitive ~ kicks
Ill
Nr;,h on,. herculamran hoist vi his oIilCia!
,.,ot either Mr. Lincoln or Secretary
Stanton has sent poor Butler c:.reerias on
.. vv,y from Fortress MuurOc 10 Lowell,
-Lere TO receive, 1t is deNou edly to be
hpre,!. a salute from tine coiivrlNe cow
hides of all who rejoice IN Inc diSP1ns''-
lion Of poetic,l justice.
,a.,I tha riddle Ot his
sondrous fail 80 faithful seTvItor, So
patirnt a disciple, 50 advanced an apostle
OF t. ose crceds and policies winch his
masters adopted and best loved, had never
been known before From there this
,YjIpn lesson that something worse than
thrift may fellow t..wuing Is hard, indeed,
20 bear
We're there no more bales of human
lives whercwith To heap the waste-stach
OF death that this Demon of the Pitch
fork had already piled 80 hight
We're there no more women to he pro-
claimed harlots, no more rebels III en-
brvu to be starved into loyalty? Wa
there dearth of manhood to be outraged
common ior"r 10 be squlntcd AT?
Had the dcrrs of northern cities cease'
10 breed plo:ings ct revolution, that tn
fee! faw ium.' OF a Biue-Bear
seemed go longer to fright the souia
fea fu! electors!
Had groenbacks fallen 40 low, ha
gold bccome go high. that B,itlcr and til
Treasury Department ceased to agree 4
10 the especIiye shares in each?
All, yes. and alb, no. Lives, aimo
spilled-tur noiling Women there ar
hundreds Of them in the South am! Norti
whom military tyranny can insult, II
chooses-for nothing. Manhood there
10 be dishon,red 10y fou! wrong and rers
cution-fr nothing. Plots. hideous plo;
for the drihrUnement of Mr. Lincoln III
his merry men, are thick as ever all ov
the North and IA for grcenbacks, 4
plates at Washington are not yet wo
out, and The Printers-llcaven save t
malk- grind out their wages with WI
ing sinews.
Orilv it is time that some one else sh
do the miitary-agcncy business OF I
administration, and take the money
bundcrs and the rogucTics OF one IN
seem not half so great when made
Two, or three 1t is meet tlat the =
wants OF Belial shall not be retained
long.
WHO WAS GENERAL. BUTLEEs FATHER
QUESTION FOR ANrIQUARIANS
To Tie Editor Of tie World.
Can Won inform the under.i gned
what year it was that John Bntler,
father of General Benjamin r. But
vas hung by the SpaniardS as pirate
the Island of Cuba E? Some say 1t
in 1916, but according to my rccoilec
Of the record as published in the J
Hampshire Patriot and Boston papers,
was i'll the year 1919.
JUNIUs
NoTE-Perhaps the officers OF
college which conferred the degree
LID upon Butler would like to inv'
gate this subject