Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-31
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Two MOnum Rts In the Louisville
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OtMtbrFys
LOUISVILLE, July 20.
noticed but few monuments in the
grounds bearing the names known to
the country. One monument, however,
attracted me, bearing a name which had
q dozen years ago a wide and painful
notoriety 1t is q structure Of some
what bizarre appearance. The body of
it is composed of small, rough blocks of
marble, relieved by what is meant to
represent aquatic plants, q snakes, or
It may be 40 cells head, projecting be-
tween two of the ragged stones. From
the top of this rises hower-wreathed
cross, six or seven feet in height. A
plain tablet on one side of the blocks
bears the inscription, "To my Husband. ="
On the opposite side 10 the following:
MATTHEW F Ward, died 10 Arkansas,
Sept 80, 1862, in his 37th year" This
Scriptual except closes the Inscription
I'm the world to come is life eternal"
This Mat f. Ward 10 the person who
killed Professor Butler in the school be
was teaching in this city, and in pres
ence of his scholars, on Nov. 2, 1883.
The horror occasioued BY the evsnt, the
deep popular interest il excited, and the
trial especially ranking with the eeLebres
causes of the country, will keep it fres b
in the memory of muititudes, as though
occurring yesterday At the North,
ninety.uiue ont of a hundred regarded
the act as murder, and nothing short OF
it. But wealth, social position, the in.
Auence Of section and caste manufac.
tured sympathy, With the aid of such
eminens counsel as Gov. Helm, j. J.
Crittenden and Tom MarshalI-uot vel
become the wretched wreck which strong
drink afterwards made him--united to
get the felon free. He left Louisville, OF
rather never after the trial came back to
1t to brave the indignant sentiment be
had aroused. He settled on bis plania-
ton in Arkansas, and there, before the
door OF his dwelling, was shot down by
patty OF rebel soldiers, who, from bis
dress, were supposed to have mistaken
him for an enemy.
This is what the papers would cal
"poetieal justice" though why this
rather than Straightforward, prosaiC
justice, is not so easy TO explain.
will call it the latter, or, rather, which
is the same thing, an instance Of that
retribution with which the Omniscienl
often stamps the fallibility of human
judgments, and visits with signal over.
throw offenders who have long exulted
in impunity
Not many rods from the Ward monu.
ment stands simple, unadorned mar
Hia ahaf 81 whtnb bas n h1,A % - s.eo...s
even greater than that belonging to the
one just noticed. 1t bears inscriptions
on its four sides or faces, which / feel
strongly impeIled to copy, AID which
here transcribe, thinking that others
may feel a kindred interest to that
which felt in first reading them, On
one side is this: William FL. G. But
Ter, born in Jefferson County, Indiana,
Oct 3, 1925; died at Louisville, Nov. 2,
1853 On the second side are these
words: he fell by the hand of Vio-
lenee, in the presence of his loving pu-
pills, a martyr to his fidelity in the dis
charge of his duties" The third facade
bears the following inscription, which, |
am assured, has nothing in it of strained
or exaggerated euIogy: "a man with
out fear and without reproach, of gentle
and retiring disposition; of clear and
vigorous mind; an accomplished schol
ar; devoted and successful teacher;
meek and humble Christian" And
on the remaining side are craven these
significant words: "This monument is
erected by his pupils, and bereaved
community, to show their appreciation
of his worth, and to perpetuate their
horror of his murder
Thus the very marble over the grave
of the victim of lawless violence ntters
to the coming times the horror of all
right thinking minds at deed of blood
whose character is ftly described in the
name given to il. 1t is an impressive
lesson which IS
1.-THE living men who view the ground
Where they must shortly lie.
will be more likely to heed and profit by
than most of those that STORED urn" or
mate marble teaches
1t was our privilege, as it is source
of pleasant Renaissance, 10 De for
nearly three years g college mate, and