The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-19
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During the Hungarian revolt there
| was an Austrian monster by the name
| of Haynau, who won immortal infamy
by his cruelties. He fiogged innocent
| women, slaughtered defenceless children
! and Unfortunately put to death un
armed citizens. The atrocious deeds
| that marked his brutal career excited
| the scorn and Indignation of the civil
| lized world. The name of Haynau was
| synonymous with ignominy and dis
| honor; but brutal as he was, he still had
| some sensibiliiy left, for he could not
brook the Missing scorn that everywhere
greeted his hated presence, and after
dragging out II few years of miserable
existence, he committed suicide, and
his guilty soul went to the devil.
'Phe late war in the United States pro-
duced another Haynau in the person of
| Beast Butler. The cruelties of this bad
| man are known to the world. His
chief delight was in prosecuting and
| torturing the defenseless. He hung and
cut up men AS cody as the butcher
carves meat for his stall. The most
pitiable appeals to humanity did not
quench the fires of hell that blazed in
his fiendish and savage bosom. He
seemed to think that war meant to tor
ture and to steal, and when he was not
| tormenting the defenseless, he was
robbing the rich of their silver
spoons or something that would
add to his dishonored Golfers. A
coward at heart, he never encoun-
tered danger, and never lost an oppOr-
tunity to steal and Cypress the deteDse-
less. While other Federal officers show
honorable scars as evidence of their
valor, Beast Butler can display the plum
der he has stolen from the defenseless,
as the trophies of his greatness. The
ancients used to quaff beer out of the
battle. The Massachusetts, monster has
no rebel skull from which to drink his
grog, but he has enough stolen goDlets
and spoons, and vases and pianos to en-
rich half of New England. But while
we despise all such rogues as Butler, we
admire the boIdness with which he
plundered. When Lord Give was called
to answer before Parliament for his pecu-
lations in India, he boldly admitted the
charges against him, but the thief ad-
,ded, to the Chairman of the Committee
of Investigation, that when he reflected
upon the opportunities for gain he pos
sessed, ..'By----, sir, l am astonished at
my own moderationW 1t was the can
dor of Give, his boldness, his bravery,
and his Independence, which led
many to defend his conduct. Tried
before the Commons, his case and
his character became so identified, so
interviewer the one with the other,
that the verdict finally rendered was a
thorough mixture of commentator and
censure-of applause for his impudence
and Of complaint for his villainy. Butler
is another Give, and instead of censur-
ing him for his stealings, he thinks the
world ought to commend him for his
moderation, since he stole only Il few
millions when he had opportunities for
robbing the innocent and defenseless of
many millions.
There never yet was a man, however
he might brave it to the world, who,
with bosom loaded with crimes, did
not feel remorse when solitary thought
left him prey to memory and even
Beast Butler cannot stifle the workings
of conscience which will occasionally
steal into his heart as he cOntemplate9
his wickedness. The ghost of poor
Munford will often shrek its curses in
his shrinking ear and the scorpion lash
Of guilty conscience will ultimately
drive him to the fate of Haynau. Such
cowardly villain cannot live while
conscience is holdingup to his affrighted
gaze his many lnlauities. Ine man VINO
boson, ,anSt end bic o davs IL ne s, 10
Such was the fate of Haynau. and
similar doom awaits Beast Butler.
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