The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-07-12
FROM the La Crosse Demo crat.
Lead him not into Temntafsn,.

mitted joint resolution to the Senate .
few days since, which was referred to tho
Committee on Military Affairs. autborisino
and directing the Secretary Of the Treasu.
ry to pay to General 1--WE should saw Major
GeneraD Benjamin +. Butler. Otherwise
"the Beast" of the moral militia Of m;.er.
aoie massachusetts,, the sum of sixty .hou.
sand dollars, Sin trust" as President Of the
BOARD OF Managers of the National Asy.
lum for Disabled volunteers.
We eobject! We vote "nay" sixty thou.
sand times. What-trust the most noto-
rlous thief in the United States with
S6V,OoOf Who will 60 security for him?
w no Will make good the threescore thou.
sand dollars if Benjamin Buffers on them.
anu slows them away with the spoons, sill.
yer plate and gold? That is what we want
to know. Benjamin may be honest-we
have heard within few weeks an affirms.
tive answer to the question, "Can an Eth.
orlan change his skin ?" but We must con.
fess to doubt concerning the iuaexible
rectltude of the Haynau of New Orleans.
men We take an observation of that
unprepossessing countenance, those aabby,
hanging cheeks, the muchly cooked eyes.
we tremble tor the safety of those thou
sands OF dollars. We once heard of q man
down East whom q neighbor would not
trust with worthless piece of hoop iron.
not an inch square. DESTROYS of entertain.
Ing charitable opinion of all humanity
even OF the Massachusetts kind-candor
compels US to observe that we wouldn't
trust the heroic expioder Of the powder
boat and originator of the Dutch Gan
Canal With the scales scraped from piece
OF hoop iron.
1t may be constitutional weakness with
Benjamin-he may not be able TO concn.,.
H-Dut honesty is his "poorest holt" The
WORD was not contained in his primer when
ne went to school-his optics were 80 awrv
that he couldn't hear the minister preach
1t when ne visited the ''God save the Com.
monwealth" meeting house-and on his ar.
rival at what should have been wears of
discretion, he was spoiled for a man.
but mighty nice graduate for College
OF pickpockets-the "Artful Dodrer" conId
nave gone to school to him, and learned
aeA'erity and thoroughness In "going
through" house or a victim.
for long time he had no great onnor.
tunity to display his peculiar talents-tben
the war came, and from being despised
and pettifogging lawyer, he bloomed into a
.irs' ciass brigadler general; from thence
70 a major ,generalship. While some brig.
na auiefs stole cotton, others pianoes, some
libraries, others silk dresses, Beniamin
went for spoons and plate. His hearing
became so acute while residing in New
orleans that people went down into sub.
cellars and muffled their dollars in cotton
before counting them, and his gimlet ewes
penetrated the thickest stone or brick walls
ana discovered at glance, just how much
plato "disloyal' family possessed, and
what it would be worth in Lynn, Mssss.
chusetts. You could not humbup him "a
to the quality ofthe plate. He could tell
German s.. -er as easy az he could a "lov.In
man. and could detect counterfeit dollar
from genuine as quickly as sound travels.
his brother attended to the cotton and
sugar departments Of the business, and the
worthy Buffers turned numerous "honest
pennies But when the war terminated.
Benjamin, the surviving partner OF the
nrm, returned home to declare that after
oil his "pickings and stealings," he was
poor n'on-that he had SACRIFICED his for
t.ne to serue his country! A hard posi.
ton, truly.
We feel for Benjamin-all "loyaln peo.
pie will feel tor him-as he would feel for
our spoons and silver things, if there was
only a military necessity or opportunity
Tor HIM to do so. If he is poor, now, It
may be an inducement for him to be hon.
est-if he is honest he will be happy-if
happy, vlrtuous-why, then, tempt the il
lustrious champion "Beast" with chances
to defraud soldiers out of 100000?
Can it be expected that one whose stopy
heart was steeled against the sorrows and
suiferlngs of helpless women in conquer.
ed city, will consider, or care for sick, crip.
pied or worn.out men. If he must have
anything send him package Of tracts
concerning "The Dying Thief"-"Honestv
the Best Policy"-The Reformed and
Conscience-smitten Spoon -Stealer." Give
him benefit of clergy-opportunitiesto to
prepare for eternity. The devil does not
want him, and "the Beast" needs much
moral improvement to prepare him for the
fellowship of the saints. Give Ben. a
chance, and save the Treasury 100000.
A Justice in an Eastern town, better