The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-18
Butler the Beast


Is still upon his grand tour through the
strongholds of Western Radicalism. and
if the huge and blatant brass bands
which everywhere welcome the copper
hero do not greet him with the aRogue's
March," they fail to render. him tribute
which he most richly merits for his mum.
berless larcenies. 1t is a somewhat anu.
sing illustration of the matchless impu.
dence of this reprobate and charlatan,
that although the strong walls and
gloomy, frowning portals of every State
prison which he passes must remind him
of the punishment which he merits, that
he should make the trial and impeach-
ment of the President the text of every
harangue he delivers And for this work
he is paid two hundred and fifty dollars
day by the Radical party.
The sad and humiliating fact is already
attracting attention at home and abroad,
that while this brazen Beast is now wor-
shipped by moral and religious Massa-
chusetts, and hailed as future President
of the Republic by thousands of frantic
fanatics in the Western States, none of
his admirers pretend to defend, excuse or
deny those hideous and loathsome I'M
moralities which have made the God
fearing people Of every country of Chris
tendon shun Butler as if he was leper
whose touch was pollution and death.
They know that he has been stamped as
q coward, hunlbug and pretender by'Gen.
Grant in an official report, and "that the
public and press everywhere brand himas
u common thief and swindler," and yet
his electioneering journey from Massa-
chusetts to the distant territories of the
West has been prolonged ovation, mod
est girls, sedate matrons and tough old
maids uniting with sanctimonious clergy
men and respectable business men OF all
classes to award him honors which they
would have begrudged Grant and Farra.
gut. The people of no civilized nation
have ever presented spectacle so humil-
iating and disgraceful as that of q people
PROSTATE at the feet of notorious church
robber, hummer and despoiler of widows
and orphans.
AS he was disgrace to the Federal ar
my, and as he notoriously enriched him-
self by pillage and robbery and aposta-
tized from the support of Mr.. Jefferson
Davis for the Presidency to rob in the
rear of the Yankee armies; and as, be-
sides doing these things, he has done abb
solutely nothing to make him notorious,
we are forced to infer that his villanies
have made him the idol of his section.
He is adored because he accumulated a
fortune of two millions by secretly ira
ding with the Confederate authorities,
and by pillage and confscation. He is
worthy of the Presidency because he in
suited Southern women, carried off the
silver candelabra of the Jesuit Church in
New Orleans, and "opened the tomb OF
Albert Sydney Johnston and tossed about
his remains in search OF concealed plate"
He is the great representative man Of q
virtuous and refined Boston, because he
drove helpless lady from the most cost
ly and spacious residence on St. Charles
street, in New Orleans, con6scated her
plate, bed linen, furniture, glass, china,
paintings and library, and permitted the
poor lady whom he expelled to take with
her nothing but the apparel upon her
person. 1t is because he turned the splen-
did mansion in question into a drunken
brothel, whose nightly orgies made it the
nuisance of the neighborhood," that Mas
sachusetts deems him worthy Of the Pres
idential Observation-Disclosures Times. -