The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-05-16
- tFrcm the La Crosse DemoOrst,l
sOIIIOquyf Of Ben. Butler.

dictionary ofinitials, all this furniture,
all these clocks, statuettes, engravings,
China ware. jewelry for my family,
watches for myself and friends, are
mine Was ever human soul sold for
so great a prico2
My name IS Benjamin +. Butler.
That is not my name but it is the epi.
thet given my tenement of corruption
by the fends who begat me- / am
full of worms, worms which in the fu-
ture will swarm in my rotten carcass,
sicken and die from the poison in me.
And each worm is but the crawling
livingness of the evils which fill my
soul, that is, if brutes like l have souls.
have a great brain-a greater mem
ory.- ........ ... .-........ .
/ remember back to New Orleans, to
Fort Fisher, TO Big Bethel, to the Bal
timore and Charleston Convention, to
my ear ly life ofcoruption and infamy,
to my partnership with thieves and
swindlers--to my boyhood which was
spent in stealing, lying, cowardly abuse
OF little childten and study Of minc
own nature that Imigbt draw inspir-
alton of wicl1edness from my own soul
to the wondrous avenues TO concep-
tion, and here my individuality begins
as Brute Beast Blundering Bag-eyed
Ben Butler. ar 20 Hi..HE
And from thence as integrals l trace
my genealogy, as follows: .r ..L
Before God with His hand moved
the world into form there were spirits
of evil, souls naturally damned. Each
cycle of years made a hell, There
were at the time of my conception
seventeen thousand hells, or vaults of
damned ones of the damned. And
each of these vaults was hermetically
sealed eauldron, hotter than hell itself,
in which rolling, steamiDg, frying,
roasting in thelputrid heat and nasti-
ness of corruption there stewed and.
cursed the villains Of perdition whose
sins had been so great that pen of
mortal or immortal never dared at
tempt description oftheir wicked
ness, lest the. band who wrote bepois,
oned with corruptien And as time
rolled on, there gathered in the center
of q heated dome, a single drop ot dis
titled damdation, TO vile to burn. .f
And one day there was convention
of ffcnds where tho credentials were to
bo the fouIest thing even fionds could
Rnagne And by strange chance each
fcnd brought single drop Of damna-
tion gathered with a spoon from the
dome of perdltionfs vault--they were
emptied into n waste vessel and thus
my soul was consolidated. And then
to give it life, each fiend and villain
damned, there in convention, gave an
offering. Each gave n part of himself
to make me a pet in hell. One contrl-
buted hate; another, envy; another,
falsehood; another, eowardlce; another,
treachery; another, theft; another, in
fanny; another, tyranny; another, licen,
tiousness another, malice; another, this
and another that, till disgusted with
their offerings which filled pot with
slime, they loft me in a hiding place till
infamy consolidated and took the
form ola human child, was chpistened
Benjamin Fiend Butler and here ! am
getting ready to return to my numer7
GUS home, as no one in hell could en-
tdure the Disgrace, infamy and beastly
corruption l should take there. And
to make my name more infamous my
birthplace was Massachusetts ~
And here am ut mans estate n
! living evidence ofrascality, corruption
double dealing, triqkcry, fraud. SWIM
ding, eoYardice, bank robbing, spoon
stealing, women insulting, house plum
dering, enemy aiding, country betray-
ing, government sucking, treasury
| flchlng soldtcr-killing, prson-tllling
God-forgetting, he'll deserving, truth
ignoring, virtue-wronging, negro-lov-
ing, vice oarressing, man deceiving,
law destroying, church pilfering, bull
! lion -bagging, cotton, stealing, diamond
finding vessel clearing, crockery mark
\ ing, speech making, town saclSing,
oncmy helping, powder wasting,
officer murdermgs spite loving, nation
dlsgracing, friend forgotten, and, all
detestlng thieS robberr rbraggart, plum.
der, bag eyed bullion Dagger, and the
most detested, detestable, corrupt
selfish, false hearted, pet of perdition
IN all annals oferime and infamy, past
! present or TO come. .5 s,,,,'.,.,t
| am rich, IN money, all stolen,
am rich in spoons, all stolen, / an
rich in Banks, all stolen, but exempt
from taxation, as I wish I was exempt
from the pen pictures, Of ,'Brlck" Pom
eroy, of theLa Crosse DENooRAT, /. And
glory IN all my ,neanness, as glory
in the fact that all over the land arc
Christians who think am honest--as
II'glory in,represehting Massachusetts
in arump GongressS1as [ glory in The
fact that I, and such as 1, hold millions
of dollars of United States Bonds, on
which no taxes are to be paid, and or
the interest (which, wrung by labol
from poor nien and women, all sueI
~ = 80, n - Is.st 49, Al. I ~ VI.