Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-06-29

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nll these pinlneN all this silver
wnro. 1itiipunfy ~ inilIuh, nll
this ntrnilurc. MI Those tl0oks, stat
u,liua. cuguyings, china ware, jew
clry for ms mmily, wnichrs lOr NY
self and friends. nro mine. Was ov
cr human sui sold FOR 80 great u
lrIcol
My name tx benjamin i. llnllcr
Mint W not MY namo but II ~ tho
cliihct givcn my tenement of cor
rupti0n by tho friends who bcgnt
mn. nm full of worms, worms
which, in the future, will swarm IN
my rotten carcass, sickcn ana die
70 from the poison ia mo. And each
worm il but tho crawling liyingncss
of tho evils which ill my soul, that
is, IL hrutcs like | have souls. !
have brain greater memory.
remember bacl, to Now Orleans,
To- Fort Fisher. to Big Bethel, to the
Baltimore and Charleston Convcn-
ton, TO my carly life of corruption
aud inlamy, to my partnership with
thieves and swindlcrs--to my boy
hood, which was spent in stealing,
cowardly abuse Of little ehildrcnand
study of mino own nature, that i
might draw inspiration Of wicked
ness from my own sonl-to the hour
ofmy birth, back through the won
q, ,lrous, avenues TO conception, and
- here my individuality begins as
Brute Beast laundering Bag:cyod
Ben. Butler.
, - And from thence ut intervals l
trace my gcncalogy rs follows;
Before God with His hand moved
tho world into form there were spir-
its of evil, souls naturally damned.
Each cyclic Of years made II hell
There were at the time Of my con-
ccplion seventeen thousand hclls, or
vaults of damnation, in which had
been swcpt the damned ones Of the
Z damned. And each of these vaults
was Theoretically sealed cauldron,
hotter than hell itself, in which roll
ing, stcaming, frying, roasting in the
putrid heat and nastincss of coi1up-
ton there slowed and cursed the
Villains Of pcrdition whose sins had
been so great that pen Of mortal or
immortal never had dared attempt
II description of their wickcdness,
lost the hand that wrote be poison
,,-ed with corruption. And as time
rolled on, there gathered in the CEN
ter of heated dome, u single drop
of distilled damnation, too vile to
burn. rsW
And one day there was a conven-
ton of ficpds whcrc tho credentials
.:,yere to. DO thor foulestF thingspvon
fiends could imagine. And by a
ststrange chance each ticnd broughta
single drop of damnation gathered
with spoon from the dome of per.
ditions vaults--they were empticd
into waste vessel and thus my soul
was consolidated. And then to give
,it,life, each fond and villain damned,
there in convention, gave an offer
ing. Each gave part OF himself to
mako me pet of hell. One con
tributcd hate, another envy, anoth-
-er falsehood, another cowardice, an
other treachery, another theft, an
- other ini;lmy, another tyranny, an
Observation-Disclosures, another malice,
another this, another that, till dis
gusted with their offerings, which
filled a pot with slime, they left me
in hiding place till infamy consol-
idated and | took the form of human
child, was christencd Bcnjam j n
Fiend Butler, and here l am, get
D ting ready toreturn to my hume
rous homes, us no one hell could en-
rlure the disgrace, infamy and beast
to1y corruption should take there
70 And to make my name more infa
nous, my birthplace was Massachu-
,setts
',,a. And here am at mans estate, q
living evidence of rascality, corrup
ton, doublc-dealing, trickcry, fraud,
q swindling, cowardico, bank-robbing
spoon-stealing, woman INSULT n g !,
liouse.pluhdering, cncmy-aidi n G +,
! + country -betraying, govern m n t.
sucking, ry-flching, soldier
Killing, prison filing, God forget
Ling, hell deserving; truth-ignoring,
Virtue wrohging, negro loving, law
destroying, church-pilfering, bull
silion- bagging, demonstrating dia
mond- findihg, vcssol-clcaring, crock
i,c1y marking, speech making, town
Sucking, cnemy-helping, powder.
wasting, officer numbering, spite
loving, nation disgracing, friend
. forgotten and all-detcsting thief
is:obber, braggart, plundcrer, bag
eyed bullion Dagger, and the most
.detestcd, detcstablc, corrupt, selfish,
false hearted, pet of pcrdition, in all
;, annals of crime and infamy, past,
present or to come.
3 / ara rich in money, all stolen. /
amfrich in spoons, all stolen. am
! rich in banks, all stolen, but exempt
4 from taxation, as / wish was cx-
,cmps from the pcn-picturcs OF
c<'lBrick" Pomcroy, ofthe La Crosse
Democrat. And j glory IN all my
.,.meanness, as Il gloryin the fact that
all over the land are Christians who
: think | am honcst-as / glory in
representing Massachusetts in the
Ramp CongressH-as | glory in the
fact that L, and such as l, hold mil
:, lions of dollars of United States
bonds, on which no taxes are to be
paid, and on the interest of which
sywrung by labor from poor men and
: women, all such thieves as can
live at case as others support us,
and in no fear Of justice SO long as
baus thieves can make laws. Look on
me, worlds here and elsewhere, for
there was, there never will be, there
never can be another Best Butler