The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-05-08
Soliloquy Of Ben. Butler.

| Soliloquy of Ben. Butler.
And this in my home! And all this
ease and luxury is mine all stolen from
honestpeople. All these spoons, all these
paintings, all this silver ware, dictionary
of initials, all this furniture, 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 price?
My name is Benjamin F. Butler. That
is not my name, but it is the epithet
given my tenement of corruption by the
tends who begat me- l am full of worms,
worms which, in the future, 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
ELL my soul, that is if brutes like I have
souls. l have brain, greater memory
remember back to New Orleans, to IT.
Fisher, to Big Bethel, to the Baltimore &
Charleston Convention, to my early life Of
corruption and infamy, to my partnership
with thieves and swindlers-to my boy
hood, which was spent in stealing, lying,
cowardly abuse Of little children and study
Of mine own nature, that I might draw
inspiration Of wickedness from my own
soul-to the hour of my birth, back
through the wondrous avenues to conccp-
ton, and here my individuality begins as
Brute Beast Blundering Bageyed Ben.
Butler.
And from thence at intervals trace my
gencalogy as follows:
Before God with His hand moved the
world into form there were spirits Of evil,
souls naturally damned. Each cycle of
years made hell. There were at the time
Of my conception seventeen thousand bells,
or vaults Of damnation, in which had been
swept the damned ones of the damned. And
each vault was Theoretically sealed caul-
dron, hotter than hell itself, in which
rolling, frying, roasting in the putrid heat
and nastinessof corruption there stewed
and cursed the villains of perdition whose
sins hand been so great that pen of mortal
or immortal never had dared attempt a
description Of their wickedness, lest the
hand that wrote be poisoned with corrup-
ton. And as time rolled on, there gather
ed in the center of heated dome, single
drop Of distilled dawnation, too vile to
burn.
And one day there was a convention Of
fends where the credentials were to be
the foulest thing even fends could ina
CINE. And by a strange chance each
tiend brought single drop Of damnation
gathered with spoon from the dome of
perdition's vaults-they were emptied IL
to waste vessel and thus my soul was
consolidated. And then to give it life,
each fend and villain damned. there in
convention, gave an offering Each gave
a part Of himself to make me pet of hell.
One contributed hate; one envy another
falsehood; another cowardice another
treachery; another, theft; another, in1a-
my; another; tyranny another, licentious-
ness; another, malice another, this an
other that, till disguised with their offer
ings, which. filed pot with slime, they
left me in hiding place till infamy con-
solidatcd and | took the form of human
child, was christened Benjamin Fiend
Butler, and her am, getting ready to re-
turn to my numerous homes, as no one
hell could endure the disgrace, infamy and
beastly corruption I should take there.
And to make my name more infamous,
my birthplace was Massachusetts o..
And here I am at mans estate, liy-
ing evidence of rascality, corruption, dou-
BILE dealing, trickery, fraud, swindling,
cowardice, bank-robbing, spoon-stealingr
woman insulting, house-plundering, enc
my-aiding, country betraying, government
sucking, treasury -ilching, soldier-killing,
prison filling, God-forgetting, helldeserv-
ing, truth-ignoring, virtue-wronging, ne
gro-loveing, law-destroyipg, church pilfer-
ing, bagging, stealing, diamond
finding, vessel-clearing, crockery-marking,
speech making, town-sacking, enemylhelp-
ing, powder wasting, oficer-murdering,
spite-loving, ation-disgracing, friend-for-
gotten and all-detesting thief, robber, brag-
CART, plunderer, bag-eyed bullion Dagger,
and the most detested, detestable, corrupt.
selfish, false hearted, pet perdition in all
annals of crime and infamy, past, present
or to come.
/ am rich in money, all stolen. l am
rich in spoons, all stolen. [ am rich in
banks; all stolen, but exempt from taxa
ton, as l wish | was exempt from the pen
pictures of ''Brick' Pomeroy, of the La
Crosse Democrat. And glory in all my
meanness, as l glory in the fact that all
over the land are Christians who think /
am honest-asI glory in representing
Massachusetts, in the Rump Congress AS
[ hold millions of dollars Of United States
bonds, on which no taxes are to be paid,
and on the interest Of which, wrung by
labor from the poor men and women, all
such thieves as | can live at ease as others
support rs, and in no fear Of justice so
long as us thies es can make laws. Look
on me, worlds here and elsewhere, for
there was, there never will be, there aey-
er can be another, Beast Butler!
| am a good thing in my place, and
hell is the place for me.-La Crosse DEM
ocrQt.
THE CHOLERA. circular has beea
issued by the surgeon general of the
United States army, calling the attention
Of the medical staff to apprehendsd ap-
proach OF the cholera, ordering increased
watchfulness and care, and enjoining
cleanliness, Temperance and every ny
gisnic precausion. In several cities we
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