Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-12
A NOD PALADIy.

A MODsRS PALADIN.
There is not an unhung villain in the
world, who is not a gentleman, 3
Paladin, a Bayard, Du Guesclin, Sir
Philip Sidney, compared with that most
anregenerate scoundrel, Benz amin F..
Butler.
If the Radical faction were capable Of
the feeling OF scorn, contempt and dis
gust for one Iosthsone with the Ieprosy
Of apostacy and the utter absence of
every thing that makes human nature
respectable, it would never have selected
for 8 leader the man who was the writer
OF half dozen Democratic State-rights
platforms, who voted fifty times for
Breckenridge, at Baltimore, and encOur-
aged the South to secede, with assuran-
ees Of aid and comfort from the North.
The National Latelligencer terms But
Ter an unscrupulous expert, who is ca
pable Of the worst perversiOn, and who
cannot be abashed by any exposure, how
ever damaging" and adds;
His allegations were frequently dis
proved during the impeachment trial,
while his barefaced endeavors to misrep-
resent the evidence excited general in
dignation on the part of Rll unprejudiced
minds. We believe, eandidiy, that his
shameless effrontery, wilful disregard of
truth, and abuse of the propriety of the
body, did as much as anything else to
offend, and even disgust Senators like
Mr.. Fessenden, who saw in the case no.
thing but the unworthy tricks and reck-
less lodges" of vular attorney, whose
proper sphere was before police court.
There is abundant reason to dispute
the statements ia Buffers so-called re-
port Of testimony, upon which the i'm
prisOnmeDt Of the witness WOOlley was
ordered. It will be remembered that
when Mr.. Nelson brought the Alta Vela
speculation to the notice of the Senate,
Butler, after several days of preparation,
asked leave to make q statement in re-
Div, in which he said emphsticslly
% This" (the recommendation which he
and the three other managers signed)
d" believe to have been in the early
part of February !, certainly before the
act was committed by Andrew Johnson
which brought on this impeachment"
He was seconded by Logan, one of the
parties concerned, who stated: THE
counsel for the respondent is mistaken
about this letter having been signed after
the impeachment com menced by either
Gen. Butler or myself know well
when I signed it. 1 signed the |
letter long before there was anything |
thought OF npeaehment."
These positive, direct, and unqualified |
contradictions Of a fact which had only |
taken place a short time before, were |
met by Mr.. Nelson in the most effectual |
way. He produced before the court the |
original paper, signed by Butler, Bing- |
ham, Logan and Stevens, bearing date |
the ninth Of March, aud after the Presi- |
dent had been summoned for trial |
Their own signatures established the |
falsity of their own statements, and thus |
i'm pressed everybody with the belief
that fraud and fslsehOOd were the chief |
props Of impeachment.
II S member of Parliament were con- |
victed of such infamies as those Of which |
Butler is proud and which his satellites
admire, be would not be admitted into
Club in the Kingdom, or be heard to
speak 10 theHouse ofCommons, or allowed
to sine st a gentleman's table. In that
country it still continues to be disgrace
fol TO lie, and Qutrk, Cannon and Snap
are not the prototypes of Statesmen.
Also there is honour, as of old, among
FrenchmeD, and a French Butler,
making so disgraceful an exhibition of
himself as the New England Butler did
in the Impeachment trial, would be in
suited by every man that he met, as one
unfit for the society Of gentlemen, That
he is not tolerated, but honoured, in
the Congress Of the United States, is the
shame Of the country. Some Of our &C.
temporsries call him RObespierre Butler.
That is an insult to the memory of
who, though originally q
small and dull attorney of Arras, was
decorous, and not menda-
clous, and did not practice the mean
tricks of the attorney in the National
Convention. Butler far more resembles
in bis brutality the butcher Legendre.