The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-08-12

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except at one time when he rode out
with an escort to look at that costly
monument of his folly known o.
dutch Gap"
The entire history of Ben Butler
exhibits wonderful innocence OF any.
thing like instinct or correct principle
His natural deficiencies in that respect
have not been improved by his long
and intimate association with the
worst and most adroit of scoundrels
who frequent the perlieus OF the Grim
inal courts. He seems rather to have
moulded his character upon those sur
roundings, and in his administration
of public affairs combined the charac-
teristics of the dishonest policeman
and petty pickpocket. Backed by the
strong arm of tho military power of
tho Republic, with which he was un-
fortunately intrnsted, he has pa ostitu-
ted it to the vilest of purposes, seiz-
ing his vic:im by the throat, by means
OF that power with one hand, he has
rided their pockets with the other, un-
til gorged with ill-gotten millions he
now lays claim to respectfully.
His moral obiiquity is greater than
his physical, and his soul seems to
have been cast i'll the same mould with
his hideous coun.enance. Backed by
an army, his courage knew no bounds
when attacking defenccless men, wo-
men or children, TO seize their private
wealth. He was plunderer disguis-
cd in the national uniform and in
place Of q sword he should have been
armed with cotton hook or the i'm
plements of a burglar.
After voting at the Charleston Con-
yention fifty-seven times for JEFF
Davis for President of tho United
..tates. he turns around and aban-
dons his candidate with as little
remorse as he would client he had
flecced, or q woman whom he had rob-
bed, and, like DR.. Johnson's sconn-
drel, seeks refuge in patriotism for the
purpose of robbing his old allies
jeff, however, has had as little reason
to complain OF his military prowess as
of his political friendship. The illu-
sorry prospect in 1860 of scat in Jeff's 5
cabinet soon gave way TO the more
congenial and fascinating employment
of robbing JefTs friends of their
wealth.
1t is not strange tlat person who
has been personally so greatly bene-
fitted by the turmoil and troubles OF
the last five years should be opposed
to seeing the country restored to it's
wonted peace, prosperity, aud happi-
ness. And it is not strange that Ben
Butler, when he contemplates his
horde of ill-gotten wealth within so
brief O period, should publicly advo-
cate continuance of those disorders
and talk about people of eleven States
as "me,e camps OF paroled prisoners
without political rights" subject to be
tyranizcd over and robbed by him and
his kind for an indefinite period.
What does he care about blood and
wounds, widowed women, orphaned
children, desolatc hearths, new-made
graves, n bankrupt treasury, or des-
olated country If he is to escape all
those evils and luxuriously enjoy the
shares of the lion, the jackal and the
hyena combined at his safe and pala-
tial retreat at Lowell, Massachusetts?
AS a soldier the fighting Generals
despised him, and Grant wrote his ca
reer in the one word "EorrLEp.
Butler has never been accused of n
want of sense or cunning IN the ac-
QUESTION of wealth, and in taking
things he has been no mean rival OF
Claude Duval, Dick Turpin and Jack
f.a
passed them all in audacity, lie has
been their inferior only in point OF
courage and honesty.
1t is an evidence of the degeneracy
of the times that people who claim to
be respectable should sanction or as
sociate with wretch with such rec
ord, and who boasts of the discrimina-
ton in his profession which forbids
him to ''TAKE PLATED WARE.