The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-04-14
SHARP PAsSAGE AT ARMS-BUTLER
VS.. SOUTHERN CHIVALRY.

General Butler seems to be an object
of terror to- all conservative" talk. Ii
is only day or two since his mere
presence almost threw the antiquated
Senator from Kentucky Davis into
commissions, and now we find a few
words OF his exciting Maryland menu
Der to such an extent as to make him
forget all proprieties of time and place
and Indulge in a flood of biilingsgate
that would have been more appropriate
in bar room than in the chamber of
the House. But the anger of the ''My
Maryland gentleman only served, as it
should, to draw ridicule on himself.
We quote, from the Globe, a sketch
of the verbal "passage-at-aIms:
Mr.. Butler. When we conquered you
(the rebeIs9 we allowed youyour lives
and liberties, which you had forfeited,
aid now Edu abuse us because ReBtand
by the negro, who knows more than his
late master, because he knows how to
be loyal.
Mr.. Swami. The gentleman sees fit
to make a personal attack on me.
Mr.. Butler. l wish to say word.
Mr.. Swami. l will not yield. The
gentleman makes accusations on the
evidence of a man who was arrested by
the Secretary of War, aud confined in
Fort McHenry. This man, Fulton, was
the editor of the Baltimore american
newspaper, the organ of the Republican
party of that city. This was the source
from which the member from Massa-
chusetts received his information.
Mr.. Butler. Not at all 1 got il
from the Baltimore Gazette, a Demo.
cratic paper.
Mr.. Swann-The member from Mas.
saehusetts came to Baltimore during the
war, for the purpose of taking posses,
sion of the city. He came as a great
military hero. He came without oppo
sition TO his triumphant march, and
came like Marlborough or Louis Ma
poleOn. He planted his standard OIL
Federal Hill, and it was said he had hii
spurs fastened around his legs with his
sword dangling at his boots. Laugh
ter He made his headquarters at the
Gilmore House. I call on the mem
Der from Massachusetts to deny that
after three days of revelry at the Gil
more House, of grossness enough Il
disgrace any man, being in a state o
| beastly intoxication, he leaped on hi
horse with the aid of sympathiZiDe
friends, in order that he might make {
grand display through the streets o
Baltimore.
NIL HIS SOuA &c Vi
calumny requires only one word of re
ply. The recorded history of the coun
try would show the utter falsity of thu
| Ngentieman's charges. If l understand
| the gross assertion as to my going Il
the City of Baltimore, it was that wheI
l went there in May, 1861, l stayed there
three days, and was drunk in some
body's house, and was then taken and
put on my horse by sympathizinG
| friends. .'
MIR. Swami am glad the membe
admits it.
Mr.. Butler-And that is what they
call "Ordinary gentlemanly treatment
in Maryland. Atsunset on the nigh
of the 14th of May, in a thunder storm
when the frightened gentleman from
Maryland had gone into his house,
entered the city with q thousand men
q city of 100000 inhabitants, more O
less. On the following day, l received
a telegram appointing me Major-Gene
! raj of Volunteers. l then left the cit
never to go back again for months.
Mr.. Swann-We hope never to SCI
you there again.
Mr.. Butler-I did not see the gentle
man from Maryland. All that Kind o
cattle Kept ont of the way. Laughter.
1t took me "a hours to quell the rebels
and then / was sent somewhere else oil
the post of duty. 1t was "Know
Nothing, Plug-Ugly, disgraceful mob.
represent people who know me
and who gave me, with my reelection
an increase of their confidence. Thi
increase of their confidence is the bes
answer to these calumnies. Washing
ton was stigmatized in London as
i tyrant. / have been attacked in tn
same way by precisely the same kind o
men. Those who denounced Washing
ton, and Jackson, wera English aristo
Tcrats, and those who denounced me ar
'sneaking, sinking rebels )" aud the maj
who now attacks me, after being
Know-Nothing, and endeavoring to de
stroy Roman Catholic churches, ha(
courted the Democrats to come here a
Representative from Baltimore.
| At this point the Speakers gavel an
nounccd that he thought it time for thi
wrangle to cease.
1 The New York Tribune has a sensi
BILE allusion to these late personal as
saults on Genl Butler, with which WI
1 drop the subject.
Gen. Butler is a constant source of ir
ritation to Southern nerves. His pres
ence the other day on the floor of tn,
Senate stung the garrulous old grass
hopper of Kentucky into q fit of fury
dangerous at his time of life, and yes
terday the Maryland members suffered
| from the Same mysterious visitation o
| impotent rage. Mr.. Swami and Mr.
Richie unpacked their hearts will
words of most unwholesome SAVIOR, anC
in accusing Gen. Butler of being nj
gentleman, certainly proved that the!
had no right to an opinion on that sub
| ject. 1t is hard 10 see what thesi
worthless want. Gen. Butler is not tn
best man in the world for a Congress
man but if people like Swami anC
Davis begin to set themselves up il
comparison with him, there is a dan
ger that he will gain depforable in
crease of popularity.-BulLetin.