The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-11-01
Exit Eutler.

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have never universally been abhorred
and never yet went man to gallows
or guillotine before but what some
eye turned pityingly upon him, some
prayer went up to God for the dead
mans soul? Who is there to weep
for Butler? Who is there to pray for
Butler? Politically dead and damn
ed in Massachusetts, after years of
successful villainy, he goes away into
oblivion, with never friend to say,
heartily, "Bless you, Butler, you
divided fairly"
Well, after all is said and done,
the man deserved better treatment
at the hands of the Puritans. He
wrought, with oil the evil of his
rugged brain in their behalf, and
fought, with the voracity of shark,
for woman's suffrage, total abstinence
the Maine Liquor Law. the vested
rights of the bond-holders, the i'm
poverishment of the poor, the high
protective tariff, the reward of con-
victed felons, the corruption of the
custom houses, the prostitution of the
judiciary, the stufing of the ballot
boxes, the glori6cation of the militia
ry, the spoilation of the South, the
enormities DEMONSTRATION, the pro-
figacies of the administration, the
tyranny of the government and the
utter selfshness and imbecility OF
Grant. In all of these works But
Ter was giant, and the Massachu-
sets Radicals looked on applauding-
ly, rejoicing in the results, yet des-
pising the instrument. In the war
upon the Constitution, Butler was
the fend god of the work of sacrilege.
Tyrannical, overbearing, having a
certain power of the steam-engine or
der, q thief from inheritance, despot-
ic, atheistical, fit for "treason, strata
gem, or spoils" fearing no party and
believing in no God, he shot through
the military and political horizon as
baleful comet, capable of world
of harm-incapable of one single
generous or redeeming act. All that
his party ever had of audacity, came
from the this Puritan cyclops. He
seized the Ku-Klux bill from between
the trembling knees of Morton, and
hurled it full-hedged and powerful
into the lap of the Senate. He laid
his hand upon the. San Domingo and
said to all the timid time-servers and
parasites: "Come up to the Presi.
dents help, gentlemen, if you NEAR
fight. We propose to have that is
land if it takes another war, Congress
or no Congress. All! he was pow.
erfu1 Puritan, and he knew that the
Massachusetts Puritans knew it, and
hence he appealed to them lovingly
and pleaded kindred heart and {
kindred spirit, and asked them for ,
little thing, the governorship, ant
made his campaign as bull in ,
china shop, and went into conven
ton with a smile all over his ungod
" face, and-was the worst heater
man ever mentioned in the year.
history from Cape Cod to the land o
the Dinger Indians.
What availed his hanging limo
cent men in New Orleans? OF wha
profit was the statue of Georg
Washington stolen from Baton Bong
and sent to Boston as a war trophy
OF what influence was the three hun
dred and seventy-two thousand dol
lars in gold coyfscated in the Louisi
ana State Bank? How many vote
did his dear Maine Liquor Lay
friends bring him ? Where was til
rally made in the very stronghold Q
Susan B. Anthony and Julia War
Howe, the darlings ? Alas !! vanity
all is vanity It was diamond Gu
diamon-Puritan against Puritan
Radical fighting Radical-and in tn
war of hate hypocricy, revenge
fraud, perjury every despicable isl
that curses the country and poison
the..very fountains of national fait
and youth, the masses triumphe
: over the Cyclops-the jackals mair
, ed and devoured the hyena.
En1 Butler We may now paus
before that Massachusetts, prodig
J whose hands emptied the pockets h
: cupidity discovered. He lies so poo
[ to day that none will do him reve
1 ence. Grant scorns him; the Stat
: whom he sinned and sold himself
: the devil for, has repudiated him u
: terly n d cast him forth as Il
J. whale did Jonah; in his extremi
0 not a voice from all the herd of h
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