American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-12

Our Washington correspondent tele-
graphs to us to-day that General
Butler and the Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury, Judge Richardson,
wero in close conference last week
over the report made by General Starring,
Who was sent out on a special mission to
inquire into the conduct of General But
lersq nephew as Consul-General of the
United States at Alexandria. "A letter
from Egypt which we yesterday pub
lished, and which set forth a number of
the most salient facts embodied by Gen.
Starring In his report, will have enabled
our readers to judge for themselves the
extent of the national scandal and dis
grace which the Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury is thus cOnspiring with Gen.
eral Butler to smother and conceal until
after the election in November. Mean
while it appears from the telegram Of our
Washington correspondent that &c leave
this blackguard and bully, who began his
career In Egypt with setting hired ruff
ans at work to beat American missionaries,
adorned its progress with alterations of
brutality and venality, of low debauchery
and Of revolving blasphemy, and crowned
1t by an attempt at the assassination of an
American officer in public cofiee-house.
A scOundrelly Levantine, one StrOloQO,
notorious in Alexandria as pimp, was
appointed by Butler Vice-Consul of the
United States at Alexandria, and is now
allowed to fiaunt our shame publicly by
registering his name as an American Vice
Consul at the hotels in Paris, where it fig
ures among the arrivals of the day in the
same columns with the names of gentle
men like Mr.. Wickham Hoffman, Of New
York, our Secretary of Legation in
France. Certain ministers of the gospel,
like Bishop Simpson and DIR. Newman,
have thought it becoming to appear be-
fore the public as conspicuous friends
of the administration and of the reelection
OF President Grant. We do not presume
to question the sincerity of their political
convictions, but we probably do them no
injustice in supposing that they consider
the interests of Christianity, of decency,
OF public morality, 20 be higher and more
important than any political interests
whatever. We request these ministers of
the gospel, then, join with us in insisting
upon the Immediate production of the
official report of General Starring. 1t is
publicly stated at Alexandra that in this
report COnsulGeneralB Butler is shown to
have outraged all the laws of ordinary So
cial decorum as well as of the prccepts Of
religion; that he is shown to have accept
ell gift OF slaves from the Khedive of
Egypt and to have pOcketed the proceeds
of the sale of these slaves; that he is
shown to have shocked the whole society,
Mussulman as well as Christian, of the
not very squeamish City of Alexandria. by
openly speaking of the Savior of mankind
and OF the Virgin Mary in language which
Tor truths sake we have once published in
these columns, but for dccency's sake now
hesitate to reproduce. OF his violence
and his venality the ill-reputeis notorious.
But we cOnfine ourselves now to the par
ticularly hideOus and loathsome details of
this persons misconduct which we are
now given to understand that General
has been compelled by the evil
'icnce laid before him to embody i'm his
report. Will Bishop Simpson aud DIR.
Newman and the other ministers of the
gospel who have undertaken the grave
responsibility of endorsing the administra-
ton of President Grant, insist with us
upon an immediate production of the
official records in this case? 1t will not
do tn leave the matter to time. A firm !
demand made in Congress may compel
these things into the daylight, it is true, |
Mt some future day. But while the weeks
and months 20 by President Grant and his |
A Administration are acting as the screen
prs and protectors of a most hagitious |
offender against the national character |
DO Bishop Simpson, DIR. Newman. and |
their brethren propose to acquiesce in this |
attitude of President Grant and his ad- |
York World. !