The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-09-13
BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS.
MOSES GREENWOOD AND BUTLER.

MOSES GREENWOOD AND BUTLER.
On one ocsasion our respected fellow
citizen, Moses Greenwood, was brought
before Butler and interrogated as to
certain letters he had written to friends
in Boston, in which he had dealt in
strong terms of denunciation of his fell
low-countrymen of that State. Butler
read these letters to Mr.. Greenwood In
a loud and menacing tone, and dwelt
with great emphasis upon these senten-
ces in which the invaders of the South
were held up to the execration of the
Christian world for the conduct Of our
people-declaring that they were plum
derers and murderers, and ought to
meet the doom of all such felons.
"And now," said Butler, sswhat have
You, a Massachusetts, man, to say of
such language, applied to your own
people 2"
"Only," mildly replied Mr.. Green
wood, ssthat think about the same
now that I did then.''
"You do, sirw exclaimed Butler,
rising in n great wrath, and rattling the
chain armor which he wore beneath
his garments, and grasping the revolver
that always lay on his table. "Do you
dare to tell me to my face that you
maintain such opinions Of the most
moral, virtuous and mcrciful people In
the world ?''
"I do," responded the umappalled
merchant and citizen.
Butler was silent. He puffed, and
blew, and glarcd Mt tho audacious
Yankee, and then quickly resuming
his composure, remarked in n lower
CO."
DIR. WARREN STONE AND BUTLER,
And so too, when that other great
New Englander DIR. Warren Stone,
was brought before him, and Butler.
putting ON his war paint and feathers,
asked him, s'If he was not n rebel and
a traitor"
"No, sir; I am what very few politi-
clans are, q patriot, a gentleman nnd an
honest man,
FATHER MULLEN AND BUTLER.
Butler was equally prompt in aban-
doning like attempt to overawc the
venerable Irish Priest, Father Mullen,
whose ready wit was much moro effec-
tive in flooring the Lowell demagogue
than the moro ponderous and elaborate
effort in that line of Judge Hoar.
"Sir," he roared out to father Mullen
"I understand you refuse to pray for
tho President and army of the United
States; is it true?'
''I receive my orders, in the discharge
OF my duties as a minister of Christ,
from Il higher authority than you or
the President of tho United Statcs.''
"Sir," Butler exclaimed, "do you not
know that could and ought to hang
you?"
"You will always find mo prepared
to meet death as a Christian and SOL
dier."
"Thcn, sir, hear that you refuse
scpulture to tho soldiers Of my army ?"
"Yhat is not true; / will cheerfully
grant such rites to you and your whole
army"
Thereupon Butler turned away in
disgust, and directed tho sergeant to
show the Father the door.
We relate these among tho many
other incidents, merely to illustrate the
character of Butler's courage
and bluster. With a weak and timid
person, he was the most truculent and
Of men. There were no limits
to his dcnunciations and virulent abuse
when confronted by a firm and defiant
manner. When exposed to any physi-
cal danger, he was the most shrinking
and prudent of men.
In this city, during the very time
when he is represented rs having over
awcd and suhjugated tho people, he
never dared to appear on the streets
without strong body guard. His resi-
dence was guarded by IL whole regi-
ment, and his headquarters were a
citadel, (thc Customhousc.) where he
kept Il large force of cavalry, artillery
and infantry OH hand; and that stu
pcndous fiction in Harper's Weekly, in
which he is represented ns dcfying a
mob from the portico of the st. Charles
is unqucstionably one of the most flag
rant of the many pictorial falschoods
which have been emitted by that jour-
nal. Butler never dared to present
himself, in tue city of New Orleans, in
any such attitude of defiance to any
persons who threatened him. There
was demonstration by n number of
excited persons at the corner of st.
Charles and Common, on the occasion
of Buffers riding up to the St. Charles
hotel; but it was ofno serious character,
and the alacrity and agility with which
the reloubtable "lion-tamcr'' lcaped
from the carriage and hurried up stairs,