The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-21
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aTHERL's NOTHING IN A NAME"
Hen Butler has recently delivered an
Grafton to an assemblage OF Irlshmen
In Connecticut, held In honor OF some
officer OF that race who had achieved
distinction In our civil war. The New
York Herald, with characteristic enter
prize. publishes this speech at length.
Buffers speech. whilst reciting tru-
isms. recognized by and known to the
whole world, relative to the courage,
military victories and fidelity OF the
Irishmon enlisted In any war, ID too
thinly vanished with blarneyism and
tiemagoguism to deceive even the au-
dience To which IL was addressed.
We. too, are great admirers Of the
characterization OF Irishmen. but we con-
Tess to little respect for that weakness
which this race has In common with
many, IL not oil. other races, OF submit
ting TO be humbugged and bamboozled
by glib and hypocritioal demagogues OF
the Butler school.
There Ia u painful sensation In read
Ing this speech Of too great susceptible
ity to this sort OF triokery and tiattery
when such transparent and hypocritioal
pretenses Of admiration for the generous.
frank and gallant traits OF tho Irish are
favorably received from one Boosting Of
descent from that race, but who IL 30
destitute OF all the ennobllng traits and
virtues thereof.
When a man bearing the name OF But
Ter boasts Of Irish descent, the historian
familiar with the annals Of Ireland and
OF men who figured oonspicuously under
the name Is prompted to inquire to
which of the two very distinct and op.
posing families of Butler the orator
traces his lineage. He cannot fail to
remember that while no name has been
more honored in the military annals OF
this country, previous to our late civil
war. than that which was borne by the
heroic Buffers who played conspicuous
parts In our revolutionary and Indian
wars, and In tho war OF 1919 and
In tho Mexican war OF whom
there now survive those honored
veterans General w. o. Butler.
OF Carrollton. KY, and Col. II. q. w.
Butler, OF 1berville, La. there have
been three Of the same name who have
contributed, by their baseness and vii
lainy, material for some OF the darkest
pages OF modern history. They are
that traitor to his race and civilization,
the Col. John Butler, u native OF Con-
necticut, who settled In the Valley OF
Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and, organic
inc a baud OF marauders and murderers
who were painted and dressed as In
dams, attacked and plundered the vii
lagos Of that lovely valley and slaugh-
tered their inhabitants, sparins nor
age nor sex In their lust and
savagery. This act. at the beginning
OF the Revolutionary war, commended
Butler to the favor Of the British
Ministry, and he became famous tory
.chieftain OF gang Of vagabonds, CON-
posed OF Indians and the fugitives from
the white colonies. whose depredations
upon defenseless villages and settle
ments on the Canadian frontier have
supplied Poets and Historians with
themes and incidents for some Of the
most vivid and tragical recitals and
narratives.
This sanguinary. yet cowardly wretch.
Butler, at the end Of the war was re-
warded with large pension and grant
OF land by the British Government.
Not improbably this Connecticut But
Ter might have traced his descent to
another notorious member OF that
branch Of the family whose infamy has
been painted ia such dark and eternal
characters by the historians and poets
who have found them exhaustless for
some OF the finest productions Of ge-
Mus In the long and sanguinary strug-
gle OF the thirty years. war. The great
German poet Schiller. in his magni-
ficent tragedy OF Wallenstein, has
achieved one OF the most brilliant tri-
unaphs Of art in the portraiture Of the
traitor and assassin OF his hero, the
illustrious Wallenstein.
The name Of that unparalleled wretch
was Butler, who claimed to be OF Irish
blood and descent. And more COM
plete and finished villain was never
IGNORED by the notice Of poet, artist Or