The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-09
EXIT BUTLER.

Mr.. Moveigh's reply to Buffers last
effusion Of blackguardism Ia q inisher.
Old Ben had better retire for awhile
and recuperate the vigor Of his sour
rility. The keen rapier OF the Yale
graduate has very effectually let out
all the foul air OF his wind.bag. This
was o service "a public and national
duty-for the skillful and effective per-
Torrance Of which Moveigh is entitled
to the gratitude Of the public. It has
been O grave reproach to our country,
and especially to the Press, that Butler
should have been permitted SO long
to affront public decency with his filthy
diatribes. The publication Of his
wretched, demagogical and sensational
letters and sayings has exceeded all the
limits of tolerable blackguardism even
In press as vulgar and interruptions
as that Of the North. His last effort in
that line was his browning achieve
ment in the way Of sourrility; virtually
confessing to the charge Of robbing
our people whilst military commander
here, he seeks to ward or the blow
so skilfully levelled at him by McVeigh,
by imputing to him, az still
lower order OF vice and oorrup-
ton, the marrying a daughter OF
Simon Cameron, and of having
to wait longer for the enjoyment OF his
wife's Inheritance than he calculated
on. We have never, in the whole range
OF licensed scurrility among Northern
politicians and writer's, witnessed so
weak and base a resort as this. And
yet Butler Is a representative from the
enlightened and highly moral State OF
Massachusetts. and has several times
received large vote for Governor In
that State; and there are politicians,
Congressman and journalists there who
toady to him and applaud and laugh
heartily over his happy hits and au-
dacious defyings OF all the decencies
and proprieties Of life. 1t was by the
display of his brutality and blackguard-
ism against the people OF. this city that
Butler managed to secure this sort Of
spectand applause from the New Eng
land pc ople. Their curses, like chickens.
have come home to roost.
When Butler issued his notorious Cor
der 49," directing his soldiers in this city
to treat. as women Of the town, all ladies,
who might decline to extend courtesies
to them on the streets, which Lord
Palmerston, in the House of Commons,
pronounced the most infamous order
ever issued by military commander,
he was warmly commended and APP
plauded for 1t through all New England.
Even Charles Francis Adams, then
United States Minister at the Court Of
st. James, a man who affects the high
est sense Of dignity and propriety In
his official and social relations, under
took to rebuke the chivalric old Eng
lishman for his manly utterances, and
Wendell Phillips ran out OF words OF
eulogy and commentator of the heroic
conduct of the cowardly Massachusetts
blackguard and bully on that occasion.
In reference to this incident Col. Hoff-
man, o distinguished officer Of the
Union army, has recently published an
interesting memoir OF the events Of the
late war, wherein reference is made to
the circumstances OF the order, and it
is said Buffers staff emphatically dis
approved OF ana condemned It
when it was read to them by Butler,
and that Butler replied to these obiec-
lions by saying that such an order would
be hailed with great applause in New
England, and would make him very
popular with the school marms Of that
section who had great jealousy and
hatred Of Southern ladies'"