The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-27
A TYPICAL SOUTHERN srArEsMAr.
Ion aud Ink Portrait of Senator HutIer
bg u Republican Correspondent.
itlcqrum to Caicaao 1Ymes.
WAsuINGTON. Febrl,e

WASHINGTON, February 6.
Ii any ono in the North were to be
asked who is the most fierce and barba-
rous man among the unreconstructed
people in the South, the prompt reply i'm
the majority Of cases would be Gen. NJ.
Z. Butler, of South Carolina. But what
astonishes the people who make his ac-
Gnaintance il to learn how he could have
acquired any such bad reputation through
The North. Possibly Gen. Butler shares
this establishment, for II milder hammered
gentleman aud one more agreeable in
social converse it would be hard to find
among the public men in Washington.
In the first place there is nothing about
the personal appearance of Butler ia in
dicate the typical idea of Sol,nern
man rs is entertained by the people of
the North. lie does not wear his hair
long. 1t is All iron-gray, cropped close,
| of the style Of IL French officer. He has
no blowing mustache or bushcy whiskers.
His face is smoOth-shaven, except q me-
dunn gray mustacho that slightly shades
his upper lip. Instead of the angular
bony face Of the Southern type, his face
is round and full. His eyes, instead Of
flashing with fierce emotion, are dead
| cold gray, whose expression rarely
changes in the most intense excitement.
Senator Butler docs not wear shiny
broadcloth clothes made into baggy
| sbnpelessness neither does he wear the
traditional huge soft black hat. lie
dresses in the English style; generally
wearing close fitting black coats
made by the best of tailors. a stiff felt
hat or n silk hat covers his head. His
boots also fit him, which fact also distn.
cuisines him from the typical Southern
statesman. If you were to see NJ. c..
Butler in New York, London or Paris
you would say in all probability that he
was citizen, of the place where you
saw him, so thoroughly at home does he
appear wherever he may happen to be.
Indeed, he is the reverse Of almost
every idea that the Northern mind would
naturally conceive concerning South
ern statesman. There is nothing of the
emotional in NJ. G. Butler. lie is not q
man to act upon impulse, but always up
on cool Judgment. He is one of ;he
best men in the South SO far rs keen po.
litical judgment is concerned. A large
| percentage of the SUCCESS of Hampton, of
| South Carolina, has been through the
counsels of his friend Butler, and yet one
unfortunate circumstance-the fact OF
his being in the neighborhood OF the
! Hamburg massacre--has been sufficient
to create Go- hin: aa cs;! reputation; reputation; chat
has existed for so long a time in the
North, but which is now beginning to be
slowly corrected. He has been thor
oughly vindicated by both parties. After
thorough investigation it has been shown
that he acted the part OF n peace-makcr
rather than rs q disturber of the peace,
and had his counsels been followed there
would have been no trouble whatever.
1t is an old proverb that lie can never
be overtakcn by the truth, and it is for
that reason that Gen. Butler never
expects that the people of the North will
ever know him as he really is: n quiet
| gentlemanly student, who has studied
both the old world and the new, and re-
presents in Congress to-day tho very
bes. tyre of Southern culture.