The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-24
GEN. III. C. BUTLER.
histnGuiahed Family Antecedents OF tho
South Carolina Senator.
Correspondence New York Grophic.


WASHINGTON, February 8.
10 see the galleries crowded for the
nrst time in weeks to hear Conkling reply
10 Senator Butler shows that the gladia.
torlal appetite is still strong in this city
OF ARRAYS, where Sumner was beaten.
where Sam Houston beat Congressman
stanton, where Sickles shot Kew and
Groves killed Cilley. The Butler family
now, as in 1856, is the subject of all ply
sical notice.
STORY OF THE BUTLERs.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina. is a
probably clear descendant of Walter the
Butler, who went with Henry II. to the
conquest of Ireland, was made Chief
Butler, and whose descendant soon after.
wards adopted the name of lie Botiller.
The bother o- the butler Had Ireland
come to like independence with Scot.
land, the royal line of the Buffers might
have cut as wide swa,h historically as
the line Of Walter the Steward. which
became the Sc lch and English Stuarts.
The Buffers, as Dukes of Ormond. rose
to the highess dignity in Ireland, and
though OF !vorman origin, became more
Irish than the Irish" While the Stuarts
were fighting for their crown the great
Butler Ormond was his Viceroy in Ire.
Land, and at the expulsion Of the Irish
from all their country east of the Shan.
non, Pierce Butler, hunted like a beast.
made his way to Cromwell in person and
was forgiven. Like all aristocratic fami.
lies, the Butler name was adopted by q
large tenanfry, yet it is pretty distinct.
lively Irish. Buffers were with the Tory
Johnsons of New York and with the
patriot settlers of Wyoming, and Pierce
Butler, Major of British regiment in
Boston, Joined the Americans, operated
in South Carolina, and, having assisted
to make the Constitution, became the
till 1922.
When the Constitution WAS under de.
bate this Major Butler was o leader in
extending the foreign slave trade to 1908
Significantly the end of Jefferson'a
Presidential term-and he was the author
of the fugitive slave law of 1888. thoupl,
lair and reciprocal IN other questions.
The Buffers OF Pennsylvania and Ken
lucky also kept the name Of Pierce, and
came fsom Kilkenny; one of them was
the Democratic candidate for Vice. Presi.
dent with Cass. In 1870 Samson II.
Butler, of South Carolina, made speech
IL Co1E5os5 defending slavery on Scrip
tural grounds. Andrew Pickeus Butler
was the most celebrated Of the family.
and was born at the Irish settlement OF
Edgeteld, the most lawless and duelling
point of South Carolina, in the year
l796. This was the man against whom
Sumner leveled bis speech on the "Bar-
barism of Slavery" He was educated
at the celebrated South Carolina College.
at Columbia, where free trade was frat
taught by Cooper, of Pennsylvania, the
English son-in-law Of Joseph Priestlay.
Calhoun seized on the party cry of free
trade to elect himself President, and the
multiplying laws were therefore passed
against the Federal protective duties. It
would seem that all South Carolinians.
Unionists as we'll us Nullifiers, were free
traders. Andrew P. Butler became a
Judge at forty, and SO remained twelve
years, until George McDuffie died, when
he was appointed United States Senator
about 1847, and was in the Senate till his
death in 1857. His father had been o
regula: army surgeon and Congressman,
end his brother William Yves also Con-
gresham. and married the sister of Com
modore Perry, grand. d.aunt of Mrs. Bel
mont. of Now York. Recollecting the
friendship between Belmont and Tom
Bayard and the recent correspondence
between Bayard and Senator Conkling,
you will see possible analogy between
it and Senator Buffers outbreak. He is
the posterity of Miss Perry and cousin
of Perry Belmont, Congressman elect.
Another Butler, Pierce NJ, was Governor
of South Carolina in 1886, and was killed
leading his regiment on the field of
Chernbusco. The regiment marched TO
Mexico nearly 1900 strong, and returned
with only 800 men and few of its officers,
and to il the Palmetto tree monument ut
Columbia is raised. The Pierce Butler
who married Fanny Kemble and resided
at Philadelphia was of slight relation to
any of the public men foregoing, though
it is suggestive that through the Kembles
the Buffers are connections Of General
Grant, whose daughter married the son of
Fanny Kemble Buffers sister,
In the dispute over carrying slavery
into Oregon, 1848, Senator A. p. Butler
said che would tell his constituents to go
into the territories with arms in their
hands and settle at all hazards. u =
I am ready 70 embark in the boat with
my State and trust it to the care Of
Heaven"
One month aNer Charles Sumner was
elected to the United States Senate he
presented New England petition to re-
peal the Fugitive Slave law, and in the
excited debate which followed he chose
the old veteran Senators Of the South,
Butler and Mason, as the representative
agents of slavery extension. Butler
asked if Mr.. Sumner would send back
fugitive slaves if the law was repealed.
cts thy servant dog that he should do
this thing ~ replied Sumner. "Then
ycu tell me in my presence as q co.equal
Senator that it Is o dogs Office to execute
the Constitution of the United States ?"
SO began the exasperating animus be.
tween the Soa.shas-;;iiSs &c aG:sy aG::sy G=G years
of age and the Massachusetts, champion
of forty. Snmner's appearance in that
Senate created 9s much curiosity and dis.
gust as Cadet Whitaker did 80 years
afterwards inslhe military aristocracy of
West Point. The father of Thomas Bay
ard cast in his lot with the radical South
ern element, though he had married in
between South Carolina and Massachu-
Hetts, made personal by the mission of
the father OF George Hoar to Charleston
40 the State agent 10 protect the freedom
of Massachusetts colored sailors. and the
debate between Webster and Hayne,
when Summer was only nineteen years of
age, had appeared to make these two
States the moral champions of the slavery
question. After the repeal of the Mis-
souri, compromise and the aggressions of
Pierce's administration on Kansas, Sum-
ner levelled all the personalities of set
speech, entitled "The Crime Against
Kansas" upon Stephen a. Douglas and