National Republican., 1882-09-26
BEN RUTLER,S LATEST CAPTURE.
How He Has Made the Massachusetts
Democracy His DOelle slaves.

Democracy His DOelle slaves.
After six years of severe-yes, cruel-training
with lasso, and bride, and curb. and whip, and
spur, Ben Butler has that rampant animal known
as the Massachusetts Democracy under complete
subjection. 1t goes and comes carries and fetches
at his call 1t stands its hind legs craws on its
belly. wallows in the dirt chews tobacco and
drinks whisky at his command. He had it on ex.
hibition in Boston Monday, and a more docile and
obedient animal was never shown the public and
yet 1t was a very ugly beast when he began with
it. 1t considered HIM traitor, u butcher, dema.
gogue, and coward and when he first attempted
10 mountit
1T KICKED AND REARED,
and terrified everybody by Its vicious demonstra.
tons of hate. But 1t knows its muster now, and
does his bidding as uncomplainingly and unques-
tioningly as ever whipped cur crawled after Its
But seriously u who eyer eyer % before 81 saw
themselves so completely cowed, subdued, and
forced into servile obedience to man they hate
and detest? 1t is not ten years since Ben Butler
was to the average Democratic mind the incarna'
ton OF all that was detestable hateful and danger
Gus in politics-since every Democratic orator and
editor were denouncing him as coward, a spoon
thief, human butcher, and rascal-since Demo
cratic nurses frightened bad children by assuring
them that Ben Butler would surely catch then
unless they turned over O new leaf and Demo.
cratic fathers and mothers in Massachusetts, lay
awake nights 10 hope and pray that their SOM
would never get into tue State prison or vote for
SUCH BEAST AS BEN.
II is scarcely four years since. in order to get
hearing in a Democratic convention, he was com.
PEELED 10 send gang OF his retniners TO break In
the doors of the hall and hold possession of it by
sheer force; since Judge Abbott and 10000 ohcl
| Democrats, the men who claimed 10 monopoizC
the brains, the deeeney, and the respectability o
| the party, went through the State declaring tha
| his election to the goyernorship would b'
| n disgrace to the Commonwealth and ever,
honest man in it, and that the defeat Of the
| ticket was thousand times TO be preferred t
| such q calamity.
AND BEN BUTLER HAS NOT CHANGED
| since then. Nobody claims that he has. He Il
| the same audacious outspoken impudent, aggres
| siye, and shocking scamp he always was. He hH
| repented of nothing he ever di d. retracted moth
| ing he ever said All the epithets he ever pileC
| on modern Democracy lie just where he PLACED
them. All his sneerS and reproaches that eve
| lllslered the eminently respecables of BeacoI
street, all the hard words he ever hurled at III
| Silyer-greys of Worce ter, all the word weapons
that he ever shot at the professors of Harvard
| Amherst are right where he left them In the hca
| OF his wrath. And yet this week we have Dem
| ocratic convention presided over by this yer,
| Judge Abbott, and largely composed of his SET
| unanimously nominating Ben, Butler for governor
and pretending that they like 1t (; marching up l.
| have his hired men
BURN HIS BRAND INTO THEM,
| and claiming that they consider the wound al
| honor; getting down on their knees TO have hi
| collar fastened round their necks, and declarn
| that the badge of their seryitude is an ornamcn
this last exploit 10 show that Mr.. Butler was a re
| mark0ble man, but tins crowns his career. II
| helped conquer the rebellion, he subdued tn
| yellow fever aud the secession women Of New Or
| leans, and now he leads away captive the Massa
chusetts Democracy. He helped abolish SLAYER
| in the South ana now he establishes it in MGssa
| chusetts. He tore the chaius from the limbs Y
SAmbo, ana he has put them securely upon Judg
| Abbott And this Is right. for the negro wante,
to be free and Judge Abbott wants to be a siave.-
| AancheSttT(N. H. Mirror