The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-03

ed him with the loss OF only Que ma
Beaten again at Fort Fisher.
BOTTLED up at Bermuda.
-~Braggart above all the Braggarts.
As Commissioner of Exchange he
broke the Flags Of Truce and caused many
a poor Southern boy to starve in prison,
and die afar from his home.
After the war he became the bitter
est of 'Reconstruct!onists until the Rad.
icals began to lose theis grip on the South
Then he turned his coat once more and
will turn back to RaGicalism If We lose
the Presidency next time.
As to his course at New Orleans we
will quote from a Standard Southern His
tory of the war as follows, -omitting manv
Incidents for lack Of space.
HOW HE WON HIS TITLE OF BEAST.
ANY story of New Orleans is incom
plete without the hero, BENJAMIN +.
Butler. This man, who was ~ reap the
fruits of the victory of the Federal fleet.
and enact the part of military ruler ia
New Orleans, was an example of that
reputation so easily made In the North
by brazen assertions, sensational dis
patches, and coarse abuse of rebels.
Gen. Butler had been a small lawyer in
Massachusetts, his first experiment In
politics was that of a Northern man with
Southern principles; he was a delegate to
the Charleston Convention of 1860, and
he was accustomed TO relate with Singu-
lar satisfaction the circumstance that he
had voted IN that body, more than forty
times, for Jefferson Davis as the nominee
for President of the United States :
hen the war broke out, he was a ready
convert to the popular doctrine in his
otate, and ven IN advance of it ia his
EXPRESSIONS OF teroclty towards the peo-
pie of the South He had already made
nIm>el. infamous in Baltimore by his
var upon non combatants by browbeat-
NJ quiet citizens by examining courts
IN which the severity of the military
Judge was %curiously mingled with the
peculiar skill and dlsreputable adroitness
of the pettitogger and by his quick and
apt invention OF various instruments of
moral torture. The appearance of the
man was extraordinary and revolving.
He had small, muddy, cruel eyes one of
them was curtalned by a dropping lid :;
and there was a smcthered glover in
chem Indicative of i'll contained and VIC
lent passion. The other of his features
were almost covered up In enormous
chops, with little webs of red VENT in
thdm; and the whole expression of his
face was that OF a lecherous -coarseness
aud a cunning ferocity.
Such was the tyrant Of New Orleans.
He inaugurated his rule In the subdued
city by the following order, directed
against the women of New Orleans,
which at once made his name Infamous
in all the Christian and civilized countries
Of the world, and obtained for him in
the South the popular and persistent
title Of the Beast"
The Infamous woman order" was
the prelude to a rule in New Orleans
that excited the horror and disgust of
the civilized world. The
which declined to publish an edict 50
~disreputable were threatened with sup
presslon and Mayor Monroe and some
Of the city authorities who ventured to
protest against it, were arrested, shipped
down to Fort jackson, and for many
mouths kept in confinement there. Then
followed a series OF acts OF cruelty, des
potism and indecency. Citizens accused
of contumacious d~isloyalty, we've confined
at hard labor, with balls aud chain. at
tached to their limbs. Men, whose ony
offence Was selling medicines to sick
Confed crate soldiers, were arrested aud
imprisoned. a ply stefan who, as a
j, Ike, exhibited a skeleton in his window
as that of a Yankee soldier, waa sen
slced to be confined at Ship Island for
two years, at hard labor. a lady, the
wife of a former member of Congress of
the United States, who happened to
laugh as the funeral train of a Yankee
officer passed her door, received this sem
tence 1t is, therefore, ordered that
she be not regarded and treated as a
common woman,' of whom no officer or
soldier is bound to take notice, but as an
uncommon. bad and dangerous woman,
stirring up strife, and melting to riot,
and that. therefore, she be confined at
Ship Island, an hot SAND bank
within proper limits there, till further
orders" The distinction of sex seems
only to have been recognized by Butler
as a cowardly opportunity for advantage.
In his Office, in the St. Charles Hotel,
the inscription was placed in plain sight
There rs no difference bet,0een he and
u she adder IN H,etr renom.' His officers
were allowed to indulge their rapacity
and lust at will they seized houses of
respectable citizens. and made them the
shops of infamous female characters;
they appropriated the contents CT wlne-
rooms they plundersd the wardrobes Of
ladies' and gentlemen; they sent away
from the city the clothing of whole fam
lilies; they ''confiscated' pianos. libraries
and whatever articles of luxury and
ornament pleased their fancy, and sent
them as presents and sOuUceirs to their
friends at home. 1t was tie era of plum
der and ill>gotten gains. Fines were
collected at pleasure. Recusants were
threatened with ball and chain. A trade
was opened in provisions for cotton, aud
Buffers own brother was made banker
and broker of the corrupt operations,
buying conf seated property. trading pro
visions and ever military stores for COT
ton, and amassipg out of the distress OF
an almost starving people fortunes OF
nrincely amount and yilla'nous history
No wonder that the principal of these
outragers lived in perpetual a OF n for the
safety of his life. 1t was said that he
wme secret armor. He certainly was
n yer for a without an armed
.uard. Sentinels walked in five PAGES ct
him and when he sat In his office, seve-
raj pistols lay beside him, and a chair al
!. lotted to the visitor was chained to the
wall, while a pistol capped but untodded
was placed as if carelessly, within reach as
a cunning decoy to the supposed assas-
/, sin.
A NORTH CAROLINA oLDIER HANGED
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