Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-01-19
GENERAL rUTLER's CAREER.

a. many more eloquent attorneys, though
very few rs successful and perhaps few
No alroit politicians. But no other mln
played so many parts rs well, from the
place of small lawyer to that of prCcOusul
in captured city in the most delicate era
add dllicuit situation of the civil war.
as a child Butler was very sickly and ir-
rtabla. lie went on Il long fishing VOYAGE
and got rid Of all his troubles--except Il
tendency to irritation, say some of his
critics he was indeed combative from
the start In college he was half the time
engaged in a controversy with the faculty,
aut barely escaped expulsion; in politics
he often b1tcd party lines, and in con-
gross he was perpctually in hot water.
He len"hcd his maximum of greatness
about ieO6i6.a after 1854 WIS practically
Withdrawn from Tie public view. Thus
| retired the most unique and versatile
character that ever appeared in American
politics.
Personally, II eulogist of Butler said of
him: lie is a thorough Nankee'-usirg
THAI phrase In ils most slan-y us well rs
local ana genealogical sense. Other men
may lie somewhat Naukee-he fills the
| BIZ. Like all intensely positive charac-
teyS who possess ability, he has been much
admired, moro feared and most Intensely
hated; but II cannot DC thought that he
WIS ever widely loved. Many have cursed
him: no one ever sand he was n fool. AZ
70 stool, il would be hard to find pnrer
hlood7d farkee. Inc Buffers came to
Now l,agand among the first, and 3cn's
grandfather, Captain H'phaniAh Butler,
fought under Wolfe ut Quebec and gained
fame IN the fevolutlon, whle his father,
John, was "A captain in tSl2l5. His
mother came OF Jhe CIlleys scotch Irish
family, and the CiIl7y OF New Hampshire
who was Killed In the noted duel WAS
cousin OF the general
lie was born at Deetileli. y. H., Nov. :,
iN!7; wa. graTUatet rom the baptist col
IeGt at " aterN.Ie ne, IN ISIS, an / was
III no long time aimittct TO pHnctlee ab
I Tie par; WaN married III 1873 10 MISS iill-
oreth' ana became general OF Nassachu-
solts l"lllta IN llOt
Br''cr's Military Carccr.
!. was in his canacity as an officer of tho
Massachusetts; militia that he entered the
service Of the United States. ADril 16.
1851 On the 18th he started for Washing
ton. and his experiences at Anuapolis. Nd.
from which his troops rer aired the rail
WAY and locomotives and run the latter,
Iya, one OF the most Interesting and en-
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! r',~,1fro 80
-uarcn 20, 1862. the so called "Butler ex-
petition" reached and took possession of
| Shin island: April II il started mn the
| Mississippi. and Nav took formal nos
secession OF New Orleans For the next
| twenty months General Butler was the
most talked about and most Thoroughly
| hated man in America. lie has IN
| doUbtedly been threatened with sudden
death oftencr than any other man in the
world, eXccpt the Car of Russia. hut verb
fed the nroverb by living long.
His first i,nnorto,t net yos ,o eeiza
| SSgnuDO which had bann darositod in ,I1,,
Office of the Dutch consul on The gror,G
thar it was for Confedarate usAs Win
this aud money subsequently obtained by
"aslng banks and lnerchantsn for an
nrnount equal to what they had sub.
tcrbed for the Confc,leracy, he fed and
provided for the poor of the city and paid
for administering the local government.
| IN Nay 10 ne ISSUED the famous Order
,,'-ot ''e o,l''" oiuci W 'lio
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St,,',-i f or H'ioN con
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