The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-01-17
ked Figure In His
Generation.
Of His Eventful
Career

m. }sidence, NO ZZO New Jersey
scboM, Southeast, at 1:30 O'Clock
luslnk asday morning. General Butler
rays to more or lessHpafBnt
bis residence in Washington,
s5ii Ugh many of tie scenes btahis
,Isful ventures have been ID ed
couuD here.
dea'hring the present winter a case
&ch had been decided against him
A.. he highest courts of the State OF
Massachusetts, and in which he took
an appeal to the United States Su.
preme Court, has demanded his
almost constant residence in Wash
ingtop. Every Monday he was a
fapiliar figure at the sessions of that
A b6ly. when the decisions were hand
Ned down. His age, as well as general
limKairment of health while listening
Ito the oral decisions looking for his
own, was matter of remark time
and time again. Finally few weeks
ssthhe e,ae was decided against him,
ner or not the loss of this case,
UnclSAh he had paid ouch close at
'SsroKe OF brought anything more than
inn 2 veG SrSws Of casual defeat, will
li,tlAN, be known.
~ y death created an immense sur
piioy as it was not even known that
hc%as seriously i'll.
Benjamin Franklin Butler was
born in Deerfcld, N. H., November
5, 1878. He was the son of Captain
k,nA Butler, who served under jack
Bp at New Orleans. lie was gradu-
ated al Waterville College, now Colby
University, Maine in 1888; was
admitted to the bar in 1910, and
began practice at Lowell in lS4l. He
early took a prominent part in poll
tics on the Democratic side, and was
elected member of the Massachus-
etts House of Representatives in 1858,
and of the State Senate in 1856. In
1860 he was delegate to the Demo-
cratic National Convention that met
at Charleston. When portion OF
n the delegates reassembled at Balti-
u more. Mr.. Butler, after taking part
~ in the opening debates and votes, am
nounced that majority of the dele
Il gates from Massachusetts would not
further participate in the deliberations
ptbfhs convention on the ground that
pre- had been withdrawal on the
Z Ut of majority of the States.
the same year he was the unsuc-
bl Democratic candidate for Gov
of Massachusetts. When Presi-
y az y lincoln called for troops in 1861
h4 Eeld the commission of Brigadier
&dneral of Militia. He marched to
= Anapolis. Md, and was placed in
Immand of the district of Annapolis,
which The city Of Baltimore was
Included.
May 13, 1861, he entered Baltimore,
at the head of 900 men, occupied the
city without opposition, and, on May
4 Is, was made Major General, being
assigned to Fort Monroe and the
: Department of Eastern Virginia.
M, captured Forts Hatteras and
n Clark on the North Carolina coast,
= Thea returned to Massachusetts,, re-
crusting an EXPEDITION for the Gulf of
Mexico and Mississippi, going up the
Mississippi April II. Farragut hav-
ing passed the fort below New
Orleans, Gen. Butler took possession
of the city May l. His course in
hanging William Munford for hauling
!. down the United States flag from the
mint, but more especially his vilely
i infamous order No %, covered him
with the very slime OF contempt and
utter detestation, not only from the
people Of the South. hut the North as
well, and extended over the civilized
world. In December, 1862, President
nApavis issued proclamation declaring
lin an outlaw, (though he lived so
bg after his deed OF infamy, he
suld not outIive the consequcnces.)