The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-01-19
THE . 6k "rHRseAsT."
A Long and w'oAos<f"s Come. to an
End at Last.

WAsIINGTON, January J1.-Gen.
Benjamin +. Butler died at 1.3O this
morning of heart failure, snpe' Induced
by an attack Of pneumonia. He retired
at ii o'clock last night, and soon after
midnight his colored body servant, West,
who slept in an adioi.,ing room, heard
him coughing violently. He went to
the Generals room and found that he
had gone 10 the bath room adjoining.
He followed rim there and offered as
sisiauce. The General mentioned that
his tXWctn ntiOns had been discolored
with blood, hut did not appear to think
seriously of :he matter. West assisted
him to bed ard he apparently went
asleep, hut dred soon after.
THE STORY OF HIS LIFE.
1t Is Related that when Eiildpbrand
was on his death bed he absolved all the
world except Henry the ~ OF Germany,
and Clement the Ill. When the career
OF Gen. Is. +. Butler is studied by the
self-lespeC ting Southerner, even after
three d. cades, when the passions of war
have cooled and the animosities OF the
st'ite have beeu d'ssipated, it is difficult
to reprcss something of tie same fsel.
Ing which animated the fiery Pontitf.
Bcpiamn Franklin Butler was born
in Decrtield. n. H.. November 5, 1918.
He was graduated at Waterville Col
lege, Maine, 1888; began the practice OF
law at Lowell, Mass in 1871 and has
since had high reputation as O lawyer,
especially in criminal cases. lie early
took prominent part in politics on the
Democratic side and in 1860 was dele
gate to The Democratic National Con-
v,ntlon III this city and voted q number
OF times for Jefferson Davis as candi-
date for the Presidency. Mr.. Butler
| withdrew from the Charleston COnven-
ton as well rs from the subsequent
COnvcItion which assembled In BalLi-
more. lollwedbY majority ut the Mas
sachusctts delegation. In the same
year he was the unsuccessful candidate
for Governor OF Massachusetts.
In April, 1861, on President Iln-
coin 5 call for troops, he marched TO An
nupolls with the SLh Massachusetts re-
git lcnt and on May IS he entered Balti-
more at the head OF nine huudi ed men
and occupied the city without opposition.
On May q he was made a major yeper.
al and assigned to the command OF Fort
Monroe and the department OF Eastern
slaves that had come within his lines
were demanded by their masters; but he
refused To deliver them up on the grounc.
Ihat they were cOntraband of war; hence
arose the designation of "contrapauds"
"1let, appll-u 70 slaves during the war.
In August he captured Forts IIatteras
and Clark on the coast of North Car
ohna. lie then returned to Massachu.
s"Lls to recruit an expedition for the
Gull 0! Mex co and the Mississippi. In
Mmch, 1862, the expedition reached
Snip island, aud in April went up the
Mississippi. Farlagut and the feet had
pas 'ed The orts on April "a and virtual
" captured New Orleans, and Gen.
Butler took possession of the city on
May |.
HuTLEK'S GROWING INFAMy.
Ills administration of anairs.n a
Northern cncycl",, %';iis. ;!is. ;uIhemistically
says; was marked by great vigor."
aud his course in hanging William Num-
tor! "lur hauling down the United
States aG from tie mint, and in issuing
~. der No %. y intended TO prevent wo-
men nom Insulting soldiers, excited
strong resentment, not only in the
South, butln The North and abroad, and
in December, 1862, Jefferson Davis ls-
sued II proclumalinn dcclariag him an
outlaw"
C)l. Richard Ycadon, editor of the
Charleston Courier. offered reward of
$4,000 Tor Gen. Butler, dead or alive,
and Gen. Butter, in festive mood, re-
tallated at The close of the war by steal
ID" Cot. Ieadon's door plate from his
resldence i'll this city.
The only riiJ OF light IN The dark re-
cord ot Gen. Buffers occupancy of New
Orleans vas the strict sanitary resula-
ions which he enforced, and which
probably prevented the recurrence of
the yellow fever scourage. He is said
to have procured his system of SANTA
ton from Ltvllicus, and his,.sreat pecula-
tions III cotton and other personal
property OF the LOulsianians snow tnat
he had studied other books of the
Pcniatcuch with profit. especially those
pass lScs relating 10 the spelling of the
Ely pllans. In May, 1862, Gen. But
ler seized about $500, 900 which had
been deposited in the Office of the Dutch
consul, claiming that arms for the C)n-
lederalcs were to be bought with it.
rms action was protested against by
all the lorclgn cOnsuls, and the Govern
mant at Washington, after an investiea.
ton, ordered the return If the money.
In December Gen. Butler was re-
called, as he bumpiiousv asserted, at
the lns'l9ation Of Louis Napoleon, who
supposed the General to be hostile to
his Mexican schemes. Near the close
OF 1868 he was placed in command of
the Army OF the James, in 1864 was
sent to New York to insure quiet dur
ing tue elections. In December he con-
Quoted the unsuccessful expedition
against Fort Fisher, and was soon after
wards removed from commanded by
Gen. Grant, aftel which he returned to
his residence in Massachusetts.
In 1866 he was elected to Congress
as Republican, where he served al
most continuously until 1870, taking
the leading part in the attempted i'm
peachmenL OF President Johnson. He
was the unsuccessful Republican nomi-
nee Tor Governor OF Massachusetts in
1871, and in 1878 and 1879, having
changed his politics. was the candidate