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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
. I mention this because it made so indelible an impression on my memory that it impelled me, when I was older, to investigate that scourge to such extent as I might, and this investigation had some effect upon my conduct of affairs in later life. My father's services on the South American coast, under a commission from the head of a republic not then having fully achieved its independence, were of much the same kind that Paul Jones rendered for our Revolutionary fathers on the coast of Scotland under like circumstances. A few evil disposed persons, I have heard, have denounced my father's acts as piracy. The man has never lived who suggested that to me, and I never saw it in print but under the following circumstances:-- After I returned from New Orleans one M. M. Pomeroy, who had obtained the sobriquet of Brick Pomeroy, established a scurrilous newspaper in New York. In order to get a circulation, he placed before his office a miniature statue, supposed to be of myself, sho
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
s thesis have I administered the authority of the United States, because of which I am not unconscious of complaint. I do not feel that I have erred in too much harshness, for that harshness has ever been exhibited to disloyal enemies to my country, and not to loyal friends. To be sure, I might have regaled you with the amenities of British civilization, and yet been within the supposed rules of civilized warfare. You might have been smoked to death in caverns, as were the Covenanters of Scotland by the command of a general of the royal house of England; or roasted, like the inhabitants of Algiers during the French campaign; your wives and daughters might have been given over to the ravisher, as were the unfortunate dames of Spain in the Peninsular War; or you might have been scalped and tomahawked as our mothers were at Wyoming by the savage allies of Great Britain in our own Revolution; your property could have been turned over to indiscriminate loot, like the palace of the Empero
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 20: Congressman and Governor. (search)
Wendell Phillips. at an enormous cost, and maintain for four years, blockading fleets whose business was simply to prevent the running in and out of Confederate ports of vessels loaded with arms, ammunition, provisions, and every class of smuggled goods. As I have stated before, Southern cotton had advanced from ten cents a pound at the beginning of the war to a dollar a pound. It must be had in England or the laborers of her cotton manufactories would starve. The steamship builders of Scotland and England supplied large numbers of blockade runners of the finest construction, and of the greatest speed, so as to elude and escape our slower, old-fashioned naval vessels. All these smuggled supplies substantially were paid for in cotton, and one half of all the cotton shipped abroad was by the act of the Confederate Congress to be devoted to the purchase of Confederate governmental supplies. There is a curious fact that I desire to state in regard to blockade running and the cap