Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I IBEN BEN BUTLERS OWN STORY OF ms FAMOUS WAR PHRASE By J E Edwards This dally Cries or and Incidents that throw now g o ot t ten fI n e iJ d u t g t r mato with et tho co lenders tho Civil War Cach or Is Mr E notebook either In whole or In put It New News ot tho men who tn tJ f s t u I t hoi t riC u I d articles have D nil own Shortly atter tho Civil had sut well way Gen Benjamin F Buller In command or the Department or Eastern Virginia with hood quarters at mado fam famous ous nationally by IssuIng nn order designating slaves as contraband o owal wal Eel history or that tells o this order but here Is Den Butler own story ot the wa waIn In which he camo to coin the and got the hint thal ateI resulted In hili famous ardor which undoubtedly has a secure n tho oC history This story the old fighter told to me after hili last election to Congress and every other sentence or orO O ho would chuckle there would Collow that contortion oC hIs little mustache and of his tor which ho was I wall In command or Fortress roo In tho o the crate he began and a good goodman man running aWay from theIr shelter amI protection within the And sIr do I know that some o the owners who had had the to come to me and domand I return to them on tho ground they wre personal In fuet dc mands ot to be so I the mattei 11 good deal oC thought Final I ald to 1 think I havo II to the matter Ill try Il on the fellow comes around on mo thal I his personal to him Veil after that thero camo Into tho rort n pompous very man who announced as asIL IL find upon mo At sight or him I his errand Three dr four slave had within tho the and he wa thoro to got them back Butler ho said I under understand stand that of m aro here ami I hao come to Vho are ou 1 He me his name and told mc ho II ed Aro ou thc Union or the I demanded though I bellove I used the rebels In of Confederates I am loal to my state ot Vir ginia sir he replied with all hIs dl But your o VIrginia Is In I And Ie ou support our state OU arc a rebel him Ho to arguo but I stopped Now here I suld Im not go InS to up these colored and Ill tell YOU tho reason once for all and then Ill have ou escorted back You sa these slaves are OUI personal property You admit to me that youre a rebel or all the are being used to groW the cotton corn bacon other things that our armies use therefore usIng them to assist armed forces which aro In m government these as much contraband or as any other thing ou possess which Is made to our armies I shall treat them hereafter ns contraband or and yoU ma tell nil your what Butler to do I hUll no thought at that time that the term would pass Inlo use but within a month It had the use oC the word slavo President ae my which within the Union lines welO known as and ono problem oC tho waR the general chUckling Is the history oC tho way In the escaped Carne to be known I as contraband |