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Show A WHO SAID 4 "Xn outlaw and common enemy of Mankind. ' i 'thus was General Benjamin Frank-Un Frank-Un Butler, American lawyer, general and politician, characterized In a proclamation proc-lamation Issued by Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, during the time that Genera! Butlei w;ia in charge of the Union sol-diers sol-diers investing New Orleans. The occasion for the issuance of thi proclamation followxj; The people of New Orleans, being for the most part, sympathizers of tho Confederate cause, had spared no pains to make tho lot of the Union soldiers an unpleasant one. Especially Waa this true of the southern women. They xve;e patriots to their cause to the last extremity. ;and they never failed to sneer at the northern soldiers. To prevent his men being subject to further insult, General Butler Issued his famous "General order No. 28." This order stated that any woman xx ho spoke disrespectfully to any Union soldier sol-dier should be apprehended and treated treat-ed h-s a wo ma n of t he street The atorm Of criticism which this order precipitated precip-itated can better be Imagined than described. de-scribed. It is aaid that so bitter xvas the southern feeling against General Butler that his name is today an anathema ana-thema in the city of New ' u leans among the southern people. The general vvu born at Heerfleld X. H . November 0. 1818. He became noted as a criminal lawyer and in 185a took a prominent purt In Democratic politics. He was a brigadier in the ! militia anil when war ame mi offered his services to the northern side. He xa-s governor of Massachusetts in 1862, Ilia death ocsurreil In 1m!3. Wayne D. Mc Murray. Tomorrow Who said; "These are the times that try men's soul- " Readers' Inquiries concerning the authorship Of quotations and famous sa inKs will be unsxvereel personally bx Mr filcMurray. Address him in "care of this paper, and be sure to enclose a stamped envelope. Tho Editor. |