Author: Greenhalge, Frederick T. (Eulogy by),
Title: A Memorial to Benjamin F. Butler from the City of Boston.
Description: Boston, City Council, 1893. Discound (no covers). Major general in the Army during the Civil War and leader of the Republican Party whose record of beastliness, fraud. double-dealing, dishonestry, corruption, and betrayal of trust" is reocrded by Marcus Mills Pomeroy in his biography of Butler. Nevertheless this memorial pays tribute to him as being illustrious without sitting in cold judgment on his strong character or to accord extravagant laudation with false and unmerited honor but to speak truthfully of his heroic deeds." When colonel of the militia he had been ordered to disband a company called the Jackson Museketeers but had declined to do so on the grounds that such a proceeding was illegal. But a new brigade came together and he became the new Brigadier of such action. Disbound (no covers). He was born in a modest farmhouse on a lonely hillside, but it was in the courthouse that his genius took wing and felt the uplifting force of its own internal fire. When Butler appeared in the court-room, dulness fled before him, the air seemed to become charged with electricity, a thrill of expectation ran through the assembly. He revered the law in its originial strength, purity, and simplicity, but despised the parasitic growth which had fastened upon its trunk. The technicality, the fictions of the law, the "quiddits, quillets, cases, tenures, and tricks," he despised, while he used them. In November 1864, those wild days of riot and sedition, he saved New York from its worst enemy - New York. In the stormy period of reconstruction, his forceful, positive, and aggressive character brought him to the forefront.

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