He then said: "There is no need for me
to answer the gentleman from New York. Every negro minstrel
just now is singing the answer, and the hand organs are playing
the tune, 'Shoo Fly, don't bodder me.'"
In the Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts twenty-
seven different schemes for a system of representation were
pressed. Somebody moved to refer them all to a committee
to consist of the persons who had proposed the schemes. "As
well refer twenty-seven babies to their twenty-seven mothers
to decide which is the prettiest," exclaimed Butler.
His military career was, with the exception I have stated,
disgraceful to himself and unfortunate to the country. From
the beginning of Butler's recruiting for the war, wherever
he was in command came rumors of jobs, frauds, trading with
the rebels through the lines, and the putting of unfit persons
in responsible positions. The scandal became so great that
Governor Andrew--than whom there was never a truer, nobler,
braver or more upright man in the executive chair of any State
in this country--was compelled to put on public record his
indignant denunciation.
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