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General Grant got tired of him at last and ordered him to
report at Lowell. So ended the military career of incompetence,
boasting and failure.
Massachusetts soldiers from those of the humblest origin
to those who came from the most cultivated circles have always
had the reputation of gentlemen. I know of but one conspicuous
exception in her entire military history. During the trial
of Andrew Johnson, Butler, who was one of the managers, employed
spies to visit, in his absence, the room of William M. Evarts,
counsel for the President, and to search his waste basket
in the hope of spying upon his correspondence. Of this he
shamelessly afterward boasted. Later he employed dishonest
persons to get from the wires the private telegraphic dispatches
of Henry L. Pierce, then his colleague in the House of Representatives,
sent to the Hon. W. W. Rice at Worcester.
But this is not all. Wherever Butler is found in military
command there were constant rumors of the same story which
Governor Andrew told in the beginning. It is like the ointment
of the hand which bewrayeth itself.


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