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But he had his eye on a still higher prize. He hoped to
compass the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. That
nomination depended on his conciliating the old Democratic,
rebel element at the South, then powerful in National Democratic
councils. He made an attack upon the administration of the
State Almshouse at Tewksbury, in which he declared that "the
selling and tanning of human skins was an established industry
in Massachusetts." He charged the Commonwealth with desecrating
the graves and selling the bodies of deceased inmates of her
public institutions for money. General Butler's charges were
refuted to the public satisfaction by the simple certificate
of Mrs. Clara Leonard, a member of the State Board of Lunacy
and Charities, who knew all about the matter, and in whose
high integrity and capacity to decide the question everybody
had implicit confidence.
There was an investigation, and Butler signally failed to
sustain himself. One incident at the hearing revealed perfectly
his character and that of his affected sympathy for downtrodden
humanity.


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