If that be true, this charge of General Butler's is
the most disgraceful single utterance that ever came from
American lips. If it be not true, what must be the nature
of which the gentle, charitable and kindly Senator Frye could
believe it true after an intimate knowledge so many years?
General Butler was disappointed in his expectation of Democratic
support in the country at large. He had thereafter no rest
in politics for the sole of his foot. The remainder of his
life was spent in speculation and manufacturing enterprises.
I repeat what I said of General Butler in his lifetime, when
he was at the height of his power, with a full knowledge
of his vindictive character, that the success of his attempt
to use and consolidate the political forces of Massachusetts
would have been the corruption of her youth, the destruction
of everything valuable in her character, and the establishment
at the mouth of the Charles River of another New York with
its frauds, Tweed rings and scandals.
General Butler made an earnest effort to get the Republican
nomination for Governor in 1871.
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