GENERAL BUTLER'S THREATS.
The Spectator says :—" General Butler is stumping the states to induce the people to declare war on Great Britain. With his usual cynical contempt for right; he declares, in a speech delivered at Boston on the 23rd instant, that England had founded the Dominion to cripple the United States. He recommended non-intercourse and a suspension of the export of breadstuff, but would accept Jamaica, Nassau and Bermuda as a compensation of the escape of the ' Alabama.' He thought Canada a great temptation to the Union as its conquest would end the fishery question, but would offer a compromise as an ultimatum, namely, that England, under menance of war, should allow a plebiscitum to be taken in the Canadian provinces, and that such provinces as voted for annexation should be taken over in full satisfaction of all claims. A. despatch threatening war would be far more endurable than all this insolent bullying." Few people can have forgotton the character of Butler, whoso name is a by-word all over the civilized world for cowardice aarl insolence. Butler was the Federal General whose most gentlemanly act was to threaten the ladies of New Orleans with the lash for frownin" at Federal officers. °
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Wanganui Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1111, 8 March 1871, Page 2
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202GENERAL BUTLER'S THREATS. Wanganui Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1111, 8 March 1871, Page 2
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