General Butler, who has been taunted with being of low origin, has retorted on his foes. He exclaims : — " There are no aristocrats in this country — not one. You can't go back three generations in any family without running into a grocer's shop, a soapboiler's shop, shoemaker's shop, a blacksmith's shop, or a fishmonger's waggon. Give an instance of anyone of the families that hold their heads so much higher than anybody else. Well, take the Adams family, who think I am not up the mark. Who was the wife of John Adams, the first Adams ? Nabby Smith, the shoemaker's daughter, over here in the town of Bamtree. Aud a very respectable shoemaker's daughter she was, and by far the best horse in that team, as anybody who will read her letters will say." Those Americans who are endeavoring to create an aristocracy of "old families " describe this style of attack as "positively disgusting."
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 5303, 8 March 1884, Page 2
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