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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 3: the Democracy in 1860. (search)
fights, there is an end of slavery. Do you mean to say that you, yourself, would fight in such a cause? I would; and by the grace of God, I will. Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, Attorney-General of the United States, as the legal adviser of the government, gave an opinion that the acts and doings of the men of the secession conve voting to secede from the Union was legally definable as a riot, for the suppression of which the forces of the. United States could not be lawfully used. As Mr. Black and myself were personal friends, having known each other well as lawyers, and having been employed as opposing counsel in the Supreme Court, I called upon him fe while passion and prejudice are being stayed. But if you cannot use the army of the United States in South Carolina, you can use it to preserve order here. Mr. Black advised me to put my views before the President, and I went to him immediately and made an arrangement for an interview for that purpose, at which I laid the mat