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departments so false and underhanded as to astonish their patron, the Devil.
The only fruits that it bore, so far as I have heard, were the following he and she publications:--
ten thousand dollars reward!--$10,000--
President Davis having proclaimed
Benjamin F. Butler, of
Massachusetts, to be a felon deserving of capital punishment, for the deliberate murder of
Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of the
Confederate States, at New Orleans; and having ordered that the said
Benjamin F. Butler be considered or treated as an outlaw and common enemy of mankind, and that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to
be immediately executed by hanging, the undersigned hereby offers a reward of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the capture and delivery of the said
Benjamin F. Butler, dead or alive, to any proper Confederate authority.
He did not get my head, but I did afterwards send for him, but got only his door-plate, the man himself having run away.
The she publication was from the Charleston
Courier:--
A daughter of South Carolina writes to the Courier from Darlington District:--
I propose to spin the thread to make the cord to execute the order of our noble president, Davis, when old Butler is caught, and my daughter asks that she may be allowed to adjust it around his neck.
It is evident that she had not been in New Orleans and got tamed.
“There is no difference between a he adder and a she adder in their venom.”
The first recital of the proclamation, namely, that
Mumford was executed for a crime committed before the city was captured, was simply a lie. It was for tearing down the flag put up by
Farragut when the city surrendered to him.
