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The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Beast wants a hat. (search)
es of caps He says: 'Gen. Butter took a sample in his hand and came up to me and asked me the price. I told him $15 per dozen, 5 per cent. off for each in hand. The General said, 'Now the question is this, and we might as well talk it right out — can you let us have six thousand at your price, giving my quartermaster ten per cent to divide around?' I think these are the exact words." Mr. Whipple told the General he had mistaken his man. The General only wished to make seven hundred and fifty dollars in the little purchase, and who believes that if, when starting on his New Orleans expedition, he would plunder it and the inhabitants of the city after he get there? The General of course intended nothing wrong. It was only a way he had of "engaging in the interests of God and humanity." Like Metter Moss, he is "a respectable man." Misceegen officials generally are "respectable men. " If they are not, the report of the select committee on contracts is a huge fabrication.