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The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], Burning of bridges by the enemy in East Tennessee
The last of Butler.
Butler, the Beast, has at last finished his career in New Orleans, and is succeeded by Banks — who; Black Republican as he is, can scarcely be more of a brute than the hideous wretch whom the U. S. Government has employed to torture a gallant people and to make for itself an immortal infamy.
That Butler should depart unpunished from the scene of such crimes as he has perpetrated is the crowning humiliation of the shame and sorrow which, from first to last, have characterized his demoniac mission, But New Orleans once surrendered to his hands, all that has since followed has been a matter of course.
At unarmed people, at the mercy of a tyrant, whose white and black myrmidons held the life of every citizen and the purity of every hearthstone in the hollow of their hand, whilst a powerful fleet commanded the whole city, with their tremendous batteries, New Orleans had no alternative but to submit — It would have been better if the city had suffered itself in t