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The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway Negro. (search)
Gen. Butler. The redoubtable chieftain of Old Point exhibits his peculiar propensities to the last. A Washington dispatch, of August 5th, gravely announces. " Gen. Butler, in a letter to the Secretary of War, says that the withdrawing of his forces interferes with his scheme for capturing a large number of slaves." A magnificent "scheme," worthy the genius, courage, ambition, honesty and decency of Major General Butler! Where he expected to capture them, and what he intended to do with the sable "contraband," he does not vouchsafe to state. But the scheme is in perfect keeping with the whole of his house burning and property-stealing career in Virginia; a career that is ignoble and contemptible beyond anything in the annals of war, and which has not a single spark of the redeeming virtue of courage to illumine its dark and repulsive features. What a "lame and impotent conclusion," of the campaign and Commander that was to subjugate Tidewater Virginia. He came, boasting tha