. . . the faculty of using the right language at the right
time. During a recent interview with
Mayor Monroe, the latter remarked that “he (Gen. Butler) had always been a
friend of the South.” The General here
interrupted him with the following remarks: “Stop, sir, let me set you right on
that point at once. I was always a
friend to Southern rights, and an enemy to Southern wrongs.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 1
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