Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butler was a tough administrator, and his "sins" multiplied in Southern eyes: he hanged a man named William Mumford who had torn the Union flag from atop the U.S. Mint (though Southern and Copperhead critics conveniently forgot that Butler also hanged Union soldiers caught looting in New Orleans); he confiscated property and gold that the rebels had hidden (but passed it all along to Washington...
...called "Miss Nancyism"-in this case a sympathetic approach to Reconstruction of the South. With his sharp lawyer's mind, he was a natural choice for prosecutor when the Congress tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson. Caustic and too clever by half in many people's opinion, Butler attacked Johnson as if he were a horse thief. The impeachment move failed by one vote...
...Butler went on to crusade for Negro civil rights. In 1875, he introduced a "radical" but prophetic civil rights bill before the House: it demanded that Negroes be granted "full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances, theaters, places of public amusement; and also of common schools and public institutions of learning." Congress passed it (sans the education clause), but the act was declared unconstitutional in 1883 by the Supreme Court...
...Beast Butler was too far ahead of his time, concludes West. Uncompromising in his "liberalism," he broke with the Republicans in 1884 to run for President as the candidate of a coalition known as the "People's Party." Though he campaigned with a verve and color reminiscent of Daniel Webster, his reputation-deserved or undeserved-had caught up with him. He polled only 175,000 votes of the 10 million cast in an election that went narrowly to Democrat Grover Cleveland. When Butler died in 1893, at the age of 74, Charles Dana of the New York Sun wrote...
...enforcement officials are also divided on tactics. On Tuesday T.H. Lackey, assistant chief of police, attempted to stop the horsemen of Sheriff Mac Sim Butler from beating and whipping civil rights workers. Since then, Lackey has told the sheriff that he doesn't want horses ever used again, stating, "personally, I don't feel like it [the violence] was necessary...