Note 54 — Chapter XXXVI · Montgomery—The Lowest Phase of Negro Character—Politics and Business.
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About this time the New Orleans True Delta, (quite recently the organ of General Banks,) spoke of “the gloating of the cold-blooded, viperous, vindictive editor of the Chicago Republican, over the hanging of Henry Wirz,” and “his atrocious wickedness and unparalleled fiendish malignity, in endeavoring, to connect Jefferson Davis’ and General Lee’s names with the alleged crimes of Wirz.” At the same time the Epoque of the same city protested against the execution of Wirz, and against brutal military commissions, complained that a Confederate Major-General and Captain Petit were both held for similar sacrifice; hoped that President Johnson would stay such merciless and exciting proceedings, and asked, supposing them guilty of all alleged against them, and such guilt was to be punished, why Butler still lives?