Comments on: Beast Butler in New Orleans http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2007/01/31/beast-butler-in-new-orleans/ A blog for Southern writers, readers, English teachers, and rebels. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:59:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JRutherford http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2007/01/31/beast-butler-in-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-3917 JRutherford Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:10:58 +0000 http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2007/01/31/beast-butler-in-new-orleans/#comment-3917 "He is known as a brazen opportunist, a bungling administrator, and a cruel despot." Im sure that Butler was not a southern gentlemen BUT he was also a remarkable progressive for his day, and known for a few other things as well. From Wikipedia: "Despite his pre-war allegiance as a Democrat, in Congress he was conspicuous as a Radical Republican in Reconstruction legislation, and wrote the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. Along with Republican Senator Charles Sumner, he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a seminal and far-reaching law banning racial discrimination in public accommodations." Butler also championed the 8 hour workday, and women's suffrage. Of course you can't expect the good people south of the Mason Dixon to appreciate that in 2007, much New Orleans in the 1800's. “He is known as a brazen opportunist, a bungling administrator, and a cruel despot.”

Im sure that Butler was not a southern gentlemen BUT he was also a remarkable progressive for his day, and known for a few other things as well.

From Wikipedia:

“Despite his pre-war allegiance as a Democrat, in Congress he was conspicuous as a Radical Republican in Reconstruction legislation, and wrote the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. Along with Republican Senator Charles Sumner, he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a seminal and far-reaching law banning racial discrimination in public accommodations.”

Butler also championed the 8 hour workday, and women’s suffrage. Of course you can’t expect the good people south of the Mason Dixon to appreciate that in 2007, much New Orleans in the 1800’s.

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