Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 [Collection of 2 items regarding Benjamin Butler] [Decimalized .01-.02]

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Collection Details

GLC#: GLC00496.136-View header record
Type: Header Record
Date: 1828-1893
Author/Creator: Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Title: [Collection of 2 items regarding Benjamin Butler] [Decimalized .01-.02]
Place Written: s.l.
Pagination: 2 items

Time Period

Primary time period: National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860

Sub-Era: The First Age of Reform

Subjects

Government and Civics

Humor and Satire

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Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Joseph Gales and William Winston Seaton

December 30, 1828

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893

Letter to the editors of the Intelligencer in Washington, D.C. Informs them that the "wine gallon" has been omitted from federal law. Noticed this when he was compiling "The Revised Statutes of the State of New York." Calls their attention to two...

GLC00496.136.01

Collection Item

Newspaper clipping

[Editorial cartoon of Benjamin F. Butler]

circa 1884-1893

Keppler, Joseph, fl. 1884-1893

Caption reads: "'I never wish to defend a man unless I know that he is guilty.' -- Gen. B. F. Butler, in his speech to Graduates of the Boston University Law School, May 28th."

GLC00496.136.02

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 [Collection of 2 items regarding Benjamin Butler] [Decimalized .01-.02]

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