Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . They toldme where one banker had built up in the walls of his house a vaultcontaining fifty thousand dollars. They told me whereto outsidemoney had been sent; that the Dutch consul liad eight hundredthousand JNIexican dollars concealed in his consulate: that theFreneh consul liad some three or four millions in his; that some of. KicHMoiiD, Va., in 1861, Froui a Sketcli. the banks had concealed large sums of money behind the altars ofthe churches and in
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . They toldme where one banker had built up in the walls of his house a vaultcontaining fifty thousand dollars. They told me whereto outsidemoney had been sent; that the Dutch consul liad eight hundredthousand JNIexican dollars concealed in his consulate: that theFreneh consul liad some three or four millions in his; that some of. KicHMoiiD, Va., in 1861, Froui a Sketcli. the banks had concealed large sums of money behind the altars ofthe churches and in the tombs. This left the currency of the people in the most horrible tickets, car tickets, drinking-house sliinplasters and Con-federate notes, — the latter depreciated some seventy per cent, by thecaj)ture of New Orleans, — were the onlj^ mediums of exchange ofproducts. Of course it was my duty to stop the circulation of Coji-federate notes and money, because that circulation gave credit to theConfederacy to whatever amount was circulated. In my first interview with the city government I yielded to theentreaties of the people and the representations of ]\Ir. Sonic of thegreat distress I should bring upon poor people if I forbade the 506 BUTLERS BOOK. use of Confederate ciuTency, because without it they would haveno means of transacting business or luiying things. Such was thestate of distress that a gentleman who bought a cup of coffee at
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