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"Benjamin Butler was a horrible man that did horrible things to the city of New Orleans"
I have removed this statement, which I found appended to the end of this article, for two reasons. First, it is merely rank personal opinion without citation. Second, the criticism, most likely, actually targets the wrong Benjamin Franklin Butler. The Butler to whom this criticism attaches is the Massachusetts Democratic Politician/Civil War General, who commanded the Union Army that occupied New Orleans in 1862. The Butler of this article was a New York Democratic Politician, and Attorney General of the United States under Andrew Jackson, who died in 1858. I will not even speak of the grammatical incorrectness of the sentence. Okay, I will, actually. The sentence should properly read "Benjamin Butler was a horrible man who did horrible things to the City of New Orleans." General Butler was a person, not an object, no matter what your opinion of his standing as a human.
--64.80.231.98 (talk) 16:37, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
