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Garbled extracts from evidence long since refuted, when produced in the late canvass in my district, given by a late officer under my command, George H. Gordon, but stating no fact within this knowledge, and of which it is sufficient simply to say that it is the repetition of hearsay slanders made by an officer whose record before two courts-marital, where he was twice convicted of improper conduct by his brother officers, I have and can produce. 

I propose never to allow myself to be called again into personal controversy on these topics, certainly not with the gentleman from Illinois, who, by his conduct in printing a calumnious speech as if delivered in the House, and distributing it under his own frank, has, so far as I am concerned, put himself out of the rule of civilized warfare. His tongue nor pen can never here-after be deemed by me a slander or libel upon any one, certainly not upon myself.

Geneva Award.

SPEECH 

OF

HON.BENJAMIN F. BUTTLER,

OF MASSACHUSETTS,

DELIVERED

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

FEBRUARY 14 and 15, 1873.

WASHINGTON: 
F.&J. RIVES & GEO. A. BAILEY 
REPORTERS AND PRINTERS OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS
1873.