[nolu chan 247] Scores of historians have spent countless hours trying to discredit Butler and his story. But since it is impossible to prove a negative, and since, as other historians have pointed out, Butler's account is "full and circumstantial" and there was no reason for him to lie...[Wlat 253] This shows that Bennett is not a reputable historian, because Butler had -every- reason to lie. He was seeking office. The story made him look good; it made him look like an intimate of President Lincoln's which he certainly was not.
I am still waiting, Wlat. YOU assert that YOU show that Bennett is not a reputable historian by YOUR unsupported assertion that Butler was seeking office in 1892 and, therefore, had every reason to lie.
WHERE IS YOUR EVIDENCE THAT BUTLER WAS SEEKING OFFICE IN 1892?
Your citing fiction as fact only proves that you are not to be taken seriously.
Butler's Book, Benjamin F. Butler, 1892, p. 984
"Since that time [1884] I have taken no part in politics, save that in the campaign of 1888 I made a single speech in Boston in behalf of the tariff, and I repeated that speech at Detroit, at the request of President Harrison."