Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-07-25
ME- EraiR's Speech Oh Butler's Procla
nation.

pecting the English criticisms on Gen. But
aer's proclamation:
The proclamation you have dishonesty
translated. DO you mean TO say that you
believe Gen. Butler issued the order for inn
moral purposes 2 No and Yes DO you
really understand its working to signify that
unbridlcd license was-given to the Federal
sarmy? The very deals contraryto the
instincts of our nature-- hear insulting
TO the American people, and outraging to
the senses of our race. lApplause. You
give the order meaning never intended.
It-was unfortunately worded, but the spirit
of the order was proper one. oh. ]
Ladies hold the remedy. Let them remain
in doors let them behave like women, and
mot like human tigresses. The terrible
slaughter of our soldiers will some day lay
heavy on their ccnsciences. Women who
go out Of their way TO insult federal officers
who have treated them with every courtesy,
by pouring hot water out of the windows
when they pass, or throwing vitriol in their
faces on the pave Oh or so far unsex-
ing themselves as to strike an officer, ought
mot to object, when martial law is ordered,
to proclamaiions that enforce ciyility where
rudeness was so marked. The municipal
law permits no disorder in the street.
Women breaking it are sent TO the caiaboose.
That is the terrible order, nothing more
nothing less that arouses England and pro-
vokes this debate. Lord Palmerston takes
advantage Of it to have another fling al the
American, and Gregory and Walsh are
mad with delight. Lord Carnarvon also
brings out Earl Russell, and all the news.
paper clap their hands in joy--and you, gen.
talemen, echo the sentiment of the land
do you remember picture in the itestrat-
ed Nescs during tine Sepoy revolution? /
do; and three features were prominent
cannon, English officers, and Sepoy messen-
gers bearing asflag oftruce. Hear. The
picture has another side--the officers con-
suit, the Sepoys are bound on to the muz-
azle of the guns; and with their flag of truce
tied around they were blown towards the
camp from whence they came. Horrible,
shame Did Mr.. Seward get up in his
place in the Senate Chamber and protest
'againstitIin the name of humanity? The
of your soldiers in India were only
pequalled in their brutality by Nena Sahib
himself. Oh.] When British officer
enters Sepoy village and gives the order
TO his regiment 10 ravish the Sepoy women,
and then level their houses to the earth,
humanity shudders for civilization. Com
pared with such fends, Gen. Butler is
scholar, a gentleman and Christian. How
!forgetful of the rights ofcivilization, for our
statesmen to remain silent without record |
ing their Indignation at such brutal acts
eDissent.) England must feel proud ofthose
Christian officers, and no wonder she is in
dignant at Butler. ( Hear.) Have yeu for
gotten the Siege of Limerick Is it true
that Englishmen ravished the wemen before
butchering the garrison and burning the
town? Do you remember the cold-blooded
slaughter of the Macdonalds Of Glencoe,
under the same dynasty3 Davoust in
Humburg-Junot in Lisbon-Malakof in
the Algerian caves--were guilty of acts
.ond Wo1l;nrfon az Cahaet;,n uorthx, &c
Russia in Poland, or Haynau in Austria.
lOhl and applause.) Buffers offence is
words--England's offence was acts. Was
Buffers motive good or bad /? 1t is the mo-
tive, not the act, that blackens the crime.
aHear, and cheers.) England is not the
land to give America examples as to the
treatment of women. (Applause.) America
is country where its youth are taught not
to insult an old man or woman, and wo-
man can go through the entire country with
aout being insulted America is the land
where education and religion give tone to
the morals of our people. How careful
England is TO find fault with our Federal
army. Qlear) Have you seen any ques-
tons on the Parliamentary paper asking il
the reports are true regarding atrocities Of
the Confederate army? Has the Federal
power no friend at Court to ask these ques-
tions Of Lord Palmerston ? Ii Is true that
'savages, led on by Coniederates, scalped
our wounded officers at Pea Ridge? (Hear.)
Isn true that Governor Sprague found
some of his aids, who ware killed at Bull
Run, buried with their faces downward p
is ii true that Federal wounded on the
ground at the battle of Winchester were
bayoneiedb by Confederate soldiers? (Hear.)
is Il true that the ladies Of certain town il
Virginia invited one hundred Federals t.
their houses to tea, and their brothers, wht
were in ambush, rushed in and put all +,
the sword Surely America ought to hav,
'one friend bold enough in Parliament
when Gregory and the Premier are hurl
ing their inveetives against America, to in
quire If it is true that the skull of a Fedora
officer is a boaJea for a rebel lady l-(oh =
that Madame Beauregard, who was treate,
with so much politeness by General Butler