The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-18
Two Days Later from New Orleans.

1870
Gen. Butler Recognizes no Neutrality Continued
Disturbances By Guerrluas.
The steamer Parkersburg arrived at this port
on Saturday from New Orleans. She brings
two hundred bales of leaf tobacco. Her dates
are to October l.
The New Orleans papers contain a lengthy
correspondence between DR.. w. Newton Mercer,
who wishes to abstain from taking the oath Of
allegiance to the United States, and General
Butler, upon the subject of neutrality. The for
mer states that in obedience to General Order
No. rs, he will make faithful return of all his
property in the city except $4,000 in gold, re.
served for an emergency. He claims that he has
ern Confederacy, and has maintained strict
neutrality. He asks if those in his situation are
to be treated as enemies OF the United States.
Gen. Butler replied as follows:
SIN my judgment, there can be no such thing
as neutrality by citizen of the United States in
this contest for the life of the Government As
aD officer, I certainly cannot recognize such
neutrality. "He that is not for US, is against
u.s."
All good citizens are called upon to lend their
influence to the United States; all that do not do
so are the enemies of the United States; the
line is to be distinctly and broadly drawn. Ev
cry citizen must find himself on the one side or
the other of that line, and can claim no other
position than that Of friend or an enemy of the
United States
While am sorry to be obliged to differ from
you in your construction of the act of Congress
and the Proclamation of the President, cannot
permit any reservation of property from the
list, or exemption of person from the require
ment of Order No. 76 1t may be, and trust
60 tn &l~x 49, 49,
rendered yourself liable to the con6scation of
but that 10 for the military or other courts to de.
eide. You, however, will advise yourself with
your usual care and caution, what may be the
effect, now that you are soemnly called upon to
declare yourself in favor of the Government, Of
cont1maciously refusing to renew your allegiance
to it, thereby inducing, from your example, 9th
ers of your fellow citizens to remain in the same
opposition. am glad to acknowledge your long
services and upright life as man, your former
services as an officer Of the Government, and
the high respect entertain for your personal
character and moral worth, but am dealing
with your duty as citizen of the United States.
All these noble qualities, as we'll as your high
special position, render your example all the
mere influential and pernicious, and, grieve to
add, in my opinion, more dangerous to the in
teTtstS VI Lut Uulteu StaLeS Ludu II, younger
man, you had shouldered your musket and march
ed to the field in the army of the rebellion"
Col Jonas Il. French, Provost Marshal Gen
eral of Louisiana, has extended the time for
taking the oath of allegiance to October 4, after
which date all who have refused to accept the
preferred amnesty must report themselves to the
nearest Provost Marshal, with a descriptive list
OF their property over their own signatures, as
provided in General Order No. rs. Paroled
prisoners of war are notified that those of them
who have not sgni6ed their wish to be ex-
changed are to be deemed citizens of the United
States, and are thereupon required to conform
to all oderrs applicable to such citizens.
The Delta states, upon best authority, that
Irishmen who have for years been resident of the
city have lately taken out papers of protection
from the British Consul as subjects of Great
Britain.
{. On the 22d ult, Gen. Butler was the recipient
of beautiful china tea service, appropriately
embelshed with the National arms, from citizeus
of New Orleans.
The guerrillas in the vicinity of the city are as
yet numerous and impudent. The steamer Iber-
vile Captain Elfert, was, on the 9th ult, fred
into about miles below Bayou Moula. Forty
Or more shots were fired, ten of which did seri-
Gus damage The Waterman was killed, and the
seconds tewart wounded-[N. Y. Tribune.