Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-09
Surrender of New Orleans.

! h ne 1olloWlng is the correspondence ce
! between Flag officer Farragut and the
] Mayor of New Orleans, respecting the
surrender of that city:
s UNITED STATES FLAG SHIP HARTFORD, !
Orr New ORLEANS, April 26, '62. !
/ To HIS Erce1lency the Aayor of the Cir,
Of Ne,o Orleans:
! SIR: Upon my arrival before your
city, l had the honor to send Capt
! Bailey, u s. ~ second in command of
the expedition, to demand of you the
surrender of New Orleans to me, as the
representative of the Government OF
the United States. Capt. Bailey re.
! ported the result of an interview with
yourself and the military authorities
/ 1t must occur to your honor that it is
not within the province of naval off
Ger to assume the duties of military
/ commandant. | came here to reduce
/ New Orleans to obedience to the laws
of, and to vindicate the offended majesty
I of the government of the United States
!, The rights; of persons and property shall
! be secured s.4 es-.... .s.-.
/ therefore demand Of you, as its rep
resentatiFe, the unqualified surrender Of
! the city, aad that the emblem Of the
sovereignty of the United States be
hoisted over the City Hall, Mint, and
Castem House, by meridian this day,
and all flags aud other emblems of SOW
iereignty other than this Of the United
States be removed from all public build
| ings by that hour. L particularly re-
| hot ch
thority to quell disturbances, restore
order, and call upon all the good people
/ Of New Orleans to return at once to thell
vocations, and | particularly demand
that no person shall be molested in per
son or property. for sentiments of 10y
atty to their Government.
/ l shall speedily and severely punish
ANY person or persons who shall commit
such outrages as were witnessed yester-
day, Of armed men firing upon helpless
women and children for giving express
sion to their pleasure at witnessing the
! "old flag" -zss ae.s i
/ .. | am, very respectfully,
r1zs d. G. FARRAGUT,
i Flag Officer Western Gulf Squadron.
lG9 THE REPLY.
MAYORS OFFIcE, Cry OF New ORLEANS,
CRY HAIL. April 26, 1852.
Flag Officer d. G. Farraynt, y. S. FIaS
Ship Hartford:
/ SIR:-In pursuance Of a resolution
4 which we thought proper to take, out oI
regard for the lives of the women and
children, who still crowd the metropo-
I lis, Gen. Lowell has evacuated it with
his troops, and restored to me the min
istration of its government and the Gus
tody of its honor. PIG
l have, in council with the City
Fathers, considered the demand you
made Of me yesterday-of an uncond l.
tional surrender of the city, coupled
with requisition to hoist the flag oi
| the United States on the public edifces,
and haul down the flag that still floats
upon the breeze from the dome Of this
hall. 1t becomes my duty to transmit
you an answer which, as the universal
sentiment Of my eOnitituents, no less
than the prompting of my own heart
/ dictates to me on this sad and solemn
occasion. The city is without the means
of defense, and is utterly destitute OF
the force and material that might enable
it to resist an overpowering armament
displayed in sight oft.
| l am no military man, and possess no
auth ority beyond that of executing the
municipal laws ofthe city Of New Or
leans. 1t would be presumptuous in
me to attempt to lead an army to the
field, if had one at command; and /
know still less how to surrender an un-
defended place, held, as this is, at the
mercy of your guns and your mortars.
To surrender such place were an idle
and unmeauing ceremony.
The city is yours by the power of bru-
tai force, not my choice or the consent
of its inhabitants. 1t is for you to de-
termine what will be the fate that awaits
US here. As to hoistinG any flag not
of our own adoption and allegiance, let
ME say to you that the man lives not
in our midst whose hand and heart
would net be paralyzed at the mere
thought of such an act. Nor could ]
find in my entire constituency SO des.
perate and wretched renegade as
would dare to profane with his hand
the sacred emblem of our aspirations
Sir, you have manifested sentiments
which would become one engaged in a
better cause than that to which you
have devoted your sword, and doubt
not that they spring from noble
though deluded nature, and I know how
to oappreciate the emotion which inspired
them. You have gallant people te
administrate during your occupancy O
this city-a people sensitive to all that
can in the least effect their dignity and
self-respeet. Pray, sir, do not fail te
regard their susceptibilities. The obi
cations which I shall assume in theil
name shall be religiously complied with
You may trust their honor, though yol
might not count on their submission to
unmerited wrong. ,.-.
In conclusion, I beg you to under
stand that the people of New Orleans
while unable to resist your force, do no
allow themselves to be insulted by tn
interference of such as have rendered
themselves odious and contemplate b,
their dasterdly desertion of our cause IL
the mighty struggle in which We are en-
gagged, or such as might remind them to-
forcibly that they are the conquered an'
you the conquerors. Peace and orde
may be preserved withoutreso to meas
lures which could not at this momen
prevent. Your occupying the city doe
not transfer allegiance from the gov
ernment of their choice to one whicl
they have deliberately repudiated, an,
that they yield the obedience whicl
the conqueror is entitled to extor