, 1862-07-01
General Buffers Order Co ncernfng
Women,

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The following private letter is from an old
twenty-five years intimacy. It is in answer
to one deprecating the order Of Gen. Butler,
concerning the women Of New Orleans, and
regretting, if any action we're necessary, that
he had not arrested them. He has been in
position to know fully the condition of atfairs
feet OF this ordtr; and is moreover in such
close proximity to the military couInandant
and general, t.s to be informed Of tho necessity
and reason Of every step-
'sNEw ORLEANS, June -, 1862.
"MF DEAR:-- = Iregret that
you should have misunderstood the order
concerning the women Of New Orleans, or
that any Of your Journals should have nliscon-
strued it. But this last is Of small amount
The general commanding is too old q soldier
certainly to mind the tquips and paper bullets
Of the BRAIN And If the order had not been
issued, he should in justice issue it to-mor..
row in ipsisss5us eerbis.' See where We we're!
The Eniou forces had come into city where
the pistol and the dirk had long ruled; .
handful in numbers, for there were more Of
those who had served as soldiers Of the Con-
feder1te ranks in plain clothes III the city than
sued. The men lad tried to provoke O riot
and failed, because Of prompt arrest and Stern
justice.
The women, more bitter in their secession
than the men, were everywhere Insulting the
Union soldiers, deliberatIy splitting in their
f4ces and upon their uniforms, making insult
ing gestures and remarks, tending to provoke
recriminatiou and return of insult, which
| would have ended in disgraceful and murder
GUS riot. l[y friend, now sitting in your
| easy chair at home, what was to be done; is
| is q she adder to be preferred to hc-adder
| You say, arrest the women who do these
t things aud put them in the guard house.
| But t1is is the place where thieves, asssasius
and drunken soldiers are shut up. What
would have been said had the commanding
general shut up Mrs. Judge. This and Mrs.
Col. That in such place? Would their
| honor have been particularly safe there
| But these insults came from the balconies ot
| houses whence Juliet made love, and the
Union forces must have broken open private
| dwellings and chased these fair, frttfu1 and
ferocious rebels to their bedrooms to have
would have been induced BY forcing screech
ing women through tho streets to the guard
house? If there had been any manhood in {
New Orleans mob, 1t would have ictt itse]
called upon to have fought then or never.
"What was done? An order, cia a.racterlz
ing the acts Of such women in plaiu English
Has made, which at once executed itself.
! "How do y0n regard and treat 0 1eWd no
man and her remarks, IS she passes you In tut
street? Pass her By do you not? You ar
| Att UEAl1A w 1uL1IC LIZA 4EL6 VI 1ILAAAA5. 0A
| some Of the New York journals seemed t.
I think the Union soldiers and officers wer
bound TO rebuff and retort upon women who's
acts were as public-to parley with them-and
| therefore, take offence at the order. Rightly
il that construction we're the correct one. Bu
after that order every man in the Union force
Officer OF eollier-was bound in honor no
to notice any OF the acts Of those woman
They were no longer insults: they becam
the Establishments Of which Solomon speak
in the Proverbs. Whist ha: been the result
| Since that order no min or WoInan has insu1te
8 soldier or officer in the Union forces in Nes
Orleans. And from the first hour of thei
landing, no woman he's complained Of the cor
duct Of these soldiers towards her, nor hs
| there been single cause Of complaint. :
ga woman can no# walk alone from fChal
any hour, day OF night, free from molest atio
OF insult by citizen or soldier. Can as muc
be said for New York 81