The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1862-08-09
Trading with the Yankees.

: 60 4 NpSb AVE- al oAll pNll-
! eral in that State, to be allowed to trade
with the city of New Orleans, in pro-
visions &C., Gen. X. has returned the
/ following able and patriotic answer, re-
fusing the request:
FIRST DISTRICT PROVOsT MARSHALL
GENERALS OFFICE,
TANGIPAHoA, July II, 1862.
To MeSSrS. II. b. Hand, ThoS. Gillespie,
and other citizens ofthe Parish Of 50 Tam
many:
GENTLMEN: Your petition asking per-
mission to open trade with the enemies
of your country, who occupy New Or
leans and Baton Rouge, the commercial
and political capitals of your State, has
been received by Gen. Ruggles, and l
am directed by him to reply.
In doing so beg leave to call your
attention to General order No. 2, from
these Headquarters and to paragraph LIST
of General Order No. 8 from Depart
ment Headquarters, prohibiting all in
tercourse and traffic with tie enemy, or
pessons within its lines, and announcing
the penalty of death against those who
engage in it, Copies Of these are here
with enclosed for your information.
These orders have been called for by
the stern necessities of the times, and
it is believed have met the most univer-
sal approval of the loyal citizens of the
country. Nor is there anything novel
in the regulations they prescribe, or the
penalties they announce, They but de-
clare, and clothe with penal sanctions
doctrines long established and univer-
sally recognized.
Even in your communication, while
asking to be exempt from their prOvis-
ions, you recognize their justice, for you
say "We are aware that in time of war
there should be no trade between bellig-
erents." But you urge that yours is an
exceptional case, and that to enforce
this rule would subject you to great
hardships.
of " ttllf We months
your country has been engaged in a gil
gantic struggle for existence. Her no
BILE people have poured out their treas
ures as water, and like the ancient Pat
riarchs, have not even withheld their
children from the sacrifice, but have
cheerfully sent them forth to encounter
the tolls of the march, the diseases of
the camp, and perils of the battlefield.
Hundreds of them have fallen by the
wayside-thOusand have fingered and
died in the hospitals, many of them for
the want of medicines which could not
be obtained; and thousands more have
persisted on the field of battle. But
their thin and wasted ranks have been
filed by others, eagerly pressing for
ward 30 take the place Of the fallen;
and to day yonr flag is proudly borne in
the face of and behind the foe by
men halr-clothed, half-fed, and who for
months, have not known even the rude
comforts of soldiers tent. Nor has
the army been alone in this respect;
every class OF society has, to a greater
or less extent, been subjected to hard
ships and privations, which to their
lasting honor be it said, have been firm
" and even cheertully borne. And if,
gentlemen, the time has come, when
YOU are called upon to take yourportion
of the widespread suffering, the Cen
eral commanding hopes and believe
that you will not be found wanting in
courage and fortitude to bear it like
men and patriots.
You say that if not permitted to dis
pose of your bricks, lumber, ETC., they
will be "mere rubbish on your hands,"
You cannot he ignorant, gentlemen,
that in this you but share the common
fate of your fellow-ctizens. More than
two hundred millions of dollars worth
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